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Xylem File Manager

Your whole disk, one tree

See your whole disk as one tree, gather files from any folder, and act on all of them at once, from any terminal, right from the keyboard.

Free and open source (MIT) · Linux x86_64 and ARM64 · Windows (experimental)

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Xylem in use: the built-in terminal with the tree following a cd, tagging files in a Branch and typing them into a command with Alt+O

What you get

Open almost anything right there

SQLite with full JOIN queries, spreadsheets, CSV, Parquet, JSON, Markdown, logs and archives.

Turn data into files

One table becomes a page, a SQL script or a database, with a preview before anything is written.

Free up space

See what takes room, and find duplicate files and folders, even on Google Drive without downloading them.

Reach beyond your disk

Browse and copy from servers over SSH, and work with Google Drive, S3 and other clouds through rclone.

Stay in one place

A built-in terminal whose tree follows your cd, and Git status right in the file list.

Open files you don't trust

Nothing in them runs, and everything has a limit.

Make it yours

Twelve themes, configurable keys, and help in six languages.