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File explorers
Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 13 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with File explorers, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 16 complaints
- Getting a file's actual name or path into plain text is needlessly difficult2026-10-01
- Renaming requires two clicks, but a fast pair is read as a double-click and opens the file instead2025-09-29
- Filenames sort numbers out of string order, with no option to switch it off2025-09-29
- Directories listed before files makes the most recently changed file hard to find2025-09-28
- Missing shortcuts for menu and cmd shell; context menu key fails in quick filter mode2025-02-20
- CJK characters show as question marks, making folders hard to tell apart and navigate2025-02-19
- Can't see nested folder sizes at a glance, so finding the large folder is hard2025-02-19
- Tree-based folder structure is confusing and unintuitive for many users2025-02-09
- Cut in file managers behaves differently than cut in word processors, confusing users2023-11-11
- Dragging a file between folders gives copy, move or shortcut depending on hidden rules2021-08-06
- Save dialogs start in inconsistent places, some forcing navigation from root2021-07-21
- Getting a file's path by dragging it into the terminal is unintuitive and not obvious2021-03-09
- Opening files by double-click behaves unpredictably and mysteriously for the user2020-11-16
- Unclear whether "move here" means moving files into the adjacent folder or something else2020-05-16
- Dragging a browser tab to a file manager folder doesn't work on Linux2017-04-08
- Can't create folders while in the open-file view, restricted by mode2013-05-13