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Rift, a fast file manager for Windows with tabs and side-by-side panes. This release is about staying responsive:
in huge folders and on drives that are slow to answer.

Download

Unzip rift-0.8.0-win-x64.zip anywhere and run Rift.exe. Windows 10 or 11, x64; no .NET install needed.
The exe isn't signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn on the first start: "More info" → "Run anyway".

New in 0.8

  • A folder with 100,000 files opens without freezing the window: reading and sorting run in the background
  • Type-to-filter in such a folder answers in about 70 ms instead of 0.8 s
  • Ctrl+A in 100,000 files and then a click no longer hangs for seconds; memory with that folder open is less than half
  • A network drive that's asleep no longer holds up the start or This PC: it shows by its letter until it answers
  • A folder that's slow to read shows the busy bar instead of the previous folder's files
  • Typed paths (address bar, Ctrl+K) are checked in the background, so an unreachable \\server\share doesn't freeze anything
  • Drives in the sidebar and This PC follow USB sticks and cards as they're plugged in and pulled out

See ROADMAP.md for what's next.

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