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Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Home & Office > Work Life > Productivity File managers are often overlooked as one of the most important tools in an operating system. Try this and see if you don't agree! Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. When you open a file manager, you are most likely searching for a file. It makes sense, as that’s one of the primary purposes of file managers… to make it easy for you to manage your files. Most file managers have fairly robust search and filter features to help you find what you’re looking for. Sadly, most users overlook these features. Instead of quickly locating a file, users will click around directories, hoping they remember where they left that particular file they’re hunting for. Also: My new favorite Android file manager is way better than Google’s default – and it’s free If only there were features to help you out. One such handy feature is file tagging, and most file managers include it. Imagine you have a file named linux.txt. In that file, you mention Ubuntu, Fedora, Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, and ZorinOS. You might also have a file na

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