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Snowbird 7

Snowbird is a small and fast file management and search tool. Unlike other similar tools, Snowbird was built from the ground up with performance rather than features in mind.

• Fully multi-threaded architecture ensures that the interface always remains responsive, even when accessing network resources or copying large amounts of data
• Can handle extremely large folders without noticeable degradation in performance
• Fast file operations (copy, move, delete) with the ability to pause transfers and to skip errors
• Integrated search tool that can find files (and even text within files) without indexing

History

Snowbird was born in late 2004 out of need for a utility to search for text within files. The Find utility in Windows XP had an input named “A word or phrase in the file”, but I can't remember a single instance when it actually found anything.

That's when I decided to write myself a simple tool to look for a filename / text within a file inside a given folder - that was Snowbird 1.0. It worked just great for my needs.

Soon afterwards, I put it up on my webpage as a piece of freeware. Something most unexpected happened in the following week - Snowbird got a review from Lockergnome that drove hundreds of people to give it a try.

Snowbird has come a long way since then - upto the sixth version, it was only a search tool. The current (seventh) version is a complete rewrite, merging the previous Snowbird and Mini Explorer into a single powerful beast capable of full-fledged file management and search.

Previous versions

If for some reason you need to download an earlier version of Snowbird or Mini Explorer, you can find it below:

• Snowbird 7 Beta (266 KB) (December 29, 2008)

• Snowbird 6.1 (22 KB) (June 25, 2007)
• Snowbird 5 (32 KB)
• Snowbird XP (version 4) (25 KB)
• Snowbird 3 (22 KB)

• Mini Explorer 2 (302 KB) (July 12, 2007)
• Mini Explorer 1.1 (35 KB)