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[Android Apps and Games] dragontology:
Came here to ask about this. I want to get a picture from my phone to a machine, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth aren't options. So I plugged in my OTG flash drive (SanDisk model with both full and micro USB ends, really cool) and while it was able to read it, I was unable to copy a picture to it. FX told me how to get permission, but when I did, it failed. And next thing I know the USB drive is formatted. Not sure if FX did that or Android. I'm thinking Android — definitely did not come here to blame FX. I don't know enough to write the explanation completely off, though. Verified on the computer that it had, in fact, been formatted. (Didn't lose anything of value. Just a few ROMs I was keeping on hand. And some outdated APKs.)

Anyway, I formatted the drive via Android, went through the actual process... still couldn't copy the picture to it.

So, glad to hear it's being worked on... exactly the thing I came to ask about.

...And I completely forgot about my hardware solution. MicroSD to USB 3.0 adapter. Looks like a big flash drive. Has a lanyard clip. I've wrapped an elongated, small paperclip around it, so it can pop the SD card out. A real pain in the neck finding something that will do that. Push pins are too thick. Regular paper clips are too thick. A sewing needle works, but I'm worried about the sharpness. Anyway, that will have to do...
[Android Apps and Games] swallowingled:
Same issue here. I can actually see my other device(Nexus 5) under the wifi direct settings but FX Connect just won't connect the two devices.
[Android Apps and Games] paul c:
I can confirm this also, on a 5 inch screen. In fact, I thought it was just me when I was having difficulty swiping to multiselect, and I ended up clearing the selection and scrolling the screen.

This has happened to me for a long time, probably years...

All the same, swipe to select is not that easy tbh - an dI have been using FX for a long time now. I am using a gallery app called Piktures, and it uses a really intuitive and bullet-proof selection process: long press to select the first item, then you just tap on other items to select them.

How about that for FX?
[Android Apps and Games] SignatureBoy:
I am using Marshmallow 6.0 on LG G3 VS985 installed FX File Explorer but its not reading or showing my SD CARD / USB OTG only showing Main storage.

It was working fine on Lollipop. Anything i need to know in order to make it work
[Android Apps and Games] technolepsy:
SSH key authentication

I am trying to connect with an RSA key that works with JuiceSSH, ConnectBot, and crappier SFTP apps. FX prompts for the keyring password but doesn't prompt for the key password and gives only the error: A network error occurred communicating with host... The server auth.log reports:

Mar 12 22:25:50 strontium sshd[12254]: Received disconnect from 192.168.1.123: 11: Closed due to user request.

Clearly FX isn't attempting to authenticate my key, but it isn't saying why. Any ideas?
[Android Apps and Games] Ebrahim Ali:
How can we browse USB otg devices with this app. I plugged in a USB otg and the system picks it up but the app doesn't.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
device model and android version?

it should just show up on the FX main screen, but some devices don't seem to mount usb storage devices properly so FX has nothing to see.
[Android Apps and Games] Ebrahim Ali:
It's a Motorola Moto X Play running stock Android 6.0 marshmallow

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I used the connect to to storage option and now I can access the USB otg through the app.
[Android Apps and Games] c627627:
Thank you again for this excellent program.

How can we set a default app for a file extension within FX Explorer?

Real life example:

If you have a Windows url shortcut file, it is actually possible to have it launch the android browser just like it launches a web browser in Windows, with the use of this add-on:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zapek.android.stuntzurl&hl=en

How do we make FX Explorer simply allow that add-on to open all files with the url extension automatically without going through the cumbersome process of Open As, Open With process? Just assign to always have FX Explorer use that program to launch url files.

As a bonus it would be nice to have FX Explorer replicate the behavior of that add-on and just launch the system web browser itself to open web link files.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
FX makes use of android's built-in file association system, so it should already do what you're suggesting.

however for some reason it won't properly recognize apps that register themselves for opening .url files.

it works fine for other formats like zip, pdf, html, doc, and media files.

edit: I tried some other filetypes, and what's odd is that I got 3 different responses depending on the file type.

the common ones I mentioned earlier all go straight to their default app.

.url, as you mentioned, triggers an "open with" screen and requires pressing "open as" followed by "text document" to get the .url handler apps to show.

.ics also triggers an "open with" screen, but it shows any installed ics file handlers in that initial "open with" screen.

best I can guess is that the devs of those .url handlers where sloppy and registered themselves for "text documents" with a filter for "ending with .url", instead of outright registering themselves for ".url files.

most apps will handle it fine because they assume "if I don't know it, it's plain text" and will ask android "are there any apps that can open plain text files ending with .url?", while FX uses the "correct" method of asking "are there any apps that can open url files?"

these are all assumptions based on my observations though, only a dev can tell with absolute certainty what's going on.
[Android Apps and Games] c627627:
Yes. That is exactly what happens, so it is possible to have an url file launch the browser but it is so involved and complicated to be unusable in comparison to local File Manager which just launches it straight away without any prompts.

Here's hoping what you posted gets noticed as a bug report for future versions.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
if my assumption is right it's actually not tliebeck's responsibility to fix it, as technically FX isn't doing anything wrong.

it's the .url file handlers that don't register themselves properly because their current method works in most cases, and devs often care more about what works than what's right.
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
Well, I've never used FX to do heavy file transfers before but, um, I did it today and there's serious bottlenecks:

Firstly (and concerning), FX is super slow when dealing with lots of smaller files. I don't know exactly why FX performs so slow (but I'm sure it's not my SD Card either -- it achieves around 2 MB/s in random 4K writes and 90 MB/s in sequential writes on the benchmark I did on PC) but if I try to copy a folder with lots of <4 kb files to another place (or a folder with symlinks), it takes forever, with speeds around 2 or 3 kbps accordingly to FX's speed indicator. However, with large files (e.g. >100 MB) there's no such issues, FX reaches around 30 MB/s on those cases. The archiving options also are super slow to compress files when compared to other file managers or to dedicated compression apps like RAR. I know I shouldn't expect the same performance of a dedicated compression app but the speed gap between FX and others is so huge to not notice...

Secondly, I also found a bug on progress indicator. To reproduce, try copying a folder with soft symlinks inside them, FX will correctly copy those files to the destination but it'll only take the size of the symlink instead of the size of the actual file into consideration when calculating the size of the transfer/ETA. The result is the progress bar going smooth until near end but then it starts decreasing once the symlinks starts to be copied (but despite of that, the operation completes without errors).

And to finish, are we gonna see any redesign on the new slide-out menu introduced in FX 5? Please, say yes, other users also complained about it in the past but nothing changed, the current design is very bad, there's still a lot of unnecessary padding and wasted space, something simple like cleaning completed tasks needs a long press and so on. It also confuses me when [MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION] said it would only implement Material Design concepts on FX where they don't make usability worse when compared to Holo but yet we have this slide-out menu with lots of usability issues compared to the previous one from FX 4...

(I've attached a video to this post showing an example of the bug I talked above -- you can also see the poor performance when copying small files, it took nearly two and half minutes to copy around 230MB of data, if it were a single, big file, FX would complete the same operation in a few seconds)
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
I'm also missing an "Exit FX" button in the slide out menu.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks for the detailed report, will be looking into the file copy issue closely/soonly. For instance, I need to verify the progress reporting system isn't dragging down performance.

One thing I can say right away is that copying small files using root takes about twice as long as copying them without it. And this is even with FX using only a single shell instance to transfer all of the files.

I think the FX 5 slideout is an improvement over FX 4, but as with all UI stuff that is subjective. You can make it look a bit more like the FX 4 version if you enable developer options in the settings. Tap the "build information" item a bunch of times like you would to enable the developer options in Android's main system settings panel. Then go into the developer optins and enable "New Window Floating Action".
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
And btw to all... am working on getting 5.1 out with OTG support.

I'd suggest using stickmount until it's ready or otherwise FX's very annoying "Connect to Storage" option. The library that I'm going to be using (and I think other file managers use) seems to have some corruption bugs. I've been fixing them and reporting back to the guy, but it still doesn't pass all tests. Maybe the other file managers are using something else...maybe they've fixed the bugs and didn't bother telling the dev.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
And yet one more item...

I've been told by Google Play devs that my method of selling a separate license key for FX Plus is beyond antiquated, and that IAP (in-app-purchases) is expected at this point. I've always had somewhat of a distaste for IAP, e.g., given that it's made it impossible for me to enjoy games on a phone. There's really nothing wrong with the underlying idea of IAP of course, only in how the industry has (ab)used it.

That said, the plan is to add support for IAP to FX. I'm currently working on an Atlas 2.0 update that will beta soon with support for it, and FX will get it after.

The paid license key APK method will continue to be supported. I'm only adding IAP as an additional option to buy FX Plus. Existing FX+ users will not be affected by this in any way.
[Android Apps and Games] mbc07:
Well, I enabled it and it just brought back the FAB, the huge spacing was still there. I was a little bored so I did a mockup of what I think the slideout menu should look like (check the attachment). It essentially retains all features the current slideout menu has, just with a better management of the space.

The main change is moving the close buttons from the left to the right, thus, getting rid of the huge padding on the left. Then, it includes a new "stop" icon so you can easily stop ongoing services/operations like file transfers or Web Sharing, for example. And to finish, the vertical spacing between the menu sections and the main header is reduced. Also, you should be able to clear completed/failed tasks with a single tap on the X button next to them, to make it consistent with the behavior of the X button next to the open windows, for example...

(disclaimer: I'm not demanding you to implement it or to change the slideout menu so it looks exactly like that, take that mockup solely as user feedback)
[Android Apps and Games] UncleMike:
Given the choice of:

1. A free app with a separate app purchase as a license

2. IAP as a license

3. A separate paid version of an app

For ongoing use I prefer either 2 or 3 over 1, because it makes installing on a new device that much easier. But for deciding whether to buy an app or not I prefer 1 or 3 over 2, because with 2 there's no way for a potential buyer to know how many people have paid.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
I understand it may not be convenient or practical from a developer's point of view, but I tend to prefer whatever paid licensing method that does not require Google integration. I hope the way FX and Atlas work now does not change in that regard.

Meaning, I don't mind so much how I have to pay or where to buy the application and I will install the Play Store temporarily to do it if necessary ( as I did with FX or Atlas ), but I will most definitely not keep an application that requires Play Services installed on a device to function.
[Android Apps and Games] Prack:
Will we be able to uninstall the key apps after this or would we need to re-purchase within the app for that?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
It won't require Play Services installed to operate. The plan is to offer *support* for in-app-purchases, not to require them. I also don't want a dependency on the Play Store/Google Services in FX/Atlas. It must work properly on a pure AOSP build.

Would greatly appreciate if you could try the beta (when its available) to make sure it works cleanly here.
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Thanks for clarifying that. Will sure test any beta in actual use as soon as it is out.
[Android Apps and Games] PocehNeheb:
Can you add .opus as an audio format in FX? It plays back files on Marshmallow with the built in music player if I manually select that. Not sure about lollipop.
[Android Apps and Games] jaydee 77:
Minor Bug Report

When copying/moving files to a Windows SMB network location the original timestamp of the new files get overwritten by the timestamp of the copy action. I would expect the original timestamp is preserved.
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
After reading searching in this thread, it seems there's an option to create archives with "no compression" (store).

After trying the app (license bought BTW :good:), I don't find it.

Archive > Advanced > Level set to 1 (Zip) => This gives me an archive of 9.8Mb

If I do the same thing (compression set to "none") with another file manager, the size is 10.83Mb.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
as far as I can tell only "tar" archives can be made without compression.
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
I need a flashable zip (signed with Zipsigner and flashed from TWRP).
[Android Apps and Games] underskyzx:
The whole archive in this app is messed up I have reported bugs about that but dev is selective about what he sees as s bug.

I advise you to use a external program to archive/extract like Winrar.
[Android Apps and Games] GROOVYJOSHCLARK:
Same with selective support for the UI but it's still the best root browser in my opinion so I just refuse to update past the last stable version before the horrible changes made.

I paid for the premium app just to support the dev even though I don't use any of the premium features regardless of how I feel about the look.

sent from my droid
[Android Apps and Games] underskyzx:
He fixed one bug I reported long time ago, about LAN/SMB failing to show a folder with thousands of files, at that time FX was the only file explorer that could properly show a folder with over 11.000 files.

Should mention the good things too lol
[Android Apps and Games] LuthfiKun:
I really like FX mainly because its UI. holy, it's beautiful. I'd really want to buy the full version but I'm gonna wait till the next version.

And I find when you open an image then swipe to next (or previous) image and you leave FX (by locking screen or switch to other app) then you come back to FX and find the image displayed is the first one opened not the last displayed. Is this totally intended or a bug? Because this really annoy me especially when reading like comics.

And yes, I can't describe things properly, sorry.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Just read this: http://www.xda-developers.com/psa-l...le-explorer-brings-adware-to-your-lockscreen/ (ES File Explorer pushing adware to your lockscreen).

The only thing that surprises me about this is that they waited so long to do it. In direct response I've temporarily dropped the price of FX+ by $1 to $1.99 (other currencies converted directly from USD).

And to reiterate...FX has no ads/adware/bundled crapware. And it doesn't phone home, not even to talk to some random server in China for reasons no one can understand. And this applies to the free version too.

I have no sympathy for these companies. They try to drive good developers out of business by dumping software on the market with the end goal of adding bloatware once it's been widely adopted. Glad to hear they've run out of money and have had to push forth the next phase of their plan.

If you paid $2.99 for FX Plus in the last 24 hours, please refund it (or request a refund) and re-buy at $1.99. Please also note that it may take a bit longer for the $1.99 price to show up in the Play Store.
[Android Apps and Games] anonymous-bot:
Thanks for the sale! This is my number two choice after Solid Explorer :P
[Android Apps and Games] Primokorn:
Every XDA user should know that using ES is no longer a good choice :) (like QuickPic) Open source is also a good alternative BTW.

Thanks for the discount even if I already bought the add-on. Do you have a roadmap, especially for the last bug reports and feature "requests"?
[Android Apps and Games] Ultramanoid:
Solid Explorer bundles Google Analytics, which sends the developer all kinds of data about your usage of the application. I understand most users are fine with this, but just pointing it out. FX is clean.

Personally I consider any kind of data mining just as harmful to privacy and safety, not to mention disrespectful and belittling to users, as plain adware and malware.
[Android Apps and Games] GROOVYJOSHCLARK:
This is the ONLY explorer I use and recommend, albeit the older version before the UI changes, but still the best ROOT explorer there is

sent from my droid

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ES was never a good explorer in my opinion so anyone that uses it, deserves the ads

sent from my droid

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Agreed whole heartily!

sent from my droid
[Android Apps and Games] spyrale:
any news guys?

From the technological mouth of Azatoth
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Next release is in final testing, should be < 24hr.
[Android Apps and Games] spyrale:
uiii, can't wait :D
[Android Apps and Games] everlethal:
Come on man. We are waiting :)

All Tornado
[Android Apps and Games] claus1953:
Great news thanks, how is root going?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
0.99 is out. This is a fairly good sized update, with the most notable item being that the long-under-development search feature has finally been turned on. The search feature creates a database index of the device's user-writable filesystems such that searches can take place very quickly.

I'm very interested in performance data with the search, especially for folks who have large numbers of files (tens of thousands or more). There are still some kinks to be worked out in such cases, notably I've seen certain Class 2 SD cards with extreme numbers of files take a bit longer than desired to index.

Added search feature. Filesystems are indexed and stored in a database, with incremental updates on subsequent searches. This update service runs ONLY when you perform a search, it DOES NOT automatically run in the background.

Added Quick search box to home screen (can be disabled in settings).

Added checksum MD5/SHA1 calculator to "Details" screen.

Bookmarks now appear in file selectors (e.g. text editor, selecting downloads folder, etc).

Android MediaScanner now notified when files are moved/removed, such that they will be immediately updated in Images, Music, and Videos views (as well as Android's own Gallery and Music apps).

Added settings option to disable MediaScanner synchronization entirely.

Fixed poor performance when adding items to playlists.

Added support for setting permissions on SSH servers

Improved performance of large deletes.

Android application package (APK) icons are now displayed in file views.

REGARDING ROOT: I hope to put out a test root module very very soon. Essentially all the real work is done, the largest remaining item on my plate for this is to root another half dozen test phones and do a ton more testing.

Initially the root APK will be uploaded OFF-market. If you're going to be one of the first to try it, please be knowledgeable enough to know how to recover your phone from a bricked state.
[Android Apps and Games] maodevil:
Where is the new update ? I can't find it
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Should be available on the market. I find the market can be a bit finicky about applying recent updates, although in the case of 0.99 the test phone grabbed it immediately.
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
my market shows the update but with the old changelog.
[Android Apps and Games] maodevil:
Got it its really really nice just waiting for root:D
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
I've been having a play with the update this morning and so far everything is working very nicely. I've tested out the MD5/SHA1 calculator and a few other things and all seems to be working correctly.

Search only appears to be searching the SD card - is that correct? Is there any chance of implementing search for the entire phone as well, maybe via a check box within settings? When root becomes available the ability to search the actual phone would be a very useful feature I would think.

While on search, I've only got about 5000 files but search is virtually instant. I did a search for the letter 'e' only and within a second (literally) search was complete.

Thanks a lot for your hard work on this. I'm really hanging out for the full version. :)
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
For version 1.0, even with root, search will be limited to "user file storage". I'm definitely on-board with the idea of root search in the future though (e.g. it would have been immensely helpful during the development of SystemPanel).

Was the index established reasonably quickly? I've seen some phones index 1000+ files/second, but have seen some annoying slowdowns on others. In the most egregious case it appeared to be a bad/failing SD card though (an SD card with a near identical filesystem and same speed rating performed 10x better in the same phone).
[Android Apps and Games] Droidzone:
Wish there was /data support.. otherwise you're not taking power users on board.. Love the binary view support

Swyped on my Htc Desire running on Supernova Extreme - Gingerbread goodness with 2 GB of Internal memory
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
As soon as FX had updated, I open it, noticed search straight away so I thought I'd try it out. I typed in 'microsoft' (I have a number of Microsoft Press books on my phone) and within a second or two they were all found. Straight after that is when I just typed in 'e'.

I'm guessing it took sub 10 seconds to index. I didn't noticed and lag or speed issues on the phone so I can only assume it happened quite fast.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Has anyone had trouble searching for files with non-Latin characters? I just saw a market review indicating as much regarding Russian language filenames. I tried creating some folders with Cyrillic characters though and the search had no trouble finding them. (Tried a Nexus One and a Galaxy Nexus).