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[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Thanks.

There's something else I've been meaning to ask, which is pretty minor so please don't take it as a nitpick. ;) In Apps Management, when freezing apps, how would you feel about including an option to not show that warning after the first time? I understand the need for it, but it would be nice to be able to sign off on it. Or would that make you nervous? I'd understand that, too. :)
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
I have the same problem when deleting files. Every time I need to tick a box before confirming delete. It can be a real pain.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
There is an option to turn that one off already in the Settings. Last item under "File Management", "Confirm Deletes".
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
How on earth did I not ever see that??! You have no idea how much that has frustrated the hell out of me sometimes. I'm feeling extremely stupid now. :silly:

Thanks a lot for pointing it out. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
I'll join you, lol. :banghead:
[Android Apps and Games] 2LoT:
Using 2.0.0.10 +

Can you please consider some more feature requests:

1- Add toggle multi-select button

2- Bug: when multiple items has been selected (using normal select with a horizontal swipe), a single click on any item open a dialog "Complete action using" asking to pick an app to play the selected item. If I hit the back botton to dismiss/cancel that dialog box. The Context Menu had disappeared from the bottom. Must select another item to have it visible again.

3- In my opinion, when multiple items have been selected (by horizontal swipe) the multi-select mode must be turned on automatically. And the there must be a visual clue to remind the user that multi-select mode is now on.

4- The horizontal swipe to multi-select could become much more powerful if it can span the select on more than one item. In list view, I swipe vertically on 7 items, these 7 must be selected. In Icon View mode, I swipe horizontally on 4 files, these 4 must be selected. If I swipe diagonally all the items withing the rectangle must be selected. Of course, multi-select mode is turned on automatically as it is likely that the user wants to remain in multi-select mode.

Hope this make sense.
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
I'd like to see an easier way to toggle multi-select. If you select one file, the bar at the bottom appears with Cut, Copy, Delete. Can a button be added to this for multi-select?

Alternatively (preferably) maybe add an option so that if a file/folder icon is tapped, it selects that file, where as if you tap the file name it opens it. This would make it much more effecient IMO.
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
1- view / multi

2- confirmed, I can replicate

3- disagree. Usage scenario: I horizontally select item A and C and then tap item B, item B should open (it does) and when I return from viewing item B, items A and C are still selected.

Multi select is lazy mans horizontal select anyway.

4- disagree. How do I scroll? Anything vertical should be scroll. Diagonal leaves too much room for error on the users part and will lead to frustration and confusion.

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I can agree to this, the action bar (with cut and delete) could include a button to easily switch to multi select (since it's shown after at least one item is selected). That makes sense.
[Android Apps and Games] 2LoT:
That was exactly what I meant initially (my question was "more feature requests related to the context menu buttons"). But later on when I added more items in my post which are outside of the context menubar, I reworded the intro and I forgot to clarify the first question. Indeed that looks pretty silly as a reader cannot guess where I wanted to add that multi-select button.

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For #1, I think we all agree. I meant add "Multi-Select" in the action bar as you stated above. I had incorrectly worded the question.

For #3: Please consider this scenario2: on your desktop computer. You multi-select two PDFs file. Then you double-click on a *.txt file. The text file is open. When you close the txt file, the two selected PDFs files are no longer selected. Scenario3: on your desktop, you multi-select two PDFs, you single click on a text file. The selected item is now moved to the text file. The two PDFs become unselected.

In other words, even though the scenario you suggested could be useful, but so far it is not adopted in mainstream GUI design. Why would any one wants to open a file in the middle of a multi-select and still want the multi-select to remain?

For #4: You are right! May be do something to distinguish between the scrolling and rectangle selection? For example two finger touch define the two corners of the rectangle?
[Android Apps and Games] Nucleotide:
There have been many times I've been multi-selecting files and come across one that I'm not sure about. Open it up to verify what it is exactly. Ok, I need that, lets not select it.

it can actually be very useful.
[Android Apps and Games] GermainZ:
[MENTION=2954544]tliebeck[/MENTION] said he's considering this, but that he's running out of gestures so he'd need to consider it/look for alternate methods.
[Android Apps and Games] 2LoT:
Delete dialogbox in red

Hi Tod,

I like better the delete confirmation screen without the checkbox (FX 2.0.0.10). To make the delete confirmation screen stand out better to attract user attention. Is it Ok to display the font in bright red in the delete confirmation screen?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
For #1, are you saying add a fourth button, i.e., if you swipe an item, it selects it, brings up the "selection action bar" and there is a fourth option there to enable single-tap multi-select?

My only concern on implementing this is it'd probably have to be a simple icon (space concerns), which many people might not understand.

I do need to make sure that the selection action bar always remains visible when anything is selected.

And thanks everyone for the general suggestions on selection, I definitely need to play around with this a bit. It's very easy to have a gesture that work well well in one case and poorly in another...have stumbled on this myself a few times.

(and sorry for taking so long to respond...have been working on WebSharing/SystemPanel stuff, two projects which had too much of their time stolen by FX :D).
[Android Apps and Games] 2LoT:
Yes add "multi-Select" 4th button to that action bar as soon as an item is selected. If you have trouble making a small icon to mean "Multi-Select". How about making that icon with the word "Multi Select"?
[Android Apps and Games] iXNyNe:
Found another case where selection bat disappears.

Activate multi select, select some items, tap the X to r left of the selection bar, bar goes away, items still selected.

Another method (same issue)

Select item using horizontal swipe, activate multi, select more (or not, doesn't matter cuz there's already some selected), press the X, selection bar disappears, items still selected.
[Android Apps and Games] jackyhk02:
I updated to 4.3 and cannot mount system r/w anymore. I did some searching and found this thread: http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=267630

It seems that this is a problem of the 4.3 update. Anyone with the same issue?
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
Same issue here. Maybe FX needs to be updated to the new su method.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Looks like /proc/mounts must be queried as root. Remounting does still work in FX, but any write operations display an error because it thinks the FS is still remounted read-only.

You can workaround this in current versions of FX by going into the settings, selecting "Root', and unchecking "Immediate Read-Only Errors". Will have an update soon.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Looks relatively easily correctable, currently re-writing the piece that retrieves mounted device information to use root access when required. Regrettably we're going to lose a small bit of functionality, i.e., the warning message on the home screen informing you that devices are remounted. I don't want to immediately go after super user permissions the moment FX is started (as it will scare paranoid users) to get the mount status. May do this as an option or just remove the feature unless you actually open the "filesystems" screen.

Does anyone know if this is a bug or a feature, and/or if it's tied to a SuperSU update or to Android 4.3 itself?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
FX 2.0.1.2 (released to beta channel only)

Now available via Play Store (beta channel) or direct download: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r2047/FX_r2047.apk

(Google Play beta test info at end of post)

2.0.1.2 adds fixes for Android 4.3 root support. This release works around the fact that Android 4.3 returns different data from /proc/mounts to normal users than it does as root. Queries to determine mounted filesystems are now done as root (in root areas of the app, if root is available).

I'd greatly appreciate if you could test remounting filesystems as root, and/or using the "Filesystem Manager" (available from tools menu on home screen).

There is one minor "bug" that will be left in this release...the warning about protected filesystems being remounted R/O will not be displayed when the app starts under Android 4.3....doing so would require using root access the moment the app is launched, which would be a bit bothersome, especially to folks who use password protections and such.

Thanks again "jackyhk02" for reporting this, very much appreciated!

Google Play Beta Testing information

You can sign up for beta testing using the Google Play Store's new app beta-testing feature.

If you'd like to beta test FX, you can do so by joining this Google+ community: https://plus.google.com/communities/101301040394875566704

Once you've joined, you can opt-in to use beta instead of released version here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/nextapp.fx
[Android Apps and Games] egress63:
Awesome! I have been trying to set up CWM on my Galaxy Nexus and was trying to get rid of the recovery file in root for an hour. Half an hour of searching led me to this post. So, unchecking "Immediate Read-Only Errors" solved it. Now, on to CM10.

In the end, thanks for the App. Its a fine piece of work! :)
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
Remount issue is fixed now for me.
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
I just discovered that if I long press on an image and select "Send To: Simple Image Wallpaper," the image is set immediately instead of taking several steps within the SIW app. I don't know if I should thank FX, SIW or Android, but it's a great shortcut.

So I was wondering if FX could have a "Send To: folder" option, or would that be somewhat redundant?
[Android Apps and Games] GermainZ:
What would that do? I'm not sure if you want to copy to a folder, or something else.

If you just want to copy a file to a folder, I'm not aware of any shortcut (except Copy > Switch window > Paste).
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Similar to the SendTo function in Windows (where you can choose Copy or Move). Of course you can do traditional cut-and-paste. It's just another method that would take fewer steps. No big deal. That's why I brought up redundancy. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
FX 2.0.1.2 (moved from beta->production)

Now available via Play Store or direct download: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r2047/FX_r2047.apk

This is just a beta->production move, if you're on the beta channel, you probably already have it.

Changes since the released 2.0 release include:

Fixed Android 4.3 root FS remount. This release works around the fact that Android 4.3 returns different data from /proc/mounts to normal users than it does as root. Queries to determine mounted filesystems are now done as root (in root areas of the app, if root is available).

Fixed obscure crash scenario if image file doesn't exist during thumbnail generation (reported via Google Play bug reports)

Minor UI aesthetic tweaks to search progress, network browsing,

Better logging for SMB connection failures.

Added Settings options (off by default) to place all menu items on left side of screen. This is useful for some Samsung device owners where Samsung's "Multiwindow" feature may draw *OVER* the user interface of FX.

Added logcat viewer with ability to save/copy FX logs.

Added support for connecting to FTP servers that require ACTIVE rather than PASSIVE connections. These are rare, but do exist (e.g. some home routers that provide network attached storage functionality). You must uncheck the "Use Passive" checkbox in the FTP connection editor dialog (under advanced).

Added more timeouts for FTP connections.

RealVideo files now use the correct "video" icon.

Added support for moving images from image listings (added "Cut" option, previously only had "Copy")

Thanks for all reports/suggestions!
[Android Apps and Games] 2LoT:
Set image as Wallpaper

Hi,

When long click on an image. Can you add an option "Set as Wallpaper" ?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Unfortunately the API call to set wallpaper on Android seems to do all the image scaling work in an app's own process, and it uses a tremendous amount of memory to do it. This is why the Image Viewer blanks out for a moment when setting the wallpaper (to release more memory). If the option were provided to set wallpaper directly from an "explorer window" it'd likely run into an out-of-memory error.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
FX 2.0.2.0 (released to beta channel only)

Now available via Play Store (beta channel) or direct download: http://android.nextapp.com/fx/r2048/FX_r2048.apk

(Google Play beta test info at end of post)

The multiple-column list view mode, previously called "List View" is now known as "Grid View".

A new single column list view mode has been added. It looks best on tablets or phones in landscape mode.

Added special-case to detect external storage of Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition.

Removed more falsely detected user storage. Anything in /Android/data or /Android/obb is culled.

Aded capability to manually disable detected storage. The "Customize Home" screen now has two tabs. The second tab, "Filesystems" allows you to hide undesirable filesystems.

Fixed bug where opening FX bookmarks from home screen would *always* create a new window, even if that bookmark was already open.

Fixed bug with white text on white background on search screen for pre-ICS devices.

I'm still scratching my head as to why Google has still not added an API to get all available user storage. It's only been 3.5 years and 11 API revisions since the HTC Incredible came out with two storage locations. I currently have 410 lines of code in "Storage.java" which tries to figure out this mess. That doesn't include the supporting classes that do things like query proprietary (but public) Motorola APIs where applicable, or the bit that parses the living daylights out of /proc/mounts (well at least that one has other uses too).

If your phone doesn't show its internal storage (if applicable) as "Main Storage" and its external SD card as "Media Card", please report it, and provide the make/model of phone and the storage paths. Screenshots are helpful too just so I can see what it's doing wrong.

Google Play Beta Testing information

You can sign up for beta testing using the Google Play Store's new app beta-testing feature.

If you'd like to beta test FX, you can do so by joining this Google+ community: https://plus.google.com/communities/101301040394875566704

Once you've joined, you can opt-in to use beta instead of released version here: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/nextapp.fx

Obligatory screenshots:

The (OLD) view that is now known as "Grid" but was previously known as "List":

The (NEW) view that is known as "List":

The "Customize Home" feature (available from home screen View menu and Settings), which can now be used to disable annoying filesystems:
[Android Apps and Games] elban:
I like the new list view mode, I think I'll use it!

thanks :)
[Android Apps and Games] Flambel:
Great programs. Very often use.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
directory bind folders are still visible as separate storage devices, but hiding them manually works well.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Could you list a path or two or post a screenshot? Would love to filter them automatically if it's safe to do so.
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
Is there a way to create a ZIP archive with multiple files? Or add files to an existing archive?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
On the first part, yes. Just select a folder (or multiple folders/files) and then File->Archive.

There currently is not a way to modify/update an archive (yet).
[Android Apps and Games] bruce7373:
I tried selecting multiple files, but when I opened the archive, it only contained one file.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
It definitely should not be doing that. Just tried this and it appears to be working (running 2.0.2.0 here, but this has been unchanged since 2.0). In the "Archive" dialog, does it show two (or more) "items"?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
And BTW if this just happened, a file recovery program may be able to retrieve the files. DON'T WRITE ANY NEW CONTENT TO THE PHONE IF POSSIBLE. I haven't used one of these in ages, but something like "Recuva" might do the trick:

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

(I can't "recommend" this software as I've never used it, just have seen it mentioned on a few Android forums).
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
It has happened a 4 maybe 5 times before and never on any other file managers which is weird, as this is so much better than the others except this problem :(
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
The only thing I can really think of is the ".nomedia" bug I mentioned above. Are you using any .nomedia files? To find out for certain, turn on "Show Hidden" in the view menu while looking at a file view. And another indicator would be if only media files are destroyed (i.e., folders and non-media files remain intact after the problem occurs).

FX doesn't do anything on reboot, doesn't start at boot, etc. All file operations are completed when the when the FX icon disappears from the notification area (typically when the dialog goes away unless you hide the dialog).

We do notify the Android media scanner of moved/copied media files so that they will appear in the media database (as you're supposed to do). This happens immediately though, not on reboot.
[Android Apps and Games] iamnotbrian:
this is such a good app. great work and thank you !!!
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
@rosswaa

Will the following steps reproduce the problem?

1.) Take some pictures with camera.

2.) Cut files from DCIM/Camera directory

3.) Make new directory somewhere else on SD card

4.) Paste files into new directory.

5.) Reboot

I just updated a Droid1 to CM7.1 stable and am in the process of reflashing a Droid2 back to stock in preparation to throw the latest CM nighly on it.

So far have not had any luck replicating on the Droid1, even adding a ".nomedia" folder after the fact won't cause the files to be deleted on reboot.
[Android Apps and Games] quertiy:
When renaming/deleting a file, please don't reset the view to the beginning of the list. When deleting, keep the view on the previous file, and when renaming, on the file renamed. With 200 files this behavior tends to drive me crazy.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
With regard to the Cyanogenmod nightly issue (rosswaa):

I now have CM7 nighly build 136 for Droid 2 installed on a phone. (Nightly build numbers are device-specific). So far I can't replicate the problem. I've been attacking from the perspective that it's a .nomedia issue, but it appears that CM7 does not have this issue (this is fairly expected, I believe most devices/ROMs have it cured at this point). So at present I have no solid idea what could be causing this issue, the only thing I can think of is a bad/failing SD card.

Yes, this needs to be corrected and is on the TODO list.
[Android Apps and Games] rosswaa:
Its strange. I don't use .nomedia files just in normal folders

O can't just reproduce it as it doesn't always just delete them most of the time it works perfect but then it'll happen and I'm like wtf lol

It quite annoying but its just random seems to do it more if there's quite a few files being cut and paste in one hit :/

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Ill be upgrading my SD card soon so will keep an eye out if it does it then but iv never had any trouble with this one except it being slow
[Android Apps and Games] haensgn:
One suggestion

A certain other file explorer I use has the app icon for each apk app package. I really rely on this feature as I flash a rom a day. Just wondering if it is on your todo list, if not I would like to suggest it. :)

this comment alone will bring up my Thanks meter count to 500
[Android Apps and Games] scarmon25:
I don't use this on my phone as I prefer a simple file explorer for it. But this is awesome for my tablet

I absolutely love it on honeycomb. I will be buying the full version when it is released.
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks! Mind if ask what the other file (simpler) file manager is? Or more importantly, what would you prefer be simplified in FX to make it more usable on your phone?
[Android Apps and Games] tliebeck:
Thanks, this is on the TODO list. Generally want to display custom thumbnail icons wherever possible, e.g., would like to also support displaying album art in all possible places as well (not just in music view). We currently do render video and image thumbnails.

It's not quite trivial to implement this, it has to be added to our icon-fetching code which runs in a separate thread (if I recall correctly, loading images from the package manager isn't instantaneous and can generate a good bit of lag if implemented poorly).
[Android Apps and Games] scarmon25:
Honestly I use root explorer. I just preffer the simple list style folders on my phone. Plus as I am always Modding my phone I need permission access and stuff like that and root explorer just fits my needs. I'm a big fan of nextapp and recommend the pro version of system panel to everyone I know that uses android. So I really do look forward to this apps progression. I don't know if there is really anything you can do that would make it better for me.personally as its just prefference. But when I got my tablet I looked around and remembered this file manager and its perfect.

Just another post from a CM7 junkie.
[Android Apps and Games] quertiy:
A pop-up at the first run of the program, showing: please choose your preferred display style: 1. Minimalist 2. Xxx 3. Full options might be a viable option.
[Android Apps and Games] scarmon25:
Yeah. That actually sounds pretty good. That would open your audience dramaticly. And accommodate many peoples prefferences

Just another post from a CM7 junkie.
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
Very nice manager.

only problem is, that when moving images, it doesnt move the thumbnails along, but keeps them in the wrong galleryfolders .

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