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Best file explorer solution? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi guys. Just wanted to know what's your best app or apps for files management in Android. I'm have been using zarchiver for years which is not FOSS but has some features which are important to me like compressed files management and access to obb and data folders in Android. Is there a better solution out there?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I haven't found a perfect Foss file explorer, so I use 2, material files and ghost commander.

Material files

Pros:

It shows the disks sizes

Can deal with compressed files (zip, 7zip, tar)

Multiple windows support

Cons:

You need to reset the app to update disk size and to show new ones

Images are cropped

Multiple windows are worst and not as intuitive as multiple panels

It have issues when trying to open files with other apps, particularly librera.

Ghost Commander

Pros:

Many personalization options

Dual panel

Light weight and fast

Cons:

Can't deal with 7zip files

It's only view mode is list view

Don't show disks available space

One Foss app many people don't know about that is worth mentioning is

Index which try to bring a linux desktop file manager to android.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Have you tried mixplorer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, but is not Foss.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I also found it was connecting to google https://lemmy.today/post/9077336/7415361

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Shit. I will cut off it's internet access then. Maybe it's copium but mixplorer is very feature rich and yeah it's not FOSS and that's OK I guess