Total Commander - file manager

C. Ghisler

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About this app

Android version of the desktop file manager Total Commander (www.ghisler.com).

Important note: This app does NOT contain any ads. However, it contains a link "Add plugins (download)" in the home folder. This is treated as an ad by the Play Store because it links to our other apps (plugins).

Main features:
- Copy, Move whole subfolders
- Drag & Drop (long press on file icon, move icon)
- In place rename, create directories
- Delete (no recycle bin)
- Zip and unzip, unrar
- Properties dialog, change permissions
- Built-in text editor
- Search function (also for text)
- Select/unselect groups of files
- Select by tapping on file icons
- Select range: Long tap+release on icon
- Show List of installed Applications, manually backup apps (built-in plugin)
- FTP and SFTP client (plugin)
- WebDAV (Web folders) (plugin)
- LAN access (plugin)
- Plugins for cloud services: Google Drive, Microsoft Live OneDrive, Dropbox
- Root support for the main functions (optional)
- Send files via Bluetooth (OBEX)
- Thumbnails for pictures
- Two panels side by side, or virtual two panel mode
- Bookmarks
- Directory history
- Save files received from other apps via share function
- Media player which can stream directly from LAN, WebDAV and cloud plugins
- Configurable button bar for changing directories, internal commands, launching apps, and sending shell commands
- Simple help function in English, German, Russian, Ukrainian and Czech
- Optimizations for visually impaired, like text for icons
- Supported languages of the main program: English, German, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
- Public translation via http://crowdin.net/project/total-commander

About the new permission "SuperUser":
This permission is now requested to make Total Commander work better on rooted devices. It tells the SuperUser app that Total Commander supports root functions. It has no effect if your device is not rooted. Root functions allow Total Commander to write to system folders like /system or /data. You will be warned before anything is written if the partition is write protected.
You can find some more information here:
http://su.chainfire.eu/#updates-permission

Ratings and reviews

Actually the most efficient file explorer I've ever used. I was able to backup all my photos from two years (to an external ssd) in about 30 minutes while other file managers were predicted to finish the same transfer in about a day. It also did all this while keeping the original metadata which is another huge plus for me over other apps. The UI may look daunting at first but you could probably get used to it in like an hour Overall, I love this app and I can't recommend it enough!

Total Commander file manager has everything I wanted for performing file handling on my Android device and nothing I did not want. It's straight forward, has a great menu tree style structure and enables you to examine all files on your device no matter if it's internal or external storage. It's send and copy functions are great and best of all because it doesn't have an over the top pretty pictures interface, runs like clockwork. Free from adds, it's essential file handling sorted.

best free file Manager of every one I've tried over the last 15 years. it's nice to know where you're actually putting your files instead of them being hidden in some obscure directory that some app thinks is good for you, with this app you have a choice! Also I found if you know exactly the name and path of a system file you're looking for, you might be able to at least view it even if it's in a system folder that you normally need root for. If you have root even more functions are available

What’s new

- Bugfixes