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

I installed Total Commander because it does NOT modify file dates when moving files (so they still sort correctly), which makes it unique among file mgmt apps, AFAIK. It's also significantly faster at moving large groups of files, when compared to Files by Google. It's not the most polished or user-friendly file mgmt app (which is why I only use it to move large groups of files, as unintuitive and clunky as the process may be), but it's worth keeping on my phone for that reason alone.

I have an OLD 4.1.1 tablet that had ES File Explorer on it I, which I had to uninstall due to MAJOR security reasons. This was one of only a few available full featured fms to replace it. Powerful but cryptic. I found one glitch in that it couldn't install any APK located on an smb share. Got error 'couldn't parse package'. Another network capable file manager installed it no problem. MiXplorer didn't run so I finally found a copy of Solid Explorer Classic on APK mirror and now I'm happy.

Awesome, powerful file manager that was good for Windows Mobile and is good for Android. The UI doesn't quite follow "modern" Android guidelines, but that's my only quibble about it. All the features are fast, stable, and fairly easy to figure out. Its SMB plugin is a lifesaver for me. Wonderful tool, highly recommended to the power user.

What's new

3.42:
- USB drives could appear twice in "open" dialog
- Get BLUETOOTH permission also on Android 12 (bug in some devices)
- Sharing files from other app set wrong path
- Languages other than English didn't work any more
- Drag file list down to reload (like a browser)
- Home folder: New context menu item to eject or deactivate drive
- Tap on current path to edit/copy/paste it.
- The search can now be started from the home folder
- Dark mode in HTML help
- Bugfixes