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.

Can files be dragged from one window to the other? No? how do you move from one window to the other? The app is confusing. Based on experience with historical apps known as total commander. A split windowed file manager should make file management such as selecting and/or moving/copying without a need for a popup and additional questions. Add intuitive graphics with underlying fast functionality. What is a two-button line? Plugin options seem to be building out. USING DeXeq

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

3.41:
- Shows message to confirm the privacy policy on first start.
- Asks for permission to get list of installed apps.
- Bugfixes