File Manager/2

You've probably already noticed that Android offers its own file management application. However, although its functions cover everything any basic user could possibly need, we might want to get hold of extended functions.

For such purpose, we've got two options: to install a file manager provided by the manufacturer of our mobile phone (Huawei, Alcatel, Samsung, Xiaomi...) or download an alternative of the likes of File Manager (File transfer) developed by the same team behind Clean Master.

Organize your Android better with the file manager developed by Clean Master

Once you download this APK to your smartphone or tablet you'll have greater control over all the files on your mobile device. That will be thanks to all these functions:

• Cut, copy, paste, remove, move, compress, and extract files, make searches...
• Carry out local actions on your device from your SD card or from the internal storage but also on the cloud by means of Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive...
• Transfer files between devices thanks to a WiFi network: you can move files from your phone to a Windows or Linux computer or vice-versa.
• Search for files on your device according to different organization criteria: show files by type (image, audio, video, recent downloads...).
• Access from your home screen by means of the app's widget.
• Compatible with different file transfer protocols: FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV, and LAN/SMB.

Full control over the file organization on your Android phone.

And without a doubt, an aspect that any user will appreciate is the design of its interface as it has been conceived to remind us of file explorers for Windows or those that we can download for iPhone or iPad, giving priority to usability and simplicity.

In turn, it's a great complement to an app of the likes of Clean Master as it will help us to keep our phone much cleaner and more organized.

File Manager is a file manager program bundled with releases of OS/2 and Microsoft Windows^[1] between 1990 and 1999 and available from 6 April 2018 as an optional download for all modern releases of Windows, including Windows 10.^[2][3]

It is a single-instance graphical interface, replacing the command-line interface of MS-DOS, to manage files (copy, move, open, delete, search, etc.) and MS-DOS Executive file manager from previous Windows versions. Although File Manager was included in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 and some later versions, Windows Explorer was introduced and used as the primary file manager, with file management via a two-pane view different from that of File Manager, and a single-pane view obtained by clicking a "My Computer" icon.

Overview[edit]

The program's interface showed a list of directories on the left hand panel, and a list of the current directory's contents on the right hand panel. File Manager allowed a user to create, rename, move, print, copy, search for, and delete files and directories, as well as to set permissions (attributes) such as archive, read-only, hidden or system, and to associate file types with programs. Also available were tools to label and format disks, manage folders for file sharing and to connect and disconnect from a network drive. On Windows NT systems it was also possible to set ACLs on files and folders on NTFS partitions through the shell32 security configuration dialog (also used by Explorer and other Windows file managers). On NTFS drives, individual files or entire folders could be compressed or expanded.

The Windows NT version of File Manager allows users to change directory, file, local, network and user permissions.

From Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 onward, File Manager was superseded by Windows Explorer. However, the program file was still included with Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me (16-bit executable), and Windows NT 4.0 (32-bit executable). The last 32-bit build (4.0.1381.318) was distributed as part of Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a (SP6a). The last 16-bit build (4.90.3000) was distributed as part of Windows Me operating system.

Chris Guzak was the shell developer on the Windows 3.1 team responsible for File Manager.^[4]

The source was released on GitHub in 2018 with an MIT license by Microsoft.^[5]

Versions[edit]

16-bit OS/2 and Windows 3.x[edit]

File Manager was included in OS/2 versions 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3.^[6][7][8] The name of the executable was .

The original version of File Manager was a 16-bit program that supported the 8.3 file names that were in use at the time.

It did not support the extended file names that became available in Windows 95 – including long file names and file names containing spaces. Instead, it would display only the first six characters followed by a tilde character ("~") and a number, usually 1. More numbers (2, 3, and so on) were added after the tilde if more than one file name with the same initial characters existed in the same directory.

The 16-bit version distributed with Windows 3.1x and Windows for Workgroups 3.1x installations had a Y2K issue due to lexicographic correlation between date representation and the ASCII character set; colons and semicolons replaced what should have been '2000'. Microsoft issued corrected binaries for all Windows 3.1x environments.^[when?][9]

Windows NT[edit]

File Manager was rewritten as a 32-bit program for Windows NT. This new version correctly handled long file names in addition to NTFS file systems. It was included with Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, and 4.0.

Windows 10[edit]

On April 6, 2018, Microsoft released binaries and the source code, licensed under the MIT License, for an improved version of File Manager able to be run on Windows 10.^[10][3] This version included changes such as the ability to compile in modern versions of Visual Studio, the ability to compile as a 64-bit application, and numerous usability improvements.^[3] Microsoft also released this app in the Microsoft Store for free in late January 2019.^[11]

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