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Whoever made these didn't have any idea about state management nor reusing views. 🙄🤦♂️
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stock file managers are supposed to provide basic file handling functionality while es and other file managers are specially designed file managers to provide advanced capabilities
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exerceo11982y@dotenvironment That was OK until Google started crippling file access to third-party applications in 2014.
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"Who thought it was a smart idea to kick the user back to the initial directory?"
...me as a user?
i'm going through a directory where loads of stuff is randomly dumped, sorting it out.
meaning i select multiple things that need to get sorted into one place, tap move, navigate to the place, confirm, things get moved, and i am back in the place they were moved from, because why thank you, that's exactly what I wanted, to fluently continue sorting stuff from the random dump into proper places elsewhere, how nice of you, file manager <3 -
exerceo11982y@Midnight-shcode One can quickly go to the beginning if you want through file managers' breadcrumbs navigation at the top or by tapping a "parent directory" button or ".." folder if available in the file manager, but not vice versa.
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Some mobile file managers kick me back to the beginning after selecting items for copying or moving.
When tapping on "copy" or "move" after selecting files/folders, some file managers like ES File Explorer (back when it was popular) conveniently remain in the current directory, whereas the stock Android file manager and many vendors' pre-installed file managers like that of Samsung kick me back to the initial directory. On phones with MicroSD, that's the storage selector, and on phones without, that's /storage/emulated/0/.
If I wanted to move files into a sub folder of the currently viewed directory, I have to navigate all the way back to that current directory, which is, needless to say, annoying.
Who thought it was a smart idea to kick the user back to the initial directory? But vendors' pre-installed file managers tend to be garbage anyway. Samsung's "My Files" file manager does not let me enter file names longer than 50 characters, does not let me change the extensions of files, does not support selecting files from search results or jumping to their parent directory, does obviously lack range selection, hides the status bar while opened (what's the point of that?!), its search feature is slow and sometimes crashes, and it can only search the entire device storage or memory card and not individual directories.
It's almost like Samsung deliberately tried to design a file manager as terrible as they possibly could.
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