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Files

elementary, Inc.

Browse and manage files and folders

Easily copy, move, and rename your files, or use folders to stay organized. Whether you like files in lists, grids or columns, you can always find them right away. Access all your files, whether locally, on an external device or remotely using FTP, SFTP, AFP, Webdav, or Windows share.

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What's New:

6.1.4 – Jun 17, 2022

Fixes:

  • A regression in zooming out using Ctrl + ScrollDown is fixed

Minor updates:

  • Updated translations
6.1.3 – Jun 17, 2022

Fixes:

  • Renaming with the same name no longer shows an error dialog
  • Ctrl + A when renaming now selects all the text in the entry
  • Selecting multiple items with Shift + Arrow keys now works properly
  • The appearance of the cursor now matches the action
  • The Trash sidebar item can no longer be removed
  • Network sidebar plugins such as NextCloud are now added correctly
  • Duplication of subfolders in ListView under some circumstances is fixed
  • Bookmarks are now highlighted when a file they can accept is dragged onto them
  • Folders not being restored properly under some circumstances is fixed
  • Show confirmation dialog in file chooser before overwriting an existing file
  • Ctrl + V now always pastes into background folder
  • Shift + Ctrl + V now pastes into selected folder if there is one

Minor updates:

  • Updated translations
6.1.2 – Jan 24, 2022

Improvements:

  • Show New Tab and New Window shortcuts in context menus

Fixes:

  • Double click selects instead of exiting while renaming in list view
  • Show public share icon in breadcrumbs
  • Prevent a crash when dragging to re-arrange bookmarks

Minor updates:

  • Updated translations
6.1.1 – Dec 9, 2021

Improvements:

  • Close FileChooser with Esc key
  • Use new emblems for git status
  • Show selection actions in secondary click menu

Fixes:

  • Always show Permissions page in Properties dialog
  • In Permissions page, show user and group numeric IDs when names not available
  • In Permissions page, show message when no information available

Other updates:

  • Only allow one FileChooser per parent window
  • Navigate to folder when pressing enter in FileChooser instead of selecting

Minor updates:

  • Updated translations
6.1.0 – Nov 29, 2021

Improvements:

  • Use "Send Mail" portal instead of contract, improving compatibility with alternate email apps
  • Add file filters and New Folder options to file chooser portal
  • Allow blank passwords for remote connections, e.g. for SSH via a private key
  • Make ejecting devices safer
  • Add option to stop drive if possible
  • Show unformatted drives and drives without media

Fixes:

  • Fix pasting of selected pathbar text into another window using middle-click
  • Fix selecting multiple groups of files
  • Allow dropping bookmark directly below the Recent bookmark
  • Do not show unusable drop target below the Trash bookmark
  • Fix sidebar showing both drive and volume for same device
  • Fix sidebar showing SSH servers in both Storage and Network sections

Minor updates:

  • Updated translations
6.0.4 – Oct 29, 2021

Fixes:

  • Show translated bookmark names when changing languages
  • Stop some audio file icons disappearing when scrolling or changing view
  • Stop brief appearance of status overlay when changing root folder in Column View

Other updates:

  • Remove message about reporting issues when running from Terminal
  • Updated translations
6.0.3 – Sep 27, 2021

Fixes:

  • Open bookmarks in a new tab with Ctrl + Click
  • Fix dropping uris onto storage devices and network locations in sidebar
  • Fix restoring tabs after a system restart
  • Don't unselect when secondary clicking blank space around a file or folder
  • Show the folder context menu when secondary clicking outside of a selection

Other updates:

  • Updated translations
6.0.2 – Aug 24, 2021

Fixes:

  • Fix small context menus on breadcrumbs
  • Fix bookmarking a single selected item with Ctrl + D
  • Fix renaming bookmarks in the sidebar
  • Fix an issue with showing color tags when thumbnails are hidden

Other updates:

  • Updated translations
6.0.1 – Aug 2, 2021

Fixes:

  • Fix freeze when comparing copied files
  • Fix truncation of final column in Column View under some circumstances

Improvements:

  • Show more keyboard accelerators in menus

Other updates:

  • Updated translations
6.0.0 – Jul 15, 2021

Fixes:

  • Fix connecting to AFP servers so that passwords are remembered
  • Fix MTP mounts

Improvements:

  • Launch files with double click instead of single click
  • Provide a File Chooser portal for Flatpak apps
  • Brand new animated Sidebar
  • Dark style support
  • Mint and Bubblegum color tags
  • Do not restore locations that have become inaccessible
  • Clicking between thumbnail and text now activates/selects in Grid view
  • AFC protocol support
  • Add a smaller minimum icon size in list view
  • Show emblems inline in list views
  • Performance improvements
  • Stability improvements

Other updates:

  • Rename "Devices" to "Storage"
  • Updated translations
4.5.0 – Aug 11, 2020

Improvements:

  • Bookmark menu option for network mounts in sidebar
  • Show folder item count in List View
  • Now shows thumbnails on locally mounted MTP and PTP devices as well as on network locations by default
  • Properties window: Allow the filename to be copied when it cannot be edited
  • Improved tooltip formatting for devices in the sidebar

Fixes:

  • Fix crash when pressing Enter and another key at the same time
  • Fix pathbar handling of "~" and ".." in path
  • Filechooser pathbar no longer crashes when invoked from a Flatpak
  • Do not show git status for repositories on FUSE filesystems to prevent possible blocking

Other updates:

  • "Personal" is now "Bookmarks"
  • Updated translations
4.4.4 – Jun 30, 2020

Improvements:

  • Add warning and error colored disk usage bars when disk becomes too full
  • Prevent window resizing when filename column width exceeds available space

Fixes:

  • Fix handling of filenames containing the # character
  • Fix regressions regarding pathbar context menus and clicking

Other updates:

  • Updated translations
4.4.3 – Jun 1, 2020
  • Paste images into other apps instead of file paths where possible
  • Paste into a selected folder when using Ctrl + V
  • Show file info overlay in List View as well
  • Traverse search results with Tab key
  • Show an error message when attempting to open trashed files

Fixes:

  • Fix uneditable area in pathbar which is showing home folder placeholder
  • Fix an issue that prevented file modification times from showing
  • Fix size of restored tiled window
  • Fix color tags disappearing when thumbnails hidden

Other updates:

  • Updated translations
4.4.2 – Apr 3, 2020

Minor updates:

  • Fix crash when a device icon is coming from a file
  • Fix device icon sometimes missing
  • Fix occasional view freeze after renaming
  • Improve renaming logic when dealing with leading/trailing whitespace
  • Fix breadcrumbs sometimes incorrect at startup
  • Do not show file:// prefix in navigation buttons menus
  • Updated translations
4.4.1 – Feb 29, 2020

Minor updates:

  • Fix "New Folder" keyboard shortcut label in menu
  • Fix navigation with back/forward button context menu
  • Fix path bar sometimes showing wrong path when closing a tab
  • Ensure keyboard shortcuts work immediately after creating or renaming a file
  • Do not include "file://" in pathbar text or when pasting path as text
  • Updated translations
4.4.0 – Feb 11, 2020
  • Show keyboard shortcuts in menu items
  • Fix an issue with breadcrumbs in the file chooser
  • Show a warning when ejecting a volume that's still in use
  • Fix cursor update after horizontal scroll in Column View
  • Fix folder-open icon persisting after closing Column View
  • Use destructive action styling for some trash dialog buttons
  • Updated translations
4.3.0 – Jan 7, 2020

New features:

  • Initial git plugin support
  • Follow global history setting when restoring and saving tabs

Other updates:

  • Ensure tabs showing same folder remain synchronized
  • Fix drag with secondary button on empty space
  • Show custom media type icons for installed apps
  • Fix appearance of inactive diskspace indicator
  • Improve pathbar animation
  • Update documentation
  • Update translations
4.2.0 – Sep 9, 2019
  • Initial cloudproviders plugin support
  • Fix selecting pasted files
  • Fix color label visibility while using dark theme
  • Fix selecting files using Shift key
  • Draw checkerboard background for image items
  • Improved styling for disk space bars
  • Updated translations
4.1.9 – Jul 26, 2019
  • Show more search results
  • Ensure valid tab name generation
  • Properly sort folders by date and size
  • Launching Files from Terminal now opens new tab instead of new window
  • Improve MTP support
  • Various tagging feature refinements
  • Keyboard navigation improvements
  • Symlink copy and paste fixes
  • Avoid crash when Templates folder is null
  • Reduce memory footprint of FileChooserDialog
  • Avoid crash when selecting image file in some situations
  • Fix unclosable progress window while copying network files to removable storage
  • Fix drag and drop after double clicking a blank area
  • Avoid crash while scrolling over view switcher
  • Avoid possible crash in some copy and paste situations
  • Updated translations
4.1.8 – May 2, 2019
  • Keyboard navigation fix for cherry picking select files in Grid view
  • Don't hardcode search placeholder text style, fixes dark theme issue
  • Updated translations
4.1.7 – Apr 8, 2019
  • Minor spacing adjustments to location bar
  • Fix F2 renaming behavior
  • Updated translations
4.1.6 – Mar 26, 2019
  • Minor spacing adjustments to location breadcrumbs
  • Consistently remember color tags
  • Reload thumbnails when changing zoom level to avoid showing placeholder unnecessarily
  • Fix running scripts with spaces in filename
  • Updated translations
4.1.5 – Feb 13, 2019
  • Fix high CPU regression in version 4.1.4
  • File sorting fixes
  • Updated translations
4.1.4 – Jan 31, 2019
  • Meson: fix soversion names
  • Remove CMake build system
  • Fix missing File System properties menu
  • Drop intltool dependency
  • Fix default file type handler logic
  • Fix initial search window size too small
  • Add option to disable local file thumbnails
  • Fix crash when opening multiple video files
  • Fix some timing issues around adding and removing files
  • Meson: fix missing library headers
  • Fix color tag display
  • Show reserved space in Properties window
  • Updated translations
4.1.3 – Jan 9, 2019
  • Add border radius to text background
  • Fix file mimetype association regression
  • New pathbar tooltips
  • Build fixes
  • Updated translations
4.1.2 – Jan 2, 2019
  • Plugin build fixes
  • Updated translations
4.1.1 – Dec 28, 2018
  • Fix Ctrl+Tab behavior
  • Fix building without Unity library
4.1.0 – Dec 27, 2018
  • Hide breadcrumbs and show placeholder and search icon in home folder
  • Style error dialogs
  • Right click fixes
  • Reload recent view when privacy setting changes
  • `Connect Server` fixes
  • Do not activate multiple files with single click
  • Use `Tab` to toggle View and Sidebar keyboard focus
  • Delete color tag database entries for trashed files
  • Throttle tab closing
  • `Ctrl` key fixes
  • Drag and drop fixes
  • Show icons in `Open with` menus
  • Tooltip fixes
  • Memory leak fixes
  • Crash fixes
  • Trash: respect sound setting
  • Localization fixes
  • Updated translations
4.0 – Oct 16, 2018
  • Over 100 major and minor bug fixes and improvements
0.3.5 – Jun 3, 2017
  • Honor 12/24hr system setting
  • Distinguish between tabs with the same name
  • Support launching from other applications with a target file selected
  • New translations
  • Minor bug fixes
0.3.3 – Apr 10, 2017
  • Improved networking support
  • Correct window geometry when snapping to left or right
  • Pressing Ctrl no longer cancels renaming while the "Reveal Pointer" setting is active
  • Switching input language cancels actions
  • Various crash fixes
  • New translations
  • Minor bug fixes
0.3.2 – Feb 25, 2017
  • Web browsers like Firefox now remember the most recently used downloads directory
  • Remember preferred zoom level
  • Improved input method support
  • 910x640 minimum window size
  • Security fixes
  • Various crash fixes
  • New translations
  • Minor bug fixes
0.3.1.1 – Jan 25, 2017
  • Enable drag and drop tabs between windows
  • Various crash fixes
  • New translations
  • Minor bug fixes
0.3.1 – Jan 16, 2017
  • Merge search functionality into Ctrl+F
  • Improved translation support
  • Various crash fixes
  • New translations
  • Minor bug fixes
0.3.0.5 – Dec 16, 2016
  • Minor bug fixes
0.3.0.4 – Nov 19, 2016
  • Minor bug fixes
0.3.0.3.1 – Oct 10, 2016
  • Fix appdata release dates
0.3.0.3 – Oct 10, 2016
  • Improve file opening over Samba shares
  • Fix a crash when restoring items from the Trash
  • Improve cut/copy/paste sensitivity in context menu
  • Translation updates
0.3.0.2 – Sep 1, 2016
  • Minor bug fixes