File Browser support and feedback thread

Hi @fingus , sorry for the late reply! I can’t see who donated but I did receive one donation on Oct. 21, and one on Oct. 23, could that be right?

In my C2 the browser (3.4.0 (harbour)) has some SailJail issues, I assume. If I start it by clicking the icon in the app drawer:

  1. it does not remember settings: for example, selecting ‘show hidden files’ works, but it’s not active, if I restart the browser
  2. in ~/.config/ and ~/.local/share/ it doesn’t show other app directories - in .config it shows only dconf, harbour-file-browser, and pulse, in share only applications, harbour-file-browser, and system
  3. if I create a folder, it’s not visible if I run ls in a terminal [Edit] or restart the app [/Edit]

If I start the browser from a terminal, it works normally.

I don’t know if this has been reported earlier …

In both my X10 (browser version 3.5.0 (openrepos)) and C2 (3.4.0 (harbour)) if I swipe left in a directory, usually a page of short cuts opens. But if I first swipe right to go to a parent directory, and then swipe left, a blanc page opens.
In 3.5.0 the app returns to showing the current directory, but in 3.4.0 the empty page remains visible.

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I have this two weird directorys on my C2 showing “blackbox” and “productinfo”

blackbox no rights to read directory

productinfo leads to vendor/

Those are classic Sailjail issues. Try installing the app from OpenRepos. There I disabled Sailjail so that version doesn’t suffer from these issues.

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The behavior in 3.5.0 is a workaround for that issue. Once it throws you back to the folder view, you can swipe to the shortcuts page and everything works as it should. This should usually happen very rarely.

You can fix this by adding the two problematic paths to a config file.

Press and hold each entry to open the context menu and make a note of the full path.

Navigate to ~/.config/harbour-file-browser/harbour-file-browser/, then select the file ignored-mounts.json and press the pencil icon to edit the file.

Add the two problematic paths to the fullPaths list in this file.

Restart File Browser. The two entries should not be visible anymore.

(This post should be linked in the how-to section; I noticed however that I cannot edit the top post anymore…)

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How to remove the “Internal Space” and “Android-Dataspace” selector, i don’t need it because i don’t need Android-apps. It’s displayed even the Android-App-Support is turned off (but installed). I just need “Internal Space”.

Alternative locations are detected at runtime, in other words: to get rid of them, remove/rename the ~/android_storage folder, or the subfolder (e.g. ~/android_storage/Documents) that you want gone. There’s not way to just hide a context menu entry for an existing alternative location at the moment.

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It works temporary, but when Andoid-App-Support is started again, it creates the Folders /Movies /Music /Pictures every time.

Ah yes, that’s a nuisance. If you’re not actually using Android support, you could try replacing a folder with a file, e.g. Documents. I suppose Android support wouldn’t remove your file and replace it with a folder again, and File Browser only considers folders when detecting location alternatives.