[APP][2.2+] MiXplorer v6.x Released (fully-featured file manager)

[Ultramanoid]

Double post.

 

[Nimueh]

Well... you had to do it...

Even though I have Play Protect disabled, I am regularly prompted to turn it on for my own protection, PARTICULARLY when installing apps outside the Play Store (WHICH IT HAS NO BUSINESS EVEN MONITORING WHEN DISABLED! )

YES, that is sooooo annoying!!! I too have Play Protect disabled as much as it lets me, but it still pops up sometimes when I install something from local and it drives me NUTS! Google must really think all their users are 12-year olds that have no clue what they're doing and should be persuaded to change their minds. Pisses me OFF

 

[J.Michael]

Rhyme of the day:

Never buy a Huawei

I thought it was:

Never play with Huawei

 

[lupastro82]

Every day, i love more mixplorer (removed for it also a payed similar app: solid explorer).
Just miss svn support here

Maybe u can consider to add in future release?

 

[Voutan]

I'd worry more about using a Huawei device, come to that.

"Antivirus" will flag things like having "improper" storage access as "infected" ..

Unless you see news everywhere from multiple sources stating an application that's been used by hordes of people for many, many years, is now harmful, ignore it.

Don't use anything with trackers or malvertising instead, which is very likely the bulk of your software, if you want to be safe.

As you can guess from the specifications of the model where the problem occurred, it is an old cell phone that I decided to repower for the simple fact of being able to test it.

Regarding the apps I use, I favor using apps that are also on F-Droid, and I take the trouble to check the permissions. I use Mull Browser (a fork of Firefox with arkenfox user.js) with uBlock Origin as my main browser. Before using MiXexplorer I used Amaze on all my phones, an open source and privacy friendly application. At the beginning of this year I decided to try MiXexplorer. I have been using MiXexplorer for months now, and it is certainly a very good application to the point that it has become my main file explorer on all my mobile devices.

I thought it was important to point out that there had been an incident with an antivirus, whether it was a false positive or not, I find it important to report this kind of situation. I also wrote to Avast pointing out their mistake.

I am not interested in defending Huawei or Chinese brands, but I have always been struck by people who assume that American (or some "allied" country's) brands are somehow less harmful to privacy than Chinese brands; when, in fact, companies like Apple or Google are proven to constantly violate the privacy of their users.

 

[ტ Micefriendly ტ]

I thought it was:

Never play with Huawei

Sounds better!

 

[Ultramanoid]

As you can guess from the specifications of the model where the problem occurred, it is an old cell phone that I decided to repower for the simple fact of being able to test it.

Regarding the apps I use, I favor using apps that are also on F-Droid, and I take the trouble to check the permissions. I use Mull Browser (a fork of Firefox with arkenfox user.js) with uBlock Origin as my main browser. Before using MiXexplorer I used Amaze on all my phones, an open source and privacy friendly application. At the beginning of this year I decided to try MiXexplorer. I have been using MiXexplorer for months now, and it is certainly a very good application to the point that it has become my main file explorer on all my mobile devices.

I thought it was important to point out that there had been an incident with an antivirus, whether it was a false positive or not, I find it important to report this kind of situation. I also wrote to Avast pointing out their mistake.

I am not interested in defending Huawei or Chinese brands, but I have always been struck by people who assume that American (or some "allied" country's) brands are somehow less harmful to privacy than Chinese brands; when, in fact, companies like Apple or Google are proven to constantly violate the privacy of their users.

Agreed 100% and I don't use Western devices either, or "social media" data miners, or Google services on my system myself.

It's not that I particularly wanted to single out Huawei, but it comes across as ironic to mention a security issue about an application when using one of their devices, because they are a notoriously unsafe [ * ] company, as in, shoddy and poor software development and practices, all spyware issues aside .. ( Besides being banned from building network infrastructures in many countries, Taiwan being one of them for obvious reasons. )

Thanks for the notice, and excuse the amount of heated replies because as you can see there are many happy users of MiX - which is developed by an Iranian in Iran, again, no Western bias here - that will promptly post to defend its longtime well-deserved reputation.

Edit : [ * ] As opposed to other Chinese OEMs. Say, Motorola, now owned by Lenovo, or Lenovo themselves.

 

[rodken]

It seems like the folders get created when i use the copy to function in the share menu and copy files to my Dropbox. Have to further investigate if other cloud storage is affected as well.

'Copy to' function to Google Drive and Mega also cause the ill effects of the .recycle conundrum.
-- It seems as of this writing that disabling the undo and recycle features might play a significant role.

 

[Thebear j koss]

As you can guess from the specifications of the model where the problem occurred, it is an old cell phone that I decided to repower for the simple fact of being able to test it.

Regarding the apps I use, I favor using apps that are also on F-Droid, and I take the trouble to check the permissions. I use Mull Browser (a fork of Firefox with arkenfox user.js) with uBlock Origin as my main browser. Before using MiXexplorer I used Amaze on all my phones, an open source and privacy friendly application. At the beginning of this year I decided to try MiXexplorer. I have been using MiXexplorer for months now, and it is certainly a very good application to the point that it has become my main file explorer on all my mobile devices.

I thought it was important to point out that there had been an incident with an antivirus, whether it was a false positive or not, I find it important to report this kind of situation. I also wrote to Avast pointing out their mistake.

I am not interested in defending Huawei or Chinese brands, but I have always been struck by people who assume that American (or some "allied" country's) brands are somehow less harmful to privacy than Chinese brands; when, in fact, companies like Apple or Google are proven to constantly violate the privacy of their users.

This is total BS. I agree apple, google, Samsung have their own privacy issues but compared to these Chinese brands that are basically tools of the President Pooh regime to spy on its users. Plus your original post was a distress signal. You were proud of your spy phone and it's garbage avast. Read up on how anti virus programs are pretty much useless on Android devices as anything as simple as a signature change causes anti virus to trip. I'm not trying to be rude here, as I probably agree with you on 99% of issues with privacy on devices. But please for respect of developer don't post stuff like your original post unless you know what caused the anti virus to trip or proof that it is malware. It can scare new users or those less informed.

 

[rsngfrce]

Do you fill an inner emptiness when you make up and assume things about strangers on the internet?

We aren't ALL like that...

Information is now the most valuable commodity in the world and everyone needs to be concerned about their privacy and stay off Facebook... but I have thus far earned over $85 in Google Rewards credit by feeding Google not necessarily true info about myself. Blokada 6 (with VPN) is our friend (despite the abysmal Play Store rating), now that the devs have FINALLY removed most of the bugs from that version. Or maybe I am just naive?

 

[rsngfrce]

YES, that is sooooo annoying!!! I too have Play Protect disabled as much as it lets me, but it still pops up sometimes when I install something from local and it drives me NUTS! Google must really think all their users are 12-year olds that have no clue what they're doing and should be persuaded to change their minds. Pisses me OFF

THIS IS NOT A JOKE! I just ran an "unknown app" I have on my phone and got THIS...



And I was SURE I have Play Protect disabled...

(But we digress...)

 

[IronTechmonkey]

I think i was to quick. Now i have 30 recycle folders again and i don't think i even deleted any files in the meantime. When i did earlier for testing, everything showed up within the normal recycle folder. All of the 30 folders were created within 3 minutes and are all empty.

Update:

It seems like the folders get created when i use the copy to function in the share menu and copy files to my Dropbox. Have to further investigate if other cloud storage is affected as well.

'Copy to' function to Google Drive and Mega also cause the ill effects of the .recycle conundrum.
-- It seems as of this writing that disabling the undo and recycle features might play a significant role.

It seems like both of your results are pointing to the same causes, that being MiX recycle feature with material from a cloud source. That might be enough information for HP to work with but if you just can't get enough troubleshooting, it might be interesting to see if this only happens with the recycle feature or if it also happens with the undo feature enabled but recycle feature disabled. I would expect it to happen with both but keep in mind this stuff is easy for me to say since I'm not testing it.

 

[rsngfrce]

Back on topic, I juat stumbled across this GREAT news from 2018...

One of the Best Android File Managers Is Finally on the Play Store

 

[ტ Micefriendly ტ]

One of the Best Android File Managers Is Finally on the Play Store

It's not one of the best filemanagers, it's the best filemanager you can get on android! Thank you Hootan for your hard work and continously optimizing this jewel!

 

[Tip-Ex]

Jump Server / Jump Host for SFTP

Has anyone gotten the "jump_server=" to work with SFTP connections? I have circumvented this by using a VPN connection to my network and then connecting to the LAN IP, but I have recently added 2 other networks and now constantly have to switch between VPN's to access the hosts. Would be great if I can use the jump_server=100.100.100.100:22 as an example for network one and jump_server=200.200.200.200:22 for network 2 etc. to work.

I have tried every known combination of putting in the IP / Hostname / Port etc. still not working

 

[rsngfrce]

A recent change has occurred in MiX that I am not personally fond of. I often have MiX operations running in the background (when I am out of MiX). When I go back into MiX while the operation is still running, the operation status window pops back up now. This is actually probably how it should be, but I prefer that window not popping up automatically, which it didn't until recently.

 

[Ultramanoid]

A recent change has occurred in MiX that I am not personally fond of. I often have MiX operations running in the background (when I am out of MiX). When I go back into MiX while the operation is still running, the operation status window pops back up now. This is actually probably how it should be, but I prefer that window not popping up automatically, which it didn't until recently.

This is controlled by Android, is it not ? In notification settings.

Edit : Not sure if you're talking about MiX's own dialog or MiX's operation progress notification that Android calls pop notifications or head or Dorothy or whatever it is now -- I don't know as I just disable all Android notifications completely.

 

[sergjo]

It's possibile extract photos from videos?

 

[Spannaa]

It's possibile extract photos from videos?

You can't do this directly via MiXplorer but there are apps on the playstore that can do this.
If the video is hi-res then screenshoting whilst playing with MiXplorer player produces decent pictures.

 

[3to4]

Hello! MIXPlorer has become my default file manager since some time.
I have noticed that after I have renamed a bookmark by sliding it to the right and clicking the pencil symbol, sometimes the bookmarks goes back to the default name. So, I have to rename it again and again. I noticed sometimes the bookmark goes down below, too. Am I alone?
I am using 6.63.1 B23042510, but I have observed the same behavior with 62 or 59? Maybe I am missing something. Is there a remedy?