MiXplorer: Q&A and FAQ (User Manual)

[bersaker]

Damn, now I have a problem. The feature to move files to recycle bin was off. didn't know that you have to or can turn it on. What is a good recovery software?

 

[J.Michael]

Damn, now I have a problem. The feature to move files to recycle bin was off. didn't know that you have to or can turn it on. What is a good recovery software?

You might be able to identify the files that were deleted by crawling through the Mixplorer log. I don't know what causes the log file to be reset, so make a point of capturing the current log before exiting Mixplorer.

You might find a program to scan a drive and recover files. I think your time would be better spent identifying which files you will miss, and trying to find versions on other systems.

 

[IronTechmonkey]

For those who seek and or need perspective about how little MiXplorer's developer discusses open vs closed source, the most comprehensive search I've done on XDA was just now in the MiX main thread and in the MiX FAQ for posts by hootanparsa mentioning "open source" or "closed source" or "source", and that search found only 1 direct response from hootanparsa

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...y-featured-file-manager.1523691/post-69159914

It is likely that there are some other responses but the fact that there are so few should be an indication that the developer is not engaging in this discussion, therefore, even though it may be generally relevant to android, because this developer does not speak to it then our discussions about it do become off-topic in the development thread because they are at the expense of issues being reported which the developer is willing to discuss. Also to consider are geopolitical realities which might (or might not) be reasons why the developer keeps the source closed and why they might not want to discuss it. The aforementioned is conjecture on my part but it is a reasonably realistic scenario. In any event I hope people do feel free to continue that discussion here in this thread.

 

[MPK99]

An update that I can provide from my side, is that my past personal contacts / interactions by the dev also state that he isn't comfortable discussing about it.

MiX is a great utility no doubt. But my main usage is in it's offline mode, such as image viewer, pdf viewer, archive manager, & root explorer / permission accessibility.

I won't be using it's online features such as cloud storage access, straight out disabling the network access from appinfo.
Me being a code reviewer & a hardcore FOSS advocate, I had to do whatever I can to ensure my privacy / security / data theft.
Trust is not a thing we fosskers put on any software btw.

 

[IronTechmonkey]

An update that I can provide from my side, is that my past personal contacts / interactions by the dev also state that he isn't comfortable discussing about it.

MiX is a great utility no doubt. But my main usage is in it's offline mode, such as image viewer, pdf viewer, archive manager, & root explorer / permission accessibility.

I won't be using it's online features such as cloud storage access, straight out disabling the network access from appinfo.
Me being a code reviewer & a hardcore FOSS advocate, I had to do whatever I can to ensure my privacy / security / data theft.
Trust is not a thing we fosskers put on any software btw.

IIRC even among people who trust the app you would not be the only one who blocks things like that. There was a similar reaction from some folks when the built in updater was added to MiX.

 

[MPK99]

IIRC even among people who trust the app you would not be the only one who blocks things like that. There was a similar reaction from some folks when the built in updater was added to MiX.

Unless you peek through & compare MD5 checksums with the ones provided by original source binary.
Also closing the source itself does not make a project bad. Rather it's more of a political issue than a technical tbh.

 

[LazyGeniusMan]

Hi, is it possible to choose multiple filter? I want to chose image + video

 

[IronTechmonkey]

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Hi, is it possible to choose multiple filter? I want to chose image + video

Good question. I played around with it a bit and don't think there is a way to select multiple filters, although that might be a nice feature request.That being said, there should be a way to achieve this by creating and saving a custom MiX Advanced search by multiple file extension types using a regex expression but I don't know how to do that. It's hard to imagine that other people don't want to do this and have not asked before; IMO this is a good question for the main thread. I'd be glad to post it there but it's your question, and a good one, so I defer to you.

 

[LazyGeniusMan]

Good question. I played around with it a bit and don't think there is a way to select multiple filters, although that might be a nice feature request.That being said, there should be a way to achieve this by creating and saving a custom MiX Advanced search by multiple file extension types using a regex expression but I don't know how to do that. It's hard to imagine that other people don't want to do this and have not asked before; IMO this is a good question for the main thread. I'd be glad to post it there but it's your question, and a good one, so I defer to you.

Oh I didn't even know mixplorer have regex search haha, aight thanks. Looks like it's working fine using something like `gif|png|mp4|...`

Also I've posted this in main thread too.

 

[IronTechmonkey]

Oh I didn't even know mixplorer have regex search haha, aight thanks. Looks like it's working fine using something like `gif|png|mp4|...`

Also I've posted this in main thread too.

You are welcome and thanks for the reminder about the regex separator.

 

[LazyGeniusMan]

oYou are welcome and thanks for the reminder about the regex separator.

hmmm, looks like the behaviour is not what I want from filter feature. It's search recursively and if I move to other folder the regex is gone .

Using filter I can freely browse folder and only file got filtered

 

[IronTechmonkey]

hmmm, looks like the behaviour is not what I want from filter feature. It's search recursively and if I move to other folder the regex is gone .

Using filter I can freely browse folder and only file got filtered

If you save the search as a bookmark you should still have a reusable item with which to access that material. With the "current folder" selected it won't be recursive. Unfortunately once the bookmark is saved the search parameters cannot be modified as in a live search, for instance to toggle "current folder", so this is not as amenable to quick changes on the fly as are toggle-able filters. That being said I like using the search function because of the level of detail, down to the individual file extensions.

 

[yeaminsardersr]

What regex engine does mixplorer use?

 

[IronTechmonkey]

What regex engine does mixplorer use?

I don't know and since MiX is closed source there may be no way of knowing but there is some information about various shared libraries and components that MiX uses in post 6 of the main thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...released-fully-featured-file-manager.1523691/. Note: In general, if you are curious about such things, the opening posts of the development thread would be one of the first places to check.

 

[IronTechmonkey]

How to work around XDA thread search glitch:

The XDA app thread search may replace your criteria with a wildcard (asterisk) and return all posts as a search result. To get proper thread search results based on your criteria:

> Enter your search criteria (and select-copy it to memory) then run search.
> On the results page your criteria will have been replaced with an asterisk (wildcard) which is now an orange or blue hyperlink to the advanced search page. Click/tap the asterisk link.
> In the advanced search page, paste or type your criteria over the asterisk (non linked).
> Run the search.

Web browsers are recommended for searching as they allow exploration of results in new tabs and return to original location. Originally shared here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ink-app-rolling-out-now.4199599/post-86078753

 

[syn24]

Very new user here looking for some input:
I am trying to access my samba on Ubuntu server (Windows samba shares or Shares on Synology NAS work fine), For my Ubuntu share, I get the following error (copied out from log):

‌61 I/SMBExplorer> IP: 192.168.178.48:445, hostname:
‌62 E/SMBExplorer> AUTH Unable to parse the explicit Tagged Object with ASN1Tag[ContextSpecific,Constructed,1], it might be implicit
‌63 E/BROWSE_TASK> libs.f3: Unable to parse the explicit Tagged Object with ASN1Tag[ContextSpecific,Constructed,1], it might be implicit

Any idea what could be wrong?

 

[IronTechmonkey]

Very new user here looking for some input:
I am trying to access my samba on Ubuntu server (Windows samba shares or Shares on Synology NAS work fine), For my Ubuntu share, I get the following error (copied out from log):

61 I/SMBExplorer> IP: 192.168.178.48:445, hostname:
62 E/SMBExplorer> AUTH Unable to parse the explicit Tagged Object with ASN1Tag[ContextSpecific,Constructed,1], it might be implicit
63 E/BROWSE_TASK> libs.f3: Unable to parse the explicit Tagged Object with ASN1Tag[ContextSpecific,Constructed,1], it might be implicit

Any idea what could be wrong?

Confirming your scenario: Adding a LAN (Samba) bookmark in MiXplorer on Android in order to connect to SMB share on Linux device. This is interesting for a few reasons.

1) Regarding "... it might be implicit...", I don't know if or how implicit works with SMB as it does with FTP (from the MiX FTP server documentation https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/mixplorer-q-a-and-faq-user-manual.3308582/post-85932885

2) I could also connect to Windows SMB shares and a USB-SD SMB share on a router (roughly equivalent to your NAS) with no extra steps (other than matching or no credentials), but I did have to do something different for Linux from the command line and IIRC in one or more configuration files. Unfortunately, I forget specifically what I did but it went something like so:

- Linux Ubuntu 20.10 on Raspberry Pi4
- On the Linux device create a user dedicated to sharing.
- Enabled sharing in general on the Linux device (grep this, grock that, command line the other).
- Created SMB user (possibly a repeat by different method of the second step as I did this on 2 RPi4 boxes).
- Create shares to folders as needed in the Linux UI.
- To share the top level of external USB drives and SD cards something else had to be done in a configuration file.

Apologies for not remembering specific commands. I was surviving on one of those RPi4s as a primary workstation for several months and did not keep inventory but I could check for specific things upon request.

[EDIT] while testing to verify parts of this post I noticed something which may or may not come to bear regarding DNS and DHCP. At one point the operating system SD card in one of the raspberry Pi boxes failed so I cloned the other box and gave the clone a unique name but let it keep the IP address of the corrupted drive which it replaced. An existing MiXplorer bookmark to the original (but now corrupted) box is able to connect to the replacement which makes sense because this type of bookmark uses the IP address but the host name listed in the bookmark is of the old box. I just thought it was worth noting that the hostname in the bookmark seems to be a recorded and static label and not actually used to make the connection.

 

[syn24]

@IronTechmonkey Thanks for your answer. Yes, the scenario is exactly as you stated. I used Local search in "Add storage" in the Bookmarks and the server is shown completely fine as the others. I used already just the IP to connect, as I made the experience that the hostname can sometimes cause any issues. Something that I haven't mentioned, is that for other Explorers I used (e.g. ES File Explorer) or any other OS (my Windows PCs), I do not have any issues connecting to that Samba share.
Regarding your number 1: I already read about implicit/explicit on FTP, but do not have any idea what it could mean regarding SMB, or what property I could change to get this working.

 

[woodside007]

I purchased Mixplorer and I can't seem to get rid of this annoying popup. "Tap on ADD button to find and select the USB drive, if it's partition format is supported by system". If I tap on add it won't allow me to select "use this folder" unless I select into a random file directory but once I do that and exit and re-enter the app the popup comes back. I have given the app file and write permissions. Enabled the setting "Enable OTG" but that doesn't help. I just want the popup to not come up every time I run the app. It's annoying. I've attached a screenshot of the annoying popup if it help. Thanks in advance to anybody that could help. Cheers.

 

[IronTechmonkey]

I purchased Mixplorer and I can't seem to get rid of this annoying popup. "Tap on ADD button to find and select the USB drive, if it's partition format is supported by system". If I tap on add it won't allow me to select "use this folder" unless I select into a random file directory but once I do that and exit and re-enter the app the popup comes back. I have given the app file and write permissions. Enabled the setting "Enable OTG" but that doesn't help. I just want the popup to not come up every time I run the app. It's annoying. I've attached a screenshot of the annoying popup if it help. Thanks in advance to anybody that could help. Cheers.

I missed this post earlier but see that you've posted in the main thread. Thanks for taking the time to do that as this does seem to be a genuine issue. You are among growing number of people who have reported it. Fyi, the developer is sometimes away from these threads for some time as has been the case recently but they are good at follow up upon return.