Before joining Android Police, Manuel studied Media and Culture studies in Düsseldorf, finishing his university 'career' with a master's degree. He focuses on Android, Chrome, and other software Google products - the core of Android Police’s coverage. Manuel Vonau joined Android Police as a freelancer in 2019 and has worked his way up to become the publication's Google Editor. Someone who hasn't used orthodox file explorers at all before might still be better off starting with a simpler application like Solid Explorer - Total Commander is definitively power user and enthusiast territory.

But once you dive deeper, you'll find a lot of powerful extensions and functions that you don't see elsewhere. The aging interface with its unlabeled, non-standard icons isn't too intuitive, though, and even features like cloud storage integration, FTP connections, and ZIP support aren't exclusive to it anymore. It runs on Android versions as old as 2.2 Froyo, first released in 2011. One advantage Total Commander has over other solutions is legacy support. Search function: Added 'Older than' option.

Apply ignore list also to virtual folders like ///_SD-Card.

Support wildcards in ignore list, e.g.

Master password: Let the user choose between the new (BiometricPrompt) and old (FingerprintManager) fingerprint functions.

Media Player: Show current track and total tracks under icon in overhead notification.

Button bar: New parameters action: and category: supported, to explicitly set the action and one or more categories.

Hotkeys Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V (copy, cut, paste via clipboard) and Ctrl+R (re-read) for users with external keyboard.

to set a player for streaming from plugins

Define internal associations for the context menu 'Play (foreground)', e.g.

'Open with' now allows to choose between file: and content: URL parameters on Android 10.

Compare by content (via context menu): Select exactly 2 files.

Multi-rename tool: To use it, select at least one file or folder.

Unpack rar5, 7z, tar, gz, z, bz2, arj, lzh, iso, img, cab in addition to zip and rar.

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