sometimes, an app stores its images/files under a ton of directories, do you know a good android file manager that can quickly search it ?

  • jsveiga@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I use JuiceSSH (well, I use it for ssh, but it can also open a shell on the local device, so…)

    Open a local shell, then

    cd /storage/emulated/0

    then use “find”, for example

    find . -type f -iname “*.jpg” | more

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    11 months ago

    Voidtools’ Everything for Android would be cool indeed. But iirc androids filesystem already has a global database of files, no? So shouldn’t any file manager be able to quickly find anything in there without walking the hierarchy?

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    11 months ago

    thanks everyone for our ideas, in the past i’ve used dolphin (kde) with mtp support to search files, it works but you obviously need a linux box.

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    11 months ago

    Blackberry used to have a “global device search” feature. I’d love something like that for Android.

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    11 months ago

    Material Files at least has a search that seems to work, but it doesn’t clearly show all the result paths at once.

    If you can mount the filesystem to your computer, you could use broot or anything you want from there.

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    11 months ago

    MiXplorer. If you don’t already use it theres a bit of a learning curve but I just ran a quick test & it found a file 6 directories deep in /android/data/… with no problems at all

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      11 months ago

      MiXplorer is great! I’ve been using it for several years, and it always does everything I want and much more.

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    11 months ago

    there is also ghost commander, looks nice at first glance

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    11 months ago

    You could accomplish this with Tasker if you wanted to dip your toes into some programming.