Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

m having a problem while installing this app,when i begin to install it error apprears "Unable to install filebox.Some application packages required for installation are missing and when i go for details it says the application package missing :bzip2

please advice how can i solve this :(

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

install bzip2 package first

apt-get install bzip2

and then try again installing filebox.

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Anything new on that one?

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wanted to say thank u for this wonderful app! so useful especially for browsing my samba network shares!

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eee...searching capabilities...when..or never? :)

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I think a good improvement would be only to allow the copy and move operations in the background to continue working with other files.

Excellent application. Essential.

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since upgrade, I encounter bugs with copying. I got "automatically check files in clipboard for copying" and "delete files from clipboard after paste". Then, everytime I copy and paste something, alongside legitimate file, items from last copy/paste are also copied. I've double checked that clipboard contain *only* new files. It's funny, kinda, cause "old" files get copied even if it's weeks and many reboots since "legitimate" operation of copying them.

It seems, that clipboard gets cached somewhere, and work wrong way. It's 100% reproduceable, all the time.

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there is a config. file in opt/ filebox...but i don't think that will help you

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Me neither ;)

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How to access to my microSD? it only show my phone memory

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as I see no one is crying for the search button for filebox
I do not understand why.

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People manage their files well. No need of searching.

But recently I met "no responding" frequently.

I suppose there is a bug due to other libs upgrade.

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terminal got its own very advanced search functionalities, just google for it.

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than why should I use filebox at all :confused:
I like to push buttons, not typing texts :(
push_button> founded 20 files>push_button>bookmarked all
not faster...I think it is


And there is a searching app. but that have no application path on funded file.
Nobody is perfect...why filebox:D
Anyway I will build one in pyqt ...I think....just to disect more codes.

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To be honest, I find terminal much more convenient for most tasks (bright auto-completing of patches, very easy handling of multiple files via expressions etc.). Of course there are use cases where i prefer filebox, ho ever I think the more I know about our linux computer, the less is use GUI for that. Non on purpose or to feel "geeky" - terminal is just really better for many things.

Anyway, we're off-topic'ing here a little.

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The power to explore the DLNA server such as native file browser would be fine.

Thanks for such a good program.

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i'd like to report a bug!

filebox doesn't handle inverted commas ( ' ) in file names. e.g. i have an mp3 file in a directory with an inverted comma in it and when i click on it media player can't play it..

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Somehow, I can't download Filebox to the N9 within the Ovi store...
Says that it can't download the file :/

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Hello.

I have a problem regarding Filebox and other programs.
I have a N900 running Maemo CSSU(Not necessarily relevant, it happened while on the official build as well).

In some programs, including FileBox, the icons inside the program are not shown.
In FileBox it's just a blank box (Those 5 icons on the right) and in other programs it's an "X".
They do function, but i cannot see which is which.

What could be the problem, and how could i fix it?

Thank you in advance.

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you can change the icon in filebox in....

reboot then your problem will be fixed once you open filebox again...

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Thank you very much.
That worked.

I have another program (GPE File Manager) where I have the same problem.
Icons 3,4 and 5(Bottom left) have an "x" instead of the icon.

Has this happened to someone else?

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It happened to me with Filebox too. Are you using Theme Customizer? If yes, try to check and change the set of icons you are using from Theme Customizer (maybe you have set up an icon set there now missing in your system).

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I am not using Theme Customizer.
Maybe the previous owner did.
But I guess that all trace of that app were removed when I flashed to CSSU.
The theme is the default blue.

I hope I'm not pushing the subject way off topic.

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May seems off-top'ish, but I would do full-reflash (rootfs + eMMC), after getting N900 used by someone else before. Well, I actually did, as first thing after purchasing ;) It saves a lot of troubles.

/Estel

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I don't know if I'll go for a full format again.
It must be something with the default icon pack, something broken.
Thank you for the advice anyway.

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@CepiPerez

i have been using this cool app for a very loooong time

but...... i pressed Thanks! button today (sorry for being too late)

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Dumb question but ... how do you add a folder to favorites?
I can't do anything that would add it, just a blank list of favorites appears when clicking/holding/dragging the icon.

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favorites??? i think it is called bookmarks not favorites :D

anyway if you do want to add folder to bookmarks than go to that folder then choose/click the first icon on your upper right (tool icon)...a popup will appear...select "add to bookmark" then done....

:D :D :D :D

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Hello
I did reflash to my phone (N9) and now I can't install filebox from Nokia store, I always get error on downloading...

I tried also from terminal:
dpkg --configure -a
apt-get autoremove
apt-get update
apt-get install filebox

And I get this message:
Fatal error: empty package download url
Err
sub-process returned an error code
failed to fetch exec: ////usr/bin/osa --get 'filebox' sub-process returned sn error code
E: unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update...

How I can fix this ? And where I can download version 0.0.8 for harmattan ?
Thanks

EDIT: Problem solved..

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There is a bug with the start up page if we choose to show "Devices":
- If the FileBox run with root access, it shows "Devices" with "Nokia N900" and "Memory card", similar to the N900's "File Manager".
- If the FileBox run with normal access, it shows nothing in "Devices".
http://media.share.ovi.com/m1/s/3258...41da8408cb.jpg

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Unfortunately, developer of FileBox - CepiPerez - shifted his interest into Harmattan (which is ok, everyone is free to do so), dropping support for his packages without any notice, and ignoring PM's not related to his new toy (which is not ok IMO, but again, he is free to do so).

So, unless someone pick up work on this nice filemanager, or scrap it and create another one from the beginning, we're doomed to live with bugs reported months ago.

/Estel

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Time to fork?

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I was so fed up with the bug which disallowed deleting of folders containing hidden files that I decided to do something about it -- and upload the fix to the repository, so everyone (well, only extras-devel users, to be exact) can benefit.

However, it doesn't mean that I'm willing to be the new maintainer, as my brain hurts from looking at the source. :(

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Is it that bad, to the point that it's more feasible to write simple&effective GUI file manager from scratch (or port some debian'ish one), than fix filebox?

// Edit @ following post:

Oh my :eek:

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The source package doesn't build cleanly, source code is partially in Spanish and full of names like pushButton_2, sPath, val5 and th1, and [after rewriting most of the code contributed by CepiPerez to OMP] I'm afraid to think what else I can find there when it's deciphered.

Fixing small bugs might be not that hard, so I encourage someone with a more resistant sense of aesthetics to look into the code (if it was me, I'd probably end up with half of the application rewritten, and that's not very efficient). ;)

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Thanks for this small fix. Even if you are not willing to provide more updates to the application, you could ask for maintenance in order to promote this version to Extras.

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I clearly recognize that from the Clock replacement code initially made by CepiPerez. Most variables/files have/had no meaningful name (like val1, push_button2 indeed), and if they had it was mostly Spanish.

This made getting familiar with the code less easy. I have replaced some variable names and added comment in the Clock replacement code, so it is more clear to me now.

Nevertheless CepiPerez made a good base for me, which I, with my lack of Qt/C++ knowledge, would not be able to accomplish.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] FileBox - File manager with root access and more
 

There are still other small issues with FileBox IIRC.
See here

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Just asking why it last so long starting FileBpx is that normal or it's me?

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What do you mean by long, how many seconds are we talking about? In my case it takes about 8 seconds.
It could be you have a lot of files in your files in your opening folder. Do you use thumbnails? CTRL-R should clear the thumbnails cache.