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I've voted thumbs up, it only needs 1 more vote!
Please test/vote people :D

It took a while, but I promised to test, and I don't like breaking promises :p

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Now there's eleven :-)

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Can I double thank this genius?? Please?

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@dscobsct, christexaport:
I think it's better to create a desktop widget for this.
I really don't like to view all folders shortcuts in my applications menu.

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i have a suggestion if it was not given before:
add a "remember last folder" preference so when i launch it, it'll start in the last folder i've been in when i closed the application last time.
another important feature for me is to have a Back/Forward button that moves between folder browsing history.

Thanks for this - a great application :)

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im not sure we are on the same page, what i mean is when i hold down on a folder in filebox and get the popup menu, for there to be an option 'create desktop shortcut' in which case fileblox creates a .desktop. so on homescreen you will click on the shortcut and it will open the folder in question in filebox. mikey

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Yes, but you also see that icon in your applications menu
Anyways, it's easy to do. So I'll add this option if you want.

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i would love for you to do that if its not too much trouble, it would make my device a step closer to perfect if i could use one of my desktops for shortcuts to my most used folders.

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a*nd ow i see what you mean about seeing the icons in the app menu, but i use appmefo so i can put them in a folder out of the way. thanks CepiPerez

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found a bug maybe
used filebox to move a load of pictures and videos from my dcim folder memory card to dcim folder on phone memory, 64MB it was, by way of copy to clipboard, then use scissors.
brought the whole device to a halt while it moved them, basically seemed as if the phone was hanging, waited about 10 minutes, and the transfere window was still saying about 50 percent complete, ended up rebooting. the files had been moved, and i thought it was just because of the large amount of data that id been transfering.
so later i moved some more photos beween the same folders, 14 MB this time, same again though, whole device was hanging, it took about 5 or 6 munites for filebox to tell me it had filished copying and another few minutes before the phone came back to fully operational.
can someone else try and see if they have the same effect or if its just my device?
i did think it may have something to do with tracker since they are images and vids i was moving. mikey

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This a great app, nearly good enough to replace the regular Filemanager. I'd suggest though to improve the multi-selection, since it's kind of hard to move to a new folder, if I have the multi-selection enabled. Also, the File sharing seems to be a bit.. icky, since if I launch it on portrait, it goes to horizontal and requires you to re-portrait the phone, to get it fixed.

Anyways, great app, I'll keep looking up to it and hoping, that it'll replace the stock Filemanager some day. :)

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Bug.
If we are in external memory, the state open terminal here, this terminal opens in / home / user "and not on the card.

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I have the same problem with this application.
Thus I cannot use the app. anymore because I do not see the function I want to click on.

On my system I also have the "Enhanced Linux kernel for power users" installed and "Fix PR1.2 Missing Icon" as well.

Does someone know a fix for this problem?

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try
$ killall hildon-desktop
or simple reboot

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Well this seems like a bug, every time i try and copy something(Doesn't matter) what size then this screen pops up. I wait a second then it updates and shows 0% of The real size.
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I love the app. Question: I have Kroll and would like to use Filebox to save space, but I don't want to mess anything up. What step by step process would you suggest for a Noob? The symlink idea seemed like a winner, but I need an explanation of how to accomplish this. Thanks.

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If anyone's interested, I am currently using the extras-devel version. Today (didn't connect my N900 to the internet once yesterday) I saw the latest update for FileBox. Tried to update. Both HAM and FApMan are unable to install. Since HAM is utterly useless it gave no clues as to what went wrong - FApMan however said that dpkg reported errors - and told me to see the log for details.

So, can anyone hint where dpkg saves it's logs, so that I may copy what the log says and paste it here in case it helps the dev?

- Edit -

I tried /etc/dpkg/ and /var/log/ as two possible spots. I'll look around more as time permits, but I can't find it so far.

- Edit 2 -

Found the FApMan log - don't know where dpkg's log is, but this seems like it says something useful (I cut out all the reading package lists / diff files stuff before and after).

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I have the same problem where no icons are displayed (only gray boxes) and restarting phone doesn't help

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@Mentalist Traceur:
Seems you've lost /etc/sudoers.d/filebox.sudoers file. I don't know why.
But this is easy to fix: Make a new one.

@awesome:
Can you tell me if the icons exists?
The're located at /opt/filebox/icons (three folders with subfolders and icons inside).
And show me what's inside this file: /home/user/.config/cepiperez/filemanager.conf

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Thank you CepiPerez. I reflashed to 1.3 yesterday, and it installed fine over that, but I appreciate you pointing out what happened. :) This way I know to look for that in the log next time.

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Well, first of all, thanks Cepiperez for the great app.
I've had this prob before, but I solved it, but I came across it again, and
I have no clue how to solve it now.
I uninstalled some apps form my phone, and there is always some libs going with them.
when i try to open the app form the icon it simply don`t open, and form xterm, it gives me.:

" /opt/filebox/filebox : error while loading shared libraries libQtmaemo5.so.4: cannot open shared object file bla bla bla "

So I knew it could be solved by installing the libq4-maemo5-maemo5 package, but this package is no longer supported from pr1.2 as this disclaimer says .:

" Promotion of experimental Qt based applications (qt4-maemo5) is blocked due to conflicts with Maemo 5 PR1.2."

Now I can`t find the packages, and my great filebox doesn`t work =/
I had it since 0.4 version, and it`s hard to live without!!!

Please, if someone has a solution, would be greatly apreciated...

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You need to install libqt4-maemo5 (not libqt4-maemo5-maemo5).

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Ops, sorry, yeah you are right, my fault, I wrote it wrong.
But it's exactly this one that does not appear anywhere...
http://maemo.org/packages/view/libqt4-maemo5-dev/
Thx for the reply man

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That's the wrong one. It's actually rather confusing with the names. The old dev versions were called libqt4-maemo5-XXXXX (where XXXXX is the specific modules they're implementing - core, gui, multimedia, network, dev, etc.). The production versions are called libqt4-XXXXX. All clear so far, except that one of the modules is called maemo5, which is where it gets a bit awkward.

Anyway, what you want is http://maemo.org/packages/view/libqt4-maemo5/ which is in the Nokia SSU repository, so make sure that's enabled and updating without errors.

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Well, thanks man, I owe you one.
it`s because I wanted to install it from xterm using the package
itself since my only working internet connection is from my pc, the 3.5
network of my service provider is damn expensive.
As soon as I lay hands on a wifi, I will run apt-get!

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Quick reply...
Thanks for:
1. Autorotation;
2. File editing;
3. Compressing/uncompressing;
4. Custom icons (unfortunately, it's a program-specific setting, while in Windows the image is stored in the folder so that any program could know about it);
5. full access to system (frequently, after I purge a package, some config files remain behind).


Question:
Can filebox see files from bluetooth FTP server? I have a bluetooth server, desktop Linux (Ubuntu) can browse files on it, Maemo default file manager seemingly couldn't.
And osso-filemanager depends on bluez...

Of course, open source filebox (in Qt, right? add it to debian dependencies) is better than osso-filemanager which heavily depends on hildon.

So, could you start implementing bluetooth functionality into filebox?

And: width and height of images, memory usage of partitions, date of file modification, file size could be put into details sub-window. It's not always comfortable to read this in small letters below the file.

Thank you for the program!

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How do you uncompress folders and which folders can you uncompress. I noticed it happened to me a couple times but I'm not sure how I got the uncompress function.

Thank you

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suggestion.

is it possible to show the original directory of symlinked item like midnight commander ?

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Can you please add the possibility to edit the permissions of a file (make it executable or 777 etc.)?

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I would be really happy if you could add support for current icon theme. You could get it from /etc/hildon/theme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc to know what the current theme are. I don't know how you implemented the supported ones.. but as all files uses the same name and are at the same place it would be easy to do.

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I think you mean open (expand) a folder to show the contents. Just double-tap the folder to open, hit the 'up' arrow (back button) to close.

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Yea that's what I meant sorry but thanks

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The Filebox seems to try to be independent of other system. It uses its own themes in /opt/filebox/icons. However, it's theoretically possible to add your own 'symlink' theme which would add support for current icon theme. There isn't need to read any files for it.

EDIT: attached tar.gz
After extracting it there should appear a folder
/opt/filebox/icons/current
full of symlinks
And in Filebox settings there should appear one more theme:
current

Select it, close and open Filebox, and Filebox should use icons from your current Maemo icon theme

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Thanks for the howto but i was asking not only for me but others. If you are using a custom icon-theme you just found in the app manager you would not bother..

It would be a simple thing to implement and would optimize the download size of filebox. Instead of pointing to /opt/filebox/icons/icon.png it could point to /usr/share/icons/*variable*/48x48/icon.png. Where the variable get's the icon theme string from /etc/hildon/theme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc.

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Filebox wants to be independent from osso, hildon and their themes. At least, it's my impression.
That's why it uses its own themes. Not to mention that clipboard, cut, copy, paste icons cannot be found in an osso theme.

That's why, supposing that all themes use the same icon names, I offered to use symlinks: it should allow you to effortlessly integrate Filebox into whatever theme you use.

I understand that it would be possible to read /etc/hildon/theme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc. It would even be possible to read text and background color from the same file. But it would be the way of depending on GTK and hildon, while Filebox is Qt-based.
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By the way, default filemanager does have bookmarks, but they are hidden. It's also supposed to have folder tree, though I have never seen it.


What about adding option of folder tree in sidepane to Filebox?

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Well.. then he could just add an if-statement and still be open to other OSs. Keeping it integrated but still independent. He could also add the clip board icons to the stock hicolor-theme.. which would be used if the current theme you are using does not. However... it would be a breeze for a developer to add it to his icon-theme. I would do it to the AwOken theme. ;)

The folder tree idea are awesome.. would love to see that one.

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Using Filebox for some time, I recently tried to use a cool feature: unzip.

However I am just not able to do it. I have a zip file that I double-click, and nothing happens...
I tried to maintain a click to have the menu but I can see nothing else than 'compress' but not 'uncompress'.

The zip file unzip fine on my computer though...

I have also tried to uninstall and reinstall Filebox but not surprisingly it didn't help.

Any ideas welcome ;)

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You need to install unzip for this
It's not installed with filebox
Open x-term and type:
sudo gainroot
apt-get install unzip

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Works fine for me, are you sure you have the zip, unzip and unrar utilities installed? none of them willwork if you dont first install them from thr repo's.

Edit; @CepiPerez you beat me to it by like one minute:(

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obviously that can help :)
I should have checked this but honeslty thought that was part of the dependencies!

So basically "compress" is integrated but not "uncompress"...

Thanks for the quick reply