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Files v0.1.12
- Windows: Files has its own AppUserModelID (
dev.fileforce.files), set by the app and on the Start menu shortcut, so its notifications show Files' name and icon and its windows group under one taskbar button. - Linux: Files writes its desktop entry and icon to your user folders (menus, notifications and "Open with" know it), and Settings → Default apps can make it the default file manager (folders from the desktop, browsers' "Show in folder", other apps).
- Started with a folder or file (
file-force ~/Music,file://addresses), Files opens it. - System notifications: notifications also reach macOS Notification Center, the Windows action center and Linux desktop notifications. Settings → Sound → System notifications: never, when Files is in the background (default) or always; all, warnings and errors, or errors only; and a test button.
- Settings → Storage: a ring chart of what Files keeps on disk (thumbnails, extensions' caches, forks, the search index, sounds), each kind with its size and a Clear button, plus Clear all. Forks are shown but never deleted from here.
- SDK:
files_sdk::storagegives each extension its own cache folder (cache_dir,cache_file,usage,clear,touch). Settings → Storage lists every extension's cache with its size and a Clear button, and the cache limit covers it. - Music and SSH keep their caches through
files_sdk::storage: Music's tracks and covers (moved over from the old temp folder at the first start) and files opened from SSH servers show as their own rows under Extensions. - Cache limit on a slider (1 GB by default; 256 MB to 20 GB or none): past it, files used least recently are deleted first.
- Music covers are stored scaled down (96 and 480 px) instead of full size, so long libraries no longer fill memory with multi-megabyte pictures.
- Updates: Install & Relaunch installs the verified update and starts the
new version: Windows runs the installer (with its progress bar),
macOS replaces the app from the disk image, Linux replaces the AppImage.
If that cannot be done, the installer opens as before. - Notifications appear at the bottom right, above everything (dialogs
too), newest at the bottom. - Extensions SDK:
files_sdk::audioplays a notification chime, a sound
from a file or the web, or tracks in the app's music player (Now
Playing, media keys), with pause / resume / next / previous / stop. It
needs the new Sound permission, which users can revoke.
Installing: the builds are not signed by Apple or Microsoft yet.
macOS: open it once, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
Windows: SmartScreen → More info → Run anyway.
Linux: chmod +x the AppImage.