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by Woody The Woodchuck

Why would anyone selling a _utility_ app force purchasers to print the associated manual double-sided (no option for single sided printing) and, to top it off, include a watermark that is almost as dark as the text—rendering the printed manual virtually unreadable? For all I know, this may be the greatest app since soft ice cream but I may never get there because I can’t read the dang manual. Seriously, people, think of your users when you make decisions like this.

FWIW, the problem I’m having that I was looking for an answer to in the manual is how to selectively access documents from a particular app on my iPad and move them to/access them from other iPads and even my MBP. Some things are easier to scan for in a printed document—IN MOST CASES. Mind you, I’ve used Macs since 1984 and iPads since they first came out, so I rarely need to access manuals. But this app appears to have sufficient meat that reading the manual might have been worthwhile.

by Northern_Flicker

Unfortunately, this was a total waste of a purchase for me. I was looking for a file manager app that offers a password-protected file area in addition to a startup password. As I always do prior to purchasing an app, I carefully read the description here in the App Store, and then I went to the dev’s website to read up on all the features not listed in the App Store description.

The website stated this: “We pride ourselves in the security of our product and the flexibility it provides you. You can set a startup password, lock the My Private Files area, and set the level of protection you need.”

What the description failed to mention, however, is that you don’t get to choose the password for the “My Private Files” area. It is automatically set as the exact same password as the startup password, which is totally mind-boggling. Once I discovered this, I immediately deleted the app.

Perhaps you should make this fact clear in the description, so others don’t waste their time and money. There is really no point in offering the ability to lock the “My Private Files” area if it must share the same password as the startup password. If someone happens to crack the startup password, they can also get right into the “My Private Files” area by entering the very same password. I doubt anyone who takes security seriously would consider that a security feature.

by IPad Bob

Big changes with tabs, drag and drop. With mouse and trackpad support and improved multitasking on iPad these changes make sense. UI is a bit “Cartoony”, I like the old UI better, but then drag and drop would not have worked. Developer response below is 2yrs old from previous release.

Enhancement request - Support for NFS on Linux would be a suggestion, FTP is a poor substitute. Look at nPlayer (a video player, not file manager) for a good implementation of nfs. I have to use this app to get files to and from some systems that only support nfs. System->nPlayer via nfs->FileBrowser via Apple’s Files app and back is just a pain but works. It would so much nice to go straight from FB to/from system via nfs without needing 2 other apps.