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Feature: Support for natively unsupported file systems #400

Open 3rikk opened 4 years ago

3rikk commented 4 years ago

The default explorer dosen't support some file systems like HFS, HFS+, APFS, EXT/2/3/4, MFS etc (although the only ones actively used are HFS+, APFS and EXT4). It would probably be quite hard to implement, especially the apple ones as idk if the source is available, but there are programs out there like paragon's apfs windows (https://www.paragon-software.com/home/apfs-windows/), diskinternals linux reader (https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/) etc. There are definitely other things with higher priority than this but when the time comes this would be quite nice to have built in imo. :)

lukeblevins commented 4 years ago

Thank you for your suggestion. We currently have nothing to add on this specific request. I'm going to leave it open while I evaluate the feasibility and technical work required.

RokeJulianLockhart commented 2 years ago

@duke7553, addition of support for file-systems that are not being natively supported would be brilliant for interoperability between operating-systems, because simultaneous utilisers of Linux and macOS and Windows would finally be able to interact with their data slightly more consistently. Work that is similar to "http://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs" may be useful for implementation.

Implementation would additionally demonstrate the utter superiority of Files enough that I am confident that journalists would mention it because it would be incredibly convenient.

RokeJulianLockhart commented 2 years ago

@3rikk, have you considered utilisation of VirtualBox? VirtualBox is able to bridge certain operating-systems – although unfortunately probably not TempleOS – so duplication and transferral of data should not be entirely infeasible without and/or before implementation of this functionality.