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📂 Web File Browser
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Cannot download a folder in single-click mode #214

Closed feklee closed 1 month ago

feklee commented 2 months ago

Description

I am using Filebrowser exclusively on Firefox for Android. (Firefox because it has a built-in PDF viewer)

In double-click mode, I can select a folder by single tapping. Then I long-press, and then I tap Download, to download it. In single-click mode I couldn't figure out how to download a folder. I prefer single-click mode.

Expected behaviour

What would be intuitive, at least to me: Longpress a folder, and then there is a popup where I can select to download it. (After long-pressing, there could also be a way to select this and other items.)

Or, like in the regular Filebrowser, have a menu that offers download, although that took me a while to discover.

I always found the UI of the Dropbox mobile client quite good. I think it has the aforementioned long-press functionality, but I would need to install it again to check. I moved away from Dropbox to my own server with Syncthing.

What is happening instead?

I couldn't find a way to download a folder in single-click mode.

How to reproduce?

Try to download a folder in single-click mode. If it's possible, then I'm happy with an explanation on how to do it, and the issue is solved.

gtsteffaniak commented 2 months ago

This is a bug - the expected process should be (when using single click mode):

  1. enabling selection mode from the right-click context menu
  2. making selection to files

  3. right-click context menu download action , or other action

    I see that this is not working as expected.

Will fix in v0.2.10

gtsteffaniak commented 1 month ago

fixed in v0.2.10

feklee commented 1 month ago

Will compile the new version and try, thank you!

feklee commented 1 month ago

It took me a while to figure out how to download a folder (in case others are wondering):

  1. Long tap on the folder, and a context menu shows up.

  2. Tap on: Select multiple

  3. Tap on the folder.

  4. Long tap on the folder (again) to show up another context menu.

  5. Tap on: Download

  6. Tap on desired archive format, which initiates the download in a new tab, at least in Firefox.

  7. Go back to the previous tab.

  8. Use the back button or gesture to leave Select multiple, which also goes up in the hierarchy to the parent folder.

  9. Go back into the folder you were in.

gtsteffaniak commented 1 month ago

Yep, multi select mode needs to be enabled first when in Single click mode... Not sure how to get around that. I provided a more succinct 3 steps a couple comments above.