FE File Explorer Pro

I use this, several times a day, every single day. It does everything I need it to with no fuss or annoying distractions. This is one of the most important apps on my phone for work. I would be much less productive without it. Very highly recommended.

This would be a 4-5 star app if you could format connected drives. Recently went on holidays, and was saving photos from an SD Card to a SSD. It worked fine the first three days, and then on the 4th day, the SSD corrupted. It happened when deleting files from the SSD. I have no way of knowing if it was because of the app, or because there’s no way to eject drives on the phone, or the drive (it was new, and worked fine for the 2TB of usage it had already sustained back home), but long story short, with no way to format the drive again, I was left without a backup solution. I wasn’t about to go buy a new drive, because I’d still need to format it to APFS anyway so I’d be stuck with really slow transfer speeds, and it could corrupt again anyway. I’d be really interested in amending this rating if formatting came to IOS. Either via native or third party means. There really needs to be a way to format a connected drive on IOS.

I bought this off multiple recommendations for photo backup to NAS. It works, but only if you use your phone continuously while it transfers. Your transfers stop when your screen turns off, and then return broken pipe errors. Useless.

Trying move a video file to an app called AVPlayerHD. Can’t move the file, however I can share the file. I can select all files I want to share, however regardless of how many files are selected, I can only share one at a time. There’s no option to automate the “share & delete” function - so after I’ve manually confirmed the share on the AVPlayerHD app, I need to delete the duplicated files. Please allow batch share, allow the app ie AVPlayerHD to be added to the sidebar and allow apps frequently used to be persistent in copy and move functions. Finally add a confirmation to a share function. Thanks.

On the Apple TV, the app needs to be restarted if AirPlay is used in between watching my local content. It requests a logon and password, even though the shares I‘m accessing are Public. Otherwise, all good.

If you examine the history, and compare to OwlFiles, you will see they share the same history (and owlfiles even claims some FE reviews). FE is pretty much dead. They are only doing maintenance. No new features. I paid for Pro license, but now they are greedy and want to charge annual fee for pro features, so they change the name. I realise that a one-off Pro charge is not reasonable. I regularly pay a reduced upgrade free for, say, CCC or VMWare (on macos). Significant new features, sure, pay to upgrade. With the Owlfiles, there is no way to migrate to the new s/w. I cannot migrate my settings: it is a new, “completely different” app, with a new name, but a shared version history. Whereas I still mainly like and use FE, I will be looking for a replacement.

iOS 16.1.1 iPhone 14 Pro Max, video play back in black screen.

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Best $8 I’ve spend on the iPad makes it so easy to get files on and off it. All the connect options shiver servers NAS and usb drives if you got a lighting cable to usb converter.

Makes it easier to get photos from phone to PC without a wire etc.