Android phone Dir

With Android phones downloaded files seem to be in a ‘Download’ directory – is there a way of say – putting all Acorn mags into a Dir called ‘AcornMags’ for reading out and about?

You should have an app called Files that gives access to the filesystem, so you can pick up the files you want and move them to a different directory.

Note – you may need to find and tap on a specific icon (often a folder icon) in order to see the files and not the colourful “you have 860MB of videos” interface.

On our Samsung devices it is called ‘My Files’ (which is a Samsung version), which has never seemed very flexible to me.

I use X-plore by Lonely Cat, which is a much more flexible interface, and enables copying & moving from one directory to another, either within the device or to/from network attached devices (eg NAS), and many other facilities. Well supported and frequently updated.

There are (obviously) many other alternatives!

Have downloaded ‘Files’ – it shows ‘Download’ but I can’t see away of creating a new Dir ‘AcornMags’

In the Download App original – it shows ‘Create Folder’ but it is greyed out.

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https://www.fixitkunal.com/how-to/create-folder-android/ ??

I use X-plore by Lonely Cat

File Manager Plus is an alternative that I cannot live without.

Best (subjective opinion) and most comprehensive file manager for Android is or was “ES File Explorer”.
I used it for years to manage files and dirs on Android phones and also as an FTP server for moving photographs to RISC OS.

Sadly it has fallen victim to the China paranoia and is no longer in PlayStore.
I still use it on my backup phone, Samsung S8, but on my Mototorola have replaced it with MiXplorer which supports FTP and Cloud among other things.
It is free and also ad-free. There must be a catch.

As I understand it, ES File Explorer was taken over by an outfit that stuffed it with all sorts of nasties.

This isn’t unknown – smaller dev makes popular app, random company offers $$$ for it, dev takes the money, random company tried to scam the existing user base.
It’s why my apps do not auto update.

I still have the APK of ES v3.2.4.1 (2014) here, that I transfer from phone to phone. It is starting to become a little less useful due to how much more Android is locking down ¹, but the FTP server is invaluable as a quick way of pushing files around when various companies go out of their way to cock up WiFi Direct, and Google’s own Files app seems remarkably poor at transferring anything anywhere.

Xiaomi have a “File Manager” app that does a basic job of things. It’s like a slightly better version of the internal one with added advertising.

¹ I’m annoyed that only the lame built-in file manager is allowed to access /android/data these days. There’s a lot of crap in there that isn’t necessary, and some apps that can’t be bothered dealing with the file access permissions correctly (such as my dashcam’s app) simply download to there, which makes it a bit of a pain in the arse to get at the files.