Let us dig into the My files app that digout everything present in your Galaxy Phone
The My Files folder is preinstalled on most Samsung Galaxy devices.
Where you can find it ?
You are able to locate this folder on your device, by searching for this in the app search, or this can be found in the default folder named Samsung.
Type of app
My Files is a type of file manger actually allows you to access a device's entire file system — even from the device itself.
Need of this app
Your Samsung Galaxy phone is productivity powerhouse.
It can take everything from PDFs and PSDs to presentations and podcasts. It can act as a portable hard drive and can keey any sort of important files you might need in your pocket. Your mobile device can carry a lot of data, and there may come a time when you want to dig in and deal directly with it and My Files exactly do that digging for you.
Now lets move inside this app to get introduced to many options available for us:
When we open My files app first page appears like this
Search bar:
The app provides a universal search bar at the top that helps you to search any file you want to search in your entire device
Recent files:
This option display your all recent files that you have opened or viewed recently or you have saved recently. It can store upto a large number of files.
Note : You can even disable this function if you think that it violates your privacy or you donot want to show what you have viewd or saved recently
Way to disable recent files
Click on three dots on right corner , then select Custome My Files home and then disable Recent files option .
Categories:
Files stored in the device are organized into many categories to make our work more easy so that we can directly open that category that we need excluding all other type of files. Following categories are present.
• Images:
View image file
• Audio:
View audio files.
• Videos:
View video files.
• Documents:
View document files.
• Downloads:
View all apps and files that have been downloaded to the device.
• Installation files:
View all installation files that you have installed. through apk or that apk files that you have. .. downloaded.
My Files app provides option even to disable Categories option.
Way to disable Categories Option :
Click on three dots option in the right corner of the app . then select Custome My Files home and then disable Categories option.
Storage option:
After categories option you will see different storage options available in your device
Internal storage:
View folders and files located on the device.
SD card:
View folders and files located on the SD card .
Note: This option only appears if an optional. SD card is installed.
USB Storage :
You can see this option only when you have connected external storage device through USB.
Cloud storage:
You can view different cloud storages availabe that you have signed in.
Different cloud services options available are Samsung cloud drive , Google Drive , OneDrive.
You can easily copy and move files, folders from one storage location to other.
Shortcuts Section
My Files app allowes you to create shorts of the files or folder that you can quickly and easily access the files and folders you want. This app gives you two options
a. To add shortcut on home screen
b. To add shortcut on My Files home screen.
Here this shortcut section contains all the shortcuts you have created of files or folders.
Method to add shortcut:
1. Long press on file or folder of which you. want to create shortcut.
2. The file or folder will get selected . Now click on. three dot option that you see in the right corner. of the screen.
3. Click on create short cut. Popup showing 'add short cut 'to will appear .You will see two. options : 1.Home screen
2.My files app
4. Select which one you want. If you select Home Screen , shortcut will created on your phone's home screen . If you selected the My files app , shortcut will be created on My Files app that you will see in shortcut section .
Now let us create shortcut of whatsapp folder on
My files app :
Manage shortcuts option:
You can even manage the shortscuts that you have created on your My Files app.
How to manage shortcuts?
- Press any shortcut for long , a screen will open containing all the shortcuts or Click on three dot menu button present on the right corner and then select Manage Shortcuts.
- You can change the order of the shortcuts or delete one or many at a time.
Analyse Storage:
Next option is Analysis Storage
This option reveals the files and directories that take up most of the space on your device.
If your Android device runs out of storage space regularly, you may have an idea why that is happening.
When you click on Storage Analysis, you will get a lot of options as shown here:
This helps you to view your internal storage , sd card storage and even the cloud storage. You will get varius option to manage your storage
Duplicate files
Accurate identification of duplicates
Duplicate Files identifies all duplicate file formats accurately. You can find identical texts, photos, audio, and video files with this extremely user-friendly software.
Large files This option helps you to find large files that are stored on your phone and that takes a lot of space.
This option also allows you to backup your large file on any other external storage .
Unused files
Unused files helps you to find the files
that once you stored on your phone but never or rarely used them. This will help you to save space and delete that unwanted files.
Recyclebin:
Other one of the best option available in this app is Recyclebin.It helps you to recover accidentally deleted data quickly, completely eliminating the need to constantly backup your data. It works just like recycle bin on your windows, mac, linux desktop.
Data that you delete get stored in Recyclebin so that if you want that data in future you can restore that back. Deleted data remains for a fixed time in the Recyclebin. After that data is deleted permanently.
You can even manually delete data from Recyclebin.
How to enable/disable Recyclebin?
- Click on three dot menu option in right corner of the app.
- Click on Setting option
- Toggle on or off option of Recycle bin.
Note : When you disable Recycle option , you will lost all your data that is present in Recyclebin.
How to acess Recyclebin ?
- From any screen of the app , just click on three dot menu option on the right corner of the app.
- Select Recylebin
- Recyclebin will open showing the files that you have deleted.
- You will have two options for every file , one is to restore that file other is to permanently delete it.
Hidden System Files
This option helps you to see the files that are by default made hidden by the developer of the apps .
For example , Status folder inside Whatsapp folder is made hidden by default by the developers . But Hidden files helps you to unhide such files and folders .
Way to unhide hidden system files?
- Just click on the three dot menu option in right corner of the app .
- Select Setting option.
- Enable Show Hidden System Files.
Other many options are too availbale such as
- Move
- Copy
- Paste
- Rename
- Create folder
- Sort by
b) name
c) date
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