Copy, move, delete

Actions go from the active panel TO the other one, as in every two-panel file manager. When more than two panels are open, Meneaufile asks which one is the target.

Copy and move

F6 copies, Ctrl+F6 moves. A summary says what goes where before starting, and a progress dialog follows the work — you can stop it. A second action in the meantime is not refused: it joins the queue and goes in its turn.

Facing a file that is already there, the question is asked once and the answer can apply to the rest: replace, replace only if the target is older, skip, or rename automatically. “Older” is the usual way to refresh a folder without overwriting fresher work; with no date on either side, the target is kept, because that is the choice that loses nothing.

Eject the stick at the end

When the destination is a removable medium — a USB stick, a card —, the summary carries a checkbox: eject the medium once the copy is in place. It appears only there, because the question arises only there, and its state is remembered from one copy to the next.

A finished copy is not a copy in place: the system keeps pages waiting, and pulling the stick at that moment loses what was still on its way. Ejecting flushes them and unmounts the volume — it is what tells you that you can unplug. A file that is still open makes it fail, and Meneaufile says so rather than letting you believe otherwise. Where the system allows it: Android does not let an app unmount a volume, and the checkbox does not appear there.

Rename

F2 renames on the row — the name reads among its neighbours, which is exactly what you look at to choose it.

Ctrl+M renames a whole batch with a single mask, with a preview of what each name will become before you confirm.

Create

Insert creates a file, Shift+Insert a folder. In a module, the same key creates what the module contains: a connection, a machine, a password entry.

Delete

Del sends to the recycle bin; Shift+Del deletes for good, and says so beforehand. On a server or in a database, there is no recycle bin: deletion is always permanent, and the dialog reminds you.

Undo

Ctrl+Z undoes a rename, or a batch sent to the recycle bin. A permanent deletion cannot be undone — which is why it asks for confirmation.

When permissions are missing

A permissions refusal is not the end. When a deletion or a rename fails for lack of permissions, Meneaufile offers to try again with administrator rights. The system then shows its consent window, which you are free to refuse — and an elevated deletion does not go through the recycle bin. Both are said beforehand.

The log

Whatever touched files is remembered: what went where, under what name, and what failed. You read it without leaving the app.

Meneaufile manual, in English.