Total Commander

Hi,

I was setting up TC Android for some elderly friends, and I was really missing a Backup and Restore function of the different settings and bookmarks.

It would be great if we could have such a function: would make life so much easier on non-rooted devices and setting up TC for friends.

Thanks.

Just add a button with type "change directory" and command
/data/data/com.ghisler.android.TotalCommander

Then you can go to the settings directory without root and backup it to the SD Card.

On the new device, create a button yourself and restore the data. Using Google's cloud backup may not be such a good idea because of the passwords.

Sorry, just to be on the safe side: That would be the shared_prefs directory?

Actually "shared_prefs" and "files". The first contains the settings, the second contains the cached icons for the toolbar.

Thanks, got it!

Hi,
Is this saving the settings also for the plugins? Like ftp accounts, lan folders saved, etc.
Thanks!

No, plugins save their own settings. You need to use a tool like Helium Backup to save them (no root needed).

Thanks for the tip with Helium. Really does the job without root!

Hi

When i copy e.g. the a.m. shared_prefs folder to the external SD card, all the files are getting tagged with the actual day and time.

This happens actually also with files not originating from the /data/data/com.ghisler.... folder
e.g.
- External SD card to External SD card
- Internal Memory to External SD card
- Internal Memory to Internal Memory

How can I avoid this ?

Thank you very much !

You can't avoid it - you can thank Google for that:

This is a very longtime Android bug: It's not possible to set/copy the timestamp of files on Android due to missing permissions of the user to set them. Only the root user is allowed to set/copy the timestamp.

Here are the relevant bug reports in the Android bug tracker:

File setLastModified always returns false
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1992

setLastModified() always fails on Xoom unless running as root
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18624

File.setLastModified() always returns false on Samsung Galaxy Nexus
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=25460

ghisler(Author) wrote:Just add a button with type "change directory" and command
/data/data/com.ghisler.android.TotalCommander

It's also possible to add that path to a Bookmark. To do this without previously going to that data/data/... folder using the mentioned CD command button on not-rooted device, user can edit some existing bookmark of some other folder.

ghisler(Author) wrote:... plugins save their own settings. You need to use a tool like Helium Backup to save them (no root needed).]

Since plugins have FS interface, for this task each could have add a virtual folder showing the settings files of own data/data/com.<plugin name> folder. Maybe it's possible to implement a copy from/to such plugin virtual folder and real folder of the device in opposite TC panel?

I also have a question about the location of file help.htm of installed TC4A. I would like to open it with alternative html viewer because built-in Android's has very unconvenient Search function.

You can extract the help.htm from the apk file. Or view it online here:
https://www.ghisler.com/android.htm

There are links to the various language versions near the top.