While there is a free version of Commander One that gives you a dual pane file manager interface on your Mac, in order to use it with your Android device (along with a host of other features) you. A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders.The most common operations performed on files or groups of files include creating, opening (e.g. Viewing, playing, editing or printing), renaming, moving or copying, deleting and searching for files, as well as modifying file attributes, properties and file permissions.

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Commander Interface is a two-pane file manager interface based on Norton Commander (and similar file managers). A local folder is displayed in the left panel and a remote folder in the right panel. Files are usually transferred between these two folders, though it is possible to transfer files into a different folder. This kind of user interface is also known as Orthodox File Manager.

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Learn if this interface is appropriate for your needs.

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  • Screen Components
  • Using the Interface

The screen of the interface has several components. Some of them are hidden, by default. They are (from the top to the bottom):

  • Main toolbar with the main menu.
  • Session tabs.
  • Local and remote panels, each having own toolbar, path display, directory tree (hidden by default) and status line.
  • Command line.
  • Background transfer queue list (hidden by default).
  • Status line.

You can show/hide most of these components from the Options menu or using the context menus.

Command line is an optional component, located by default below the file panels. To show/hide the command line, go to Options > Command Line.

Using the command line, you can type and execute any shell command. Depending on which file panel is active, the command is executed either on the local machine (if the local panel is active) or on remote server (if the remote panel is active). You can easily see this from the prompt on the left side of the command line. Symbol > indicates local command, while symbol $ indicates remote command.

You can easily insert names of files selected in active panel to command line.

To execute entered command, press Enter (the input box must have focus). When you execute remote command, Console window is opened to show you the command output. Learn more about remote commands and how to use them.

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While you can control the interface with mouse, it is primarily designed to be controlled using keyboard. If you are not familiar with the Norton Commander concept, there are few important things that you need to learn:

  • Use Tab key to switch between the left and right panel.
  • Keyboard shortcut for file operations are sensitive to the panel that has focus. If the local panel has focus, pressing F5 (copy) will cause upload of select files, while if the remote panel has focus, pressing the same key will cause download of select files.
  • By default, file selection with keyboard works very different to what you may be used to from other Windows applications (like Windows File Explorer).

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By default, file selection with keyboard works very different to what you may be used to from other Windows applications. Some of the differences are:

  • While selecting the files using keyboard, use Space or Insert key. Space just selects/deselects the focused file. Insert beside the selection moves the focus to the next file. Hence, you may select five files in a row by pressing Insert keys five times.
  • Learn more file selection shortcuts.
  • For other selection shortcuts, see Mark menu.

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This selection method provides an advanced ability of selection and focus to be different.

You may wish to switch to standard Windows selection style.

While the Commander interface tries to preserve standard Windows keyboard shortcuts, where possible, some of them collide with the original shortcuts of Norton Commander. In such cases meaning from Norton Commander is preserved by default.

Example is F5 key, which means “copy” in Norton Commander, but “refresh” in Windows.

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You can opt to use Windows shortcuts in preferences.

See full list of keyboard shortcuts in Commander interface.