I often upload groups of photos online, like product images or artworks. Recently I noticed that Firefox uploads a group of photos from a folder in the opposite order. Its happened on every website I've tried uploading photos to. **Example: In a folder on Linux, I have:** - Artwork 1.jpg - Artwork 2.jpg - Artwork 3.jpg When I upload all the photos together, it uploads in this order: - Artwork 3.jpg - Artwork 2.jpg - Artwork 1.jpg This is frustrating because I have to manually re-order the photos every time I upload them. I don't remember this happening in the past, just recently. Since it happens on every website, I expect it has to do something with Linux Mint or Firefox. **What I've tried:** I've tried pressing Control A, to select all the photos, and then upload them, and I've also tried selecting the first photo, then holding down shift, and selecting the bottom photo, and then clicking on upload. I've also tried doing that but in the opposite direction, so holding shift, and selecting the last photo, and then the first. I've also tried arranging the photos in my fire browser by name, modification date, and reverse order, but the photos still upload in the opposite order. I've also tried renaming the photos to: - 001.jpg - 002.jpg - 003.jpg And that still doesn't fix the uploading order. It also happens with both PNG and JPG files.

By default, images are opened from the Gnome file browser by an application which seems to be called "Image Viewer". I would like to use this application from the command line, but I don't know its name. And there don't seem to be any commands named imageviewer, viewer, or similar. What is this application's command-line name?

I have set default file manager to ranger (xdg-mime query default inode/directory = ranger.desktop). Yet, when I am not in the terminal already, xdg-open / opens in the browser. I have checked in /usr/share/applications/ranger.desktop is Terminal=true. Setting TERM=foot (my terminal) in /etc/environment did not help, neither did linking my terminal to /bin/xterm.

Some examples: - If I plug an external USB drive in, it will get mounted under /media/$USER/ and my file browsers will automatically list the mountpoint under devices. - The same will happen if I manually mount something into a regular folder in my home directory. However, my file browsers will not list the mountpoint if that folder is hidden. - The file browser also won't list mountpoints that are in /tmp, for example. So what are the conditions for a mountpoint to automatically show up in file browsers under devices? Since PCManFM and Nautilus seemingly behave exactly the same, I believe there might be general rules for this? Can I "force" a mountpoint (which is a hidden folder or in /tmp, for example) to show up under devices?

im currently configuring Linux Mint Cinnamon 17 on a SSD as a Christmas present. I want to have the file-browser nemo display a .jpeg instead of a plain background in directories which should not be carelessly messed with. I just thought this would be a fun way to warn someone who's only used windows until now. Is there any way to add such a custom background? Until now I've only found out how to change the background color or font. Greetings

I would like to run *Nemo* instead of *Xfce*'s default file browser, in my browser. Per https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/487054/clean-way-to-run-proper-file-manager-from-firefox-on-linux/581229#581229 I tried to do: $ mkdir --parents ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services/ $ ln --symbolic /usr/share/dbus-1/services/nemo.FileManager1.service ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.FileManager1.service To test to see which file manager opens, I ran: $ dbus-send --dest=org.freedesktop.FileManager1 --type=method_call /org/freedesktop/FileManager1 org.freedesktop.FileManager1.ShowItems array:string:"file:///home/" string:"" I then rebooted, but nothing changed. I even copied a few more service files and updated their Name field: - /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.FileManager.service - /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.Thunar.FileManager1.service Again nothing changed and *Thunar* still opens. It seems like my settings are entirely being ignored. Any ideas on whats going on, or how can I debug this issue?

I'm looking for some feature which will allow me to pause/resume copy-paste process similar to windows 8. Is there any file manager that will allow this process? Is it extension to file-manager. Does this process have anything to do with file-manager? I'm also searching for portable and best file-manager too. I'm little bit confused choosing between PCMan and Krusader. Any suggestion which to choose between them.

Whenever I move or rename files with my desktop file browser, it causes havoc with other desktop applications. The apps can no longer find the files. What can I do to make my desktop apps stop being so obtuse, and just see that my files have been moved or renamed, and to update their own references accordingly? You can see it in apps like the Kate text editor, whose quite useful 'sessions' feature is rendered almost entirely useless by the mere act of files being used or renamed. Other apps are the same. Firefox loses track of downloads, for example. Rsync goes through the rigmarole when updating a mirror copy of a file tree that has been renamed, of deleting the original, because it thinks it no longer exists, and copying the renamed files all over again, wearing one's media out in the process. One's own scripts are in a constant state of fragility, because of this inconvenience that has been overlooked by the underlying filesystem, which is that users use computers, and that moving and renaming files is the most fundamental thing their operating system interfaces encourage them to do, and the one basic thing all filesystem browsers do for them. Bearing in mind that this is 2020, nearly 30 years after Linus Torvalds implemented the extended linux file system, and 50 years since the first implementation of Unix (oh and 40 years since the first MS-DOS); surely there is some filesystem tweak that will stop all my apps breaking any time I move or rename a bunch of files?

I am running/using mate 1.20.2 amd using caja as my file and folder explorer (GUI-based) . I have tried to figure out where caja puts it preferences but have failed. $ caja --version MATE caja 1.20.2 I tried to first see in .config/caja if it has what I'm looking for - ~/.config/mate$ ls eom panel2.d Neither of the two folders had anything interesting contents. Then I tried - :~/.cache/mate$ ls background and even there I couldn't find any info. I also looked at dpkg -L caja and saw /usr/share/metainfo/caja.appdata.xml but could not find anything which explains where it might be. Even the F1 built right in caja doesn't tell anything . Can somebody help to find out where it is ?

### Situation I am working with Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04. After extensive research for another [post on AskUbuntu](https://askubuntu.com/q/1222672) I am looking for alternatives to the pair BlueZ/Blueman for transferring files via Bluetooth. This is because these pieces of software, beside not working for me on the spot, have been developing towards the removal of **file browsing** capabilities. Thanks to that I could use my file manager or a terminal to look into and work with the content of my mobile. See "Drop browse feature" in their [changelog for version 2.1 onwards](https://askubuntu.com/q/1222672/446253) , for example. If I understand this correctly, would I want to transfer any number of pictures from my Bluetooth-connected mobile into a computer, I ought to send them in batches from the mobile, as suggested from example [in this other post](https://askubuntu.com/a/1157025) . This is unhandy. ### Questions "Middle levels", as in the title, are those sorts of commands invoked under the hood by Bluez, Blueman and suchlike, so one level of refinement below their own. I am glad to learn this. Eventually I might use a script. Therefore, I would ask some guidance, say a 'canonical answer', on using the command line (bash) 1. to establish a Bluetooth connection between a computer and an external device; 2. to make the content of the remote device browsable (á la ls) from the receiving computer; assuming all necessary hardware is up and running. ### Note I do rule out the assistance of helping programs like Bluez etc. If there are working self-contained alternatives to Bluez/Blueman, I am glad to hear of them. However, the wish is to have a canonical answer with a long breath, overcoming the limitation of several outdated answers on SE.

I've downloaded Windows 10 Disc Image from microsoft.com recently. I mounted it using Archive Mounter in Ubuntu. And I saw just a hidden folder "." and an empty "README.TXT" file in the root. ls -aR result is .: . . .. README.TXT The disk content looks strange to me, I have not seen this before, and I think it may be some kind of protection from file browsing. Because when I try to enter "." directory I remain in the same directory. I know that "." has a special meaning: What do “.” and “..” mean when in a folder? - and this's probably a reason why I can't enter "." directory. - Is it really a trick from MS to hide disk internals? - Do you know any anti-trick? =) --- SHA1: 87b7a45c8fd9f016126230399c7e3a470b2ca1da SHA256: 3dfbd43a1163ee420464a604cd876ac3070606dd72d4abfa5f6e3f1f4f68d08e filesize: 4.1 GB They don't match anything on the internet, but MS MVP says : > The checksums are all over the place, you are not gonna find one thats the same to match what you downloaded. --- UPD: I've redownloaded the disk image and now its size is 4.7 GB and its checksum matches the one provided by @Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams . The above question is still actual: when the image is mounted using Archive Mounter its content looks odd, but when it's "burned" to USB I can see installation files and browse freely.

I am looking for a terminal file-browser like the filemanagers ranger or nnn etc, but with a readonly mode?

I use latex in my work a lot. Compiling a latex file generates a lot of intermediate files with .log, .aux extensions. To avoid clutter, I would like to hide these intermediate files. Is there a way to hide files based on their extension?

I have to right-click in my File Browser to open as root (more specifically, any time I want to edit files), and I'd like to prevent having to do this step every time. I edit files a lot, obviously 😂 - Coming from Windows!

I am using Elementary OS. I am facing an issue with the file browser. It displays only files and directories inside the home directory. The file navigator (sidebar) is missing and I cannot access other drives.

Older versions of **nautilus** (such as on Red Hat 5 / RHEL 5) don't have the option **"Always use browser"** under edit->preferences->behavior. That option isn't added to the gui-based preferences menu until later. This leaves you stuck only launching visual mode windows by double-clicking. This is annoying when you want to open the browser window but forget to do the extra step of right clicking and selecting **"Browse Folder"**. How can you configure **nautilus** to launch browser mode on double click if the **"Always use browser"** option isn't appearing?

I'm having a large number of tar files and need to browse through them. Is there something like a curses/ncurses tar browser (like midnight commander or ncdu)? I know the -t option for tar but it is not what I need since it lists all files and not in a directory tree.

I am looking for a file explorator that have customizable move, copy and remove functions. Which strategy would you recommand? Is there any file explorer with customizable commands or should I modify the source code of an existing one (nautilus typically)? The custom commands should be GUI based: not interested in having a terminal in parallel to the file explorer for instance.

I wrote a script to save logs of request to its individual files. Over time the number of files in the folder seems to have grown in number by ALOT. Now I need to access some logs of some time range and I am not able to do it at all. The log filename format is this: 2016-02-11_124805_4269_170784456256bc8305a7e8b1455194885_req.xml So far I have tried * ls * tar -cvzf 2016-02-20.tar.gz 2016-02-20*.xml to compress files * cat 2016-02-20_01* | grep -nr "text_to_search" * ls -lah >> ../list.log * find ./dirname -type f >> list2.log * And a script to search the for each_file in ./dirname/* do echo ls -lah $each_file >> ./dirname_file.log done The tar and cat returns with arguments list too long, and others have not given me a response yet. Any help is appreciated.

I'm setting up a new development environment so I've been doing some tinkering with my newer install of Mint 17. I've been having a lot of fun! I wish to achieve the following kind of "striped" color effect when browsing files in List view using the default file manager, Nemo (screenshot from https://askubuntu.com/questions/285559/how-to-reenable-alternating-grey-lines-in-nautilus-files-3-6-list-view , depicting Nautilus, the ubuntu file manager): So, in that link, it's explained that one can just modify the CSS for your current desktop theme to enable that in Nemo. However, the desktop theme in Linux Mint is based on cinnamon and doesn't follow the same CSS structure so I've been at a loss as to how to achieve something similar in Mint. For reference, I've been inspecting the file in /usr/share/themes/Linux Mint/cinnamon/cinnamon.css