Very early indev, and missing a LOT of layout (Icon bar, tabbed region, etc.), but this is my barely functional UWP File explorer!

Whatever you do, make sure it supports long Unicode paths (\\?\) and can extract *both* last access timestamps (the one from disk and the one stored in memory but not yet written to disk) — you’d be my hero.

If you could show both $SI and $FN timestamps on NTFS I’d be even more impressed :)

Sincerely,

—Someone who once wrote an NTFS $MFT parser

@blockchaintacos I'm using C# FileInfo... lol

It gives me Creation and LastAccess time

@-Tor If you're talking about the Win32 API-usin' one, no! Mine is awful! If you're talking about the hidden UWP one, yes! It's already better than that!

@-Tor Then you're talking about the default, old Win32 version, and that's a good file explorer!

God I love C# not sure how I feel about UWP apps though. But do make this thing have tabs if you can, I would love for more x86 apps besides browsers to have tabs.

God damn that is good looking!

So will this also work on Xbox when done, it uses UWP apps right?

Also, nice dark theme.

@chaz042 In theory! And yeah, the theme is dependent on system theme, so it can be any color available.

@asinglenoob UWP is very restrictive and is one of my major challenges in this project. It's more like Android than Windows - so doing things that are essential for file managers, like launching executables, is nearly impossible and until recently, was totally impossible. The reason I'm doing it is because MS is working on their own UWP file explorer, so I know it's possible now.

And yeah, the tabs are gonna be pretty dope. Assuming I can get the XAML layout to work properly, I should have a scrollable tab region designed after the Firefox tabs. And I plan on in-application text editors and image viewers to open in new tabs for convenience.

If you don't know, there is already a beta version of uwp file explorer hidden in windows
Search in the internet and you can find how to get it

@CozyPlanes Got it. It looks like shit

Oh my god it looks like shit! Give me back the fast old file explorer!
Also bring back the old calc.exe

@Gregozor2121 Yup the new UWP one is pretty crap, which directly inspired me to build this one

@dfox spam bot :/

Nice, but I don't like uwp.