Hello everyone, the new release with the much requested USB support is finally here! (Couldn't have done it without @DarkMatterCore's usb library) It's worth mentioning since it is such a big update (backend changes and FS refactor) there *may* be some issues, but the only way I can find and fix those is through you guys! However rest assured, I did run a lot of tests myself to make sure it is functioning as expected. If I waited a month, it would've been exactly 2 years since the last release .

Change-log:

• FS:
  • Added support for browsing USB devices.
  • Switched back to libc to handle FS operations.
  • Brought back support for browsing other devices such as safe, user and system.
• GUI:
  • Update to imGui v1.88.
  • Switch to imGui's new keyEvent API.
  • The two views (File Browser and Settings) can now be navigated as tabs.
  • Switched from list view to a table view using imGui's table API.
  • Sorting is no longer applied from settings, it can be done directly by clicking on the table column headers.
  • A new selector has been added to allow the user to switch to different devices such as safe, user, USB etc.
  • Settings are no longer categorized by imGui's tree system.
  • No longer uses SDL2 as a backend, but instead uses opengl v3 directly (along with egl).
• Fixes:
  • Properly delete config file if the config file version is outdated.
  • Properly free textures after exiting application.
  • Fixed scrolling via the right joystick after zooming into an image.
  • Lots of code clean up and under the hood changes that are too many to list here.

Spoiler: Screenshots

Download: https://github.com/joel16/NX-Shell/releases

 

[duckbill007]

File manager that can not work in 400MB of memory? Norton Commander worked with 640K!

 

[Joel16]

File manager that can not work in 400MB of memory? Norton Commander worked with 640K

Why are you so butthurt? Is it because your file manager that you shamelessly tried to self advertise earlier isn't getting enough love?

 

[duckbill007]

Man, the only butthurted person here is you. I absolutely do not care about popularity of my small app. I just only reported about directory listing issue (old code was a little faster) and memory usage. Sorry, but English not my native language and my messages can be rude. Before your comment I almost finished PR that speeds up directory listing more than 100 times and reduce memory usage 4 times at least. Also it should fix bug that can cause ruin of filesystem while file copy, but now after your butthurting you should be fix all that yourself.

 

[Joel16]

Man, the only butthurted person here is you. I absolutely do not care about popularity of my small app. I just only reported about directory listing issue (old code was a little faster) and memory usage. Sorry, but English not my native language and my messages can be rude. Before your comment I almost finished PR that speeds up directory listing more than 100 times and reduce memory usage 4 times at least. Also it should fix bug that can cause ruin of filesystem while file copy, but now after your butthurting you should be fix all that yourself.

I am not butthurt, what you said sounded like you're making sly remarks which irked me. Maybe it is the language barrier, if you did not appear to come off as rude then I am sorry for misunderstanding you. You're free to do as you wish with your PR (I don't blame you if you don't want to). I apologize.

 

[Joel16]

There is a minor update to fix a few things and slightly enhance user experience.

Change-log:

• Fixed rename bug introduced in v4.00
• Added option to disable extended font support. (Initially disabled by default -- this boosts the application start up speed)
• After USB is unmounted via settings the device state will now be properly switch back to sdmc.

Download: https://github.com/joel16/NX-Shell/releases/tag/4.01

 

[godreborn]

was able to compile it. it took several dependencies I didn't have, but I figured it out:

 

[hippy dave]

was able to compile it. it took several dependencies I didn't have, but I figured it out:

View attachment 321657

Epic wallpaper

 

[cucholix]

Can't make it list my NTFS HDD

 

[godreborn]

Can't make it list my NTFS HDD

My guess is that it's due to the usb library files. There's a separate make for ntfs, which I don't think is compatible when compiling nx-shell.

 

[Joel16]

Oh yeah, @godreborn is right. I was using ISC build of libusbhsfs. I just re-read the documentation and NTFS is not supported with this one. The other one (GPL 2) supports NTFS/EXT (needs to be linked with -lntfs-3g -llwext4). I'll try to mess around and run some tests with the GPL version of libusbhsfs when I get some free time.

 

[rantex92]

was able to compile it. it took several dependencies I didn't have, but I figured it out:

View attachment 321657

offtopic : dude that wallpaper tho luv it ^^ i whish someone would make this into a live wallpaper where it moves like snakes or like the inside of jabu jabus belly

 

[godreborn]

offtopic : dude that wallpaper tho luv it ^^ i whish someone would make this into a live wallpaper where it moves like snakes or like the inside of jabu jabus belly

I thought I should change the wallpaper to something like that after having used the default one for years.

 

[rantex92]

I thought I should change the wallpaper to something like that after having used the default one for years.

sometimes change is good my last wallpapers were just plain black and after some time it got realy boring and i looked into wallpaper engine

 

[ciaomao]

It would be great if someone could upload the latest release to the home brew app store.

edit: its online now

 

[Plazorn]

This is now the ideal file explorer for switch, however it creates an Atmosphere Panic Error when coming out of sleep mode?

 

[EduardoZ2]

anybody can help me? i have been trying to install botw and i finally have everything except for the base game nsp, which was too large to move it to my sd, so i splitted it into parts but cant merge it using NSPsplitty because of an error mesage saying "there's not enough space in the disk", idk why it shows this as it's almost empty and the nsp is surely lower than the maximum capacity of my sd card. i saw on a post that using this can make installing splitted nsp's into the switch, but i dont really know how to do it, i cant find it anywhere. do i need to merge it before using it? i am trying to use the "set archive bit" thing but it does nothing, or at least i think so, should this be working? am i missing something?

 

[binkinator]

anybody can help me? i have been trying to install botw and i finally have everything except for the base game nsp, which was too large to move it to my sd, so i splitted it into parts but cant merge it using NSPsplitty because of an error mesage saying "there's not enough space in the disk", idk why it shows this as it's almost empty and the nsp is surely lower than the maximum capacity of my sd card. i saw on a post that using this can make installing splitted nsp's into the switch, but i dont really know how to do it, i cant find it anywhere. do i need to merge it before using it? i am trying to use the "set archive bit" thing but it does nothing, or at least i think so, should this be working? am i missing something?

This thread is about NX-Shell which has little to do with installing BOTW.

Please respect the author‘s intent of this thread and take this question over to the Switch Noobs Paradise sticky thread and someone will help you. :-)

 

[EduardoZ2]

This thread is about Multi-Shell which has little to do with installing BOTW.

Please respect the author‘s intent of this thread and take this question over to the Switch Noobs Paradise sticky thread and someone will help you. :-)

I know, i was just asking if im doing it the wrong way or how do you even use the set archive bit option

 

[snk4ever]

The latest release is really cool with USB support.
I managed to copy files s with european caracters in their name but not a folder with files having korean names (hangeul). Is it possible to add support for unicode file names ?

 

[mathew77]

Is it possible to ad support for unicode file names ?

DBI has support of them (as well as USB drives, too).