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FileFluss 1.6 Beta for Windows

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FileFluss for Windows — 1.6 Beta

FileFluss now runs on Windows too: a native Windows 10 and 11 app with the feature set of FileFluss 1.6 for Mac — two independent panels, every cloud account side by side with your local folders, and copy, move, sync, compare and search between them.

On a Mac? Nothing changes for you. This release is for Windows only.

This is a beta. Everything below is in, but it hasn't yet been used as widely as the Mac app. Please keep backups of anything important, and tell me what you run into: open an issue and mention Windows.

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• The installer needs no administrator rights. It installs for your user into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\FileFluss, adds a Start menu entry and an uninstaller, and keeps FileFluss up to date by itself.
• The portable version runs from any folder, a USB stick included. Unzip it and start FileFluss.exe; it doesn't update itself.
• Both are self-contained: no .NET install is needed. Windows 10 (version 2004) or Windows 11.
• SHA256SUMS.txt lists the checksum of every file.

The beta isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen asks you to confirm the first start: More info → Run anyway.

Settings, accounts and the search index live in %LOCALAPPDATA%\FileFluss, so neither an update nor uninstalling touches them. Sign-in details are encrypted for your Windows user account.

What's in it

Two panels, every cloud

• A left and a right panel, each showing a local folder, a drive or a cloud account — independently, even the same account in both. Or one panel, if you prefer.
• Every service the Mac app supports: Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, iCloud Drive, pCloud, MEGA, Filen, Internxt, Jottacloud, kDrive, Koofr, Nextcloud, Seafile, GMX Cloud, Drime, Amazon S3 and S3-compatible storage, Synology C2 and Synology Drive, QNAP, UGREEN and ASUSTOR NAS, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP/FTPS, WordPress, GoPro cameras and GitHub (read-only, with snapshot ZIPs to back your repositories up to another cloud).
• Copy and move between any two of them by drag and drop, F5/F6 or copy and paste, with progress, speed and time left in the sidebar and the taskbar. Conflicts ask Replace, Keep Both or Skip, one question at a time.

Made for Windows

• Map as Network Drive: any account appears as a drive letter in File Explorer.
• Drag or paste cloud files straight into Explorer, the desktop or any other app. They download only when they're dropped.
• Open With submenu with the apps Windows knows for the file, the Recycle Bin, Explorer's icons and Properties, Open in Terminal (Windows Terminal, PowerShell, cmd, Git Bash), thumbnails, Quick Look previews with Windows' own preview handlers.
• Explorer or Commander keyboard layouts, every shortcut customisable. Light and dark mode, and English, German, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

Archives

ZIP, RAR, 7z and TAR archives open in the panel like a folder, on your PC and on any cloud account. Preview or open a single file inside, drag files out, Extract Here or to the other panel, and Compress to ZIP, 7-Zip, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2 or TAR.XZ. Entries that try to escape their folder are refused.

Tools

• Search across your local folders, every drive and every connected account at once.
• Offline index: index a drive or an account, and browse and search it even while it's unplugged or offline.
• Compare Folders, Sync (mirror, update newer or add only, with a preview of every change), Storage Analysis of folders, drives and accounts, and share links in one click.

Built not to lose a file

Everything 1.6 for Mac does to keep your files safe is in: a move deletes the source only once everything has arrived, Replace swaps the new copy in only when it's complete, Mirror stops instead of guessing when a folder can't be read, and a repeated sync has nothing to do. The PC stays awake while files are on their way.

Known limits

• Not code-signed yet (see above).
• Map as Network Drive uses Windows' WebDAV client, which refuses files over 50 MB unless an administrator raises its limit. For large files, copy through the FileFluss panels.
• Creating RAR archives needs RARLAB's own tool; FileFluss offers to fetch it from rarlab.com, checked against a known fingerprint.