[Plugin] unCommander - ⭐ A Powerful Two-Pane File Manager

Hi everyone,

I've used Midnight Commander on my servers for well over a decade, and I always missed it when I was on the unRAID web UI - especially on my iPad. So I built:
A FAST proper two-pane file manager that lives in its own tab of the unRAID menu bar.

Two folders side by side. Pick files on one side, press Copy or Move, and they go to the other side. If you know Midnight Commander, Norton Commander or Total Commander you'll feel at home straight away - F5 copies, F6 moves, Tab switches panes, Insert ticks. If you don't, everything also has a button, and it works great with a finger on a tablet.

Made with Claude AI

WHAT IT DOES

File management

- Copy, move, rename, new folder, delete, permissions and find - with F-keys, buttons or taps

- Copies and moves run as background jobs with progress - close the tab and they keep going, and you get a notification when they finish

- Delete goes to a trash on the same share or disk; Restore puts things back where they came from (or delete for good when you want the space now)

- Undo for rename, move, delete, new folder and even copies

- Before anything is overwritten you see a list, and the old versions are kept in the trash

- Batch rename with a live before/after preview - all-or-nothing, with one Undo

- Compress to .zip / .tar.gz; extract .zip, .rar (incl. RAR5), .7z, .tar.gz and more

- Folder sizes in the background, and Compare two folders (including subfolders)

- Viewer and editor for config files, scripts, compose files, logs, .nfo and more, with colour highlighting; picture and PDF viewer

- Disk column: see which disk(s) or pool a file in /mnt/user really lives on

- Copy/move guard: it refuses things that would destroy data, like copying a disk folder onto the same folder in its share

Made for unRAID

- Starts at /mnt: shares, every disk and pool, Unassigned Devices, plus /boot

- Optional "Whole OS" view: one tap and the top becomes / - /boot, /etc, /var, /tmp and the rest, just like MC on the console (switch it on in Settings first)

- Practice mode for learning without risk - anything that could change your files is locked

- Optional auto-refresh when other programs change a folder

Media tools (Settings > Tools, or the little film / TV buttons next to Settings)

- Empty folders on disks - finds the leftover empty folders Unraid's share view hides, and removes them safely

- Movie folders without a video - folders with only posters, .nfo files or a sample left. Send them back to Radarr to download again into the same folder

- TV shows with missing episodes - checks every show folder against its episode list on TVmaze (no account or key needed) and shows exactly what's missing, season by season. Shows numbered differently from TVmaze are checked against Sonarr's numbering, and a "What's wrong" box explains anything odd in plain words

- Sonarr integration - get a show's missing episodes (or one season) with one tap. Shows Sonarr doesn't have are added with their existing folder and only the missing episodes are wanted; whole missing seasons are also searched as season packs. If Sonarr downloads something but won't import it ("matched to series by ID"), unCommander can import it for you

Make it yours

- Text size per device - bigger text on the desktop, normal on the iPad, without zooming the rest of unRAID

- A Midnight Commander theme: blue panels, cyan bars, yellow ticked files

- Your own CSS with live preview and a colour picker, sounds, shortcut buttons for your favourite folders, and you can rename the menu tab

- All keyboard shortcuts are listed in Settings > Keyboard

See more screenshots at my GitHub Repository

INSTALL

Pending Community Apps) listing - STAY TUNED.
- Apps tab: search for "unCommander" and click Install,

or
Manual Install

- Plugins > Install Plugin, and paste:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hernandito/unCommander/main/uncommander.plg

Then reload the page - unCommander appears in the menu bar. Requires unRAID 6.12 or newer.

Your settings are kept on the flash drive (/boot/config/plugins/uncommander). Removing the plugin leaves them, and any trash folders, in place.

GOOD TO KNOW

- Nothing runs in the background unless you start it, and the tools only read your files until you choose to change something

- The TV tool uses TVmaze's free public API, politely paced

- 7-Zip (for .rar and .7z) is downloaded once at install from the official 7-Zip releases, checksum-checked, and kept inside the plugin's own folder

LINKS

- GitHub (source, full user guide, issues): https://github.com/hernandito/unCommander

- User guide: https://github.com/hernandito/unCommander/blob/main/docs/USER-GUIDE.md

This is the first public release, so I'd love to hear how it works for you - bugs, ideas and screenshots of your setups are all welcome in this thread or on GitHub.

Enjoy!

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by hernandito