[Plugin] Files Viewer

Files Viewer is a file browser for the webGUI, under Tools. The built-in File Manager moves files around but shows “Unsupported Preview” for most of them, so this started as a read-only companion to it and grew into a manager of its own. It browses everything under /mnt, so shares, array disks and pools are all in one place, and nothing above /mnt is reachable. It opens in preview only, where nothing you click can change a file, and switches to editing with one click.

What you get:

• Previews in place: images, text and code with highlighting, Markdown, audio, video, PDF, SQLite, Word documents, spreadsheets, CSV, fonts and e-books. Zip and tar archives list their contents.

• The usual jobs: create, rename, move, copy, delete, upload, download, owner and permissions. An “Unraid defaults” button applies nobody:users and 777/666 to what you ticked, the New Permissions recipe for a selection.

• An editor for text and config files, with line numbers, find and replace, Ctrl+S.

• Zip and tar.gz archives created and extracted on the server. Several ticked items download as one zip.

• A recycle bin per share, so a delete can be undone. It empties itself after 30 or 60 days, or never.

• Which disk: for a path under /mnt/user it tells you which array disk or pool really holds it, with the drive’s identification, and flags a file that sits on more than one disk.

• Space, which ranks what is inside a folder by what it takes up, and Search below a folder by name or pattern.

• Long jobs run in the background with a progress bar and a Cancel button. One that takes more than a minute ends with an Unraid notification.

It follows the Unraid theme, light or dark, and the language set in Unraid.

Requirements: Unraid 7.2.0 or newer.

Install from Community Applications, search for Files Viewer.
Source, README, guide and changelog: https://github.com/Lazaros-Chalkidis/unraid-filesviewer

Support is on GitHub only. Bug reports, questions and requests go to GitHub Issues, not this thread. I do not follow forum threads for support, and a problem buried on page 14 of a thread helps nobody. One issue per problem, with the plugin version and your Unraid version, and I will answer there.

Two notes:

1. If you remember my earlier threads for this and the other plugins: I set them to hidden while I was fixing a few things, and a bug in the forum software made them disappear for good instead of hiding them. I could not get them back, so I am reposting them one at a time.

2. All my plugins are written with the help of AI. The design, the decisions, the testing on my own server and the responsibility for what ships are mine. I say it up front so nobody finds out later and feels misled.

Edited Saturday at 03:38 PM5 days by Lazaros Chalkidis
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