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From: AJL <noemail@none.com>
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Subject: Re: NFS from Android
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 02:41:45 -0000 (UTC)
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On 10/26/24 7:14 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>On 2024-10-27 01:20, AJL wrote:
>> On 10/26/2024 12:40 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm afraid the excellent ES suite was banned from the Play store
>>> because they did bad things. I am not aware if someone resurrected
>>> the code (without the bad things) under another name.
>> 
>>> ES File Explorer was removed from the Google Play Store in April
>>> 2019...
>> 
>> The ES File Explorer File Manager app (version 4.2.1.3.a) is available
>> in the Amazon Appstore although many features do not work without a paid
>> monthly subscription upgrade.
>> 
>> For those who don't use Amazon devices their apps are Android based and
>> can often be transferred to non-Amazon devices. However I didn't even
>> try on this one because the free services are pretty basic and a paid
>> monthly subscription for a file manager is IMO ridiculous...
>
>So, they are still doing “bad things".

I don't know if the Play Store ban reason for ES still exists for the
 available Amazon Appstore version. I was curious so I tried it. The basic
 features seemed to work ok. But since I installed the Google Play Store on
 this Amazon Fire Tablet I'm posting with I find the standard Google Files
 app does just fine...