Vault
The Vault is a way to store your sensitive files securely in an encrypted place. The place is a folder on your device’s storage, specifically it’s folder named .X-plore vault on available storage, typically it is Internal storage. X-plore creates a special entry named Vault in top-level list of available locations, and all your encrypted files […]
Startup security
Start password X-plore can be protected by password, which must be entered at start of application. This is simple protection to avoid kids or friends to browse contents of your device and remote servers. However it is not meant to be strong protection for your device. For this purpose, use Android’s lock screen. You can […]
PDF viewer
X-plore includes own PDF viewer. The PDF viewer is integrated with Image viewer, so pages of a PDF file are drawn as individual images. X-plore can also open password-protected PDF files. Limitations Following functions are not currently possible and not on plan to be added into X-plore: searching text in PDF selecting and copying […]
NTFS/HFS+ Paragon plugin
Besides having own USB OTG driver for FAT32, X-plore also works with Paragon File System Link, which is separate paid Android application. The app is specialized in supporting various file systems on storage connected to your Android device by USB. It allows to mount and unmount storage devices, and does the hard work to properly support NTFS, exFAT, […]
USB OTG
Many users ask for USB OTG (on-the-go) function in X-plore. This is, connecting a USB memory card directly to Android device through special cable, and access the files. This article explains a bit how it works on Android, and problems around it. ⓘ If your USB storage can’t be recognized, fast way to fix this is […]
Home screen shortcuts
You can make Home screen shortcuts to folders or files, so that some file is easily accessible from your Home screen launcher. There are two ways how to add shortcut, one is from X-plore itself, other is form home screen launcher app. Add shortcut from inside X-plore Long-click on a file or folder, and choose […]
Recycle bin
X-plore offers recycle bin function, which allows to recover deleted files. Due to technical limitations how Android works, this function is available only for device’s internal mass-memory storage (not on removable memory cards). The recycle bin may be enabled in Configuration. When enabled, the recycle bin folder appears automatically as special folder in Internal storage […]
Music player
X-plore contains music player that can play audio tracks from any location that X-plore can browse. That means tracks can be played from device memory, zip file, network locations, etc. Starting Music player is started by clicking on some audio file (that is file which has extension of audio file), or by using Play menu […]
Image viewer
The image viewer built into X-plore is advanced tool for viewing individual images or playing presentation on collection of images. Functions: Zoom in/out and slide images by touch View gallery (like film strip) with images in collection Rename, delete or share image Mark images View Exif data of JPG images Play slideshow The image viewer […]
Writing to external storage
On devices with Android 5 and newer, writing to memory card is still problem due to Android’s policy to make this unnecessarily complicated. Instead of plain writing to memory card, as it is possible for Internal memory, app must ask user for special permission in a very obscure way. Unfortunately, all file managers have to […]