{"id":247,"date":"2011-07-19T22:41:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T02:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chromebookuser.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:14:45","slug":"file-manager-chrome-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/file-manager-chrome-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Chromebook File Manager: A better file manager for Chrome OS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the complaints about Chrome OS is the severely limited Chromebook file manager.\u00a0 It seems like Google is encouraging (read: forcing) users of Chrome OS to keep their data in the cloud by not providing an elegant, or even adequate solution for managing files locally.\u00a0 Luckily, Michael Connick just came up with a brilliant work-around. It makes use of the built-in browser functionality to navigate and manage files and directories via a web page interface.\u00a0 Check out the details on Michael&#8217;s blog, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mconnick.tumblr.com\/post\/7579599296\/i-just-made-a-huge-discovery-that-has-greatly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Staying Connected<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After you try out the &#8220;new file manager&#8221;, <strong>consider checking out the Chrome OS extension, Panelize<\/strong>.\u00a0 ChromebookUser.com contributor Seldon D. has this to say about the extension,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Panelize is one of my favorite extensions, and makes this work even better. Just save file:\/\/\/home\/chronos\/user\/Downloads\/ to a bookmark in the Panels folder. Then you can open a new &#8220;file manager&#8221; window in Panelize. Right click on any file, then choose &#8220;Save as&#8230;&#8221; I find this approach <em>way<\/em> easier than the native Chrome OS file manager for managing local content.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Seldon for sharing the file manager work-around and the extension!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the complaints about Chrome OS is the severely limited Chromebook file manager.\u00a0 It seems like Google is encouraging (read: forcing) users of Chrome OS to keep their data in the cloud by not providing an elegant, or even adequate solution for managing files locally.\u00a0 Luckily, Michael Connick just came up with a brilliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10000867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10000911,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/10000911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10000867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techquentin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}