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   Carlos E.R. to Marion   
   Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portab   
   04 Feb 25 13:22:53   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-02-04 11:01, Marion wrote:   
   > On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 15:14:13 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote :   
   >   
   >   
   >> Huh, the filemanager I use is Ghost Commander. Sorry, I can't find the   
   >> official name. Setup/Aplications does not list it, Play Store does not   
   >> list it, but I have just run it. Unless it has been renamed to Total   
   >> Commander.   
   >>   
   >> Google finds a site:   
   >>   
   >> https://sites.google.com/site/ghostcommander1/About   
   >>   
   >> but I don't know if this site is faked.   
   >   
   > Hi Carlos,   
   >   
   > As you're aware, I've tested all the free Android file managers, such that   
   > I  have both Total Commander & Ghost Commander installed. As I recall,   
   > Christian Ghisler wrote the former while the latter is open source stuff.   
   >   
   > Since I scrape the Google Play Store repository anonymously (without   
   > logging in) I can see that Total Commander still exists in the repo.   
   >  id=com.ghisler.android.TotalCommander>   
   >   
   > However, I do see that the Google Play version of Ghost Commander is gone.   
   >    
   >   
   > But you can see from my screenshots I have Ghost Commander installed.   
   > It sees *both* the Volume Name Windows formatted, plus the cryptic name.   
   >    
   >   
   > BTW, my version of Ghost Commander is v1.62.3 and when I click on the Help   
   > from inside of that app, it takes me to that URL so it's legitimate.   
   >    
      
   I wondered, because it is full of things about the war in Ukraine.   
   Photos of the app are gone.   
      
   >   
   > That same help inside the app says the source code is located here:   
   >    
   >   
   > At that sourceforge site is a green "DOWNLOAD" button which goes to   
   >    
   >   
   > That seemed to work when I tested it just now from Windows:   
   >  Ghost%20Commander%201.64.1b2.apk>   
   > Name: Ghost Commander 1.64.1b2.apk   
   > Size: 5005025 bytes (4887 KiB)   
   > SHA256: B574F966938A74B9EBF9210E803DBF0856087C65DEF5E63543A120BC3A28B7B5   
   >   
   > What I do NOT understand is why I see *both* the 0000-0001 that Windows   
   > formatted and a crytic AAAA-BBBB style identifier (which I can presume was   
   > the original label name).   
      
   No, that's probably the UUID.   
      
   >   
   > How can there be two volume labels to the same sdcard in Android?   
   >    
      
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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