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Browse, import, and save files with Naidan’s File Explorer

Use File Explorer to look through a folder yourself, preview a file, bring files in from your device, or save a copy back to it.

Open Naidan, expand the sidebar if needed, then choose More Actions → File Explorer.

This sidebar entry opens Naidan’s browser storage (OPFS). To inspect the folders available to a Chat instead, open that Chat’s menu and choose File Explorer. The breadcrumb at the top tells you which location you are viewing.

Open the file location you need

The sidebar route opens File Explorer (OPFS). Its list starts at the browser storage root. The lock is on when this view opens, so you can inspect files before allowing changes from this window.

The sidebar’s More Actions menu opens the OPFS file list. A Chat’s File Explorer shows its effective mounts, including global, group and chat folders, and system mounts when enabled.

Find a file and preview it

Open a folder, then open a file to see its preview. Search filters names in the current folder. You can switch between list, icon, and column views, or sort the list by a column. Text, images, audio, and video have previews; other files show information and a download action. A large file may ask you to load it explicitly. The preview does not edit file contents.

Open a folder, then a file. The breadcrumb changes with the folder, and the preview shows what the file contains.

Bring files into the current folder

Check the breadcrumb, unlock this window if it is locked, and choose Upload Files. Ordinary selected files go into the open folder. A ZIP is one file that bundles other files: keep it as a ZIP or choose Extract and place to put its contents in the folder. The ZIP preview shows additions, merges, replacements, or blocked items before you confirm. If the ZIP has one top folder, you can keep that folder or place its contents here.

The ZIP dialog lets you choose where its contents go and review the planned changes before upload.

Save a file or folder to your device

Right-click one file (or long-press on touch) and choose Download to save it. For a folder, the same action opens Download directory: choose the ZIP name, optionally exclude items by relative path, then download the archive. The original folder stays in its current location.

A file downloads directly. A folder opens a ZIP dialog where you can name the archive and leave out selected items.

Organize a writable folder

Unlock the window to enable changes from File Explorer. You can create an empty file or a folder and rename an item. To duplicate an item, use Copy then Paste in the destination folder; to move it, use Cut then Paste. Delete asks for confirmation. Unlocking does not make a read-only mounted folder writable; its own access setting still applies.

Unlocking enables the change controls in this window. Create a folder, then use the item menu to move or copy files into it.