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I want to move a lot of photos of my phone but I don’t want to move all of them at once.

I’d like to select two separate files and then have a file manager select all files between those two, i.e. select a range. As example, if I select file B and file E, I want to automatically select file C and D, but not anything else.

I mainly use Material Files as an app for that but it seems not possible to do this there? Does anyone have a suggestion for a file manager that can do this on Android?

  • pipes@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    12 days ago

    Update: both Fossify Gallery and Fossify File Manager can do this! Just found out :) you select the first image(long press) then long press the last image of the group, it selects them all

    Mm basically Ctrl + Shift + select but on a phone.

    Not a real solution but a couple of workarounds with Material Files:

    • if part of the filename matches (like photos taken during 2026-02) you can search then “Select all”;

    • turning on its FTP server than managing from a pc

    Real solution would be a file manager with advanced search, that can filter by date range for example.

    • bonenode@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Thank you! Both for the creative search idea, which may not really work for this but I hadn’t thought about it, and the app suggestion/testing!

  • Tynan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    Mixplorer cam do this. It isn’t available on F-droid and costs money on the Play Store but is free on XDA.