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Re: files on iOS. Design decisions have led to the requirement that apps can only access files inside their app container sandbox. This means if you want a "f
by gcr 10y ago
Re: files on iOS.
Design decisions have led to the requirement that apps can only access files inside their app container sandbox.
This means if you want a "file manager" for iOS, it can only manage the files that you send into that app.
Documents by Readdle is a bit of a hack: a file manager that also includes PDF reading bits and media decoding bits and picture viewing bits, with plugins to copy to/from cloud services. Either way, the only files you get to manage are livinng inside of Documents' file system. It's not very UNIX-y, granted.
But the inability to create a "file manager" is a legitimate design decision with legitimate upsides.