bryan, can't see any obvious difference between activated and not activated it's very much a work in progress in both forms.
TK

bryan, Usually Giveaways have to be installed and registered before the day is over. You probably could if you bought the full program on their website

bryan, yes this should work, as long as you got the key in time from GOTD.

Rod Harrington , are you sure it was here? https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/?s=Fileside only shows todays giveaway, nothing in January! XYplorer is far more complete and includes multiple tabs in each pane allowing operations across far more than just one location per pane and it uses windows explorer component so everything explorer does can be done in it too unlike this which can't even Send-To or access the recycle bin.
TK

TK, I think you're right. I got Fileside from a different giveaway site. Sorry for the mistake. However, I still hold to my good opinions of the program. Some of those commenting mentioned a few shortcomings of Fileside: some are valid, and I'm looking forward to further development, but a few are actually mistaken. Gary, files and folders can be copied or moved by using a drag operation from one pane to another. I guess since the giveaway is over, though, more comments from me aren't needed.

I uninstalled, reinstalled, all done as administrator, tried the key with and without the surrounding uppercase lines, Deleted all the software, re-downloaded. On the last try I copied the key but missed the first dash in the first line "LICENSE KEY". When I went to fix the missing dash, I saw that the license had been accepted with a green checkmark, before I entered the missing dash.

Thorn Roby, the key starts with the line gotd+userspecificsymbols@fileside.app and ends with ==

Thorn Roby, the same story. The license key does not paste in the window. Try to uninstall the program, but not uninstalled.

Donald, this free giveaway is for version 1.7.1 only.

The normal paid license includes all automatic updates up until the next major version, i.e. 2.0.

Lovina, the Enter License Key window in Fileside itself should let you paste the key you got from Giveaway of the Day. Are you saying this isn't working?

Erik (Fileside), I am having the same issue. I can't paste into the box and although I can physically type it in, it's very loooong! Program itself looks great. Thank you.

Erik (Fileside), yes, the registration window is not allowing me to paste the license texts, which is so much and clustered to type in the window.

Erik (Fileside), Same problem. Won't let me paste the key. Too big to try to input by hand

Erik (Fileside), there is no right click context menu now if the end user is a more technically minded user and aware of the undocumented CTRL+V then yes paste does work but one has to take a punt as there are no tool tips or normal windows user interface.
TK

Lovina,
Try hitting the "Ctrl" Key on your keyboard and at the same time hitting the "z" key. This will usually paste, when the right click and "paste" option won't work.

Erik (Fileside), Try copying the key... then click into the key entry window , then type Win+v.... this will display everything in your clip board... just click the key and it should enter. Worked for me.

Lovina, Please I am desperate for some help. I cannot paste the serial in. This looks the most useful program for me and I am desperate to get it sorted before the time ends. Any help is appreciated.

Erik (Fileside), My license key is not working. Any way to reach out to you guys?

Hi all, copying the whole license key with Ctrl+C, and then pasting it into Fileside with Ctrl+V should work. Not Ctrl+Z, as a previous poster suggested.

asp, Try hitting the "Ctrl" Key on your keyboard and at the same time hitting the "z" key. This will usually paste, when the right click and "paste" option won't work.

Steve K, CTRL+z is usually "undo" in programs that support it CTRL+v is "paste".
TK

Erik (Fileside), Thank you Erik, this worked for me. Nice program.

TK, Yes. Of course you're right. Ctrl+v is correct.
My apologies to any I confused. I actually copy/pasted it at least once here, without realising what I'd done.

Curious, what do you feel is problematic about this? Fileside follows Microsoft's recommendations and auto-saves settings and other application data to the C:\Users\[your_username]\AppData\Roaming\Fileside folder.

Erik (Fileside), C: drive is still often on a small SSD with limited space AND limited possible writes available so forcing file saving to a hierarchy permanently on the small weak SSD is less than ideal even if it is the Windows recommended/trained way of doing it! An option would be to provide a setting to store the user database/settings as much as I personally hate doing in one of the USER folder subfolders that CAN be pointed to a different non-system physical drive. e.g. Downloads, Documents, Music, Video yuck That allows the settings to still be in the per-user hierarchy but lets the end user put that hierarchy on a secondary drive that may be added as a electro mechanical hard drive or a much larger SSD that has peta bytes of writes to spare in its predicted lifetime and is not polluted by windows own frequent writing. including the gigabytes of fast boot system writes that happen by default on most systems.
TK

Erik (Fileside), what is the Trash folder in settings used for?
"C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Fileside\stash"

you're not re-inventing windows recycle bin are you?
At least it can be relocated to a less vulnerable drive letter! Unlike the significant file set in it's parent folder!
TK

TK, yes they are replicating the recycle bin folder but instead of using NTFS built in recycle.bin system which does not MOVE the data around the drive but just moves and manipulates the hard-links to the files data allocation this software completely moves the "move to trash" to the specified folder (the often small SSD) so if you move to trash from big D: or E: partition on massive secondary drive it gets transferred to the small write damage susceptible SSD system drive unless you point it elsewhere. Better to just delete normally not Shift-Backspace but just backspace. Oh great just tried Backspace and it deleted the file as if it were Shift-Backspace so they have yet to learn how to use the recycle bin which is why they have tried to re-invent it but badly. My advice don't use any of the delete options in this version of the program if you want to do deletes that you want the chance to get back in windows explorer, that just moves all references to the file recycle.bin database so it can be fully restored QUICKLY later or delete fully by deleting the file from the recycle bin folder on each drive letter. I'll wait for them to learn to use the systems delete or shift+delete properly and add the recycle folder functionality to their re-implementation of Explorer functionality.
TK

Erik (Fileside), in response to your justification of avoid the use of Windows Recycle bin:
"Why are trashed files not moved to the Recycle Bin?
Microsoft has not made it easy for developers of third-party apps to support undo after sending files to the Recycle Bin. Since one of Fileside’s design goals is to support undo for everything, it uses a workaround here. When trashing an item, it gets moved to an application-specific folder instead, which defaults to %APPDATA%\Fileside\stash.

You can change the location of this stash, as well as clear it, from the Settings dialog under Trash directory"

Please look at an explorer alternative XYplorer https://www.xyplorer.com/index.php It uses the Explorer component, implements Edit Menu Undo of deleting to the MS recycle bin like you want but couldn't solve, implements views context and menu bar functionality, all the installed shell extensions and standard context facilities... and has portable editions too.

TK, please see this FAQ for the rationale behind the custom trash folder:

https://www.fileside.app/faq/#why-are-trashed-files-not-moved-to-the-recycle-bin

Since then, we did find a potential workaround for the undo problem however, which we'll look into, and if reliable, use in the future instead of this custom solution, which I agree is far from ideal.

Erik (Fileside), Even though TK has elaborated correctly, I'll hereby confirm that it is the small C drive problem. Most developers present a menu asking the user where they would like to install the new software. I would suggest you do likewise in any new additions.

Stefan Kalsum, mapped network drives will show up under This PC. If you are using UNC paths to access your network drives, you will need to type them into the path box (\\host\share... etc) the first time you access them. Thereafter they will be available in the location menu.

A network discovery feature would be a nice addition though I agree, and will be added at some point in the future.

Thanks for the report, Janet. Just double-checked this, and indeed you're right. For network drives (probably the most common use case for mapped drive letters), each drive is listed with the name of its share, but for drive letters mapped to local folders, it's just showing the drive name right now, which is indeed not very helpful. Will look into fixing this.

(As an aside, Fileside's Locations menu should ideally reduce the need for mapped local folders. You can just hit Ctrl-P, and type a few characters of the folder name to quickly jump to any folder that you've visited before or added as a favourite.)

r0n, Curious how often you close and restart programs on your PC for this to be such an issue? With most apps that I use regularly, I leave them open and just send the machine to sleep when I'm done for the day, meaning I wouldn't see any startup messages such as this welcome screen very often at all.

(Secret tip: The license key you get for this giveaway will also work in the standard 1.7.1 trial download you can get directly from www.fileside.app, which won't have the special GOTD message. But shh, don't tell anyone.

Erik (Fileside),
Thanks, Erik for getting involved in the comments section. It is most appreciated; otherwise, potential customers see it as if the developer does not care about their program's development.

In reference to you describing how you use your program by keeping it open and putting the PC to sleep as a cure for the popup at the start of the program, as a long-time developer, I learned something that every developer needs to understand. If you build a program and it is a benefit to you, then that is great. If you give the program free to some friends and it benefits them, then that is great too. But when you make the program into a product or even mass distributed freely, you will find that your own control over the future of the program as to how it works and the things that it needs to be added are not totally your choice, provided you want to keep it in the marketplace. You will need to listen to other's opinions of how they want the program to work and what path your development efforts are applied to. You will need to weigh all the input you receive and decide what makes the program a better-liked/sellable program. Sometimes a favorite future feature you had in mind doesn't get added, at least not for a long time. Instead, you need to incorporate other's ideas. Developers that do not listen or do not patronize by adding the things they hope for will see their "baby program" remain a baby. Whatever you do, don't take it personally. Everybody has an idea of how File Managers should work based on their varied experiences. The more you support your initial customer base, the longer your product will remain a viable solution for others. Best of luck to you.

The doesn't work (won't validate) with the trial version from the fileside site. (At least not from my end, I don't know if others have the same issue).

Alternatives for the current method of the splash screen:
- Show it 3 times and after that stop showing
- Show it in the titlebar (maybe also 3x times...)
- Give the user the option to click outside the splash window to close it.

Albert, https://x.com/erkjlvk/status/1627734291944771594?s=20

Steven, that Reddit thread was in February. Is it really close to being in a new release, and if I install that next version, will I lose my license to this version?

Haha indeed, it's a fair point! I assume it's the thumbnail view you're missing? It is a commonly requested feature so the plan is to add it in an upcoming version.

The truth is it's not been much of a priority up until now, since the preview mode allows you to quickly step through a bunch of images with the arrow keys.

Erik (Fileside), Send-To is completely absent too as are all the shell-extensions no 7-zip shortcuts, no irfanview shortcuts, no HxD or other hex editor or text editor shortcuts... maybe in version 2.0 USE the Explorer component so all extentions WORK and add your important functions in your parent code and and additional shell extension that works alongside everyone elses shell extensions. re-inventing what took MS decades to do on your own is going to take many hours of partial functionality before you get to something that is better than what MS made available for all programmers from the start!
TK

Albert, He does read and responds. It appears the GUI is being built how he want's Explorer to look and function like and ignores all the other options the Windows Explorer Shell component provides that he has not seen as a priority. At some point he'll need to replicate shell extensions sub-system too.
TK

Donald, x/twitter thread not reddit, that functionality shown is in this version. None of the alternate from details view has been implemented and looks like it will be a long time to be implemented completely or any better than explorer component already does it now.
TK

TK, just for some context, one of the main goals of Fileside is to be a cross-platform app that works the same across both Windows and Mac. Hence, it might diverge a bit from the usual Windows standards.

Having said that, I agree that the shell extensions would be very useful to have integrated, and will most likely happen at some point. Fileside will however never use the stock Explorer component for the reasons mentioned above, as well as for UX reasons. If you prefer that, there are plenty of other Windows-only alternative file managers to choose from.

TK, You're right. I linked somewhere to a Reddit thread and got the two confused.

Alvega,
Please make sure that you use the same browser for the archive request and key request and that your browser saves cookies. Also please request the key and don't close the previous download page in your browser during the page visit.

GOTD team

Helen, The Link provided, to obtain the registration serial is still not working after several attempts.

Lovina,
please follow the provided instructions.
Each user gets his individual code.

Lovina, The registration worked for me. As soon as the program finishes installation, the program opens and there's a screen that appears over the program window that has a link to enter the registration code. Be careful when copying the code from the email you receive after going to the web link provided in the readme file in the zip file the program came in. Use the same browser to download and also to request the registration code. If you copy a space before or after the code, it will likely not work for you.

dobry juzer, when I try to install this under Vista (taking a punt) the installer quits with an alert box stating Windows 7 or above is required so... I say if you have 64bit Windows installs you want to try it on... go for it... at worst it installs but fails to run and fails to uninstall... usually the installer generates the uninstaller so if it installs it *should* also uninstall! NOTE only 64-bit executables are included for the program in the provided setup.exe so it WILL NOT run under 32-bit Windows 10 installs.
TK