Official Google Africa Blog: January 2018

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Three new ways to manage files and free up space on Files Go

Friday, January 26, 2018

Files Go is our new app for freeing up storage on your phone. Since its launch in December, more than 10 million people have installed it and have cleaned up more than 1.1 gigabytes of space on average.

Today, we’ve added three new features so managing files is even faster and more enjoyable:

SD cards: We’ve expanded our SD card support since many of you use SD cards to backup important files. With one tap in the list or grid view, you can easily filter to see files stored on your SD card.

Tablets: Files Go now runs on tablets so you can manage storage and transfer files between your small and big screen Android devices without using any data.

Opening files in other apps: You can also customize which apps open your files with our new “Open with” flow. This should give you greater flexibility and control when handling all types of files. For example, to open PDF files, you may want to use your favorite PDF viewing app and that’s now possible.

The “Show SD Card only” feature makes it easier to find only those files saved on your SD card

With these new features, we hope it’s even easier to free up space, find files faster and share files offline with Files Go.Posted by Devesh Sarwate, Software Engineer

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Trois nouvelles façons de gérer les fichiers et de libérer de l’espace avec Files GoFiles Go

Cartes SD : Nous avons étendu la prise en charge des cartes SD car vous êtes nombreux à utiliser des cartes SD pour sauvegarder des fichiers importants. Vous pouvez filtrer les fichiers stockés sur votre carte SD simplement en tapant sur la liste ou la mosaïque.

Tablettes : Files Go fonctionnent désormais sur les tablettes et vous permet de stocker et de transférer des fichiers entre vos portables et tablettes Android sans utiliser aucune données.

Ouvrir des fichiers dans d’autres applis : Vous pouvez également indiquer dans quelles applis vos fichiers doivent s'ouvrir avec la nouvelle fonction « Ouvrir avec ». De quoi vous apporter bien plus de flexibilité et de possibilités pour gérer tous les types de fichiers. Par exemple, pour ouvrir des fichiers PDF, vous pouvez désormais associer l’appli de lecture de PDF que vous préférez.

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