Read Only Mode Navigation

[SkyFrontier]

What about being able to allow a person to navigate freely but edit nothing? No deletion, no moving files - just a locked up gallery!
Along some additional layer of security, and perhaps a password protection for this specific feature, this could turn XYplorer the perfect choice for large business which work with intranets and may took advantage of some unusual to WE features. Or help concerned parents (XY being able to deny access to certain folders, or even completely hiding them?), or just home users who don't want to allow full access to their systems to guest visitors (granted they will have first to disable certain hotkeys, etc).

[admin]

I had thought about this already and have it on my lists somewhere. But I never got a request, and since I do not need it myself...

[SkyFrontier]

Perhaps people thought about such a feature as a bloat. I don't see that way, as "file managers" should also allow one to NOT let other people touch one's files in a harmful way. That's file management on steroids, and I see that demand doesn't show up as the majority of people can't even think of it as possible for a file manager. That's when XYplorer shows its beautiful face - expanding possibilities, leading the way. XYploring.

[SkyFrontier]

Another eventual feature would be the ability to control which level of file operation one could have.

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-full read only mode (no changes at all)
-copy only mode (no moving allowed)
-file moving mode (no copy allowed)
-ability to delete files along with one or another of the previous (yeah, I know, kind of defeats the purpose - but who knows what one may need?)

and variations (can't think of any other right now, but someone will probably do. lol)

[admin]

I really think these kind of restrictions will be useful for some users / in some situation. Let me just finish my road map (no irony here)...