# File Manager

## Overview

The Files app provides an interface that allows users of MontaukOS to:

- Navigate and manage files on available volumes
- View and access user libraries
- View and access installed applications (see § Apps folder)
- View and access installed applications (see § Settings/System Configuration folder)

Files app displaying Computer view with user libraries, ramdisk volume, Settings, and Apps folder.

## Technical notes

- The Files app is one of two windowed applications (the other being the Desktop Settings applet) compiled directly into the desktop's binary (0:/os/desktop.elf) rather than being a separate application. Crashes of the Files app may therefore cause the entire desktop process to crash, kicking the user back to the login screen (0:/os/login.elf).
- Most of the Files app does not use the MTK toolkit, relying on custom GUI views to render complex file views; however, Properties and delete confirmation windows within the Files app do rely on the MTK toolkit.

## Apps folder

Apps folder in the Files app displaying installed applications on a MontaukOS development build.

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