thefilosphere: Unzip, Links & Bulk Download for Google Drive

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Google Drive can't unzip. Extract zips right in Drive, without downloading, folders intact. Plus bulk downloads and link sheets. Someone sends you a zip with 500 files. Google Drive can't open it. Normally you'd download it, unzip it, rebuild the folders and upload it all again. Then you need a link for each file: Share, Copy link, Paste. Five hundred times. thefilosphere does that work for you. It's a Chrome extension for the bulk jobs Google Drive™ makes you do by hand: unzip files into Drive, get a link for every file in a folder, download whole shared folders and convert images and spreadsheets. It opens in Chrome's side panel, right next to your Drive. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOUR TOOLS. USE ONE, OR ALL FOUR. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Each tool works on its own. Use only the one you need. ▸ UNZIP & ORGANIZE · Zip → Drive The problem: Drive can't open a zip. You unzip it on your computer, rebuild the folders, upload everything again, and the files still come out in the wrong order. The fix: pick a zip that's already in your Drive, or drop one in from your computer, and it unpacks straight into a Drive folder. • Subfolders kept exactly as they were • Natural order, so 2 comes before 10 • See every folder and file count before anything uploads • Switch on "Then make a link sheet" and the unzipped files go straight into Link sheet • Files left from an earlier upload: skip them or keep both • Large zips pause and pick up where they stopped • One click on Undo moves the whole batch to Drive's trash ▸ LINK SHEET · Folder → links The problem: to share files you open each one, copy its link and paste it into a sheet. One wrong paste and someone gets the wrong file. The fix: a Google Sheet with a share link for every file in a folder, grouped by subfolder. • Direct image links too, for websites and stores that ask for an image URL • Copy all the links, or download them as a CSV • Folders thefilosphere uploaded: each file is set to "Anyone with the link can view", and Undo makes them private again • Any other folder: share it as "Anyone with the link" in Drive and paste its link. Its sharing isn't changed ▸ BULK DOWNLOAD · Link → files The problem: Drive zips a big folder before downloading it, splits it into several zips, and sometimes one of them fails. The fix: paste the link of a shared Drive folder and every file is saved to your computer separately, with its folders intact. No zip. • Paste several folder or file links at once, one per line • Before it starts, see what's inside: each folder's size and file count, and how much is images, video or PDFs. Untick a folder to leave it out • A dropped connection doesn't restart a big file. It carries on from where it stopped • If it stops, or you close the panel, Continue picks up where it left off and skips files already saved • A file that fails is listed by name, so you retry just that one ▸ CONVERT FORMAT · Images and spreadsheets The problem: the website, marketplace or client wants JPG, and you have WEBP, or a folder of iPhone HEIC photos the website won't take. So you upload your files to a converter site you've never heard of. The fix: pick files in Drive and convert them in bulk. • Images: WEBP, PNG and JPG, and iPhone HEIC photos to any of the three • Spreadsheets: Google Sheets, Excel and OpenDocument files to CSV, one file per tab • Converted in your browser, not on a server • Saved to a new Drive folder • Your originals are kept. Don't need them? One click moves them to Drive's trash, and Undo brings them back • Switch on "Then make a link sheet" and the converted images go straight into Link sheet ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVATE BY DESIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Google asks you to allow access when you start. Here's exactly what that means: • thefilosphere can see only the files and folders you pick, and the ones it creates • It cannot see the rest of your Drive • Your files move directly between your browser and Google. They never pass through a thefilosphere server

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