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Remove options from Files’ right-click menu
The Files app (www.snipca.com/50045) has added some excellent new features in its update to version 3.3 (see Issue 682, page 19). It’s now an even better replacement for File Explorer in Windows. I learn new tricks every time I use it, including the option to remove everything you don’t need when you right-click a file.
Files has a lot of options enabled by default when you right-click. To see them, click the top-right Cog icon followed by ‘Context-menu options’.
There are probably more than you need. I clicked the sliders to turn off options like ‘Show option to copy path’ and ‘Show compression options’. The only actions I kept were to open folders in a new tab and a
