Daylight Commander

A modernization of the two-panel file manager, with a Rust-backed interface built for speed, and support for Google Photos.

Mark what you need in one panel, copy or move it into the other, and keep going without reaching for the mouse. The keys follow Total Commander's, so years of habit carry straight over.

The same two panels open your servers and cloud storage, and they can move the largest photos and videos out of a full Google Photos account onto your own drives, checking every copy before its original goes to the trash.

Built and supported by Media Lantern.

Google Photos can show you the largest items in a full library, but copying them somewhere safe before you delete them is left to you. Daylight Commander does both in one pass. It downloads each photo or video through your own signed-in browser, checks the copy on your disk against the original, and only then moves the original to Google Photos' trash, which doesn't count against your storage.

We built it to bring our own library back under its storage limit, and it has cleared about 45 GB so far. Anything in the trash can still be restored for 60 days.

The rescue works with a free companion extension for Chrome, Brave, or Edge, and setup takes about a minute.

Connect to Amazon S3 and compatible storage such as Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, DigitalOcean Spaces, Wasabi, and MinIO, or to any SFTP, FTP, or WebDAV server, and copy files between it and the other panel the way you would between two folders. Network shares over SMB and NFS mount as drives and reconnect on their own.