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theme: files-app
heading: "Files app — routing"
kind: theme
---

**The URL model is done (2026-08-15).** The folder is the pathname —
`/files/archive/Tests/platform/docs` — and `?view=` is a NAME within it, not a second copy of the path.
Deep links and refresh work, which they never had. Landed across `559560de`, `98ba604a`, `7e31564c`,
`0dc88b51`, `7359af2f`, with `files-route.ts` + 23 tests as the one owner of encoding and of which params
belong to the overlay.

Four bugs came out of that work and are fixed: closing a pane sent you home; `?view=` was stripped on
every page load by a mount effect that had made deep links impossible since 2026-02-23; navigating kept a
pane belonging to the folder you left; and the breadcrumb opted out of that last rule because it is a
`<Link>` and never called the function enforcing it.