Both panel go back to C:\ upon FTP disconnection.

[zorglups]

I'm using the FTP plugin a lot (hence miss the CTRL-P  ) and found what I think is a bug.

On the left panel, I open a connection using the FTP plugin.
On the right panel, I'm on \\any\unc\.

If I do not touch my FTP connection for a while, I get disconnected by the server.
The bug is that at that time both panels jump to C:\ 
The feature request is that you implement "keep connection alive" (this may be a option of the plugin but I could not find the plugin option). Please do not enable this "keep connection alive" on registered connections only (understand: as an option of the connection) because I'm most of the time connecting by pasting the ftp address in the address bar.

Best regards,

Pierre

[Kreator]

I'll add to this post: I have several network drives. If I open even one of them in a pane and then close-open MC, C:\ will be open instead.

[Mathias (Author)]

Not the same issue.. and in 3.5.1 the issue when disconnection from FTP other views also reverted to c:\ is fixed.

Why network drives revert to C:\ between restart is because the option "Save Only path to local harddrive" is enabled.
It is there because if a network drives is gone the startup will hang until the connection timeout..

[Kreator]

Oh, that's nice, thank you. Is there any chance to check readiness of a network drive before resetting the path to c:\? Usually all drives are OK, but the server can be offline or something else can happen that will make drives disconnect.

[Mathias (Author)]

Oh, that's nice, thank you. Is there any chance to check readiness of a network drive before resetting the path to c:\? Usually all drives are OK, but the server can be offline or something else can happen that will make drives disconnect.

I have not found a safe way that always work.. So there is a big chance you get a hang until the network request timeouts if the server is down.