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Support and Feedback / Re: set focus to a folder

« on: March 25, 2013, 10:28:39 »

If you used commander styled setup you would not need to do select/unselect, since by default no files/folders are selected and then all folders will be scanned when called.

However.

Instead of requesting a command to set focus,  a command like "MC.Explorer.SizeFolders ALL" would probably fit better.. ?

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Support and Feedback / Re: set focus to a folder

« on: March 25, 2013, 09:55:20 »

Not sure about a MultiScript function since they are kind of disconnected from the UI.

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Support and Feedback / Re: FTP: don't CWD to "/"

« on: March 25, 2013, 09:27:33 »

FTP servers are weird because all of them work differently. it is impossible to support all of them and since I do not have a HP NonStop my self it is a bit hard to support it. FTP support in MC is only for basic needs.

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Support and Feedback / Re: set focus to a folder

« on: March 25, 2013, 09:15:48 »

That will never work. because how does it know if it should show F:\Folder or F:\FolderMyFolder.
Might be possible to add a extra parameter where the focus item is specified.

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Support and Feedback / Re: FTP: don't CWD to "/"

« on: March 25, 2013, 09:12:35 »

I don't think it is possible in the current version.

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Support and Feedback / Re: set focus to a folder

« on: March 25, 2013, 08:20:31 »

Code: [Select]

MC.Explorer.Goto PATH=F:\Folder\MyFile.exe
What will change path to F:\Folder and item focus to MyFile.exe

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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander v3.1 BETA Build 1374

« on: March 25, 2013, 07:48:09 »

There is a threshold before it goes over. But might need some tweaking of high values.

MC is developed using C++

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: change attributes and/or time

« on: March 25, 2013, 07:33:28 »

last modified can be change in the Change Properties dialog (Menu>Tools>ChangeProperties or ctrl+DblClick on Date/Attribute column )

But there is a plan to add created/last access to that dialog.

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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander v3.1 BETA Build 1374

« on: March 25, 2013, 07:29:54 »

1) 'Toggle selection and calculate folder'..meaning selected folders will have their sizes automatically calculated?
2) 'Toggle selection and step down'...not sure what it means..
3) No plans to start changing unit size to next higher unit(for example, MB to GB) from 1024?

1) No. it is the command that is by default assign to spacebar. That ca now be customized.
2) It is the command that by default is assign to the "insert" key. It select current item and moves focus down to next item.
3) ?? You can already configure unit for most places.

1 & 2.  This keys are very commonly used when running using commander styled setup.

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Beta Releases / Multi Commander v3.1 BETA Build 1374

« on: March 23, 2013, 16:26:35 »

Multi Commmander v3.1 (Build 1374) -  65+ Changes


  FIXED - QuickSearch in ExplorerPanel can now be started with none localized alpha letters.
  FIXED - Converting path to absolute/relative in FileTypeSetup now works better.
  FIXED - Path matching settings in FileTypeSetup is now loaded correct.
  FIXED - CheckSum checking (SFV) sometimes locked a file if the process was stopped with the stop button.
  FIXED - Issue with move operation leaving a empty folders if SKIP ALL was selected when an existing file was found when moving a previous folder.
  FIXED - Crash problem with FTP on 64bit OS
  FIXED - UserDefined Commands of external type will now expand ${xx} tags correctly.
  FIXED - TargetName pattern now supported for copy of multiple files/folders.
  ADDED - RAR files will now be tested aginst it bytemark before they are opened as rar files.
  ADDED - Auto expansion of subitems can now be disabled in the FolderTree.
  ADDED - FTP now support UTF8 encoded filenames.
  ADDED - FTP Log is now shown using UTF8
  ADDED - FTP now support context menu. Will for now only show "Edit" for bookmark items and "Disconnect" for ftp items.
  ADDED - MultiRename search and replace part can now be set to only process Name part or Extension part or Both.
  ADDED - Now possible to run file in search result from the context menu.
  ADDED - Now possible to customize the key for the Explorer Panel command "Toggle selection and step down"
  ADDED - Now possible to customize the key for the Explorer Panel command "Toggle selection and calculate folder"
  ADDED - Editing an exiting custom command in the editor. The namespace/function dropdown and description will update to match command
  ADDED - CustomCommand MC.Explorer.Selection.Select now support option ONLYFILES / ONLYFOLDERS (Works in all panel types)
  ADDED - CustomCommand MC.Explorer.Select now support option ONLYFILES / ONLYFOLDERS (Only for Explorer Panel)
  ADDED - New Langauge Romanian ( Created by Gabriel )
  FIXED - 4 Crash problem reported by Crash report system.


How to update to beta version

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Support and Feedback / Re: Select folders only

« on: March 23, 2013, 13:23:11 »

/* Filter is only supported in View Filters and Copy Filters.

But I will extend the MC.Explorer.Selection.Select command with a ONLYFILES / ONLYFOLDER option for the next version.

Latest Beta
http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,829.0.html

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Search in Language Editor

« on: March 23, 2013, 13:21:42 »

I was planing something like that but never got the time to add it.
Was is on the list is to be added is the possibility to go to a item directly. like if you type "g23" will go to the text item 23 in category "g" but also a search for a subtext and it goes to that item.

If I get some time over I might add them in the version.

Btw. It is possible to open the language file in a text editor. Then you can search and replace text much easier. Just make sure you do not mess up the XML tags.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: File Shredder

« on: March 23, 2013, 13:16:46 »

I was planing something like that. But the problem with file shredding and modern file system is that just overwrite the location that the file currently is located is NOT safe. and that will not guarantee that the file is gone. And if you have a SSD it will not work since it will relocated sectors by it self. So you can not overwrite the exact same sectors.

I would require that the user turn off a lot of the option in Windows to be able to guarantee that the file will be gone.
Modern filesystems can creates shadows copies of files when they are modified so that older versions of the files can be recover (Like the previous version feature in Windows 7)
And also when restore points are created sometimes files are hiddenly backuped . and if you resave the file in question. Then the old version might still exists on the drive.
And the content of the file can also have been stored in the page file (swap file) when it was loaded by a program.
So to be totally safe one need to turn off VSS and restore point system in windows. also Page File. or just a temporary page file that is delete on logoff..
(Removing pagefile completely is not recommended. )
And if the file have been re-saved anytime then all the free space on the drive also would need to be overwritten to safely remove it.

It is so much easier just to encrypt the entire drive instead.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: keyboard customization

« on: March 23, 2013, 13:01:39 »

Nice idea but that would require a lot of work to recreate the UI and I do not have the time for that at the moment.

You can export a list with all the command (The Export button) and from that list you can easier find where things are.

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Support and Feedback / Re: path of network drive lost after reopening

« on: March 22, 2013, 09:43:23 »

Go to
Menu > Configuration > Explorer Panel Settings > Save On Exit (at the bottom)

Uncheck  "(x) Save only path to local harddrive"

(This is because of network drive is unavailable it will hang at startup until window decided it does not exists. Or if a NAS or server have put drives in sleep mode you will also get a hang until they wake up  )

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Support and Feedback / Re: Invert selection

« on: March 22, 2013, 09:27:39 »

Okey..

Btw what do yo mean with "go back" ? there are many way to go back...

  Clicking on ".." item
  Pressing <- arrow button
  Pressing back button on mouse
  Pressing back button on Keyboard
  Clicking on the parent folder in the path field
  Pressing Backspace key
  Pressing "Go up" button above the path field. (guess to is the "Go Up" you  say you switch to ? )
  ... other way I forgot about..

 
 

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Problem when searching contents in binaries. And two more suggestions.

« on: March 20, 2013, 14:08:36 »

It do remember its location in the list. if you from the command line row press esc/tab to go back the focused item will still be the same.

Yes, I've kept it in mind, when I have said, that I must do some more actions in MC to solve this task.

Is is a bit hard to make the commandline field automatically know when the user are finished typing there and automatically return.

I think it should be possible to create a script that launch program using "cmd /K <arg>" and then assign that to a hotkey

I have tried to do this today, but still can not figure out how can I get text in command line. I have not find neither nor Multi-Tag nor Custom Command, which provides such a functionality. If it is impossible in current version could you add such a feature in future releases?

If it is bat files that you run (or some other files with unique extension). Then you can configure the FileTypeSetup so that it launches .bat with cmd.exe with you parameters.

And one more releated issue. Is it hard to do to let command line handle hot keys provided by user commands?

Hotkeys works there. problem is that the "edit" box steals a lot of them. so many does not work.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Invert selection

« on: March 20, 2013, 12:48:47 »

I think that you should disable remember selection. (Explorer Panel Settings > Remember selected files/Folders when changing path)
Because I think that feature and jumping back to a previous location using explorer styled setup can come into conflict with each other a bit.
I will test and see if that can be fixed so it works better during Explorer Styled setup.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Problem when searching contents in binaries. And two more suggestions.

« on: March 20, 2013, 08:11:39 »

At first, thank you for your job, I really like your commander. But I have one problem with it, which forces me to use other instruments to solve it. "File search" doesn't search meaningful phrases in contents of my Oracle Forms 6i source binaries. I've found a topic (http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,503.0.html), where another user had a similar problem (Reply #8), but he did not responded to your request to provide you some examples. So try my attachment to explore this problem. I had to change an extension from ".fmb" to ".txt", but it doesn't matter.

Searching in binary files are a bit tricky and does not always work. There are some changes planned for this.
so that it will be possible to search for a byte pattern.

One more problem, although not too critical for me. But solving it will save a little time in my job and save my fingers and my good mood also . When I navigate to command line by mouse click or by hotkey or by just start typing, commander "loses" cursor position in a tab. Other commanders like midnight or far saves it's position. So I can type for example in command line "cvs upd " and then press ctrl+return to append a filename under a cursor to complete and execute my command. In MultiCommander I have to do some more actions to mimic such a behavior.

It do remember its location in the list. if you from the command line row press esc/tab to go back the focused item will still be the same.

And one more timesaving feature I need at the moment. Cmd window closes after executioning a command in a command line. So I can't see an output of that command. To solve this problem, I can start cmd and then start typing desired command in a prompt line, then go to mc to copy filename, then return to cmd to finalize my command. To minimize number of steps I've created an alias cmd = "cmd /K", and use it like that "cmd sqlplus -some_args"  to start sqlplus in cmd window, which will not be closed after command will be executed, so I can analyze an output. But it still would be great for minimizing typing to have a hotkey (for example shift+return like in TotalCommander) for executioning a command without closing a cmd window after it finishes it's job.

Commands on the command line run that is not handled by MC it self is sent off to Windows.
MC does not send program to cmd it self. It is window that does that if it decides that a program need to be started using that.
I think it should be possible to create a script that launch program using "cmd /K <arg>" and then assign that to a hotkey

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Support and Feedback / Re: Delete files without confirmation

« on: March 20, 2013, 07:42:20 »

There is no option for that anymore. To many users accidentally delete files they did not want to delete.

It might comeback as an option for the script command, or as option for when sending to recyclebin. (However. that is not entire safe either, when deleting many files Windows will automatically cleanup old stuff  if the recyclebin is getting full.. and if you accidentally press delete on a folder with LOTS of files. you might still lose some of them )

Safest thing is to just mark all the files you want to delete then press delete. and you only have to press it once
OR use search to find all files you want to delete and delete them from there

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Support and Feedback / Re: Rename: replace the original file name

« on: March 19, 2013, 17:18:46 »

If you want to rename a single file then don't just the MultiRename tool. It is used when you want to rename Many files based on some rules.
For single file rename press Menu>Tools>Rename current file.  or Shift+F6, Or slow Click and wait on an item.

For the Mass renamer.,Then [N] tag does not need to be there. It just represent the current file name. you can type "MyFile" instead but if you got multiple files in the list then you will get a conflict since not all the files can be named the same then you need to add a [C] (counter) tag so the files get a number too or something.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Invert selection

« on: March 19, 2013, 15:29:05 »

Ok.  I think it is related to the 'explorer' style, but as I don't use commander style I'm kinda stuck.
I am trying commander style but finding there some 'other' problems of sticky/persistent selection, I may not be using it correctly of course.
When I try to inverse or revert selection I seem to be getting several groups selected.

Does the mouse config allow me to override explorer & bypass this issue?

Will play about for a while.

By default it will remember selections. But that can be turned off. (Explorer Panel Settings > Remember selected files/Folders when changing path)

Invert selection works for me with Windows Explorer mode.. I think you need to give me a Repo Case that I can go thou step by step do be able to see what you do and recreate it, because all this selection and stuff can be done in many different ways..

Explorer Panel Settings > Mouse Configuration  together with the "Selection Methods" settings are used to configure CommanderStyle/Explorer Style.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Invert selection

« on: March 19, 2013, 13:40:49 »

invert selection via the quick launch icon sometimes retains 1 or more previously selected file(s).  * also can fail when I use it as an alternative or after the button click fails.

If you use Explorer Styled key/mouse setup it can mess with things since it always wants to select focused item.

In settings->filesystem - Deselecting confirmation dialog for deleting folders that are not empty - dialog still displays.
Tried a restart but had no impact.  I will see if removing/restoring the inverse button has any effect.

Just to work. I will check..

& possibly a root cause/related 'error' - selection is sometimes 'sticky'.  Item remains selected even if I click away from it & I can hit 'back' & go to that previous selection 2 steps back, not 1.  This isn't consistent just occasional.  Double clicking on another item usually recovers selection focus.

Not sure I understand. But some selections features works bad when using Explorer Styled mouse/key setup, because they are in conflict of each other.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Options on copy/move/delete dialogs

« on: March 18, 2013, 22:52:41 »

1) Copy/move file gives option to rename file, can this be added to the folder copy/move dialog (currently only destination path is editable, if I add the folder name to the path it will add the moving folder as a sub-folder)?   Perhaps a right click on the move/copy icon could be used for this.

2) Option to display copy/move progress speed in mbs not just kbs.

3) Delete folder dialog doesn't show size of folder to be deleted.  Listing the content/filenames is good, a total content size output would be great!
When deleting a folder containing files & sub-folders - the option to delete to recycle bin w/out secondary confirmation dialog.

1) It only gives you a chance to rename the target file if you copy 1 file. else it is the target path that can be changed.
And folders can not be "renamed" because how do you know if new name should be the new target path or the target name for the folder ?
(But there is changes coming for this..)

2) It is kind of on the list. There are a lot of changes planed for the progress dialog.

3) it did not fit in the window. But it is planned.. Just have not had the time to rebuild the UI for it ,  Would require a lot of scanning before even showing the dialog and that would slow things down...  You can disable some "questions" under core settings => FileSystem

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Favorites with both path: left and right

« on: March 15, 2013, 17:33:32 »

It does not fit so well in favorites in how it works.. But you can do it with script

Code: [Select]

MC.Explorer.Goto LEFT="D:\Folder1\" RIGHT="D:\Folder2\"
But another feature is planned where you will be able to create work sessions. And it will be able to change all tabs to what is configured and not just the two that are shown.