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101

Support and Feedback / Re: Create URL shortcut?

« on: October 23, 2023, 12:48:48 »

1. Open a Windows Explorer window on any folder
2. Right-click > New > Shortcut
3. In the box, type or paste a URL (for example http://bbc.co.uk)
4. Click "Next"
5. Give it a name (for example "BBC")
6. Click "Finish"

Now you have a shortcut in that folder that when clicked will open your browser on the website.

AFAIK there is no way to do the same thing in MC.

thanks

Never heard anybody doing that before..  You can add web urls to the favorites in MC but you can also create .lnk shortcuts in MC from the context (popup) under new section. just they wil end up empty since Windows Explorers editor will not pop up.. but just do show properties on in afterwards and you can edit it

102

Support and Feedback / Re: Files are selected when using Drag&Drop

« on: October 22, 2023, 18:54:52 »

not sure what you want.

so don't want files to be selected when you drag them ?

103

Support and Feedback / Re: MultiUpdate does not install the latest version 13.1.

« on: October 22, 2023, 18:53:02 »

Strange. I'm not able to reproduced that.. It should find 13.1.0.2955 as latest final or 13.3.0.2959 (beta) (if check for beta is enabled)

104

Support and Feedback / Re: Start folders

« on: October 20, 2023, 10:45:24 »

You can manage sessions via File > Tab sessions

Open desired tabs, then save this session. In menu File > Tab sessions choose Manage... you can now select this session and mark it as startup

Thank you. This is sooo hidden, I can't believe, and not intuitive. I've been using all kind of file explorers, but this one is by far most complicated to figure out.

it is not hidden since session tab are actually intended for other things.. But can be used as that too. but since you have X tabs .. it is not very easy to have a settings letting you setup exactly what you want at start for each tab.
Most often if you want something at start always you send it as parameters to the program.. and you can also do that..

105

Support and Feedback / Re: Start folders

« on: October 19, 2023, 21:45:18 »

You can also start MC via a shortcut and edit that shortcut an add /L=<path> /R=<path> parameters to it

http://multicommander.com/Docs/commandlineparameters

106

Support and Feedback / Re: Auto save session?

« on: October 15, 2023, 10:09:01 »

Normally.. Layout and tabs and location are saved when quiting and used at next restart..

In Explorer Panel settings at the bottom under "save on exit" section.. you find what settings inside the tab should be saved

107

Support and Feedback / Re: frequent Multi Commander hangs

« on: October 13, 2023, 11:12:34 »

This hang is during shutdown..  It waiting for a response from windows when cleanup and shutting down

108

Support and Feedback / Re: Preview of webp files

« on: October 06, 2023, 07:52:19 »

What do you mean with preview, Thumbnail,,  Preview Panel, Image Viewer ?
Some of them MC is depended on what Windows support.

109

Support and Feedback / Re: Find Files finds nothing when invoked a second time with a different search

« on: September 29, 2023, 11:13:43 »

Try using wildcards when searching... for example

*filename*

took me a while to figure that out

Hmm Tried many different way.. don't fail for me.. .strange.. I will add some more logging to the search process so for next beta.. So then you can enable debug logging and we can see what happens

110

Support and Feedback / Re: [MultiDataViewer] Ctrl+A in the "Find" field selects all text in the view area

« on: September 29, 2023, 08:29:14 »

When will build 2958 be available to download, please?

Soon I hope.. I wanted to fix one other thing..

111

Support and Feedback / Re: [Issue] Hover Preview for pdf: floating preview doesn't disappear

« on: September 26, 2023, 11:11:05 »

Fixed in 2958+

112

Support and Feedback / Re: Password box for protected 7zip archives shows entered symbols instead of "*"

« on: September 26, 2023, 11:10:45 »

Fixed in 2958+

113

Support and Feedback / Re: [MultiDataViewer] Ctrl+A in the "Find" field selects all text in the view area

« on: September 26, 2023, 11:10:29 »

Fixed in 2958+

114

Support and Feedback / Re: Cannot drag and drop emails from foxmail

« on: September 20, 2023, 12:52:04 »

No idea what foxmail is or what it does.. But MC support most drag'n'drop formats.. Don't know what special thing foxmail does that make it not work in MC.. that is strange..
Might be that it is its own special drop format and that they install a extension to windows for it to handle it..

115

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Support bitlocker password-protected drives

« on: September 20, 2023, 12:49:06 »

I don't think it possible to detect that.

116

Support and Feedback / Re: Find Files finds nothing when invoked a second time with a different search

« on: September 19, 2023, 14:49:54 »

I'm not able to reproduce that.. Can you describe step by step on how to reproduce that
Also look in the FileOperations log (Ctrl+L)  there you see what search rules it uses and where it searches

117

Support and Feedback / Re: Non-greedy dot is not supported

« on: September 14, 2023, 09:31:46 »

MC do not have its own regex engine. it is using the reqex engine that is included in C++. the option for the regex engine is set to be ECMA, but I don't know if they are any exception or if you need to write in other way.  What it support and not, I don't know. I got it to work with most pattern I tried but Im no regex expert. I don't understand what your are trying to so with the regex

118

Support and Feedback / Re: Slow speed transfer !!

« on: September 06, 2023, 17:00:14 »

As you see from the MC dialog it is the write speed that is slowing down the process.. Read speed is almost 300mb/s, Windows only show you the averge speed of something, probaboly a combination of both the read and write..

Why you got slow write speed is very hard to say. There are so many layers that the data goes via before they are written that can affect speed.
If you expand the 'copy to ' under advanced you got read/write stratergy,  there you can tweak buffers and chunksizes and if caches should be used or not.
security software may also cause issue, Some do not like unknown application doing file transfer and will do extra scanning of them.

119

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Open Source

« on: September 01, 2023, 15:36:18 »

No..  Why? 

120

Support and Feedback / Re: How to prevent folders from opening when dragging a file

« on: August 31, 2023, 07:56:06 »

Hi Mathias, unfortunately this is impossible for me. I have only one arm.
Too bad!

How is it impossible to NOT hold alt key. you do not to do anything extra for that ?
You wanted to avoid going into subfolders. it only does that if you hold alt key pressed..

I would suggest to skip mouse entirely and only use keyboard.. you can do almost everything faster with keyboard with commander styled setup.. (optimized for kb) and then you only need one hand..

121

Support and Feedback / Re: Wrong calculation of size after adding files/folders to the queue

« on: August 28, 2023, 11:43:00 »

Not been able to repoduce that. File size is check when queued.. If the filesize changes between then and when file is copied, the actual size copied then can be large then expected.

122

Support and Feedback / Re: Disable Paste from Clipboard into Explorer Panel

« on: August 28, 2023, 11:39:35 »

No

123

Support and Feedback / Re: xp version

« on: August 28, 2023, 11:38:33 »

https://multicommander.com/files/updates/MultiCommander_XP_win32_(9.8.0.2600).exe
https://multicommander.com/files/updates/MultiCommander_XP_win32_Portable_(9.8.0.2600).zip
https://multicommander.com/files/updates/MultiCommander_XP_x64_(9.8.0.2600).exe
https://multicommander.com/files/updates/MultiCommander_XP_x64_Portable_(9.8.0.2600).zip

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Support and Feedback / Re: How to prevent folders from opening when dragging a file

« on: August 28, 2023, 11:31:33 »

That is correct. But unfortunately not in the Explorer window.

In the explorer panel windows (filelist part). The folder you hover over is not auto opened unless you hold ALT key.

125

Support and Feedback / Re: How to disable preview?

« on: August 25, 2023, 18:36:31 »

Just don't enable preview..  Preview has to be enabled to be shown.. (Alt+Q / Shift+Alt+Q), so if you do not enable it. it will not show it