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Support and Feedback / [Issue] New File Viewer is not opened if a previous one shows some modal message

« on: February 03, 2026, 09:14:03 »

1. View a file (F3)
2. Search (Ctrl+F) for non-existing text to get error window
3. View some other file.

Result: file is not opened for viewing.

I don't know whether it is a bug or by design, but it's a bit unexpected.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Make Ctr+C/Ctrl+V (Ctrl+Ins/Shift+Ins) work in Search results panel

« on: January 27, 2026, 12:35:36 »

Please make copy/paste work for the files/folders in Search results panel. I mean when you Ctrl+C on a file in a file panel and then Ctrl+V in other panel, the file is copied. But it doesn't work for Search Results panel.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / History for "File content" field in the Find Files

« on: March 17, 2025, 20:19:11 »

It would be very helpful (for me). Maybe with the adjustable depth.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Add shortcut for Find Previous in MultiDataViewer

« on: March 03, 2025, 09:08:36 »

Shift+F3 seems to be the standard for "Find previous" action. Please add it to the MDV.

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Support and Feedback / [Issue] MultiDataViewer: Find next only works at second try after Find Previous

« on: March 03, 2025, 09:04:24 »

1. Find some text (which occurs multiple times) in a file
2. Find next several times
3. Now Find Previous.

Result: selection immediately jumps to the previous result

4. Now Find next

Result: nothing happens

5. Find next again

Result: now selection jumps to the next result

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Support and Feedback / [Issue] Unable to go to the root of virtual device/folder in the file list

« on: March 02, 2025, 09:35:39 »

I'm unable to go to the root of virtual device/folder in the file list. Look at the pics attached. If I press ENTER or double click on the [..] item, nothing happens. So for the "Portable" I can't return to the "WPD:\LG Wine Smart", and for the "Registry" -- to the "REG:\HKEY_USERS"

However, "Go to root" action (button or shortcut) works. MC v15.1.3074 x64 Portable, Win 11 Pro

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Support and Feedback / [Issue] Copy file: unhandled error

« on: February 27, 2025, 16:06:12 »

1. Copy any file to some directory
2. Try to copy the same file to the same directory (using F5)
3. When MC asks what to do (skip/rename/overwrite etc) choose Rename
4. In rename dialog press [Cancel]


Result: error appears or copy dialog stucks for a while (happened only once)

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Support and Feedback / [Issue] MultiDataViewer word wrap is broken

« on: February 17, 2025, 20:45:23 »

Just look at the screenshots attached.

1. It wraps when it's unnecessary
2. It doesn't wrap when it's necessary
3. Hyperlinks are wrapped incorrectly: the upper part of the link is highlited and treated as hyperlink while the lower part is excluded from highliting and the actual URL-address.

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Support and Feedback / [Issue] MultiDataViewer strips spaces from Find and Highlight patterns

« on: January 30, 2025, 09:07:59 »

Example file:

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.test test  testtest
Try to find and/or highlight "     test     " (with spaces, without quotes).

P.S. It seems that Copy/Paste shortcuts (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+Ins, Shift+Ins) don't work in teh Find and Highlight fields.

MC v14.5.3054 x64, Win 10 Pro

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Support and Feedback / Issue with file search

« on: November 29, 2024, 14:38:25 »

I've created a User Defined Command:

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MC.FileSearch.Search SEARCHFOR=*.txt AUTOSTART HIDE SEARCHIN="c:\temp\22";"c:\temp\33\"
and inserted it to the QuickLaunch bar. The following is 100% reproducible for me.

0. There must be some txt files in "c:\temp\22" and "c:\temp\33\" folders.
1. Press the newly created button
2. Close the results Tab
3. Then change path. It may require several attempts

Results:
1. Explorer panel Settings look ugly (see pic)
2. Some item in the file list randomly becomes blanc. Refreshing the tab randomly replaces some oter item with a blanc line. Navigation via cusror keys can't skip that line. (see gif)


MC v14.3.3042 x64 Portable on Win10 x64 Pro

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Support and Feedback / [Issue] Drives toolbar is active even when disabled

« on: November 22, 2024, 14:24:38 »

I've disabled Drives toolbar, it is hidden, but its button still work (they actually change current drive) and their hints are displayed (see pic)

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Support and Feedback / [Issue] Checksum calculation fails, MC can't be closed

« on: June 19, 2024, 13:03:20 »

For some file invoke MC context menu > File Checksum > Calculate checksum value from file.
Calculation never ends, operation can't be aborted and MC can't be closed (it freezes). File size doesn't matter.

MC v14.0.3016 x64 portable, Win 10 x64 Pro 22H2 build 19045.4529

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Support and Feedback / Issue with search in MultiDataViewer

« on: March 14, 2024, 14:12:21 »

I have a txt-file with mixed cyrillic/english text in ANSI encoding. In MDV if I search for cyrillic word, nothing is found. Case dosen't matter. I basically copy some cyrillic text, paste it in the Find field, press Enter and get "No more found". Search for english text works OK.

If I open this file in Windows Notepad, search for cyrillic text works fine. If in Notepad I save this file as UTF-8 or UTF-16, then in MultiDataViewer search works, but only if case matches, so e.g. search for "станислав" can't find "Станислав" even with disabled [Match case] option.

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Support and Feedback / [Bug] Tab key doesn't work after moving Explorer tab to the opposite panel

« on: February 26, 2024, 15:01:22 »

1. Move some tab to the opposite panel
2. Press Tab key

Result: Focus doesn't move to the opposite panel. Moreover, if the preeceding panel was not previously opened it is opened empty (see gif)

3. Click mouse in the opposite panel to activate it
4. Press Tab again

Result: the opposite panel is activated but no file/folder is not focused. This only seems to work on fresh MC start.

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Support and Feedback / [Issue] MC hangs after closing Multiscript debugger (in certain cases)

« on: October 23, 2023, 21:04:42 »

1. Open Multiscript debugger
2. Invoke some function which waits for user response (e.g. AskText);
3. Close Multiscript debugger
4. Close dialog box shown by AskText

Result: MC freezes.

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Support and Feedback / [Multiscript issue] FileExists() returns 0 for some existing files

« on: October 11, 2023, 19:22:16 »

I've enabled hidden/system files showing, so they're displayed in the explorer panels and can be obtained via MultiScript function GetSourceItems().

But there're some files like e.g. pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys which "don't exist" for the FileExists() function. It means that function returns 0. I consider it a bug. As long as they exist in the filesystem and MC is able to "see" them, they should as well be visible to FileExists() function (and to others possibly affected).

Win 10/11, MC v13.1.2955

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Support bitlocker password-protected drives

« on: September 20, 2023, 08:24:32 »

I have a bitlocker password-protected drive. When I connect and try to access it via MC, nothing happens. When I try to access it via Windows Explorer, Bitlocker password dialog appears. After unblocking the drive becomes available in MC.

Is it possible to add this behaviour to MC?

1. Attempt to access a drive
2. Invoke password dialog
3. If unblocked -> show drive contents

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

« on: September 19, 2023, 07:41:46 »

I've created a password-protected *.7z archive via 7z File Manager (official GUI).

When I enter such archive and try to copy some file via F5, password dialog appears which shows entered symbols instead of "*"

If I don't enter an archive but unpack it via Alt+F6, password dialog shows "*"

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I've also created a password-protected *.zip archive via 7z File Manager (official GUI).

When I enter such archive and try to copy some file via F5, password dialog appears. If I press Esc, password dialog reappears.

If I don't enter an archive but unpack it via Alt+F6, password dialog is correctly closed via Esc and is not reshown.

MC v13.1.2955 x64 Portable

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

« on: August 13, 2023, 14:22:39 »

1. Enable hover preview
2. Move the mouse over some pdf file and wait for preview to appear

Results:

• preview window can't be closed neither by Esc nor by moving the mouse over other files (even in the opposite panel);
• it stays on top even after switching to other application;
• it disappears after closing the tab (Ctrl+W);
• after closing the tab Hover Preview no longer works for that panel (but still works for the opposite one).

P.S. I haven't changed the settings. Just updated MC from the previous version and left everything "as is".
P.P.S MC v13.1 b2955, Win 11 x64

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

« on: August 13, 2023, 14:05:08 »

1. Open some txt file in MDV
2. Type some text in the "Find" field
3. Press Ctrl+A

Expected: all the text in the "Find" field is selected
Result: all the text in the view area is selected

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Multiscript StrSplit improve

« on: December 09, 2022, 14:37:47 »

Now delimiter param in StrSplit function is used as a single separator. It means that the following code will not split input string

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@var $str = "123,|456;|,789";
@var $arr = StrSplit($str, ";|,");
I request additional optional param like any_char (0/1):
- with the value 0 the function would have current behaviour;
- with the value 1 the character of the delimiter which has the lowest index in the input string would be used as a delimiter (so in the code above it would be "," char)
- with the value 2 the first found char of the delimiter would be used as a delimiter (so in the code above it would be "|" char)

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Support and Feedback / MultiScript: CopyFile - How to copy to the same dir with the new name?

« on: December 08, 2022, 16:30:22 »

I want to copy some file to the same dir with a new name (manually specified, no autorename). But CopyFile function accepts only path as a target param.

Is it somehow possible to achieve the goal? If no, maybe enhance CopyFile with an additional param or implement a new function CloneFile?

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Support and Feedback / [Issue] MC.Utils.FindAndReplace and OVERWRITE param

« on: December 08, 2022, 14:05:12 »

I have the following UDC:

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MC.Utils.FindAndReplace REPLACEALL MODE="Many" FIND="fff\nddd" REPLACEWITH="zzz\naaa" FILE="d:\\temp\\1.txt" TARGET="*_new.*" SILENT OVERWRITE
It works if target file doesn't exist and doesn't work otherwise


UPD. It seems that TARGET param doesn't support direct file names. I.e. if TARGET="d:\\temp\\1_new.txt" it doesn't work. Mask works OK.

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Support and Feedback / [Issue] QuickLaunch Bar and User Defined Commands list

« on: December 08, 2022, 14:00:55 »

1. Create new User Defined Command
2. Right click on the QuickLaunch Bar and select "Insert User Defined command"

Result: there's no newly created command in the list. MC restart required

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Relative paths in QuickLaunch Customization

« on: December 08, 2022, 13:54:00 »

Now only Program Path parameter has [R] button to convert path to relative. It woud be great to have the same for Start Folder and Alternative Icon parameters. Actually relative paths are already supported, but it's a bit inconvenient to change Alt. Icon manually via xml-file