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Beta Releases / Re: 15.7 BETA

« on: Yesterday at 22:13:06 »

MC does not remember the toolbar settings, and if you disable all toolbars in the settings – not under View – it does remember that, but the space where the toolbars would normally appear is still shown and not used for the explorer panels.

Might be that the soft disable state is not loaded. (enable/disable from menu and not from config)

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Beta Releases / 15.7 BETA

« on: Yesterday at 12:49:24 »

MAJOR RESTRUCTING OF CODE. IF SOME THAT WORKED BEFORE IS NOT WORKING, PLEASE REPORT IT

  v15.7 ( build 3123 )

  -- 3123 - 2025-12-04
  FIXED - Saving of tabs to remember got deleted after they was saved during shutdown of MC.

  -- 3122 - 2025-12-04
  CHANGE- Major code cleanup and restructing of codebase for core parts of MultiCommander
  ADDED - Video properties from MCVideoTool extension will now refresh there cached value if force refresh is called for
  ADDED - Improved logging in FSSFTP when it fails to connect
  ADDED - Exteneded logging for drop file operation to be able to figure how why it does not work when it fails
  ADDED - Startup can now be configured to not load things in parallel. (Slower but might slow startup issues)
  ADDED - Extended column that show real filesize for compressed and spare files
  FIXED - Issue when opening archive (zip/7z/rar) on network path ( eg \\Sever\Share\file.zip ), It was not always closed correctly after use
  FIXED - So that Alias editor does not save the filtered view after sorting columns.
  FIXED - 8 possible stability issues

Know Issues
 * This version will not start on Windows 7 since Microsoft have dropped Win7 support for their new build tools.
   Might be able to create a workaround.

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Support and Feedback / Re: [CRITICAL BUG] All Aliases Filtered In Narrowed-Down Search Are Lost When Sorted

« on: Yesterday at 06:16:39 »

Yes is fixed for next released

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Support and Feedback / Re: Error 59 in Multi-Commander

« on: December 03, 2025, 22:41:39 »

Was there any additional information in the log windows (Ctrl+L) ?
Not much information to go on. can be an error when reading file. or writing it. or something else..

That error code comes most likely from Windows.
Windows Error Code 59 is - "An unexpected network error occurred."

So sounds like some strange network issue that happen sometimes.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: [Bug] "Show new replies to your posts" is broken

« on: December 02, 2025, 17:10:44 »

That I can't do anything about..  The forum software is what it is. Should need upgrade to 2.1+ But it is not a quick upgrade.  everything need to be reinstalled and data restored.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: MC sends user to web help that does not exist

« on: December 02, 2025, 17:08:43 »

Creating documentation pages is boring. and takes very long time.  and with very little time to spend on MC things..  I have prioritized other things. 
BUT I have it on my list. So.. someday..  or maybe when AI gets a little better it can do it for me

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Script / Re: MultiScript For Recursively Deleting Files Inside Folder (incl. SubDirectories)?

« on: November 15, 2025, 10:01:09 »

I don't have a script that does that now. I will check later if I have one that scan filesystem. It a bit complex. need to use function. and call function for each folder recursivly.

I had something that generated pdf before but it stopped working after webpage redesign and I had not had time to look into it.
but all documentation is available on github. at https://github.com/MultiCommander/MultiCommander-Documentation 

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Support and Feedback / Re: How to disable Multi Commander an update is available

« on: November 15, 2025, 09:05:59 »

If it hangs for you.. Maybe you should send in a dumpfile when it happens, else there is almost no chance of it being fixed.
https://multicommander.com/Docs/troubleshooting-hang

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Support and Feedback / Re: Show Video codec

« on: November 14, 2025, 06:40:02 »

That would require that MediaInfo code to be Including in MC , Problem is that than MC then will grow with over 200% in size. just to be able to get codec info. And that is not happening.

If you install some 3rd party tool that can show it in Windows Explorer you can use MultiScript to get the information from Windows Shell with "GetFileProp(..)"  Problem is to find what the prop name is, should be documented on the 3rd party tools website.

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Script / Re: MultiScript For Recursively Deleting Files Inside Folder (incl. SubDirectories)?

« on: November 12, 2025, 08:12:02 »

There is no CustomCommand named "Delete"

MC.FileSystem.Delete - https://multicommander.com/Docs/customcommands_list#mc.filesystem.delete

and for MultiScript DeleteFile and DeleteFiles
https://multicommander.com/Docs/multiscript/functions/filesystem#deletefile
https://multicommander.com/Docs/multiscript/functions/filesystem#deletefiles

If you just what to delete special files. Than use MultiScript. enumerate folder and delete a found file/folder that match criteria for deletion.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Show Video codec

« on: November 11, 2025, 08:48:28 »

MC do not currently support getting metadata about codec from video files

If you can extract that information using MultiScript. (calling some external tool to get it or something)
Then you can create a scriptable file property and have it be shown in a column.

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Support and Feedback / Re: [HELP] Dynamic File Extension-Based Execution Script (Possible Implementation ?)

« on: November 03, 2025, 15:01:07 »

I got AI to generate valid MultiScript. But you need to make sure the AI knows how MultiScript works firsts.
Like either linking to all the pages and examples on the documentation page or copy and paste that information into a document that you include to the LLM.

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Support and Feedback / Re: [HELP] Dynamic File Extension-Based Execution Script (Possible Implementation ?)

« on: November 03, 2025, 14:41:52 »

I think it should be possible.. what error do you get?

Maybe start with checking just one file extension , one if/else part then then build it up with more..


Hm "elseif" I dont think is supported..  I think it must be "else if"  two words
and Boolean operator like || is not supported..
Create a method that return true/false..  and in that you check for wanted extensions..

function IsTextFile($ext)
{
  if( $ext == "txt" ) { return true; }
  if( $ext == "nfo" ) { return true; }
  if( $ext == "cfg" ) { return true; }
  return false;
 }

if( IsTextFile($ext) )
{
  // open as text file
}

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Support and Feedback / Re: attempt to change a button on button panel

« on: November 03, 2025, 14:35:40 »

That error is actually shown if it fails to delete the current file. It need to delete it before it can save the new.
Might be that the file has readonly attributes or file permissions that prevent its

If installed
C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\MultiCommander\Config\MultiButtons.xml

if portable version it is in the Config/MultiButtons.xml 

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Support and Feedback / Re: attempt to change a button on button panel

« on: November 03, 2025, 12:08:52 »

Any error in the app log when you do it  ? (ctrl+L)

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Support and Feedback / Re: Show differences between folders incl subfolders?

« on: October 31, 2025, 09:39:01 »

There is no visual compare difference things in MC.
Only that it compares two folders and select matching or none matching files based on rules.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Bug 2025: all files and folders in the current folder randomly become duplicated

« on: October 29, 2025, 07:21:31 »

Becuase it is not reproduceable
It is probably a timing issue or something when the filesystem changes while it is already updating it or something. There are locks so this should not happen but look like on some system it can happen anyway some rare times.
But never been able to reproduce it.

A Force fresh should fix it, F2/F5 (depending on key setup)

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Support and Feedback / Re: [BUG] Find Files DialogBox Bottom UI Cropped Out/Missing Elements (Text/Buttons)

« on: October 20, 2025, 09:43:55 »

OMG.. it that what WindowBlinds does to the UI. So hard to view..

I can see if I can change the sizes.. But only if it does not mess up the normal view..

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filter Folder with Last Name, First Name

« on: October 20, 2025, 09:40:53 »

I don't really understand. You can explain it with more information so I would be able to test..

You mean in the "view filter" that filter out items in current view ? or do you mean file search ?

And you mean that you got filenames like "Smith, Arnold.txt" or how do the filename looks like

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Support and Feedback / Re: giberish tilte - Multicommander VS win explorer

« on: October 20, 2025, 09:20:37 »

MC do support Unicode, So all language should be supported.. I don't think there are some special thing that is needed for just hebrew, It should be covered in the Unicode standard.
Might be that outlook does not send it as unicode Then the conversion should be based on the language set by the OS.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / MOVED: changing drives

« on: October 20, 2025, 08:38:47 »

This topic has been moved to Support and Feedback.

https://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php?topic=5066.0

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Support and Feedback / Re: changing drives

« on: October 20, 2025, 08:38:32 »

Explorer panel settings > Layout (tab)
Under "User Interface Components" you have the device dropdown list. There you can turn of "Remember last accessed subpath"

But you can also go to root with Ctrl+Backspace (or go to root icon button)

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Support and Feedback / Re: What are your experiences with the PDF Preview?

« on: October 13, 2025, 11:47:15 »

PDF preview in MC is using the Windows Shell PreviewHandler (IPreviewHandler interface).
So the preview is dependend on what PDF preview handler that is installed.. It is only tested and verified with the build in viewer in Windows

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Support and Feedback / Re: Linked Navigation

« on: October 10, 2025, 12:47:48 »

Yes it navigates into same folders in both views.
Alt+L toggle it on and off

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Support and Feedback / Re: How Do I Make A Color Profile Default ?

« on: October 08, 2025, 10:49:17 »

I don't understand how it can fail for you. Is the other color profiles not even shown in the dropdown menu on the toolbar ?

The other Color Profiles are indeed listed in the dropdown menu in Color Profile Editor, however they don't stay/ retain as the chosen item or trigger. The listed item just reverts to "[Default]" everytime I re-open the Color Profile Editor (they don't get deleted or anything if that's what you mean.).

Also remember when I said the "Name Ext Size Date" Column bar changes size, it's happening a lot lately, wish there was a way to Lock it !

No not "dropdown menu in Color Profile Editor," The dropdown.. when you click on the colorwheel icon on the main toolbar.. where you select what color rule to activate..

Dont remember the column issue.. But I have not seen any issue with column.. for me they are always the same.. and never changes. I have auto-fit column to view width active and then I just set the sizes of the column and save that. then only the name column will expand or shrink depending on how large the window is. the other will use the set width