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Support and Feedback / Re: Zip performance
« on: March 26, 2024, 20:55:28 »
If you browse into the zip.. It will scan the zip so it can show all files from the zip..
When you add files to an existing zip. the same things is happening. It needs first to scan the zip
So you can see how long time it takes to open the zip if you browse into it. it will take the same before it can start to add files into it




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Support and Feedback / Re: Issue with search in MultiDataViewer
« on: March 26, 2024, 09:15:32 »
Might, maybe be fixed in version 14.x, Beta/Alpha should be available at the end of this month (march..)

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy to zip: unknown error 87
« on: March 25, 2024, 20:51:53 »
87 = generic invalid parameters error code message from Windows.
It can be anything Check log (Ctrl+L for more error info)

Try the other method I wrote in your other post..  Browse inside zip in target panel. and then go to source panel and copy from there.
If you just edit target path it is easy to miss enter the path so it is not added.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Zip performance
« on: March 25, 2024, 20:48:19 »
Not able to recreate that.
But if the file you add already exist and you are overwriting (removing and adding), then it must rebuild the entire zip.
Also if the zip is missing its content catalogue at the end of the file (depending on what is created it from the beginning). the entire file need to be parsed instead of just jump to end and add it

However MC is not optimized to update zip is fastest way, normally it is not a problem but if you got 200.000+ items in the root of the zip i can cause it to be slow. Zip is handled like a virtual filesytem, you can navigate into the zip as a volume.
Because of this the zip archive must load the entire zip before doing anything to it. and for each file you add it must check so the file do not already exists. and so on.

However there are some optimization added in the coming version. (14.x) It will load a large zip faster.. but it will still be slow.. The way zip is build, having 200k+ items in a zip is not optimal. I think 7Zip handles large number of files better.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy to Zip bug?
« on: March 25, 2024, 20:42:40 »
Not able to recreate your issue,
To add files to an existing zip you can browse into the zip in the target panel and then select the files to copy into the zip in the source panel

Or as you are doing..
edit the "copy files to..." field,  to like "D:\MyFolder\MyZip.zip\"  You must have the \ after the "zip" else it think you want to copy the file into that name, and not into a zip

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Support and Feedback / Re: Format big USB as FAT32?
« on: March 25, 2024, 10:02:35 »
Not currently. But if an external tool exists you can add a button for it easy in MC. Just drag it to the quick launch bar

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Support and Feedback / Re: description in column
« on: March 04, 2024, 10:38:51 »
Hi.
is there an option that I can add some text in one of the columns?
If it possible I want the usual columns and one that I can add text so the folder name will stay just a number.
I try to avoid this : "31001 - IEC" . I want to have a column for the folder name "31001" and a column for some text "XXXXXX" .
It will make the sorting easier.

So a column that will show the text from another column but only some specified subpart from it ?, No that is not possible
But might work in the future. I have some ide about a column that gets the content to show from a MultiScript. then you can create very custom strange columns

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Support and Feedback / Re: description in column
« on: March 03, 2024, 21:44:41 »
'Company' and some other meta data is only valid for .dlls and .exe files.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: advices
« on: February 24, 2024, 18:42:28 »
Like disabling swap, This is a cause of many crashes..
I always disable the swap file...

I guess dacidp88 is a chatbot.
Then I hope you at least have 20% free memory at all the time. :) Without a swap Windows cannot move stuff around in memory to free up large chunks if a program request a larger size of memory.. then you can cause a crash becuse of no memory even if you got several gigs free.. just becuse it did not find a large enough block free.  Also windows cannot use memory for caching as much.


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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: advices
« on: February 23, 2024, 23:59:33 »
Don't understand what you want to say? You got some specific issue ?

Important work is done first. But whats important for you might be different from what is important for another. Also my time is limited so I do prioritize what to work on.

Reproducing bug are a real pain and very hard because of many reason. First. It is very very hard to get a good bug report and description of what is happening, what they did and so on.  And also most people do not even report the bug. Then how do you expect it to get fixed. Just because something does not work for you. Does not mean it the same for everybody else.  Most likely it works for them.
The problem with Windows is that not two machines are a like, All peoples setup are different.
Version of Windows is very very very rarely and cause of a bug. It is very rare that somethings works in Win7 but fails on Win10.
Many issues are because of conflict is with other strange software installed (Specially ShellExtensions (the biggest mess in Windows and the cause of most crashes on Windows) or other software that hook them self in deep in Windows).
Or with strange tweaks into Windows. (Like disabling swap, This is a cause of many crashes..)

"your developers" Hmm there are no developers.. Only me and my spare time.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Quicklook - nearly works
« on: February 16, 2024, 18:19:32 »
I never used the PDF preview in Windows Explorer before, but I've tested this feature now and I have to say, it works, but it doesn't work in MC. Moreover, the crash without any crash report is repeatable; it takes 3-5 minutes, and then it crashes. The preview for images works.

I guess that it uses the FineReader WindowsPreviewHandler.  I have not have any issues with the default preview viewer that is provided by windows
However if you want to disable the pdf preview you can do it in preview customized and in the configuration for Pdf and office files.. remove the "*.pdf" file matching..

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Support and Feedback / Re: Quicklook - nearly works
« on: February 15, 2024, 06:07:58 »
crash report
There is no crash report because the MultiCommander instance is terminated without any message. The window closes, and the executable is terminated without any message. I have no preview software installed in Windows, and some services may be disabled. I use Adobe Reader and ABBYY FineReader for PDFs. It would be better for MultiCommander to operate independently and not rely on Windows features that may be disabled by users.
Maybe you turned it of. Becuse normally a crash report is sent and a dialog shown with a crash ID if MC is just terminated..

All windows have Preview software installed... A lot of them are built from microsoft. If you can show preview in Windows Explorer you have them installed, MC uses the same preview handlers..
Both AdobeReader and FineReader is normally installing its own Preview Handler for PDF.. So then MC is using that via the WindowsPreviewHandler API..

If MC would not use built in features would be a waste. Why invent the wheel again?.  It would also take enormous amount of extra work. Parsing and rendering for example PDF are a a very huge and complex task. It is a project that is as big as the rest of MC.
It is just really not possible.


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Support and Feedback / Re: Quicklook - nearly works
« on: February 13, 2024, 08:57:49 »
I think that the easiest way would be to allow external app in the preview setup.

Another way - events. Multiple times I wanted to suggest this feature but I'm not sure it's worth the efforts. The point is to allow executing scripts/UDC on certain events like MC start/exit, change file focus, opening/closing tabs, begin/end file operations etc. But I don't think it would be useful.
Also been think about some event system to hook into. However there are so many situation that cause issue. specially it depends on what the "script" would do.. And it is also hard to limit what script function can be used to avoid issue and so..
So so far nothing yet since it is very complicated to implement. and I'm not sure many will use it either.. so might be waste of time..

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Support and Feedback / Re: Quicklook - nearly works
« on: February 13, 2024, 08:39:59 »
QuickLook does not know when the focus of a file in MC changes.

Indeed, so my question is probably, "is there a way to politely request MC to pass that info to QL" - after all, many file managers manage to do it (Windows, but also many of the *Commander and a slate of others - see https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/wiki/File-Managers ). There may be profound technical reasons, of course, but at face value it does not sound implausible or unfeasible, I was wondering whether I had maybe overlooked an obvious setting.


Only FM that manage to do it is Windows. None of the other 3rd party filemanager can do that from what I see. Don't see any API for 3rd party tools
That it might work in Windows explorer is becuse I think they probably hook them self into the preview handler or into the shell.

I respectfully disagree. I just tested, and it does work in OneCommander (https://onecommander.com/). Now of course I have no idea how they do it.
OneCommander I never heard of. Might be built on top of Windows Shell.  But TC,FC , XY only support to view on command. eg https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/wiki/Total-Commander

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Support and Feedback / Re: Quicklook - nearly works
« on: February 12, 2024, 23:19:52 »
MC got its own preview panel, and there you can preview images/pdf and more insida a tab..
This does not work properly. All my PDFs are displayed as empty, and while testing, MultiCommander crashed and was killed. DXF files are also very important for the preview. It would be better to completely remove the feature, as it is not usable in its current state.

Strange . Works perfectly for me. previewing PDFs daily. but it depend on the PDF viewer.. might be some none default pdf preview handler that is installed that works differently.
PDF / Word / Excel and some other format are depend on that there is a Windows Preview Handler installed for that format. MC do not render them by it self
There is not any noticeably amount of crashes for the preview. So if a crash report is sent. let me know the crash id. and I can take a manual look.
Also if you have a WindowsPreviewHandler installed for DXF you need to add it to allowed file types for MC to pick it up.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Quicklook - nearly works
« on: February 12, 2024, 23:08:20 »
QuickLook does not know when the focus of a file in MC changes.

Indeed, so my question is probably, "is there a way to politely request MC to pass that info to QL" - after all, many file managers manage to do it (Windows, but also many of the *Commander and a slate of others - see https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/wiki/File-Managers ). There may be profound technical reasons, of course, but at face value it does not sound implausible or unfeasible, I was wondering whether I had maybe overlooked an obvious setting.


Only FM that manage to do it is Windows. None of the other 3rd party filemanager can do that from what I see. Don't see any API for 3rd party tools
That it might work in Windows explorer is becuse I think they probably hook them self into the preview handler or into the shell.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Quicklook - nearly works
« on: February 12, 2024, 18:57:53 »
QuickLook does not know when the focus of a file in MC changes.

MC got its own preview panel, and there you can preview images/pdf and more insida a tab.. That will update when focus changes. It might not be as extension av quicklook



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Support and Feedback / Re: Flashing
« on: February 10, 2024, 19:16:01 »
Here is a video demoing it. I am not sure either, I thought I would report it anyway, maybe some others users might have the same issue, they can follow up here.

It is really a minor issue. How often are your opening new tabs..  :) annoying yes. but does not really affect the functions. :)
Also, I cannot check why it is happening since I cannot reproduce it.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Flashing
« on: February 10, 2024, 10:07:34 »
I cannot recreate this.. And it is not the dubble buffer things, everything is drawn using that. That is standard.
The thing is that Windows do not really support darkmode of their old UI layer. and when a new window area is created. It is always white before it is redrawn. Normally there are no refresh of the UI between this. So you will not see it.
So not sure why it happening for you. Might be that you gfx card are too fast or something. I don't know. I cannot test it since I cannot recreate it

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How do I save the panel/tab widths to always be the same size when I open MC? I tried clicking on header to 'Save current layout as defaults'. Not working.
Also, have the 'Save on exit' ticked.
Also have the 'Remember split size between restarts' ticked. Not working.
It always opens in the same way, and I have to make the columns bigger.
Thanks.
The split size is not save if you totally or almost hide one of the panels.

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When  unzip and overwrite the original version, SessionConfig will overwrite the original configuration.
Don't do that. use the MultiUpdate tool to upgrade..

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Not sure what you mean ?

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Support for iso files
« on: January 29, 2024, 07:36:07 »
7Zip the program (their FileManager) and support for .7z algorithm are different.  MC support .7z files, the 7Zip algorithm.
ISO file are something totally different. it is a RAW image of a disk or CD/DVD.

But since Windows 7, you can just mount ISO file in Windows, and a drive letter is assigned to it, and any program can read from them.

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Alright, thanks for clarifying ! :D
P.S: I tested, it doesn't work on WAV. But that's O.K.
Right now MC only allow .mp3 files. so MC block any other file at the moment..  But I think the Windows Audio Engine support Wav.. But I have not checked what formats it supports yet.

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I Know..  it is haft there..
however File > Play audio works.. it wil play file mp3 file in focus..
but only for mp3 for now.. not sure if wav will work. using build in support for windows for it. Might be that Wav is also support. Have not checked yet

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