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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« on: September 01, 2025, 17:56:35 »

Not sure that can be changed.  MC is using 3rd party library for the SSH. So MC do not have full control over everything

102

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Free space in the interface.

« on: September 01, 2025, 16:26:06 »

no it is different bars.. But why not have a global drive bar instead then you don't need the one inside the explorer panel.

103

Support and Feedback / Re: Had lost the thumbnails

« on: September 01, 2025, 07:00:59 »

So you did not have tumbnails but fix it.. Okey good.. using Windows in settings is preferred. It support many more file formats for thumbnails.  Auto will select Windows by default if you are on Win8+
Using Internal. MC only cache thumbnails to memory. so a restart will clear cache. Why It first did not work for you I don't know. But thumbnail system can log all error and what it does to the logs and any error would have been outputed there.

104

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Russian 7zip and WiRAR.

« on: August 31, 2025, 10:01:27 »

Configuration > Manage Plugins and Extension.

And for FileSystem Extensions you can disbaled Rar and 7Zip

105

Support and Feedback / Re: Copy: rename and append greyed out

« on: August 12, 2025, 19:42:31 »

Yes

106

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: File extension switch on startup

« on: August 12, 2025, 14:14:46 »

You can enter a "view filter" in the filterbox at the bottom of the Explorer Panel (where total num of files and total selections are shown )
You can quick go to the filterbox with Ctrl+F and then enter '.exe' and the view will be filtered to only show files matching .exe

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy: rename and append greyed out

« on: August 12, 2025, 13:25:29 »

No there is no setting for that.
I think it is because it is a move on same disk it already entered into a rename operation so data is never copied. so then it cant append

108

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: We could have a better Keyboard Customization dialog.

« on: August 11, 2025, 11:45:49 »

Its planned to redo how that entire dialog works. But the entire keyboard customization system is also planned to be rewritten, and it will not happen before that is done.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Command reference and how to change keyboard shortcuts

« on: August 11, 2025, 11:44:16 »

Yes some are fixed and currenty can't be changed (current techinical reason).. The are reserved in customization so that you are not overriding them. causing conflicts.

But you can add new command that does it using User Defined Commands and custom Commands..
https://multicommander.com/Docs/customcommands_list#mc.explorer.sort
(Sort by column (num) or by column name)

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Support and Feedback / Re: Command reference and how to change keyboard shortcuts

« on: August 10, 2025, 14:35:06 »

You mean you want to move input focus to the command line field ? so you can type command into that ?
You can assign hotkey for that in "core" module.. "Change input focus to the commandline field"
you can also configure so it automatically switch to that if you start tying . with or without holding some modifier key like ctrl/alt.. that is done in explorer panel settings

And holding shift while export list to file in customized key. it will include the internal commands code for the commands.

Change key for sorting is currently not customizable.. But you can create a Custom Command what that calls MC.Explorer.Sort and then assign that command to the hotkey you want

111

Support and Feedback / Re: Have to restart MC to get Ftp working

« on: August 09, 2025, 09:55:46 »

What is not working.  does it not start ftp module at all.. does not connect?  tryies to connect but fails. ?  so many things that can be not working..

S3 hmm old system ? these days S3 should not affect network. but before S3 sleep was able to mess up network things..

112

Support and Feedback / Re: Search in subfolders that have a specific name/pattern

« on: July 30, 2025, 16:08:18 »

Maybe
In advanced search. You can add rules for Extended Properties.
And "Path" is a property. And you can add a Rule there for wildcard matching of the path "*/GOOD_*
And then you have *.json as the normal filename matching

113

Beta Releases / Re: 15.6 BETA

« on: July 29, 2025, 15:14:47 »

Thanks for the additional features Mathias. 

I think that the last update may have broken something in the MS execution. MC 15.6 b3110 x64 on Win11 24H2 b26100.4652
I get a ‘Cannot delete’ msg when attempting to delete or move files using my previously working scripts.
Stepping through in the debugger everything seems 100% until the delete command is reached, I tried with & without options & it always fails.
E.g.

Code: [Select]

@var $currentPath = GetSourcePath();
@var $Items = GetSourceItems(1);
@var $count = arrayCount($Items);
@var $curItem;
@var $fullFilename;
@var $array2[];

// Loop all items in the $Items array
for( $n = 0; $n < $count; $n++)
{
  $curItem = $Items[$n];
  $fullFilename = $currentPath ^ $curItem;
  @var $isMatch = StrIsRegExpMatchNoCase($fullFilename, "[a-z0-9]{30}");

  if($isMatch)
  {
      arrayAdd($array2, $curItem);
  }
}

@var $options[] = {"RECYCLE", "NODIALOG"};
DeleteFiles($array2, $options);
Breaks at last line with error msg (attached screenshot).

Any ideas?  Thanks!

Can you give me example on how filenames should be for the script to try to delete them ? so I can do some testing

114

Beta Releases / Re: 15.6 BETA

« on: July 23, 2025, 11:50:58 »

Image of VFG configuration

115

Support and Feedback / Re: How to change language in menu bar

« on: July 20, 2025, 22:28:30 »

Menu > Configuration > Core Settings
First option there is language

116

Support and Feedback / Re: How do I save session with updated stuff?

« on: July 18, 2025, 10:56:41 »

it is grey if a session is not load loaded

117

Support and Feedback / Re: How do I save session with updated stuff?

« on: July 17, 2025, 22:25:38 »

Make sure the tab session is loaded.. then you can do File > Tab Session > Save.. this updates the loaded tab with current
"Save As.. " will create a new tab session

118

Support and Feedback / Re: context scan menu

« on: July 13, 2025, 21:28:58 »

Im note sure I understand the issue. something with option in Shell ContextMenu.
Problem is that MC do not have much control over that. MC ask Windows for the Shell Context Menu. And it is up to the installed Shell Extension. Problem is that some of them assume that trey are called from Windows Explorer. and if not. they do not return any item for the menu. So.. MC have no control of 3rd party shell extensions

119

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: copy dialog colors in dark mode

« on: July 11, 2025, 13:48:18 »

You can customize the progressbar colors in CoreSettings > Colors

120

Support and Feedback / Re: Copy: rename and append greyed out

« on: July 07, 2025, 22:20:45 »

Normally they are enabled. But depends on device type of source and target volume

121

Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Restore window position as Total Commander does

« on: July 03, 2025, 07:47:46 »

There is no settings, can't be turned off.
When MC is closed it will save the Windows position to registry (ini file in sessionConfig for portable)
and when MC is started it will load and use that

122

Beta Releases / 15.6 BETA

« on: July 02, 2025, 14:44:23 »

  v15.6
 
  v15.6 ( Build 3119 ) - 2025-09-18

 90+ Changes

  ADDED - New Virtual Filesystem extension "VFG" (Virtual Folder Group) - Group many folders to one virtual device.
          Still Experimental and missing things.
          Check forum for more information before using it
  ADDED - Linked panel navigation. (Enable for active panel with Alt+L)
  ADDED - New AudioTool - MP3 Merger - Allow you to join multiple mp3 files into one big mp3 file
  ADDED - MultiScript function for handling Unzip
             UnzipToMemory(zipfile), UnZipCount(zipHandle), UnzipGetItemContent(zipHandle,index)
               UnzipGetItemSize(zipHandle,index), UnzipFindItem(zipHandle,filename, caseSensative), UnzipClose(zipHandle)
  ADDED - Holding CTRL key while pressing the Play Audio button and it will play "sample" of the audio file instead (25% into file for 10s)
  ADDED - Updated lots of the documentations.
  ADDED - FSSFTP - Added option to skip validation of KeyFile. if you want to try to force use it.
  ADDED - Unlock device dialog is shown when trying to access bitlocker encrypted device.
  ADDED - Language Editor can now generate a change report based on old language pack file.
  ADDED - Added text tool to Convert JSON file to compact / pretty format
  ADDED - MultiFileViewer can now show whitespaces
  ADDED - Copy file path to clipboard in Images Viewer (In right click popup menu)
  FIXED - Improved error handling when you get Access denied error during copy/move when running as administrator
  FIXED - Improved 'skip all' handling when copying/moving files files that are in use
  FIXED - FSSFTP - Fixed issue so it does not complain about TLS fingerprint for new sites
  FIXED - Close TabSession now work even if tabsession is autoloaded
  FIXED - AutoScaling options modified a bit to work better in Win11
  FIXED - Calling Copy/Delete from Script resulted in dialog showing Not Support operation
  FIXED - Change how some logging operations are done in VFG
  FIXED - FileOperationPlugin :ContentCopy - failed in some situations.
  FIXED - FileOperationPlugin :AutoSort - failed in some situations.
  FIXED - Backup of configuration missed some configuration files.   
  FIXED - Crash Issue after showing result from Picture action like Resize/Rotate/Convert.
  FIXED - TabSessionManager will now make sure menu system is loaded before loading the tab session. (Since this should be added to menu system)
  FIXED - Better error handling when opening a 7Zip that is using unsupported compression method
  FIXED - FileOperations Result dialog for auto handled errors are changed a bit to better show result.
  FIXED - Change some dialogs to use Windows Built in TaskDialog instead of Emulated version.
  FIXED - 15+ Stability issue
 

MultiScript Unzip methods

@var $z = UnzipToMemory( "D:\\Test.zip ");
@var $filesInZip = UnzipCount($z);
@var $itemSize = UnzipGetItemSize($z , 0 );
@var $content = UnzipGetItemContent($z , 0 );
@var $exists = UnzipFindItem($z, "File3.txt", 0);
UnzipClose($z);

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VFG - Virtual Folder Group
With VFG you can configuration can group 2 or more folders into a virtual folder that are accessed by VFG0: to VFG9:
What you see when you brose to the VFG0: is either the content of the folder that you configured as primary or an aggregation of all folders.
If it aggregate the contents it will not show duplicates.. If file 1.txt is located in folder1 and 2.txt is folder2  the VFG0: will show 1.txt and 2.txt

If you copy files FROM the VFG#: it will read the file from the Primary folder if the file is located there. else it will take the next one folder configured.
If you copy a file TO the VFG#: it will write the file to *ALL* locations that are configured as writeable.
If you delete a file it will be deleted from all locations in the group.

To configure it go to
Menu > Configuration > FileSystem Plugin Settings > "FS-Virtual Folder Groups"


Right now the error handling is not 100% correct.
So please report issues, when it fails, what you think is missing and so on. I really need you feedback if this is usable for you and want features around it you need.

If you show the shell context menu on a VFG item. YOu have a VFG submenu where you can see status and also sync file from primary to the other.

BTW.. VFG will also create its own Log Window so you can see exactly what it does..   Show log using Ctrl+L and there will popup a tab for the device when it is used

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Support and Feedback / Re: tabs in dark mode

« on: July 01, 2025, 22:29:40 »

Script for what ? 

But the colors are saved with the tab info in the registry (for portable version in the SessionConfig folder) So you might be able to script it

REG:\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MultiCommander\SessionHistory\a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0\AutoLoad\[0...#]

If a tab has customized colors the following keys are there
TabColorTextInactive
TabColorText
TabColorBkInactive
TabColorBk

Have the colors..

124

Support and Feedback / Re: tabs in dark mode

« on: July 01, 2025, 13:26:13 »

No you have to change the inactive tab color too as I wrote.

Click the dropdown box above the checkboxes that say "Active tab" switch that to "Inactive tab", Now you can define the color the tab should use when the tab is inactive.
Tabs have two colors. one for when tab is active and one of then it is inactive. normally you set them to similar but a little different to quickly see that the tab is active or not.

125

Beta Releases / Re: 15.5 Beta

« on: July 01, 2025, 11:40:41 »

The restoration of window size has changed since the last beta version. "Restore" works exactly once to bring windows that did not appear on the taskbar onto the taskbar, and the second time the windows remain in limbo. Previously, with Autosizer, I only had to set the window size and position once, and for subsequent system starts, I used the restore function. Now, this only works for one system start, and the next time the windows end up in limbo again and can only be retrieved with the setup of position and size. So now I have to change the configuration of Autosizer every second system start.

So it works in previous version ? Sure ? because absolutely nothing about how that works is changed, nothing about how this work has changes for many many versions.. years even.

"Autosizer" ? 3rd party tool ? why you need that for MC.? what does it to ?
Maybe autosizer been updated and does not handle it correct.. 
Win 10 ? 11 ? Maybe some system update..

How would I reproduce it ? start minimized to tray or something ? or some other configuration that affect windows size/pos ?