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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.4.x Issues

« on: August 06, 2016, 15:07:53 »

MC do not hook it self into Explorer or any parts of Windows so I don't think this is the fault of MC.

Have you installed/reinstall some ShellExtension ? that are a common cause to crashes. Because then you got 3d party code hooking it self into Explorer..
and even into MC.

MC is the only *known* install/software change within the last fortnight.  I didn't think it would be MC but just double checking.
I am quite strict with the AV/FW on what is allowed, & stuff silent installing 'should' be sandboxed automatically.  Nothing is 100% of course.
Win has settled down today - so I have to go back to M$ - the usual suspect.   

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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.4.x Issues

« on: August 05, 2016, 14:43:04 »

2233 continues to behave....but
I've seen this twice today - coincidence?  winsock vs updater?

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Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
  Application Name: Explorer.EXE
  Application Version: 6.1.7601.19135
  Application Timestamp: 56a1bbe2
  Fault Module Name: mswsock.dll
  Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.23451
  Fault Module Timestamp: 573365e8
  Exception Code: c0000005
  Exception Offset: 00000000000013a3
  OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
  Locale ID: 2057
  Additional Information 1: 19ac
  Additional Information 2: 19ac82dd26a7c5093f1a1740ce191211
  Additional Information 3: ec76
  Additional Information 4: ec76ed24576236f57830e708bf4e8e69

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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.4.x Issues

« on: August 05, 2016, 14:37:51 »

My focus is where it is supposed to be.

Wasn't "focus" one of your problems with the previous release, too   

If you didn't delete so many folders, Mathias would not have to work so hard on his vacation

Exactly!   

204

Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.4.x Issues

« on: August 04, 2016, 18:24:51 »

OK I'm trying to do too many things at once (f3 is search...)  I meant multi-rename - which is in the same dropdown menu so I confused everyone! 

I am now trying it with 2233b & it is all good so far.  My focus is where it is supposed to be.

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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.4.x Issues

« on: August 04, 2016, 18:10:31 »

OK thanks for the details & explanation Mathias. 

I was referring to the rename dialog - eg via f3 (which I have assigned to a button)
Inline rename stays in focus.


Grabbing the 2233beta now - 4-7kb - dialup dayz are back
Maybe time to mirror to something like 1drive or ggl drive?  Not sure on security/usage implications tho.

PS I can see how the changes on the filesystem + scanning can cause a domino effect.  Good times!

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Beta Releases / Multi Commander 6.4.x Issues

« on: August 04, 2016, 13:44:42 »

Just grabbed 6.4.3 b2232 (w7 x64)
I find that if I delete a folder the hi-lite bar jumps to the top of the window ".."rather than the old behaviour of going to the next item shown.  Bit annoying to be scrolling around when you have more than 50 folders

I noticed the d/l was very slow - serverside issue?  Or just overloaded?  Took 3 tries over about 40 minutes to eventually get the file.  Took more than 10mins to actually transfer.  Unusual!  .....Sorry, but I was desperate to see the latest build!!   

Thanks Mathias.

****
I've found something else that is possibly related.
On selecting a file & opening rename the focus hi-lite can also jump to ".." sometimes.
This causes the rename dialog to open without any files being present in it.   

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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.4 BETA/RC

« on: July 26, 2016, 11:58:41 »

Thanks for the reply Mathias
Having rebooted the PC it now seems less likely to 'spring' to a new size when accessing sub-folders etc.
I was also able to drag the columns back to the way I'd had them previously without them springing to a different width when I released the mouse-button.
I saved the layout as default & it is behaving now.
Guess Windoze wanted to mess me around!

208

Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.4 BETA/RC

« on: July 25, 2016, 11:50:16 »

Using b2215 on w7x64 I am seeing a bit of weirdness on the column sizing, often when I apply a filter.
I normally use detailed view & have the columns at a fixed width per type.

They now seem to suddenly auto-size to different widths to my default setting, but not always.
This is very noticeable with the size & date columns.
I also see that 'autoresize' is greyed out on the right-click menu for column settings.

Just me or is something else occurring?

.....& Thanks for the update Mathias.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Folder Sizes Not Calculated if Any File/Folder Selected

« on: June 27, 2016, 14:01:22 »

Yes files already show sizes, & I am mad. 

I was trying to get MC to act as AlanJB described, & I thought I saw what he was saying was different to what I expect when I use MC file/folder size calc.

What I did was look at the hi-lited block & how it responds to the <Shift+Alt+Return> instruction.
I haven't really made that clear to myself at time of writing  

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Folder Sizes Not Calculated if Any File/Folder Selected

« on: June 25, 2016, 12:39:02 »

Always worked for me as Mathias said.
If you have something selected & hit <space> or use the folder+KB icon, the selection returns a size.
If you have nothing selected & hit <Shift+Alt+Return> everything returns its' size.

What happens when I select something & use <Shift+Alt+Return> is interesting though

EG:- in a dir with 7 folders & 15 files -
1 - select some files - 5 of 15 & hit <Shift+Alt+Return> = all 15 files are calculated
2 - select some folders - 3 of 7 & hit <Shift+Alt+Return> = 3 folders + all 15 files are calculated

The way MC differentiates between folders & files for a mixed selection in these cases of calculation is not something I noticed before as I always select something or nothing.

Nice find AlanJB

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Find Dialog mods

« on: June 14, 2016, 11:49:19 »

Thanks Mathias.
Yes the big 'clear' button was too big for me to notice

I look forward to the 'content' field specific button.
My normal way of searching means I may enter a long string of terms in there, & only need to fast clear them as the dir & file.ext remain the same.

Always fun to see your additions to MC.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Find Dialog mods

« on: June 12, 2016, 11:28:34 »

Wondering if it would be possible to add a couple of things to the find dialog some time.

• When the 'Find Content' field is full from a previous use, a 'clear' button would be helpful in addition to the Regex tester button.
• On the 'Load/Save' filters tab, the option to modify or update an existing entry.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Multiple Instances of the 64 Bit Edition slows the Computer down

« on: May 23, 2016, 11:38:51 »

I have seen gfx cards & drivers cause these kind of problems in the past.
Sometimes it is down to the way the driver calls overlays when it is drawing the dialog.

It is really annoying because the drivers keep changing behavior when they are updated, if the manufacturer doesn't note the problem.  You have to find a 'good' version, which can take forever.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Multiple Instances of the 64 Bit Edition slows the Computer down

« on: May 22, 2016, 10:26:10 »

FYI I have MC running almost every second my system is on.
I run games, utils, encode video, edit documents with MS office etc etc.
MC is always transparent & seems to have no impact on performance.

If I was seeing as many strange issues as you are, I would be checking the hardware (corrupt or damaged HDD, RAM flaky etc) & running a verification on the Win install -
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_10-update/system-file-check-sfc-scan-and-repair-system-files/bc609315-da1f-4775-812c-695b60477a93

& making sure Win update patches are up to date + checking for virus activity.

Try things like Memtest www.memtest86.com & your HDD manufacturers test software & see if anything shows up.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Adobe Reader end of Full Screen View go to MultiCommander

« on: May 21, 2016, 11:47:56 »

I use MC to open pdfs every day.
Absolutely no problems of any kind.
I can use full screen or window & no changes to window stacking or tiling occur.  Acrobat stays on top.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Individually packing files within in nested folders?

« on: May 19, 2016, 12:13:25 »

Yes each into a zip but remaining in the source (nested) folders.

When using the search panel I hadn't realized that a button & script would still interact 

I will give it a shot with MS, thanks Mathias.

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Support and Feedback / Individually packing files within in nested folders?

« on: May 18, 2016, 22:27:09 »

I'm wondering how easy it would be to use the packer function to pack nested files & maintain the folder structure.
i.e.

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folder 1
.\file abc.ext
.\folder 2
..\file def.ext
..\folder 3
...\file ghi.ext
packer would zip the files in place, writing output  to source -

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folder 1
.\file abc.ext
.\file abc.zip
.\folder 2
..\file def.ext
..\file def.zip
..\folder 3
...\file ghi.ext
...\file ghi.zip
I wondered if this would be possible via 'flat-view', where I would select the files required & use the packer to pack & output to source.

My first attempt didn't work so now I'm thinking about script or CC, but I can see there may be a lot of variables for me to cover. 

I know flatview is still experimental, maybe this is something that 'should' work in the future?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filter + Custom commands broken?

« on: May 16, 2016, 11:53:00 »

Thanks, that was pretty much what I concluded Mathias. 
I could see in that example, that the script would need some way of pausing & waiting for the external program to complete before stepping forward.  I had not searched to see if that kind of function was available.
So I decided it might work, it might not, but ultimately in this case better to stick to MS so I have things all synchronized.

I still have the idea that I need to be able to write great scripts like Jungle

Sorry for dragging you away from Eurovision Mathias 

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filter + Custom commands broken?

« on: May 15, 2016, 13:02:56 »

Thanks Mathias.
I was wondering about interconnectivity & your explanation makes it much clearer to me - the consideration of depth/layer at which these operate is something I am aware of. But I wasn't absolutely clear.  Maybe now fewer headaches for me.

Theoretically I could write a MS script that
selects zips (MS)
calls 7zip to extract & overwrite all older items (ext cmd)
selects zips (MS)
deletes the zips (CC)

I do not need to use a CC or external command but in that instance it should be possible.
I assume that that set of instructions could be improved by using MS alone & I can also try adding custom filters to the script via FilterLoadById.


Thanks Jungle ,I had been thinking of custom filters.  In the example above that could easily allow me select zips from a certain date or size perhaps. 


MC has become a hobby now, a toolbox to play with.  As usual I am trying to see ways of using these new features a) that are immediately useful to me & b) that are something I can play around with.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filter + Custom commands broken?

« on: May 14, 2016, 11:00:57 »

Thanks guys.
I had tried with & without ;
As there have been a lot of additions to MultiScript in the last few months, I wanted to be sure that I wasn't missing something related to the script & custom commands.

I intend to try & put together a script at some point. 
To what degree must MultiScript, Custom Commands & calling external programs, all be 100% discrete.  (for making a button)
IIRC there is some leeway. 
I will experiment & create a few headaches... 

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filter + Custom commands broken?

« on: May 13, 2016, 13:15:25 »

so should

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MC.Explorer.Selection.Select FILTER="*.zip;*.rar"
MC.Filesystem.Deleteor

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MC.Explorer.Selection.Select FILTER="*.zip;*.rar"MC.Filesystem.Deletework?

Sorry I'm double checking as I'm wondering about syntax now.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filter + Custom commands broken?

« on: May 13, 2016, 13:06:31 »

Ahh OK thanks Mathias.
That explains it!
Hadn't been connecting the dialog state to the custom command creation.  I will go & stand at the back of the class....

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filter + Custom commands broken?

« on: May 13, 2016, 12:50:48 »

Thanks Jungle
I had seen ; on the dialog help txt so used it, having forgotten the <space> option.   
Unfortunately with space it also fails - it only selects the first term 

I wanted to delete the archives where found so tried

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MC.Filesystem.Delete FILTER="*.zip *.rar"
but no selection is made;  so added

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MC.Explorer.Selection.Select FILTER=*.zip;*.rar
MC.Filesystem.Delete FILTER="*.zip;*.rar"
but MC then makes a single string (bad?)

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MC.Explorer.Selection.Select FILTER="*.zip *.rar"MC.Filesystem.Delete FILTER="*.zip *.rar"
& that fails selecting only the zips.

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Support and Feedback / Filter + Custom commands broken?

« on: May 13, 2016, 12:43:24 »

Using MC 6.2 b2147 on W7x64

So far I found that neither of these would work, when I added them to buttons: -

MC.Explorer.Selection.Select FILTER=*.zip;*.rar
MC.Filesystem.Delete FILTER="*.zip;*.rar"

I tried with " " & without.

...or is it me? 

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Beta Releases / Re: Multi Commander 6.2 BETA

« on: May 08, 2016, 18:42:41 »

This was discovered by accident on 2140.  I have never seen it before.  I am sure I have wrongly clicked the button before & it just didn't take any action because no RARs.

I can see how your unpacker / copy function is the 'same'.  & That explains why the files went up to the the drive root in this case.
I think the only real 'problem' here, is the unpack function was invoked when there were no archives.

I'm happy to continue without the OLD code, this event was a surprise & I thought you should know given the fact it was ignoring the .ext
I like how it is possible to copy things from within/to archives via the virtual file system.
I like the new system as it has some powerful options available.

If I find any other hiccups when using my scripts/buttons I will let you know.
Thanks for looking into this, Mathias.

This issue is now fixed, So in next build this should not happen

Everything seems to be 100% now. 
Thanks Mathias