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Beta Releases / Re: 15.7 BETA

« on: December 12, 2025, 15:39:55 »

Don't COMBO have a special quarantine area where it places files ? It just deletes them ?
It might be that COMBO have renamed them. It does not have an UI where you see files it quarantine ? and from there you can bring them back ? Most AV software has that.
( From AI :
The COMODO quarantine area is a secure, isolated section within Comodo antivirus software where potentially malicious or suspicious files are stored.
These files are encrypted and prevented from running to ensure they cannot infect your system or cause any harm)
So you might need to restore them from within COMBO.. you will not find them your self


Maybe change AV software.  Often built in Defender is good enough unless you don't have special requirements.

Problem with all FileManager is that AV software finds them suspicious.. Here is an app that have code much code in it to handle files, copy, rename, and delete them.. That is very suspicious.  So all FileManager often lots gets false positives results on them. And there is nothing to do about it.

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Beta Releases / Re: 15.7 BETA

« on: December 11, 2025, 16:32:31 »

Before, you could press Ctrl+F, search for something, & then when you pressed Enter the focus would switch back to the Explorer topmost Folder/File —now it doesn't switch focus back to the Explorer directory items (List View.) I miss that ! I have to use the mouse to single-click back to the Explorer view to use arrow keys to peruse items [after using the Find Filter Box] —it's a little inconvenient ! Could you bring that functionality back please ?

It is not changed.  It should work..

* Ctrl+F  focus set to Filter View box..
* Type something.. . the list view is filtered
* Confirm with Return key
* Focus is back to filelist

Works for me. Use that daily. 
Strange.What happens to focus.. DO you see what focus ends up.. still in Filter box ? some other place ?  does tab works to change tab side focus..?

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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP problem

« on: December 10, 2025, 09:47:17 »

That is latest Release,, In Core settings you enable you update to beta versions..

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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP problem

« on: December 10, 2025, 09:02:03 »

if you do not check the "Do not verify keyfiles" it will verify them..

If you upgrade to latest beta it will log move what is happening.

Might be that the keyfile format is not support. I know that the format it supports is the one that PuttyGen generates

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Support and Feedback / Re: Focus line scrolling

« on: December 08, 2025, 11:48:31 »

ok like Mouse wheel would have the same effect as pressing Arrow Up / down keys (  and move the current focus line up / down )

Well that is currently now supported. Never even seen anything that works like that. Then you can't scroll fast up and down without changing the focus.
I add a note about it.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Focus line scrolling

« on: December 07, 2025, 23:17:04 »

Eh don't under stand what
"Scrolling of the focus line" mean..

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Beta Releases / Re: 15.7 BETA

« on: December 07, 2025, 23:15:58 »

After update to 15.7 Beta custom menu items (not everything) stopped working (not displayed).
All scripts (*.udc files) are stored in zip file (everything was fine with the same files/config in 15.6)
-Pawel

Can you describe the error more..

You got custom commands. that they are added to menu..  And they are not showing up ? Are not running when selected.  ? Are script command there if you list all commands. ( was they loaded ? )

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Make the process of packing files more straightforward and user friendly

« on: December 07, 2025, 10:59:52 »

well MC is build around virtual filesystem,  Zip is a virtual file system for example
So the concept of packing a file does not exists in MC it is really just a copy to a file inside the Zip Virtual Filesystem.
You can turn off if you do not want to to try to keep incomplete files. it really depends on the target virtual filesystem if they are supported.  most archives does not support removing a file inside a archive just like that. (often require rewriting entire archive)
They are often use when copy from archive to normal (Unpack) and there are error in the archive. so that you can keep the incomplete file anyway. since sometimes a broken file is better then none.

Dark mode. yes not all dialog windows are fixed.. Since windows does not support darkmode for old style UI . All dialog need to be modified in code by hand..  and some UI controller does not support colors being changed. so they the style of them cant be overriden, so then the design of the entire dialog need to be redone.
The most common are modified in MC.. But changing all require lots of work. and why spend a lot of hours or days to fix one dialog when that dialog are very very rarly shown.  there are a over 100+ dialogs in MC. and to fully transform them to support darkmode would require A LOT of work. I would need to spend a year just doing that. and that are boring

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Beta Releases / Re: 15.7 BETA

« on: December 04, 2025, 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: December 04, 2025, 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: December 04, 2025, 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)