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Support and Feedback / Re: I can no longer move from a child directory into it's parent...

« on: May 25, 2023, 16:06:07 »

Sorry for the delay. Busy these days...

I had a chance to do a little more testing and the problem appears when MC is executed through a junction, a Windows directory symlink.

Here is what I found:
So imagine the path of the MC executable is in 'C:\usr\share\multicommander-12.8'. So I create a junction in the same parent directory and name it 'C:\usr\share\MC-J'.

Now imagine I execute MultiCommander.exe using the command line 'C:\usr\share\MC-J\MultiCommander.exe'...execute it through the junction.
From that point on, choosing the '..' entry in the directory 'C:\usr' in MC, using the mouse or keyboard, takes me to 'C:\usr\share\MC-J' instead of 'C:\' as it should.

This does not occur if I run MC through it's original path, such as 'C:\usr\share\multicommander-12.8\MultiCommander.exe'. It likewise does not occur if I use a symbolic link instead of a junction, nor does it happen using Windows shortcut files (which are, of course, NOT symlink-like at all). Only through a junction.

I'll leave it up to you to decide if it's worth spending your time on this. I can live with a symlink as my path shortener here. It should be noted however that with the now "sanctioned" use of NTFS symbolic links it could crop up more often. It originally happened to me because the '\usr' directory was on a different partition, forcing the use of a junction to achieve what I wanted with that storage layout. Not quite an edge case, that.

Thanks again for the great program.

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Support and Feedback / I can no longer move from a child directory into it's parent...

« on: January 25, 2023, 16:04:25 »

Hi Mathias.
    I've been using MC for a while now, and I love it. Well done!

But I obviously wouldn't be posting to this forum unless I had an issue. I recently had an HDD die on me and decided to upgrade all to SDD and NVMe. Note that this wasn't overnight, but over a few months. I mention it not because I think it's relevant to my issue, but only for transparency, and I'm not ruling anything out anymore, event the phase of the moon. /shrug

After being up and running in all this newer hardware for several months I noticed a few days ago that double-clicking on the parent directory dots, "..", stopped taking me to the parent directory, but only if the parent is the root of the drive. To clarify, if my current working directory is, say "C:\home\bob\junk", dbl-clk on ".." takes me to "C:\home\bob", another dbl-clk on ".." takes me to "C:\home". Finally, whe I dbl-clk on ".." once more...I am immediatly, and without fail taken to "<multi-commander-install-dir>". Every time. No matter where my context is on the drive, trying to use ".." to get to the root always takes me to "<multi-commander-install-dir>".

This happens if I use the mouse, or if I navigate using the keyboard. "pg-up" until ".." is in the input focus, hit enter to go to root...bam!: "<multi-commander-install-dir>".

Now this is new, recent behavior. I have been using these navigation techniques wit MC for years without issue. No other file manager (I've tried 4) is having such an issue. To rule out a strange coincidence of configuration settings or script or macro collisions I downloaded and installed a fresh, clean install of MC. Same thing right out of the box.

Also It doesn't matter which volume is mounted where as which drive letter or mounted directory, same outcome. I have exhausted those combinations as well as destroyed the existing volumes, and recreated. Also the NVMe drive is new this week so no chance to corrupt those volumes in some way.

This is...vexing. I love MC, and I'm working around this for the now, but this is nuts...

I'm stumped. Whatcha' got?   

Windows 10 Pro., Intel 11th gen. processor. 64 G RAM, 2 WD SDD drives and one WD NVMe drive.

Thanks in advance. I can't wait to hear what is causing this...should be a good story to tell...all of those nerd loving chicks...aww...I made myself sadder...

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / A couple of features I'd like to see...

« on: June 27, 2021, 18:15:36 »

Hey Mat...great tool. Keep up the good work. I'd offer to help but I haven't written C++ in...more years than I care to say. 

So I have a couple of ideas for features that would be pretty easy in Java or VB or .Net but I realize Windows C++/C guts can make simple seeming things overly difficult. That said here are my thoughts:
- Information for selected files/folders shown on the status bar, specifically I'd like to see the target path of any symlinks, junctions, etc. shown on the status bar. I know the info is available as a column in the main explorer details view, but since most files aren't links of any kind having an empty column eating valuable screen real estate really is a waste. So having it just written on the status bar would be really useful. Actually being able to select multiple details about files or folders and having them redirect to the status bar would be very handy in a lot of ways.

- Along those same lines, being able to get to the status bar and other such high visibility, information oriented controls from withing the scripting language in some fashion would be very useful. I know that may be a big ask, but I have ran into a couple of things I was trying to script that would make it useful, at least for me.

Ok. I'll stop there. I know how managing life and hobby projects can burn through the hours.

Thoughts?
-SoSirius

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Opening folders on desktop in Win 10

« on: June 27, 2021, 17:24:35 »

I don't know how difficult it would be to automate it, but I know of at least 1 other file manager (Q-Dir) that can do this pretty effectively, at least it did when I last tried it. MC has lots of features it does not have so I feel safe posting this with confidence that MC won't lose users, at least not the ones worth having, but it does seem possible.