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Support and Feedback / Re: Avoid Win Explorer Launching

« on: December 03, 2019, 15:22:36 »

That was easy  Now I have working favorites and a working Ctrl+v in the explorer windows. Thank you!
I also found: when I entered a directory through a UNC path (eg. pasting it with Ctrl+v), then Ctrl+p also returns the UNC notation. But when I entered the directory through a mount point (eg. I mounted it to drive O:), then Ctrl+p returns the mount point notation. Is there a way to always get the UNC notation when I am on a network drive?

You can enable so that path for mounted network device will be UNC path when doing copy path to clipboard
Menu > Tools > To Clipboard > Resolve network path when copy mounted network path

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: A few suggestion after installation and after first minutes with app

« on: December 03, 2019, 15:15:24 »

1. You can lock tabs, and you can also lock them at a level, but allow change to subpath.
(Right click on tab)

2. You can change to top in settings. I like it as bottom as default since you got the command line field up there and I find it to messy if the tabs are also there.

3. MC is build around extensions. And each extension has it own config. When you understand that it is easier to find.
But it is like it is because more and more stuff have been added since the config framework was built.
Some parts could have been better if it was build today, But I will not spend time to rebuild that. It require to much work for a small benefits.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Icons on button bar

« on: December 01, 2019, 21:24:45 »

I Know. the icons file was not rebuild correct.
It will fix it self in next version that is out soon

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Support and Feedback / Re: Avoid Win Explorer Launching

« on: November 29, 2019, 14:06:07 »

Normal network path should work..
but file:\\ is not a normal valid file path, normal network path are \\server\share\folder
Might be that file:\\ works in WinExplorer becuse it have installed some hook for that. but it is not a standard window thing, And since MC is not build ontop in WindowsShell MC do not support specialized path like that. You should try to use real UNC path. and it should work

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Support and Feedback / Re: Avoid Win Explorer Launching

« on: November 27, 2019, 12:36:03 »

That is strange.
Right click in the Favorites windows and go to Options and enable the show path option
and make sure that the path it has in the location is a valid file path.

MC only hand off opening of a path to Windows if MC fails to open it or identify it.

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Support and Feedback / Re: NAS not visible in Multi Commander

« on: November 24, 2019, 20:05:41 »

Go into settings there and change scan method.
Depending on network settings and how it works. some scan methods might not find it.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Problem where no line highlighting after clicking on item

« on: November 24, 2019, 01:33:20 »

Not sure what you are after. but there is not a toggle for changing everything like that.
There is a settings there for showing a boarder around the item in focus in the first display tab in settings.
Then you can also configure if you want special background colors for items that are in focus or selected or both,

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Support and Feedback / Re: Button Editor: Create New Text File

« on: November 23, 2019, 18:46:55 »

You can type cf <filename> in the command line field to create a empty file with that name

or you can script using MultiScript if you really want a button
Like SaveStringToFile and save and empty string and you get an empty file

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Support and Feedback / Re: Problem where no line highlighting after clicking on item

« on: November 22, 2019, 10:21:43 »

You might have changed something in Explorer Panel Settings -> Colors tab.
There you can configure all colors and you can also enable/disable the focus rectangle around current item too.

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Announcements and News / Website / Forum / Mail Back online (20-Nov 2019)

« on: November 20, 2019, 18:24:08 »

The MultiCommander website and forum and mail system is coming back online.
It all when down after a internet provider network change. It should have been down for only an hour. But because of some very strange and annoying reason it took them 3day to fix it.
(Everything that could go wrong did)

Everything is starting to work again. It might take up to a day until everything for everyone, since the IP was changed the domains was updated and since the domain is cached in many places on the internet it can for some people take up to a day before the are provided the correct IP address.

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Support and Feedback / Re: MC killing the Modify Date in the Admin Mode and replace it with the actual Date

« on: November 17, 2019, 14:56:45 »

Yes times are presented in local time. But that are converted only in the UI for presentation.

Not sure what the problem is or how to recreate it

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Support and Feedback / Re: No properly working "Length" column for audio/video files

« on: November 17, 2019, 12:58:58 »

(...)
1. No that will not work since it is not really dead code.. it is just unused code. It will not be able to removed it.
2. But as I said. Windows is able to get that information. And I think it will be possible to ask windows about it. However it does not support as much as that MediaInfo.
3. Maybe later a option downloadable plugin to MC can be added that exposes all properties in MediaInfo to MC. BUT it will be optional and installed separately

Hi Mathias,

Thank you for your quick & helpful answer

1. Wrt DCE, I know what you call "bloat" in MediaInfo is not dead code in absolute terms, it's just unused code (from the point of view of MC). I was just suggesting that you use DCE techniques which would work in this case (because MC would call into the MediaInfo code only the "length" routine (and maybe a few other ones) and all the MediaInfo code that is not used by the "length" routine would be left unused by MC and hence can be viewed as technically dead from the point of view of MC).

I know about DCE and I use it a lot. Problem is that MediaInfo is not written in a way so that each property you ask for have its own clean code path, so the compiler can't detect what is used or not based on what is called. Because a lot of the evaluation of what the the MediaInfo code will do are decided in runtime.

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Support and Feedback / Re: MC killing the Modify Date in the Admin Mode and replace it with the actual Date

« on: November 17, 2019, 12:48:24 »

What DTS problem ? All filetimes on NTFS are UTC

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: let multi rename remember its previous size / position please.

« on: November 17, 2019, 12:29:37 »

It do remember previous size and position unless you turned that off

Close MultiRename Window . ehh ESC key does not work for you ?

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Support and Feedback / Re: No properly working "Length" column for audio/video files

« on: November 15, 2019, 10:11:39 »

(...)
The dll is around 6MB for 64bit version , it would be smaller if build in using static lib.. Fast hmm Well it might be okey. But since everything is string based, it could have been faster. But I don't think that would be a problem, But It is bloated in the way that it support so much more then I need, 80% of everything in the DLL I do not need.
But there might be way to get Media Length and some other properties from Windows.

Maybe you could use various (automatic or manual, binary or source-based) dead code elimination (DCE) techniques to remove all/most of MediaInfo code not referenced/called/used by MC. Or if you don't want to do it completely by yourself, you could ask the MediaInfo dev team if they would do that for you or maybe help you on how to do this (you have nothing to lose to ask them!)

No that will not work since it is not really dead code.. it is just ununsed code. It will not be able to removed it.
But as I said. Windows is able to get that information. And I think it will be possible to ask windows about it. However it does not support as much as that MediaInfo.
Maybe later a option downloadable plugin to MC can be added that exposes all properties in MediaInfo to MC. BUT it will be optional and installed separately

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Support and Feedback / Re: No properly working "Length" column for audio/video files

« on: November 14, 2019, 07:40:06 »

You should use the MediaInfo.dll
The documentation is rather inadequate and the frontend gui is awful, but for MC only the .dll is needed.
It will extremely fast rip the data even from almost any obscure file extension.

I have look at it. the API is horrible and bloated. Not sure I want to increase the size of MC with 80% just to get some minor data about video files.
There must be something better.

That is exactly what I wrote: Use only the .dll
It is small, fast and very tolerant on buggy file headers, and is of course not bloated.

The dll is around 6MB for 64bit version , it would be smaller if build in using static lib.. Fast hmm Well it might be okey. But since everything is string based, it could have been faster. But I don't think that would be a problem, But It is bloated in the way that it support so much more then I need, 80% of everything in the DLL I do not need.
But there might be way to get Media Length and some other properties from Windows.

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Support and Feedback / Re: No properly working "Length" column for audio/video files

« on: November 13, 2019, 08:10:45 »

You should use the MediaInfo.dll
It is open source och fungerar jätte bra. The documentation is rather inadequate and the frontend gui is awful, but for MC only the .dll is needed.
It will extremely fast rip the data even from almost any obscure file extension.
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download/Windows

Maybe you could also give this a thought, since it will soon be christmas: http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,3616.0.html

I have look at it. the API is horrible and bloated. Not sure I want to increase the size of MC with 80% just to get some minor data about video files.
There must be something better.

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Support and Feedback / Re: No properly working "Length" column for audio/video files

« on: November 12, 2019, 15:03:54 »

Sorry metadata for now only supports in audio files.
The 3rd party lib I use for this only supported audio files last time I looked. and last time I checked I did not find a good free library to use for video metadata.
But It was a while ago.. I add it to my list to investigate if there are any possible 3rd party libraries to use for this

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Support and Feedback / Re: Sorting files with column "Date Created" does not work properly

« on: November 12, 2019, 15:00:54 »

It works now  ? I have not had time to investigate this issue. So I have not done anything specific for this issue.
But might have been fixed when I fixed something else that had something to do with sorting

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Support and Feedback / Re: Version number

« on: November 10, 2019, 23:00:17 »

Fixed

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Misc requests

« on: November 10, 2019, 15:20:06 »

Yes I voted this "Directory Sync"

Hello Matias.
I am very happy to see a new version in 2019. In fact I had abandonned MultiCommander because I thouhgt you had left Multicommander (no blog, no news, no versions, at least to my knowledge)
I had experimented with others products (even some paid products) but not the same speed and easy work as MultiCommander. I wonder why you don't try to get some paid versions and get more involvements.
Now I have loaded V9.1 but till not find Directory Sync.
This is something I think is very usefull and it is on you "things to do" for many years. Not a priority?
Well, I hope to see how you can improve you product.

Feature Request:
1- Directory Sync
2- More supported product

Thanks

Sorry. Doing news/blogs and stuff took a lot more time then you might think and I rather spend the time I have for MC on development.
Going paid version is not an option. MC it too specialized type of software to be able to make a living of it. I got a day job so development on MC is when I have time over. Wish I had more time to spend. But that life comes in the way. And features I need my self will get prioritized, 

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Misc requests

« on: November 10, 2019, 15:05:30 »

Yes I voted this "Directory Sync"

Hello Matias.
I am very happy to see a new version in 2019. In fact I had abandonned MultiCommander because I thouhgt you had left Multicommander (no blog, no news, no versions, at least to my knowledge)
I had experimented with others products (even some paid products) but not the same speed and easy work as MultiCommander. I wonder why you don't try to get some paid versions and get more involvements.
Now I have loaded V9.1 but till not find Directory Sync.
This is something I think is very usefull and it is on you "things to do" for many years. Not a priority?
Well, I hope to see how you can improve you product.

Feature Request:
1- Directory Sync
2- More supported product

Thanks

Problem is that "Direcotory Sync" is different, for different people. And when I ask for detail description on how they want it to work and what it should support I often nothing, or I get some basic things that is already possible. or somethings that is so advanced that is should really be its own product, and then would not be good fit for MC.
With automatic cloud syncing that most people have access too, most of the sync needs have gone away. I know some people still have the need. But the problem is that most people want something automatic and complex that is way out of the scope of MC. 

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Support and Feedback / Re: Search Window

« on: November 10, 2019, 12:40:38 »

Hi, Unfortunately in V9.2 this is still not working. Please see attachment.

I Know..  nothing around that is change yet. 9.2 is just a minor release.. I have not had time to do changes that require major redesign

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Disable copy/move confirmation dialog

« on: November 08, 2019, 05:49:17 »

OK, thanks, I also had to assign the keys and remove the old ones.
It works, though it would be much easier for the user to add an option in the general settings.

If you using keyboard to do copy,  just press return , it takes 150ms
using Drag and drop.. there is a settings for it.
It is there because you got a some features there that you then will never be able to use if you turn it off, and also some settings around the copy/move is there.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: V9.0 IS FINALLY OUT

« on: October 29, 2019, 07:36:33 »

So if you got any requests that you would like to see in the next version. Let me know now! (Even if you asked before)

 

I would like to have a "files before folders option" in the sorting settings.

Hiya,

Thank you Mathias for the new release

As mentioned by some users -including myself- on many occasions -including in this thread-,
an option "Sort files and folders separately, Folders *last*" is really necessary
for obvious usability reasons. If you could put it at the top of your priority list and
release it in the next version of Multi Commander that would be really appreciated
by many of your users -including myself-
Thanks a lot to you in advance and all the best

PS: for reference this option has been requested in the following previous messages:
(and maybe in others that I haven't stumbled upon yet):
Explorer panel sorting with files first
Sort files and folders separately, Folders *last*

already added. There is already an option for that if you check the Beta/RC release