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Support and Feedback / Re: Move to new computer

« on: May 15, 2025, 22:39:24 »

First, I'm using 100/0, not 0/100.  And if these are so unsafe then they shouldn't be options in the system.

And yes, I do have my tabs configured in the Randy_tabs.ini.

But that isn't the relevant issue at the moment.  I need someone to tell me where and how to set the width in the navigation pane/folder tree panel so that it is saved and opens that way each time I close and reopen MC.

100/0 or 0/100 same things

Exactly that is why there is no option to save one side as permanently hidden.
Normally if you close MC with a 60/40 split it will remember that but will not remember a permanently hidden one.
That why you must do special tricks that are not recommended to force it, and if you do that, it is on your own risk.

About the folder tree.
The FolderTree will normally remember it size between restarts.
But since you are starting from a startup file you might need to edit the value in that file instead.

To get all the values for the startup file..
start without a startup file from normal version,  setup your tabs, close app, The session config like tab information is stored in the registry.
at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MultiCommander\SessionHistory\a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0\AutoLoad\
Then copy those values to your startup ini files.  or the values you want to use.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Last Beta v15.5 Build 3094 Copy and Cut functions are not operative

« on: May 15, 2025, 13:11:21 »

There is no change for that.  And it work for me. I cannot replicate that.
Check the App log Ctrl+L, It should say if the copy/paste command is sent from MC to Windows (Since windows is then handling the copy)

Make sure you do not have some 3rd party tool active that hijack those keys,

Old version are available on the website..

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Support and Feedback / Re: HELP - save changes of TAB PANEL - permanently

« on: May 15, 2025, 12:57:48 »

Okey.. Looks normal. ?
there is not "Deleted config file " line there. so MC did not delete the file during startup

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Shaping the Future of MultiCommander - Your Feedback on Development Priorities

« on: May 15, 2025, 12:40:25 »

Printing what ? A text file ?  File list ?

Any file like Word document, PDF-Document. Or CAD. Select files to print and use the command.

You mean native own printing. Than MC would have to be able to open and render all those format.. Sorry that will not happen
But if you have office install and right click on an office file.. you get print option in the shell context menu. But then Office is handling the printing.

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Support and Feedback / Re: HELP - save changes of TAB PANEL - permanently

« on: May 15, 2025, 12:33:19 »

Sure.  Not sure how that can help with setting up your settings.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Shaping the Future of MultiCommander - Your Feedback on Development Priorities

« on: May 15, 2025, 10:02:23 »

- I'd like NODIALOG added to DeleteFiles e.g.

Code: [Select]

@var $options[] = {“RECYLE”};  "NODIALOG"   
DeleteFiles($array, $options);  (Maybe Recyle needs to be spell-checked?  )

DeleteFile already support NODIALOG option.. and RECYCLE. it is actually the documentation that misspell it. the code actually require it as RECYCLE

// Deletes all selected files to recycle. No confirm dlg, no progress

Code: [Select]

@var $filenames = GetSourceSelectedPaths();
@var $options[] = {"NODIALOG", "RECYCLE", "NOPROGRESS"};
DeleteFiles( $filenames, $options);

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Support and Feedback / Re: Move to new computer

« on: May 15, 2025, 08:37:22 »

The 0/100 split size is not an settings that exists, becuse of safty reason. You use an special workaround at own risk for that to set that, becuse now you are using MC in a way it is not intended to work.
At startup you run the User defined command "ChangeSplitSize", that probably set the split size to 0/100., but all scripts are located in the Config/Scripts folder so if you copied the entire config folder and subfolders then it should be there.

You have defined some startup tabs in the  Randy_tasbs.ini , so make sure that also exists. It is not in the config folder..you places that ini file in the userdata folder.
Make sure you are copy all files and subfolders when you copy the config folder.

All settings should be there if you copied over everything from the config/ folder.
Not sure what other settings you are refereing to.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Move to new computer

« on: May 14, 2025, 22:31:06 »

All user configurations are stored in  C:\Users\randy\AppData\Roaming\MultiCommander\Config,
The files in C:\Program Files\MultiCommander (x64)\Config  does not need to be copied. these are default files that are used on first startup and such.
But as soon as you save a setting. they are saved under the user profiles.

100/0 split is not a supported senario for MC by default since MC is not designed to work like that, You probably did some trick that you autorun some custom command at start up and that command changed split size ?
Check the shortcut you used on your only setup

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Support and Feedback / Re: Stuck at "loading configuration..."

« on: May 14, 2025, 11:10:31 »

Run Veracrypt my self and never had any issue, So there is no general issue with veracrypt

Often when startup takes time it is because MC is waiting for a call to Windows to timeout. Because sometimes windows does not know yet if device that is a network shares is available or not, So the first time it access it it going to take a while before it times out and Windows then caches that.

I never seen an issue with veracrypt. MC see that as any other normal drive.

In Core settings enable full application logging,  restart, And then when it start up you can in the log (Ctrl+L) or view the logfile. see what part is taking time.

You can also create a Dump file of Multicommander.exe when it has hanged from TaskManager and then zip that and upload it to https://multicommander.com/support/upload
Then I might be able to see what it is waiting for.

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Support and Feedback / Re: HELP - save changes of TAB PANEL - permanently

« on: May 13, 2025, 08:46:07 »

No info in the log (ctrl+L) ?
If MC replaces the file. it will say
"Deleted config file : <file>" in the log window.

I can't reproduce that. I did a change to my MultiButtons.xml file last time and it is still there.

Only time it restores the "default" file is if the file under the userprofile is missing. (If something else removed it, Or something blocked MC from writing a new version of the file if it button layout was changed)
So if the file C:\Users\XXXXXXX\AppData\Roaming\MultiCommander\Config\multibuttons.xml is NOT there. then MC will copy in the default file from <install location>\Config to the userprofile. But it only happens if the file is missing from the userprofile

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Shaping the Future of MultiCommander - Your Feedback on Development Priorities

« on: May 12, 2025, 12:58:05 »

- I would like to be able to set MScript to recurse sub-dirs - as with DOS script cmds e.g.

Code: [Select]

for /d /r "%base_dir%" %%d in (.) do

Don't understand.. you want a MultiScript function to get a list of files for a folder and subfolders. ?

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Shaping the Future of MultiCommander - Your Feedback on Development Priorities

« on: May 12, 2025, 12:54:13 »

User defined commands for printing and “New Text Document”. New tabs should open next to the active tab instead of at the end of the tab bar.

Printing what ? A text file ?  File list ?

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Beta Releases / 15.5 Beta

« on: May 12, 2025, 12:36:38 »

v15.5 RC ( Build 3098 ) - 2025-05-26
 -- 3098
  ADDED - Alias started with $ (instead of !) will now set working directory to the path of the exe started by the alias instead of current active path
  ADDED - Better logging in some places
  FIXED - Setting for "Activate Tab When Dragging over", was not turned off when settings was changed.
  FIXED - 3 Stability issues

 -- 3097
  ADDED - If auto sizing using 'Everything' is active and sort column is SIZE, then it will auto sort the list when all folders sizes are fetched.
  ADDED - Create new tab from quick favorites to the Create new tab menu
  ADDED - When doing duplicate tab, the new tab is inserted after the tab you duplicated, instead of last
  FIXED - 2 Stability issues

 -- 3094
  FIXED - Batch resize of images works again
  FIXED - Somtimes icons was not fetches first time entering a folder
  FIXED - Fixed issue with Online Document, Pages was missing
  ADDED - MultiFileViewer now has a syntax coloring template for .udc (MultiScript) files
  FIXED - 5 Stability issues

 -- 3092
  ADDED - Alias editor now support a filter box. that allow the list of aliases to be filtered to easier find the alias you are looking for.
  FIXED - Browse into a zip and unpack a zip located in extra long path now works.
  FIXED - Settings Date/Time for files under extra long path now works
  FIXED - Getting free space on extra long path now works.
  FIXED - Context Menu now works for extra long paths ( > 260 chars )
  ADDED - MultiFileViewer now has a syntax coloring template for .ps1 (powershell) files
  FIXED - 5 Stability issues

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Support and Feedback / Re: How to exclude hyphen, dash and lower dash from search

« on: May 07, 2025, 22:58:43 »

Yes if you select regex it will try to use that as a regexp and since it does not contains any special control characters, the regexp will just do a match for it.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Icons for EXE files are not rendered properly on Microsoft OneDrive

« on: May 07, 2025, 22:53:58 »

Is the file synced to local. ?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Creating a network share...

« on: May 07, 2025, 13:23:04 »

Go to network share
eg \\Server\Share   right click on share,  Select Map network drive

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Support and Feedback / Re: Ftp won't connect

« on: May 06, 2025, 15:21:53 »

click on the disconnect icon to logoff from a site..  it is the almost last icon among the icons after the freespace field

Also some ftp site will kick out your other logins if you login with a ! inforont of user name eg login : !myname  But that is dependent on the ftp server software.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Ftp won't connect

« on: May 06, 2025, 13:00:51 »

There can be many reasons for that.  Is there any error in the ftp log ?
Is it only for that FTP server or is it for others as well ?

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Support and Feedback / Re: How to exclude hyphen, dash and lower dash from search

« on: May 05, 2025, 07:48:45 »

It works for me.

Might be that you are searching using wildcard and you have no wildcards there.  Try select "contains"

If you want to match both Tritonal-Kinetik  and Tritonal_Kinetik , do a wildcard search for "Tritonal?Kinetik"
If "ANY" character at that places is not good and you only want _ or - then you have to go for regex

In you click on advanced and open the advanced find files dialog you have more control and can also set items to exclude and so on

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Support and Feedback / Re: Version 15.4 Build 3089 on Windows 24H2 Build 26100.3915

« on: April 29, 2025, 22:11:35 »

I don't know why Ctrl+V stop showing that. Might be a windows bug. MC has no control over that at all. When you do "paste" MC just tell windows to "paste" the clipbard content into path X. Then Windows does the rest.
So if Ctrl+V does not show a progress dlg for large files, Try reboot. Else there is some issue with Windows, anyway MC has no control over the WIndows Shell progress dialog at all.

* Normally mc is faster. but a lot of things affect speed, also Windows does not show real time. It say it done when it has written to the cache, Not everything might be actually written to drive yet. When MC say it is done when data is actually completed the write to the disk and cache are flushed.
But there should be not much different. They all read and write the files in the same way. Not many ways to do that. But a lot of things affect copy speed. specially some security software do extra hard check for write from 3rd party program. and more relaxed when it is done from Windows own process. Many many things affect speed and it is also very hard to actually get the correct way to actually time it correctly since some say they are done when the last write to the file have completed. When actually the data is not written to disk yet. but still is in the cache waiting to be written to disk

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Support and Feedback / Re: After using configuration import, I have no folder hints

« on: April 28, 2025, 15:37:56 »

You mean the Path field?  you enter edit mode in the path field. and auto complete for the path does not work ?

There is no setting for that. it should just work. The Autocomplte is handled by Windows. so if Windows understand the path, it should shown an autocomplete..
Auto complete does not work for Virtual path SFTP: WPD: FTP and for path inside archives..
And if you turn off autocomplete for Windows. it will also affect this.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Bitmap (.bmp) Thumbnails

« on: April 28, 2025, 10:43:19 »

It was originally set to 'auto'. I changed it to 'windows' just to test. It did not make a difference. I wasn't able to see anything useful in the log.

I changed the number of threads from 'auto' to '2' and it is now working as expected. I can't say conclusively why this made a difference, but I'm available for questions about my system and configuration of you would like.

Strange., Should not matter. But maybe there is something on your Windows Setup that does not like multiple call for getting thumbnail at the same time.
Also if you got some graphic tools (not sure whitch..) they replace Windows Thumbnail engine with their own (Most to add support for more image formats),  it can also be that if you have something like that installed. They do not like multiple calls.
Default in windows should have not issue with it. I run 16 threads, so it can get 16 thumbnails at once.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Bitmap (.bmp) Thumbnails

« on: April 26, 2025, 11:07:16 »

You mean normal thumbnails when viewing the filelist in thumblist mode ? Not the hover over preview thumbnail ?

Thumbnail for filelist are created by Windows, MC just ask Windows for it. and Windows should create it if not already cached.
There should be no issue showing bmp,

Check this configuration
In Core Settings > FileSystem , under Tweaking.
Makesure Thumbnail system is set to Auto or Windows.

Also if "Log thumbnail process" is enable you should be able to see error from MC get from windows when fetching thumbnails in the log.. (Ctrl+L)

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Shaping the Future of MultiCommander - Your Feedback on Development Priorities

« on: April 23, 2025, 09:44:18 »

#3 Implement a search box field in the Aliases dialog to facilitate entry filtering. This feature is particularly beneficial when navigating through numerous entries (helps de-cluttering), akin to locating a needle in a haystack. The search functionality should ideally encompass both labels and paths. See screenshot (I have too many entries ! (Button Panel is full too !)):  P.S: The challenge is that aliases are typically brief, necessitating specificity in search queries to effectively narrow results. P.P.S: It would be optimal if the CommandBar Auto-Complete feature in item #1 could also incorporate Alias suggestions.

Wow! You got lots of aliases.. even more then me,  I think a search box can be added quite easy. Integrating it with auto-complete is another thing. Maybe later. Add it to my list as separate things.

for #1 and #2, I added them to request feature list. They are a bit complex. But I consider them when planing larger thing to implement.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Shaping the Future of MultiCommander - Your Feedback on Development Priorities

« on: April 23, 2025, 09:39:55 »

Hello,

- To use (and install when it is not present) the cascadia-code font (https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code) at least for MultiDataViewer default configuration.
- To have by default in MultiDataViewer, a powershell color syntax formatting that is imitates the syntax highlighting that visual studio code is using (it is quiet difficult to be exhaustive when creating our own).
   It may be possible to use their définitions ? https://github.com/PowerShell/EditorSyntax/tree/main
   It is true for the common file syntax in use actually, XML, INI (MC files), JSON, PY and Ruby.
- An extension to analyze disk space graphically and/or as a percentage. Some examples : https://www.info24android.com/les-10-meilleurs-outils-gratuits-pour-analyser-lespace-disque-dur-sur-votre-pc-windows/
- Format document in Multidataviewer for common files (XML, JSON mainly) without modifying / saving the file by default (option when closing the viewer ?)

Concerning the workflow, I have to manage several servers via administratives share to operate the same actions.
- The idea is via the GUI (no script) to be able to apply file operations to a list of computers (ex \\MyComputerName01.fqdn.com\c$\MyWorkingFolder, \\MyComputerName02.fqdn.com\c$\MyWorkingFolder).
- The active panel in this case will be a computer of the computer list.

Regards.

Just for some clarification

You do not want to configure it to use the  Cascadia-code font, you want it to automatically pick it as default if available ? (auto download I don't think I will add.. I don't want MC to automatically mess with a users system.)
Powershell syntax coloring are actually comming soon. Im not using it so much so when it is there. let me know how it works
Access to Text tools from MultiViewer is a good ide. I will look into that

The Manage multiple servers at once think are intressting.. Not sure how to implement it right now. Bit tricky. but very intressting, 
But can you mail me with more details on how you would use somethings like that. Copy one file and it is auto copied to all locations that are grouped ?  even delete ? rename ? what more? any ide and thougth you have around that would be great and I can see if something like that can be added. However It is a big and complex feature so can take some time to add. But I really like the idea.