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Support and Feedback / Run MC with parameters to select file in specified folder

« Last post by Pawel on Today at 22:34:05 »

I want to run Multi Commander via external application.
This application runs MC and pases 2 parameters. A directory path and file name.
I want to focus on RIGHT panel (for example) and select this file in this directory.
How to do this?

I see Multi Commander support -Autorun parameter that allows to run a script.
Here is my UDC script:

I need to run Multi Commander with specified

##########################################
#Name:SelectMyFile
#Type:function
#ID:3dc58130a89d422c841855e79ab4c6bd
#Desc:File Selection
#Options:Confirm
##########################################

MC.Explorer.Goto PANEL=RIGHT PATH="${param:0}" ItemFocus="${param:1}"



Multi Commander is running with this code (Delphi):
           
MCParams := '-AutoRun="SelectMyFile ' + '""' + DIRECTORY_PATH + '"" ' + '""' + FILE_NAME_WITH_EXT + '"""';
ShellExecute(0, 'open', PChar(PATH_TO_MULTI_COMMANDER), PChar(MCParams), PChar(EmptyStr), SW_SHOWNORMAL);

It should work, but it is not!
What do I do wrong?

-Pawel

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Support and Feedback / New tab opened from locked one inherits colour – possibility of turning that off

« Last post by culturework on Today at 08:54:21 »

When navigating outside permitted scope of locked tab, new tab is opened (that’s what I want), but the new one got the same colour I’ve defined for the locked tab.
Can that be switched off?
When going to levels higher than locked ones, I don’t need info about “mother” tab, it’s just introducing chaos in tabs view.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Why does clicking the refresh button collapse the folder tree?

« Last post by ncnnnn on Today at 08:22:23 »

Okay. Got it. I thought the left and right buttons controlled the folder and file list separately. Actually, the hierarchy is different. The right side is a higher level.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Increase RAM/resources available to Multi Commander

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Yesterday at 09:24:59 »

Ok thanks, I'll investigate if there are other offending processes.
Just for clarity, what parameters are referenced on the docs/troubleshooting-hang page then?

That more for file operation (copy/move) where you can configure read/write strategy and configure cache size, buffer and such..

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Support and Feedback / Re: Create button with relative path

« Last post by whiskytechfred on June 16, 2026, 23:12:58 »

I found I can use something like:
${mcpath}\..\..\app.exe
and that works!

Sorry for the useless entry.
Fred

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Support and Feedback / Re: Increase RAM/resources available to Multi Commander

« Last post by whiskytechfred on June 16, 2026, 23:04:54 »

Ok thanks, I'll investigate if there are other offending processes.
Just for clarity, what parameters are referenced on the docs/troubleshooting-hang page then?

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Support and Feedback / Create button with relative path

« Last post by whiskytechfred on June 16, 2026, 22:56:52 »

Hello,
I'd like to customize a button to launch an app using a relative path.  This button would launch an app relative to the MC path.
I looked at external commands and I don't seem to be able to use %~d0 or the like.
I also looked at Multi-Script but the path commands seem to be related to the source or target panels.
Is there a way to achieve what I'm looking for?
Thanks in advance,
Fred

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Support and Feedback / Re: Increase RAM/resources available to Multi Commander

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on June 16, 2026, 22:38:13 »

It a bit unspecific. so hard to say why you see that. Most work that require CPU are run in background threads.  not sure what pauses you mean, I have not notice anything like that. There should not be anything that cause pause.. Often when things like that happen it is because MC wait for some call from Windows. or external 3rdparty software like security software or other software that hook themself into other processes. that hijack calls from MC to windows.

No. There would be no point in MC to allocate more memory then it needs. MC it will cache and reuse memory it already have got.

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Support and Feedback / Increase RAM/resources available to Multi Commander

« Last post by whiskytechfred on June 16, 2026, 22:19:31 »

Hello,
I really enjoy using MC because of all it's configurations and amazing UI.  However, it often "pauses" or "redraws" the UI.  I won't say hang as I don't get any warnings or hung interface, it's just that either the interface doesn't register mouse commands (pauses) or the UI redraws several times in a row.
I have a fairly high end machine, Ryzen 9 9950x3d with 192Gb RAM, plugged on ethernet at 10gbps and paired with ab AMD RX7900XT so I was wondering if there's a parameter that I can set to allocate more RAM or a higher priority to MC (and if doing that would help with these issues).  On the docs/troubleshooting-hang page from the MC website it's written that
Cache settings: Optimize for your system
Memory limits: Configure for available RAM
but I can't find these settings in the configuration pages.
I used to work with FreeCommander and I don't recall having such issues in that app.
Thanks in advance for any hints you may be able to provide,
Fred

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Support and Feedback / Re: Troubleshooting Custom Icon Deletion When Adding New Extensions Custom File Type

« Last post by total_annihilation00 on June 15, 2026, 09:26:05 »

Adding extension again will remove the icon override for that icon
 BUT only in the memory. it actually does not save the IconOverride.xml files.

But since you are modifying the icons override before starting. it will recreate that file.

So until fixed, Restart before adding more icons to override.

Thank you Mathias, you're the best !