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Support and Feedback / Re: overlay-icons are mixed up

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Today at 17:02:10 »

MC do not fetch overlay it self. MC ask Windows about the overlay icons.
The problem is that Windows only support 16 overlay icons..  So only the first 16 that are in the registry will work.
Also 32bit and 64bit extension that are installed can install different overlay.. If you run 64bit version of MC then MC only gets the shell extensions registered for 64bit.

REG:\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\  ( 64bit apps on 64bit system )
REG:\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\  (32bit app on 64bit system)

They are loaded in alphabetic order. and only the 16 first are loaded.. as you see lots of them problably have space infront of the name to "force" them to be higher up the list.

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Support and Feedback / Re: change of date from number to "Today"

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Today at 16:53:34 »

Menu > Configuration > Explorer Panel Settings > Display (Tab)

Under section "Date / Time format"
There is a "Date Display format" settings. There you can change that

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Support and Feedback / overlay-icons are mixed up

« Last post by frogl3p on Today at 16:39:03 »

Hi everybody,

I am new to Multi Commander and playing with it to evaluate if I can use it as my daily file-manager. I am using Windows 11 and see the following problem with icons:

- SVN controlled folders, folders with the ".svn" inside, do not have the overlay Icons with the green checkmark.
- Junctions to folders, created with "mklink /J" have the green checkmark icon.

I havent found anything about this problem yet. I have found the post about the registry-keys but these key seem alright. Btw, the icons are correct in other file-managers like "Windows-Explorer" and "FreeCommander".

I have attached an screenshot to this post but was unable to embedd it in the text, sorry.

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Support and Feedback / change of date from number to "Today"

« Last post by Babilon55 on Today at 15:35:01 »

Hi.

I remember  that when I installed the app I saw in the Date field the word "Today" instead of numbers.
I made a change and now I see always numbers.
I searched how to change back and I didn't find it.
Can you advise?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Toolbar Size

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 04, 2026, 09:45:01 »

In Core Settings > Layout

You can disable the Quick Launch Bar (under Commad line bar) and then enable the Quick LaunchBar (Entire row)
Then you get an own row for that instead of just the area after the Command line bar

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Support and Feedback / Re: Toolbar Size

« Last post by Jungle on March 04, 2026, 07:29:29 »

Toolbar icons size can be configured in Core settings > Applications Layout > Toolbars > Icons size

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Support and Feedback / Toolbar Size

« Last post by bruce35dc on March 03, 2026, 22:19:26 »

I very much want to use Multi to have a row of icons for folders that I frequently use.
The Quick Launch toolbar lets me do this well.

But I have a high resolution (3440 x 1440) monitor.  I find size of the icons and the toolbars in general to be too small for me to use at that resolution.

I've dropped down the resolution but I would still love to be able to increase the size of user toolbars.

Also is there any way not to have Quick Launch icons all the way on the right?  Or to reduce the size of the command bar?
I've moved things over to the left by inserting a number of seperators but perhaps there's a better way to do that?

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Support and Feedback / Re: invalid modules/extensions

« Last post by JeanneMarie on February 28, 2026, 17:40:40 »

Alas, I can't be very helpful about conditions before yesterday's re-install. I had had MC on my computer for quite a while, but wasn't using it. It seems that I re-installed it last in early 2025 on my new machine, but I still didn't use it much. I can't even tell you how the desktop shortcut got created. Was it created as part of the installation of 2025? or did I later create it via Windows? Unknown. But clearly, MC couldn't remember-on-exit the layout settings (display drive E:\, display tree, remember open path, remember the folder in focus) after the upgrade. It also couldn't access FTP altho an icon was displayed.

To the best of my understanding--and I would never suggest you rely on this because I was barely using the program--it seems that my troubles only started with an upgrade of that last installation a couple of days ago. Certainly that is when the error message (image in my original post) began appearing on startup with no hint on what to do about it. I'm 100% certain of that.

I'm not entirely sure I understand about what the log report does and does not contain. But I can assure you that I never changed any core setting ever. I never got that far in mastering MC; configuring the Explorer Panel Settings was challenge enough. And post-upgrade, the log did not report any initialization failure. I checked carefully.

RE the PDF: It is just easier to master something quite new with print or its modern equivalent of PDF. It does seem to me that that the program is imitating the Windows look & feel better than when I first installed in 2017, and I'm not here to endorse Microsoft's product. But MC is robust enough to be very forbidding to the first-time user who appreciates its obvious abilities but will never use all of its features and just needs to get on with managing her files and move on. So whenever I can use a Win keyboard shortcut, I'm happy. I mention this only to reinforce that the PDF is very helpful with getting one's arms around pretty basic things like this.

Please don't feel obliged to continue this unless I can offer real info. For me, there are no open issues/problems and I can't access or reproduce any history here.

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Support and Feedback / Re: invalid modules/extensions

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on February 28, 2026, 10:21:36 »

The log report what module fails unless log settings been change so it does not report it. (core settings.)


Anyway

I don't understand the issue with shortcut and what MC did not remember ? check the source of the shortcut. they might point to two different installs.
Highlist in folder tree.. was added end of 2024

The documentation web page is rebuilt and the pdf create script does not work anymore. It has to be rebuilt and I have not had time.

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Support and Feedback / Re: invalid modules/extensions

« Last post by JeanneMarie on February 27, 2026, 17:43:05 »

As I wrote, the application log indicated about 15 extensions initialized and the further messages were initialization complete and application ready. No errors/problems indicated at all. I was wondering about simply reinstalling and appreciated your mentioning that. All is well after a re-install.

In fact, better:  Before, while FTP appeared to be available, clicking on it just kept returning me to the root of Drive C. So it must be one of those that never really initialized.

So the application log is incorrectly reporting initializations--at least after an update. (By the way, if it might matter, I am using the Windows compatibility view.)

Unrelated: I also discovered that desktop shortcuts to MC may not work as desired. Post-update, I kept altering my display but MC didn't seem to remember anything on exit. When I unintentionally started the program from the Win Start Menu (poof!), everything was as I had previously configured it. Lesson learned. It's not hugely important, but worth noting that a new shortcut may be in order after any changes.

Thanks for so many wonderful features, altho I will never use many. I've found it very difficult to adjust to MC but keep returning to try because of all the frustrations that Win File Explorer produces and you are very familiar with. For example, I don't know when you added highlighting all parent folders in the tree--in color, no less!--but I just about cried with joy when that showed up. That alone means I will not easily give up on MC again.

But BTW, could you not update this document once a year or so and make it easier to find:
http://multicommander.com/files/MultiCommander_Doc.pdf   
?
If I'd found this a few years ago, I would have stuck with MC much more and told more of my friends about it.