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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by Jungle on March 19, 2026, 09:43:38 »

MY ultimate goal, if possible, is to have Multi Commander always open to the specified paths, with a Folder Tree pane open for each, and with the left Explorer Pane having focus.

If you launch MC with the command line params, you can specify User Defined Command.

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MC.SetActivePanel PANEL=LEFTThis activates left panel.

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MC.RunCmd ID="ExplorerPanel.41070"This toggles a panel tree. Each panel has its own tree, so it is possible to have some tabs with trees and some -- without.

In the Explorer Panel settings there's an option Display > Tab > Default Settings for new tabs > Show folder tree. So you may open desired tabs, then activate left panel on startup via command line and UDC.

You can get a lot of info in the official online documentation.

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by 2wheelrider on March 18, 2026, 18:28:01 »

Regarding my question about how to control which panel has focus on startup @Mathias (Author)  wrote:
 

3. I think the panel you specifiy last will be in focus. but use TabSession if you want more control

No joy with either of these suggestions. 
I created two Tab Sessions, each with a different panel having focus but the Right Folder Tree panel always has focus regardless which Tab Session I load.
I then did some tests using the -L and -R command line parameters.  These tests were closes and opens of Multi Commander with different panes active at close.  The Right panel always has focus on startup.  I tested switching the order of the -L and -R parameters but no joy. 

Also, I remain unable to figure out how to have Folder Trees open on startup when using the -L and -R command line parameters.  Please point me to where the configuration option is to enable this.

MY ultimate goal, if possible, is to have Multi Commander always open to the specified paths, with a Folder Tree pane open for each, and with the left Explorer Pane having focus.

FWIW, I am using Windows Explorer compatibility look'n feel.

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by 2wheelrider on March 18, 2026, 17:49:59 »

Thank you all for your responses and suggestions.  I will see what I can do from here.

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 17, 2026, 16:15:27 »

1. Advantage is that you can control a lot more and open many many more tabs then from command line
2. Settings for what default configuration new tab should have.
3. I think the panel you specifiy last will be in focus. but use TabSession if you want more control
4. Ctrl+. as you say will sync current path to the other panel. so both are showing same. You can reconfigure that to other key. or creata user defined command so you can access it from a button or what ever.
Use MultiScript you can probably create any other variant you want

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by Jungle on March 17, 2026, 14:52:14 »

3.  On startup, is there a way to make a specific Explorer Panel always have focus?

You may create a User Defined Command and pass it to MC via command line.

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by Matthias515566 on March 16, 2026, 20:54:53 »

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Start "Arbeitsplattform" /min "C:\Program Files\MultiCommander\MultiCommander.exe" -TABSESSION="Arbeitsplattform" -T="1 Arbeitsplattform"2. This is configurable via the settings, not via the command line.
3. I guess when you save a tab session, the focus will also be saved.

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Support and Feedback / New user with questions

« Last post by 2wheelrider on March 16, 2026, 15:37:07 »

Hi All.  I saw Multi Commander mentioned in another forum and am impressed so far.  I am working on trying to configure it to startup ready for my use and have these questions:

1.  Is there any advantages to starting it with a Tab Session vs. using command line parameters to specify the path for the L and R panels (I won't use tabs in panels)?
2.  When I start Multi Commander using command line parameters, how can I get it to start with the folder tree showing in each pane.
3.  On startup, is there a way to make a specific Explorer Panel always have focus?
4.  I will want to frequently synch panels.  Is there a mouse-click option for any of the panel synch keyboard combinations?  I stack my panels (vertical) so the Ctrl+period (go to same path as target) will likely be the one I would use most (the Ctrl+> and Ctrl+< are not intuitive to me with vertical panels).

TIA!

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user: Folder size uses "size" and not "size on disk"

« Last post by iehichez on March 13, 2026, 21:05:56 »

Hi. Thanks for a great piece of software. Please allow me to suggest using Rebex Tiny SFTP server [https://www.rebex.net/tiny-sftp-server/] for testing the SFTP function of your file manager. Maybe it can help you resolve the issue of the 'expected' password while connecting to a remote server via RSA key when no password is needed. Greatly appreciated.

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

« Last post by frogl3p on March 10, 2026, 11:21:39 »

Thank you so much for your help, now I understand the root of the problem.

The Wikipedia site "List_of_shell_icon_overlay_identifiers" is also very informative and the references to also show the history of why it is what it is.

In my case Microsofts OneDrive has 4 space in front and taken already 8 slots, then comes Adobe with 3 spaces. This seems like a race to the bottom and every vendor just puts anothe space in front to become the new most important symbol. 

 All the best and thank you so much for your great work, it is highly appreciated!

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

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 09, 2026, 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.