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Flat view - list of files in subfolders of any level (as in TC's Branch view)
leopoldus:
Hi, is there any option to get the list of files in the current folder and all its subfolders (or may be in subfolders of the specific level, or in the currently selected subfolders etc).
AFAIK, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away it had been known as Ghisler's Total Commander the killer-feature under the name "Branch view - http://help.ghisler.ch/totalcmd/branch_view__with_subdirs_.htm". Since then it has been implemented in many other file managers too. But I could not find anything like that in Multi Commander. Have I missed anything or this functionality is really not (yet) added?
Thanks in advance!
Jungle:
watch the pic
leopoldus:
--- Quote from: Jungle on September 27, 2015, 19:29:06 ---watch the pic
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Thank you, I knew, that something like this "Flat FileSystem view" should exist in MultiCommander too. I was trying to find it in the main menu, not in the right place on the top of a file panel.
Is there any way to call this drop-down list of panel view modes from the keyboard too, not only by hitting this button with mouse?
P.S.
It seems, that this feature is really very "experimental". For me it works only in some folders with fewer subfolders and files, while it makes Multi Commander to hang every time (I have tried many times) if folders with more than some dozens of subfolders and files :(
This way it is not really usable of cotse, something like alpha version. Hope it will actually become to work one day in the future.
Mathias (Author):
No it is not that experimental,
There is no folder limit, Number of folders does not matter. But MC will 'hang' (no really, but look like it, since the main UI can not refresh until scan is done) until it have scanned the entire subfolder structure,
so if there are lots of files it can takes a while, specially if you have a very very slow drive. But there is no way around that.
I have no issues showing over a million files there. However takes a while to scan, because it must scan the filesystem before it can show the content
leopoldus:
--- Quote from: Mathias (Author) on September 27, 2015, 21:05:59 ---No it is not that experimental
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But you do state yourself, that it is experimental (please read the appropriate menu entry).
--- Quote ---There is no folder limit, Number of folders does not matter.
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I meant, that, say, in Total Commander it is possible to set subfolders level limit, that is show only the content of the subfolders up to the 2.nd level down. Sometimes it is very useful.
--- Quote ---But MC will 'hang' (no really, but look like it, since the main UI can not refresh until scan is done) until it have scanned the entire subfolder structure,
so if there are lots of files it can takes a while, specially if you have a very very slow drive. But there is no way around that...
However takes a while to scan, because it must scan the filesystem before it can show the content
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I am afraid, that it does hang. My computer (2,0 GHz) and HDD (7 200 rpm) are not as much slow, that the process or reading some average folder with several subfolders and some hundreds or thousands files should long a half of hour, am I right? To avoid misunderstanding I confirm again, that I have tried this feature for many very different folders on different drives and partitions, but the result was the same: for some folders (with fewer files count) it works, but for others it causes MC to hang.
--- Quote ---I have no issues showing over a million files there.
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Lucky you... I am not.
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