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Mathias (Author):
Yes I thought so too first.. but Windows does not do that ? or ?

He say "When I copy or move or delete that htm file in Windows it also copies or moves or deletes the folder."

That way I'm confused.

abrogard:
jungle has it right.

how have I caused confusion? with the mention of windows? sorry.  I mean windows explorer - you're using windows?  you've got that? - in XP at least will move an .htm file and the associated folder - which exists in the same directory as the file ! - at the same time as you drag/move the .htm file.

In does that because in Folder Options one can check in 'managing pairs of web pages and folders' the radio button for 'show and manage the pair as a single file'.

If you drag the file from one directory to another one the same disk Windows Explorer will move the file, it will disappear from its original location, together with its associated folder.

If you drag the file from one directory another one on another disk Windows Explorer will copy the file and associated folder so that they  now exist on both disks.

That's the kind of behaviour I want and expected.

When I have difficulty deciding which category to sort a file into I well may forget where I put it when, much, much later, I come to the now orphaned folders still waiting in the directory.  And I might copy the folder to the wrong place.  Or have to waste a lot of time searching for where i put the file.

For hundreds of files this is a problem.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong in my posts here that is making such an issue of this.  It is very simple.  I usually talk too much, that's probably what I'm doing here.  Let me go back to the beginning and restate the problem:

When I move an .htm file in MC the associated folder does not move with it. How can I change that?

Mathias (Author):
The confusion is that I never seen Windows do that. I never seen that settings, and I never even heard of it.  Win7 / Win10 do not have it,
Is that really a standard settings in XP ? Did some google and some said it come from TweakXP pack, but some say office adds it.  I do not have any XP machines any more.

Part of the confusion is also the "associated folder", There is no real link between the file and folder, It is all a conceptional thing that is handed by the Windows Shell (Explorer),  it is not something that the file system do automatically.

But it does not matter.

Sorry, MC do not support that. 
You might be able to create something like it using script. and create a special action for it. But it will not be during normal copy.
(Unless you create a FileOperation plugin for MC)

Jungle:
abrogard
You still can have [almost] the same behaviour with MC (tested on Win7), but you'll have to use Ctrl+C/Ctr+X/Ctrl+V instead of F5/F6

Mathias
Actually, this is possible in Win7. See here

BTW, an option may be added to custom commands Copy/Move/Delete like USESHELL which would perform file operation via Explorer. It could make writing user script an easier task.

Mathias (Author):

--- Quote from: Jungle on April 14, 2016, 09:40:11 ---abrogard
You still can have [almost] the same behaviour with MC (tested on Win7), but you'll have to use Ctrl+C/Ctr+X/Ctrl+V instead of F5/F6

Mathias
Actually, this is possible in Win7. See here

BTW, an option may be added to custom commands Copy/Move/Delete like USESHELL which would perform file operation via Explorer. It could make writing user script an easier task.

--- End quote ---

Ahh yes Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V hand it over to Windows and then it does it.. Did not think about that..

Yes Read that.But looks like a nasty reg hack can enable it in windows 7. but it looks like you have do to do it after very reboot.
Anyway.. Weird feature.. The problem is that there is no real link between files. The program have to assume/guess that the files belong together and I think that can be dangerous. and lead to issues..  Maybe..

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