The saved sessions are not visible/accessible

[Dertuek]

Hello,

When I start MultiCommander, it very (too) often doesn't display any saved sessions when I click on the "Tab Sessions" button.



If I click on "Manage", I see all my sessions. The TabSessions.xml seems ok in the %APPDATA%/MultiCommander/Config folder.

I have to restart MC a bunch of time to finally get them. But today it doesn't work at all. That drives me nuts 

Any tips?
Thx

[Mathias (Author)]

Not able to reproduce it. But it sounds like a race condition. That it builds the menu before it has finished loading the TabSession data.
That can happend because during startup MC loads lots of things in parallell. And TabSession is loaded a lot sooner than building the menu. But since things are happening in parallell, then maybe on a system with less cores it takes longer for it to load it and it reach building menu too soon.

There should be a check for it so it waits. But sounds like it missing in some situation. I will check.

Sined they are visible in the Manage Session Windows.. They should pop back if you do something that will re-save them. Because then it will trigger a rebuild of the session menu.

[Dertuek]

I found a workaround. After MC is launched, I use the "Save As..." button to save the default session with a random new name. It refreshes the whole list. I delete the useless session then choose the right one.

As long as I don't have to restart MC 100 times, I can live with it

[Dertuek]

I saw that in the last changelog

FIXED - TabSessionManager will now make sure menu system is loaded before loading the tab session. (Since this should be added to menu system)

If this is related to the topic of this thread, I’m sorry to say that the issue still persists 

[Mathias (Author)]

No. I can't fix anything that I can't reproduce

[Dertuek]

I unchecked this option and haven’t had the problem anymore 

Use multiple threads/cores when starting up (Faster startup)

[Gloops]

Hello,
I have got two machines : one on which the tab session works OK, and one that saves empty tabs.

The first one runs on Windows 11 25H2 [version 10.0.2, 6200.8039], it has 64 GB RAM.
The second one runs on Windows 10 22H2 [version 10.0.19045.6466], it has 8 GB RAM.

As I am administrator on a machine that has the same user names, I could create the tabs I wanted and save them to a tab session, and copy it to Windows 10.

Before having this idea I edited the file by hand in notepad, this is somewhat longer, especially since the Windows 10 does not seem to have any editor for XML files, so I had to redo the indentation by hand to understand what I had in front of my eyes.

If you have an idea of what would be useful to investigate ...

Normally they have roughly the same .Net versions, as I develop programs on one and transfer the executable directory to the other.
But maybe it deserves verification, although if the correct .Net platform was absent it could not have been unnoticed.
I imagine the components are deployed with the program.

By the way, I did not find the documentation of the tab sessions any more, except in this thread.
At least, Dertuek knows how to ask a question.

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On Windows 11 this is the version of MultiCommander : Multi Commander (x64) v15.8 (build 3135)
You know, to get it here I had to make a screen copy and then use the character recognition of PowerToys, as it is displayed "read-only".

I shall have to make a follow-up, the connection with the Windows 10 machine is now closed.

Both machines are updated with UniGetUI.

Sorry I clicked on Notify instead of Modify.

It was a good idea to read again, I had transcripted the gloobi-boolga created by the character recognition, and Windows version is displayed so little, that for young people it is no problem, but ... they are not supposed to die as soon as they cannot read Microsof's screens, happily.

[Gloops]

I unchecked this option and haven’t had the problem anymore 

Use multiple threads/cores when starting up (Faster startup)

Oh I did not notice that.

Shall try at next session.