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Support and Feedback / Re: context scan menu

« on: July 13, 2025, 21:28:58 »

Im note sure I understand the issue. something with option in Shell ContextMenu.
Problem is that MC do not have much control over that. MC ask Windows for the Shell Context Menu. And it is up to the installed Shell Extension. Problem is that some of them assume that trey are called from Windows Explorer. and if not. they do not return any item for the menu. So.. MC have no control of 3rd party shell extensions

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: copy dialog colors in dark mode

« on: July 11, 2025, 13:48:18 »

You can customize the progressbar colors in CoreSettings > Colors

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy: rename and append greyed out

« on: July 07, 2025, 22:20:45 »

Normally they are enabled. But depends on device type of source and target volume

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Restore window position as Total Commander does

« on: July 03, 2025, 07:47:46 »

There is no settings, can't be turned off.
When MC is closed it will save the Windows position to registry (ini file in sessionConfig for portable)
and when MC is started it will load and use that

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Beta Releases / 15.6 BETA

« on: July 02, 2025, 14:44:23 »

  v15.6 *BETA*

  15+ Changes

-- 3105 - 2025-07-02
  ADDED - Added text tool to Convert JSON file to compact / pretty format
  ADDED - MultiFileViewer can now show whitespaces
  ADDED - Copy file path to clipboard in Images Viewer (In right click popup menu)
  FIXED - Crash Issue after showing result from Picture action like Resize/Rotate/Convert.
  FIXED - TabSessionManager will now make sure menu system is loaded before loading the tab session. (Since this should be added to menu system)
  FIXED - Better error handling whern opening a 7Zip that is using unsupported compression method
  FIXED - FileOperations Result dialog for auto handled errors are changed a bit to better show result.
  FIXED - Change some dialogs to use Windows Built in TaskDialog instead of Emulated version.
  FIXED - 3 Stability issues


New / Changes Text Ids (for translators)

App - MultiCommander Core = D 3303,3304
App - MCPictureViewer = C 250,251,252
App - File Utils = M 2214 ,2215
App - File viewer = D 340, T 113

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Support and Feedback / Re: tabs in dark mode

« on: July 01, 2025, 22:29:40 »

Script for what ? 

But the colors are saved with the tab info in the registry (for portable version in the SessionConfig folder) So you might be able to script it

REG:\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MultiCommander\SessionHistory\a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0\AutoLoad\[0...#]

If a tab has customized colors the following keys are there
TabColorTextInactive
TabColorText
TabColorBkInactive
TabColorBk

Have the colors..

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Support and Feedback / Re: tabs in dark mode

« on: July 01, 2025, 13:26:13 »

No you have to change the inactive tab color too as I wrote.

Click the dropdown box above the checkboxes that say "Active tab" switch that to "Inactive tab", Now you can define the color the tab should use when the tab is inactive.
Tabs have two colors. one for when tab is active and one of then it is inactive. normally you set them to similar but a little different to quickly see that the tab is active or not.

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Beta Releases / Re: 15.5 Beta

« on: July 01, 2025, 11:40:41 »

The restoration of window size has changed since the last beta version. "Restore" works exactly once to bring windows that did not appear on the taskbar onto the taskbar, and the second time the windows remain in limbo. Previously, with Autosizer, I only had to set the window size and position once, and for subsequent system starts, I used the restore function. Now, this only works for one system start, and the next time the windows end up in limbo again and can only be retrieved with the setup of position and size. So now I have to change the configuration of Autosizer every second system start.

So it works in previous version ? Sure ? because absolutely nothing about how that works is changed, nothing about how this work has changes for many many versions.. years even.

"Autosizer" ? 3rd party tool ? why you need that for MC.? what does it to ?
Maybe autosizer been updated and does not handle it correct.. 
Win 10 ? 11 ? Maybe some system update..

How would I reproduce it ? start minimized to tray or something ? or some other configuration that affect windows size/pos ?

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Support and Feedback / Re: tabs in dark mode

« on: July 01, 2025, 11:26:45 »

In setting you defined default colors.  If all tabs should be green then do it here.

If you want customized color of some tabs then change the color in properties of the tab..
And in that dialog there is a dropdown "Active tab" / "Inactive Tab" switch this to define a color for then the tab is inactive

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Support and Feedback / Re: tabs in dark mode

« on: June 30, 2025, 15:05:56 »

Core Settings > Color
Check "Solid color" for all the tabs.

Normally that should be default..

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Restore window position as Total Commander does

« on: June 24, 2025, 10:54:10 »

MC will open in the same position it was opened before.. Window Position is rememberd when you close MC

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Implement Toggleable Locking For Sorting Columns In Explorer Panel

« on: June 23, 2025, 22:09:58 »

Problem is that a lock would only prevent user from changing them. If MC do it in some situation that would not be prevented by a lock.
So the question is really.  In what situation does MC changes the size when it should not. ? Because that is probably a bug. Since MC should not resize if AutoSize is turned off.

Valid. Yeah I never drag the columns, but somehow MC always changes them when navigating to and fro tabs. Perhaps it's a bug I'am not 100% certain.

Well I cant replicate that. But if you find a situation when it changes the size by it self let me know and I can take a look.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Implement Toggleable Locking For Sorting Columns In Explorer Panel

« on: June 23, 2025, 22:08:23 »

Not sure about size, but sort order is often changed after search

Where is it changed ? Source panel ? target ?  I can't see that it change any opened tabs.
Because when a search happen.. new tab with RESx is opened, and new tab default to sort by first column. It the default for new tab.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Implement Toggleable Locking For Sorting Columns In Explorer Panel

« on: June 23, 2025, 12:10:50 »

I would like to clarify my suggestion: I would ideally like an option on right-click menu of the Columns to Lock them into Place, preventing User or MC from resizing/ dragging/ modifying their sizes ! MC keeps randomly squashing the Columns together & I have to Restore them using Defaults everytime ! See attached screenshot please ! This would help me a lot.

P.S: Then again I can understand if this cannot be implemented as "My Pictures", "Music" folder etc. uses different Columns than the default folders, so it's alright I'll let it rest for now…

Problem is that a lock would only prevent user from changing them. If MC do it in some situation that would not be prevented by a lock.
So the question is really.  In what situation does MC changes the size when it should not. ? Because that is probably a bug. Since MC should not resize if AutoSize is turned off.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Force Rename via Keyboard Bypasses Read-Only Confirmation and Renames File

« on: June 23, 2025, 12:06:42 »

Ahh that settings. forgot that it exists.. Ok I will check it out.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Erklärung Dateiname

« on: June 23, 2025, 10:09:17 »

You can turn in off is it is not shown in the UI

Menu > Configuration > Explorer Panel Settings > Display (tab)
Under the section "Sorting and Columns"

Uncheck the option "Show link target in name column"

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Support and Feedback / Re: Erklärung Dateiname

« on: June 23, 2025, 10:06:01 »

I can copy paste and translate on google.. but I don't have the time to mess with that and this forum is on english so most people looking for issues can read it.

'J' is Junction.. 'S' is SymLink..  that are different type of links on the filesystem that redirect to another file/folder
The path shown after the J/S is what the links goes to..

So for you
The Folder named "Cookies" it a link of junction type that points to "C:\Users\Joschik\AppData\Local\........."

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Support and Feedback / Re: Erklärung Dateiname

« on: June 23, 2025, 09:34:15 »

This forum is in English please. I don't understand what you writing

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Support and Feedback / Re: Erklärung Dateiname

« on: June 23, 2025, 09:21:32 »

??

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Support and Feedback / Re: Force Rename via Keyboard Bypasses Read-Only Confirmation and Renames File

« on: June 21, 2025, 09:57:32 »

I can't replicate that. I don't even get a confirm dialog.

* I Set file attribute to ReadOnly,
* Enter inline rename of file
* Change the name
* press return to confirm filename
* It gets renamed and no dialog is shown

I don't get any confirm dialog or anything. Not even Windows Explorer show anything when renaming file with ReadOnly attributre.. ReadOnly attribute does not prevent renaming so not sure why it is showing a dialog for you.

What do you do to trigger it?

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Support and Feedback / Re: it always takes so long

« on: June 17, 2025, 07:48:02 »

it is always enabled by default. you need to disable it.

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Support and Feedback / Re: it always takes so long

« on: June 16, 2025, 22:21:19 »

When you activate MC it will refresh the filelist. And after sleep network connection has gone done..
So If MC is showing a network shares, Then it will take a while before Windows timeout and lets MC know that it is not available anymore. And if it is available it can takes some time because Windows need to login and initialize a new connection to the server (but that of often quite fast)

You can turn off so MC does not auto refresh when you active the MC app.. Then you might have a chance to navigate away to some other location.
However. It will prevent some automatic refresh of the filelist view in MC.

Core Settings > FileSystem(tab) > Tweaking.
Then Uncheck "FileSystem Refresh > "Refresh tabs when application focus is returned"

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Support and Feedback / Re: The deletion of large directories does not work.

« on: June 16, 2025, 09:40:20 »

I find no issue deleting folders with readonly attribures. MC will try to remove the readonly/system attributes that normally prevents deletes when deleting.

So I can't replicate it

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Support and Feedback / Re: The deletion of large directories does not work.

« on: June 13, 2025, 13:16:42 »

I don't have FF.  I can't reproduce that.
 
There was no error before that, that it failed to delete some files in the folder ? Is the folder empty?
Is the folder a real folder ? or special virtual files that FF hook into to do special stuff with?

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Support and Feedback / Re: The deletion of large directories does not work.

« on: June 12, 2025, 22:59:32 »

Then there must still be some file or folder inside, and it can't delete it because it is not empty.
Probably some files or subfolder that it was not able to delete because of some reason. Normally you get an error dialog about that. Unless you told it to continue on error.. Anyway the FileOperation log should have printed out the error