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Script / Is there a StrReplace that's case insensitive?

« on: April 07, 2025, 17:26:13 »

I'm wondering if there is a case insensitve version of StrReplace
I've seen updates for MS commands in MC updates but I know that some of the MS commands haven't been listed in the docs yet, so does this exist or did I only dream about it ?

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Support and Feedback / Regex matches in MR

« on: April 02, 2025, 13:20:53 »

I have a couple of questions about regex use in MultiRename

(?:[0-9a-z]{30})
should match string:-
0ec4dc9a5ea17339b06d1d0f1b2283
but doesn’t find it whether alone or placed in a longer string.

Test page on regex101.com shows it works in both instances eg:

(?:[0-9a-z]{30})  /gm
Non-capturing group (?:[0-9a-z]{30})
Match a single character present in the list below [0-9a-z]
{30} matches the previous token exactly 30 times
0-9 matches a single character in the range between 0 (index 48) and 9 (index 57) (case sensitive)
a-z matches a single character in the range between a (index 97) and z (index 122) (case sensitive)

Multiple search matches when | separated eg:-
(abc|zxy|der)
won’t work, each element needs to be separately entered on an individual line.

Is this expected behaviour?
I checked the regex's work online so I'm wondering what is different.

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Script / 7-zip profiles vs cmd line 7-zip?

« on: February 07, 2025, 15:57:14 »

I was looking at using a script that calls the packer function & uses 7-zip max compression, but cannot see how to specify or change the command for MAX on 7-zip specifically in the packer profiles, I cannot get the 'external' button to work for an external packer either. Duh not activated yet  
Running Internal zip (MAX) doesn't give me the smallest possible output.
Is this functionality present or do I just call the external 7-zip?

I got as far as this, where I wanted to compress selected subfolders:-

@var $zipPath = "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe";
@var $scanDir = "C:\path\to\the\directory";

@function CompressFolder($folderPath, $folderName) {
    @var $zipFileName = "$folderName.7z";
    MC.Run CMD="EXTRACT" TARGET="$folderPath" SOURCE="\"$zipFileName\"" USERCONFIRMATION="NO" ARCHIVE="$zipPath" ARGUMENTS="a -r \"$zipFileName\" \"$folderPath\\*\"";
}

@function ScanFolders($currentDir) {
    @var $dirs = MC.Filesystem.ListDirs(path="$currentDir");
    @for $dir in $dirs {
        @var $folderName = MC.GetValue(PATH="$dir", INDEX="basename");
        @if ($folderName == "a" || $folderName == "b") {
            CompressFolder($dir, $folderName);
        }
        ScanFolders($dir);
    }
}

ScanFolders($scanDir);

Any help on how to call max compression appreciated

4

Beta Releases / Re: v13.5 Issues

« on: January 26, 2024, 14:05:13 »

Not exactly the right thread but using MC 13.5 b2982 x64 W11 I'm seeing MC refuse to open .rars.

Otherwise so far so good
Thanks for your continuing work Mathias

5

Support and Feedback / Multiupdate failure

« on: March 28, 2023, 22:54:45 »

Was told of new version & ran updater, got this msg:-

* BETA version is going to be downloaded.
Updating Multi Commander Located in : "C:\Program Files\MultiCommander (x64)"
=============================================================
You are running on a 64 bit platform.
==================================================
Make sure you do not already have Multi Commander running.
==================================================
Press start to begin update process.

Checking if newer version exists.
Version information received.
Downloading new version of MultiUpdate...
Failed to download MultiUpdate (HTTP Status code : 404)
Error : Call "Server Error" , Failed with error code : 13

Maybe something needs chacking?   

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Support and Feedback / Find & Replace or MultiScript to edit & output XML?

« on: October 31, 2022, 14:12:49 »

The question is, is the following task beyond the scope of F&R (&/or MS)? 
Basically:-
I have .xml's that need search & replace operations.
I need to check multiple files for each of the entries & replace if/where found.
All SAR terms are not in all files... Both searches & replacements will change over time. 

The source for the search & the replacements is currently a CSV, >1000 rows/entries.
The job is thus:-

Code: [Select]

Search for x where x is entry in CSV column 1;
   If CSV column 1 entry found, replace with CSV column 2 entry;  (Rows being SAR pairs 1|1, 2|2, 3|3 etc)
OR
   If CSV column 1 entry not found;
Step down to next row, loop til end of CSV
Resulting XML to be saved with a new name
Next file
So far in F&R I tried adding all column 1 entries to find & all column 2 entries to replace with "Find many, Replace with many" selected.
Result is error 87 see screen.
I'm guessing this is because there are mismatches & F&R doesn't step down to next term rather than there being too many entries.....?

...........Maybe I can leverage F&R with MS or something?

Any simple way to do this task?  Thanks in advance

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Support and Feedback / Can't get MC.Filesystem.Delete to work

« on: July 28, 2022, 18:02:16 »

So I have a user defined command attached to a button:-

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MC.Filesystem.Delete FILTER="*.zip; *.rar"But it won't work & I get no error or dialog of any kind.
I've assumed I can only use one command in a button of this type, not multiple as with a script, so I haven't added a select option first, I get the same result with files pre-selected or unselected.
What have I missed.....?   
 

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Support and Feedback / File Coloring Rules Editor dialog

« on: March 09, 2021, 15:27:24 »

Has the default dialog changed, Mathias?
I added a filter so it does what i want.  But I'm wondering whether the dialog has changed.
It was

but I now get a different version with fewer presets.

I wanted to change the 'System' file colors but that entry doesn't appear to be present in MC v11 b2770 x64 (run as admin, dark mode) editor dialog... 

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Use scripted buttons on Search results?

« on: February 28, 2021, 16:34:09 »

I'd like to be able to select files in the RES window & run my scripts on them.

EG Would like to block select & run 'name as folder' script on found files in multiple folders via the RES.
(Re:- http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,945.msg2836.html#msg2836 )

I think this may be a complex thing to incorporate given the variables but maybe it's possible???   

10

Support and Feedback / Log file output issue

« on: December 08, 2020, 23:16:04 »

In Win10 with MC 10.1 b2743 x64
Using Log window (file operations tab) I found that using select all > copy to file  for log contents creates an empty 0 byte txt file.   

The contents when just copied are fine & paste into a txt as normal.

One for the bug list?

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Beta Releases / v10.0 b2725

« on: September 18, 2020, 15:17:20 »

Just updated to this & lost my custom toolbar space.  (I'd added stuff below the drives/Docs etc toolbar).
Any way to recover that extra space? 
Can't seem to see how to do it.  ...or am I half asleep & have forgotten how to do it? 
I tried reloading my saved layout config without effect.
I can add back the custom commands but this tool area won't move from the end of the input cmd/path field. 

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Support and Feedback / Regex backreference in MultiRename?

« on: July 23, 2020, 16:59:14 »

I'm wondering if I should be able to use a backreference in MR?

eg to change S27 to Session 27

Code: [Select]

(S\d+)|" - Session "\1
I've tried \1 in a variety of places vs the "" & it won't call it, only giving bad chars warning in the rename preview pane. 

The ECMA REGEX script syntax linked to elsewhere says

\int   |backreference   |the result of the submatch whose opening parenthesis is the int-th (int shall begin by a digit other than 0).
(subpattern)   |Group   |Creates a backreference.
(?:subpattern)   |Passive group   |Does not create a backreference.

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Support and Feedback / file search using timestamp

« on: April 11, 2020, 16:23:48 »

MC 9.6.1 b2582 x64 Win10

I'm puzzled by the result I got today using search>advanced>time.
I specified *.* on anything written since 1500, I got 0 hits.
I then tried 1400 & the files appeared.
The timestamps of the files was 1502+ so I don't understand why it needed any adjustment below 1500 to find them.  (1450-59 didn't work either).

I was sure that the sensitivity used to be seconds - or am I doing it wrong? 

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Support and Feedback / Re: MultiCommander v8.9 BETA

« on: May 19, 2019, 13:39:52 »

MC v8.9 b2517 x64 on W10
Hope this is the right place for this...
I've had issues with crashing when running the internal zip command via a scripted button.
This always crashes MC (CTD) - I did send in the bug report incl the script used on a couple of earlier builds but it is still occurring.

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// get & extract zips
@var $root = GetSourcePath();
@var $arrFiles = FindFiles( $root + "*.zip");
@var $count = arrayCount($arrFiles);
@var $zipFiles = "";
@var $zip;
@var $n1;


// Create ; separated list with all zip files to unpack
for( $n1 = 0; $n1 < $count ; $n1++ )
{
 $zip = $arrFiles[ $n1];
 $zipFiles += $zip;
 $zipFiles += ";";


UnpackFile( $zip, $root, "*.*" , "OVERWRITEALL, USEEXISTINGQUEUE" );
}
MC.RunCmd ID="ExplorerPanel.41075"
The internal zip/rar handling allows me to click through to the contents OK it's just when I call that script.
I am wondering if this is related to MScript as some other scripts that always worked before now sometimes seem to take a while to process.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Skip All?

« on: July 13, 2018, 14:53:25 »

Any chance of adding a Skip All button to this dialog?
I was copying/moving files from the Search pane to a folder, some files were duplicated & MC asked each time rather than giving the skip all or other options.

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Script / Title Case

« on: July 05, 2018, 20:24:16 »

I saw this the other day

Code: [Select]

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public static class ClipboardFusionHelper
{
    public static string ProcessText(string text)
    {
        //Words that will not be capitalized; add words to this list as required
        string[] exceptionsArray = { "a", "an", "and", "any", "at", "from", "into", "of", "on", "or", "the", "to", };
     
        List<string> exceptions = new List<string>(exceptionsArray);
     
        //Break the input text into a list of capitalized (not upper case) words
        text = System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ToTitleCase(text.ToLower());
        List<string> words = new List<string>(text.Split(new char[] { ' ' }));

        //Always leave the first word capitalized, regardless of what it is
        text = words[0];
        words.RemoveAt(0);
       
        //Check each remaining word against the list, and append it to the new text
        foreach (string s in words)
        {
            if (exceptions.Contains(s.ToLower()))
               text += " " + s.ToLower();   
            else
               text += " " + s;
        }

        return text;
    }
}
I thought I'd like to translate it to MS & add it to a button.

I can grab & split a filename, I can see how I could use the str selection to alter the words I want in lower case to lower case ... but I'm wondering if I need something like a regex version of

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<str> StrReplace(<str> input, <str> find, <str> with );
Maybe I just haven't figured out the ordering of commands to modify the arrays yet but I'd really like something that would give me a [a-z] -> [A-Z] function

Any advice Mathias?

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Batch renaming function

« on: June 16, 2018, 11:58:02 »

Until MC, Directory Opus was my favorite file manager in terms of style & features.
I saw their 'Whats new' vid the other day & the way DO now handles batch renaming seems like a nice feature. 
https://youtu.be/ircl1OVEdaM?t=81
This is a 'bells & whistles' feature perhaps, & MC allows a lot of options with MR but I wondered how difficult it would be to add something similar in MR....

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Tips and Tricks / CMD console mod (Freeware)

« on: June 16, 2018, 11:34:54 »

I found a good cmd.exe console mod here - http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/ColorConsole
It has color profiles, tabs, handy tree navigation, can save favorite commands etc & the exe can be dropped on MCs top bar.


The home page has a number of interesting small freeware progs - http://www.softwareok.de/?  including a 4 pane WinExplorer mod http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir

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Support and Feedback / Jump to Root

« on: March 04, 2018, 12:44:21 »

I was forced to update W10x64 to 1709 & since then I have had a couple of glitches in MC 7.7 b2404 -

  - the focus jumps to root of folder when 'back' is used 
(ref:- http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,1864.msg7164.html#msg7164);
 
  - missing icons for 3rd party progs on right click menu (they are present in Explorer).

Any ideas?

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Support and Feedback / Regex in MDV?

« on: February 15, 2018, 13:27:02 »

I expect this is something I have not noticed before, normally when I use MDV with the search dialog it hi-lites the search terms so I can step thru them.
Using a Regex is a bit different 

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Support and Feedback / Nvidia driver causing MC lockup Win10

« on: January 24, 2018, 14:49:36 »

Taken me a while to figure this one out...  My clue was that NvFBCPlugin would hang any attempt to restart the pc!

I noticed that MC would :-

• hang on startup flag if a USB device was connected at boot;
• lockup if I connected a USB drive;
• sometimes not see a drive even if it was visible/usable in Win Explorer.

MC usually cannot be terminated by TM or ProcExp once it has entered not responding state.  If MC thread is apparently terminated (no longer shown in TM list) GUI or start-up flag remains on-screen. 
Attempting to restart the OS normally will hang the PC.
System needs to be fully powered-off to recover the OS.  Hitting Reset not enough even with USB devices unplugged & w10 fast boot disabled to recover a working OS.

NVDA 390.65-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql  seems to be the cause.  Clean install back to 388.71 so far resolves these issues.

Whilst this issue is probably HW specific, I think its worth sharing the info...

I am using MC x64 7.7 b2404 on Win10 x64 b170317-1834 on
Asus B350M-A
Ryzen 1800x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200


Mathias - would a MC.dmp made by TM help you?

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Virtual folder?

« on: November 02, 2017, 11:58:19 »

I've been wondering about a way to visually compare multiple folders & contents.
My want is a virtual container/folder that allows me to delete entries in the source folders, without them being physically present in the same physical dir.
I want to virtually merge to show all folders/files so I can weed out the duplicates &/or older versions.
Windows virtual folders (search) is restricted to files AFAIK, so the search result compares only contents as a 'virtual folder'.
I tried MC search with wildcards etc but results weren't 100% as the search terms pre-define what I see & I could easily skip an entry if my search template wasn't perfect.

What can be done if:-
Multiple folders of similar name with contents of similar names + different timestamps/versions & duplicates in nested folders e.g.

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<folder 1> 
file1.abc
file2a.abc
file3.abc

\<folder 1.2> 
file1.abc
file2a.abc
file3.abc

<folder 2> 
file1c.abc
file2c.abc
file3a.abc

<folder 3> 
file1b.abc
file2.abc
file3.abc

\<folder 3> 
file1b.abc
file2.abc
file3.abc

I could just copy everything into a common folder, but that isn't fool-proof & uses up a lot of disk space.
I could make lists of dirs & then merge these to review contents - but time-consuming.

Can MC be made to do this?
Any ideas or tools that allow me to do this kind of thing?  I haven't found a Comparison prog that does exactly what I want, great for specific file changes but for a fuzzy review of 5+ dirs & sub-dirs, not so much.

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Support and Feedback / MultiDataViewer color theme change not saving

« on: October 12, 2017, 16:14:43 »

Nothing I do will make MDV hold a new setting/config.  MC 7.5 b2381, W7x64

E.G.: If I set it to dark theme it's OK for the open file only & it holds only whilst MDV is open for that instance.

If I make/set a new profile for MDV to use a specific theme, when I reopen MDV it has gone back to default. 
If I apply new settings with multiple files open I pageup/down & the other files open as default not as the theme I just applied to the open file. The theme change works on the open file only  
Restarting MC makes no difference.

I had this feature working globally before so am confused. 
Should I try manually editing the .xml?

....Also I noticed that throughout MDV there is a typo - Stripes is entered as 'strips' - not quite the same thing

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Support and Feedback / SFV status display inaccurate

« on: September 23, 2017, 10:30:00 »

Noticed a strange status output error using the sfv checker on W7x64 MC 7.5 b2381

With a multi-part part fileset MC shows 3 files failed asks del/ren/ignore, but then lists 4 items to del.  4 items are shown as failed when looking at the processed item list.
I tried with 1, 2 & 4 bad parts & so far only with more than 2 bad files does this inaccuracy in counter display occur:-
1 bad file shows 1 failed;
2 bad files shows 2 failed;
3 bad files shows 2 failed;
3 bad files shows 5 failed
4 bad files shows 3 failed.

Number of items to process (in dialog for del etc) is always correct tho.

If I delete bad parts I see MC hang completion status @ 90+%.  It has finished the routine, showing files missing & is ready to rescan.
Just an odd output under the status column.   


Thanks for all the work you do on MC, couldn't live without it now

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Beta Releases / Dialog sizing & columns

« on: June 12, 2017, 13:28:15 »

I have noticed that since 7.3 bd2532 I need to use the 'restore columns' command after every reboot & in most/all tabs.
Additionally the mass-rename dialog will not save its' state.
This is a bit annoying for long names as it shifts the column width back to the left (see pic) & shrinks the whole dialog to a default size window everytime I re-open it. 

Just me?