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Support and Feedback / Re: Configuring TeraCopy

« on: April 12, 2026, 08:47:46 »

You should be able to create that using MultiScript.
I don't know what the list of file should look like. but there is a command to save all selected items to a file. and it can be scripted. maybe that can be used.
(the command in menu> Edit > Save selection to file) but with UserDefinedScript it can be automated

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Support and Feedback / Re: after sending file with ftp the panel goes to the server root

« on: April 10, 2026, 16:31:41 »

I see now  It does "CWD / "  Strange.. I can't recreate that.
For me it stay at the location it last entered

Might be something that is special with how you do it or with the ftp server that works differently

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Support and Feedback / Re: after sending file with ftp the panel goes to the server root

« on: April 10, 2026, 14:54:46 »

It does not show that you go into and list html folder and then goes out.
according to that log you are in / all the time

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Support and Feedback / Re: How can the extension be hidden when editing a filename via F2?

« on: April 10, 2026, 11:02:56 »

You mean inline rename.  No but only filename part is preselected.. and pressing -> arrow will move cursor to last char in filename before extension.
you can also quick select extension with Ctrl+E

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Support and Feedback / Re: after sending file with ftp the panel goes to the server root

« on: April 10, 2026, 10:32:18 »

I can't replicate that..  But problem is that lots of FTP Server behave very different.
If you watch the FTP log. Does it sends a new CWD <path> commands after the transfer ?

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Add Phone Link folders to MC

« on: April 07, 2026, 18:30:06 »

Then maybe that phone is not connecting to windows using Windows Portable Device interface.

Some older phone was connected like remote device and got assigned a device letter by the Windows like  E: or something else..

Not sure what way your phone is connecting as. Maybe some other way that MC does not support

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Support and Feedback / Re: How can I hide link folders?

« on: April 04, 2026, 09:23:13 »

Explorer panel settings > Display (tab)
Under "sorting and columns" 
Uncheck
"Show link target in name column"

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Support and Feedback / Re: How can I hide link folders?

« on: April 04, 2026, 00:51:00 »

Well they are things in the file system. That are item in the filesystem that are file system links that are pointing to other places.

In configuration you can turn off the translation so it does not show where it actually are redirecting to.
But you can turn off so they are not shown at all. because the idea of MC is to show you what the Filesystem really looks like without lying to you..

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Add Phone Link folders to MC

« on: March 30, 2026, 23:13:19 »

Look under portable. Devices that connect to WPD (Windows Portable device) can be found there

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« on: March 27, 2026, 07:22:58 »

Might be, Portable saves everything to a file.. so it recreates everything each time..  while the installed saves to registry and overwrite values.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Transfer speeds to USB

« on: March 25, 2026, 18:26:05 »

Are you sure it used the Read/write tweaks you changed ? You can in log see what settings is used.
When writing data there is not much to play with.. it is bypass cache or not and write chunck size (how many bytes to write in each write operation) and if writes should be threaded or not.
There are so many external factor that affect the speed.

Also you cant just compare the number from Windows.. since that number say nothing. That is not a real speed.

But getting really slow speed in MC then I suspect something is preventing MC from going full speed and checking the data before it sends it to the device.

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« on: March 24, 2026, 19:47:27 »

If you want same setup all the time.. Just exist MC as you want it. then turn off that MC should remember and save setup on exit.

This didn't work.  Turning off the 'remember and save setup' options result in both panes opening to the root of C: even though MC had previously been exited with C:\ in one pane and \Documents in the other.  A startup while the 'remember' options were enabled opened to the saved locations but that failed once the 'remember' options were unticked.

We can drop this discussion because I intend to stick with what works which is to specify a tab session on the command line in conjunction with the "Set focus at startup to" option. 

IMHO, focus is not being recorded in tab sessions, and the remembered and saved setup items are not maintained once those options are turned off.

Please understand that my intention is only to report what I find isn't working that way I think it should.  I do not mean to be hyper-critical nor do I mean to disparage MC.  I have not used it very much yet, but so far, I prefer it to three other files explorers that I have been using (Q-Dir, Nexusfile, and Windows File Explorer).

That is strange.. works for me. If You have at least one save in the registry it should keep them. turning of Save option should just prevent them from being overwritten

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Support and Feedback / Re: Transfer speeds to USB

« on: March 22, 2026, 10:21:53 »

In Read/Write stratergy settings you can enable to MC also buffer all the writes so you get extra fast write.. (It will do the same as windows. report that it is done before it actually is since the data only have gone to the buffers and not disk. and not wait for windows to say it has written everything)
Make sure the Write process uses both System And Drive cache in that settings for that R/W profile

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« on: March 22, 2026, 10:09:45 »

Focus is set for the active tab that are the "source" panel.

TabSessions and "Set focus at startup to" settings kind of collides with each other. now you got two thing trying to control it

If you want same setup all the time.. Just exist MC as you want it. then turn off that MC should remember and save setup on exit.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« on: March 20, 2026, 15:07:08 »

Packing filename with strange characters with zip is not good.  zip does not support UTF16. standard zip only support 7bit.,  But  modern zip will support UTF8..  and when unpacking they get converted to UTF16. but then conversion between different things are being done and if there are something specially strange with the filename. it might be lost..
I think 7z store names as UTF16

However. I can't replicate it.
Are you running any 3rd party Windows theme tool in windows ? or something else that hook it self deep into Windows that you know about ?
Something else that is special with your setup ?

In Windows 10/11. There is a new hidden settings.. Make sure it is not on. (maybe some other app have activated it, even if you have not done it maually)
In region settings dialog (the old one..) There is a "Administrative" page.
Clicking in "Change system locale.."
There is a checkbox that say

"Beta: Use Unicode UTf-8 worldwide language support"

Make sure this is NOT check.  This is a new Win10/11 thing that is buggy.. (They say that this will only affect Store apps. but some people are reporting issues in other old desktop apps)

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« on: March 20, 2026, 15:03:09 »

MC don't do any special processing.

Then maybe it should ? Personally, I don't experience any problem, but this is not the first report. Since other programs are not affected, this is most probably indeed MC-related.

I don't think so. There is nothing MC can do. ALL text in MC are UTF16. all APIs in Windows are UTF16. It should just work. No conversions are needed.
BUT there are lots of things in Windows that affect rendering of some apps. Like 3rd party theme things and combability settings or app that mess with scim settings (stuff for accessibility stuff)

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Support and Feedback / Re: Transfer speeds to USB

« on: March 20, 2026, 14:49:25 »

Hard to say why you get that...  normally MC can detected and selected the correct read/write stratergy.
It also different what kind of USB device. is is a normal SSD/HDD or USB Memory stick.
Also security software making difference.. and other stuff.  hard to say why you have low speed with the limit information.
But everything that can be tweaked around file read/write can be tweaked in Read/Write stratergy settings,
you can tweak everything that can be changed.

Also Windows Copy Speed are often not real. depends on how you measure it. Sometimes Windows say it is done.. but what is done is just the writing to the cache. and all the data is not even written to disk yet.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« on: March 19, 2026, 17:44:56 »

might depend on what font you used and also other system settings. If you use a font that does not include the unicode character you enter then it can render it.
MC do not do any special processes on the filename. Windows return unicode (UTF16) name. and MC just accept what Windows give it. and then WIndows render it.
MC don't do any special processing. everything is handled by Windows. All API call in Windows are UTF16, So no special handing for it are needed

The filename you show as example works without issue for me.

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« on: March 17, 2026, 16:15:27 »

1. Advantage is that you can control a lot more and open many many more tabs then from command line
2. Settings for what default configuration new tab should have.
3. I think the panel you specifiy last will be in focus. but use TabSession if you want more control
4. Ctrl+. as you say will sync current path to the other panel. so both are showing same. You can reconfigure that to other key. or creata user defined command so you can access it from a button or what ever.
Use MultiScript you can probably create any other variant you want

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Support and Feedback / Re: overlay-icons are mixed up

« on: March 09, 2026, 17:02:10 »

MC do not fetch overlay it self. MC ask Windows about the overlay icons.
The problem is that Windows only support 16 overlay icons..  So only the first 16 that are in the registry will work.
Also 32bit and 64bit extension that are installed can install different overlay.. If you run 64bit version of MC then MC only gets the shell extensions registered for 64bit.

REG:\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\  ( 64bit apps on 64bit system )
REG:\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\  (32bit app on 64bit system)

They are loaded in alphabetic order. and only the 16 first are loaded.. as you see lots of them problably have space infront of the name to "force" them to be higher up the list.

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Support and Feedback / Re: change of date from number to "Today"

« on: March 09, 2026, 16:53:34 »

Menu > Configuration > Explorer Panel Settings > Display (Tab)

Under section "Date / Time format"
There is a "Date Display format" settings. There you can change that

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Support and Feedback / Re: Toolbar Size

« on: March 04, 2026, 09:45:01 »

In Core Settings > Layout

You can disable the Quick Launch Bar (under Commad line bar) and then enable the Quick LaunchBar (Entire row)
Then you get an own row for that instead of just the area after the Command line bar

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Support and Feedback / Re: invalid modules/extensions

« on: February 28, 2026, 10:21:36 »

The log report what module fails unless log settings been change so it does not report it. (core settings.)


Anyway

I don't understand the issue with shortcut and what MC did not remember ? check the source of the shortcut. they might point to two different installs.
Highlist in folder tree.. was added end of 2024

The documentation web page is rebuilt and the pdf create script does not work anymore. It has to be rebuilt and I have not had time.

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Support and Feedback / Re: invalid modules/extensions

« on: February 26, 2026, 22:09:26 »

Some of the modules did not get updated correct during update for some reason (something blocked them from being replaced), You can start MultiUpdate program manually and in setting select force update.. or you can download and reinstall.

In the AppLog (Ctrl+L in the app to view it) It should say what modules it fails to load if you want to know exactly what module that is not loaded

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Translations And Language Packs / Re: Ukrainian language pack - latest MC version

« on: February 24, 2026, 08:08:30 »

Since this is a English forum, please write in english. Also if this is a translation, check the post on how to get a submit key and you can submit it directly so it will be included into the release
https://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,129.0.html