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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander right click crash

« on: April 06, 2012, 14:56:46 »

No Step Recorder will not do anything.

Since S10 does not install any shell extension. (at least not what I can see ) I think it is some other shell extension that come in conflict with S10 stuff.

Since it is memory corruption error something can mess up the memory when A is called.. but the crash will not happen until Z is doing something.
So one might think that the problem is with Z. but it really is A. With other words. I can might not always be the most obvious thing that is the problem.

I think more that it is the SuRunExt.dll  (SuRun ? http://sourceforge.net/projects/surun/ ?? ) shell extension that do something. But I have not been able to do any tests yet.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander right click crash

« on: April 06, 2012, 13:31:43 »

You sure S10 is the problem ?

I installed it and I don't see that it installs any shell extension. Does it adds any extra options to your right click menu ?

Maybe it is some other shell extension you have installed that makes it break.

According to the crash dump something has corrupted the memory for the shell extensions. so it can really be any of them.

4003

Support and Feedback / Re: Folder-Sorting Problem

« on: April 06, 2012, 11:16:54 »

It actually by design. it will sort by name when sorting folders on extension.

4004

Beta Releases / Re: 2.1 Beta - Changes

« on: April 05, 2012, 14:04:50 »

  -- Release Candidate 4 (Final. And this time it really is), Build 1026 - 4-April-2012

  FIXED - Crash problem if adding file to current copy queue and then abort the copy process, shortly afterwards.
  FIXED - Crash Problem if double clicking on Left and right Path Field after each other a couple of times.
  FIXED - REG_MULTI_SZ now shown
  FIXED - Unpacking multiple files from a tar.bz2 archive, And files already exists. The "Overwrite?" dialog was not shown.
  FIXED - Delete to recyle bin now works if deleting using "Retry as administrator"
  FIXED - Sorting problem when sorting by extension.

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Beta Releases / Re: 2.1 Beta - Changes

« on: April 05, 2012, 14:04:22 »

  -- Release Candidate 2, Build 1022

FIXED - Some minor language issues.
FIXED - Picture viewer will now respect the "AutoRotate" option.
FIXED - Move file using Retry as admin did not always work.
FIXED - Packer profiles can now be deleted.
 

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Support and Feedback / Re: Folder-Sorting Problem

« on: April 05, 2012, 09:31:06 »

Even though the registry is emulating a filesystem. The Search does not fully work for it yet

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Support and Feedback / Re: Rendering (file browsing) and button height not right

« on: April 05, 2012, 07:52:25 »

Strange rendering problem.

I'm not able to recreate that problem. What OS are you running on ? does it happen every time you start the program in maximized mode ?

The button panel problem is a bug. I will add that to my list of things to fix.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander right click crash

« on: April 05, 2012, 07:46:59 »

You said the problem was gone in 2.1RC .. It is back ?

You can try to uninstall the S10 shell extension to check if it really is that shell extension that makes it crash.
And if it is. I can see if there is anything I can fix on my side. But there is a risk the problem is in the S10 Shell extension then, there is nothing I can do to fix it.

4009

Support and Feedback / Re: How to edit information in extra columns?

« on: April 05, 2012, 07:41:40 »

I have been trying to find a way to edit the information that is displayed in the "Extra Columns" provided when right-clicking on the column header of the file view pane. Specifically the 'Description' and 'Comments' columns.

I used to have a shell extension on my 32bit machine that allowed me to attach comments to files. I found it very useful for all the downloads that I accumulate. This also worked for files that didn't have a 'Details' tab on their 'File - Properties'.

The file system on Windows does not support a standard way of having a file comment.
Some file types supports it (MP3 via ID3 tags, JPG via EXIF tags), some extra tools for adding user comments to files stores the comments in extra files next to the file or some stored them in a comments database, or as substream data to the file.

And since there is not standard way with comment and since there is no support for any of the 3de party solutions yet.
Editing file comments is not supported yet.

Secondly. How can I enable the display of these columns by default. Currently I can set up a folder with these extra columns but if I duplicate it it reverts to showing only the standard columns.

Go to "Customize Column Set..." and the modify the "[Default]" column set. Then the default column layout will be changed.

Thirdly. I have just done a quick check of comments and descriptions that are provided by files that I haven't edited and the 'Comments" column that MC provides doesn't seem to match the information that 'File - Properties' shows. e.g. I have a WMP plugin that displays lyrics for the active song, the 'File - Properties' shows the following info in the "Comments" section
"This plugin adds global hotkey support to Windows Media Player"
MC leaves this field blank.

Also MC shows, under the 'Comments' column, for a number of files "This installation was built with Inno Setup.". Information that normally doesn't display in the 'File - Properties' tab. Although examining with a resource hacker does show the same info under the 'Comments' value of the 'Versioninfo'.

So to sum up MC's 'Comments' aren't the same as Windows Explorer's 'Comments' and MC's 'Description' displays what Explorer calls 'File - description'

"Extended - Comment" is the comment property from the file version information that can be stored in exe/dll file.
"Extended - Description" is the description info from the file version information that is stored in exe/dll files

Explorer in Windows 7 handles the comment property differently. It get the information from different places depending on the file type.
For example for .msi file. it get the comment info from the Windows Installer Properties stored in that file.
And they way it is stored is unique to .msi files.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander right click crash

« on: April 04, 2012, 22:02:16 »

The crash was in the windows shell process of the right click items (Context menu)

Often it is some shell extension that does something bad. But it does not have to be the S10 shell extension it can be some other shell extensions that does something bad and then makes everything crash.

This is the problem with Windows Shell Context Menu. All the Shell Extension need to place safe together. It can be a mess.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Folder-Sorting Problem

« on: April 04, 2012, 16:01:21 »

Thanks.

I will take a look at it.

4012

Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander right click crash

« on: April 04, 2012, 16:00:49 »

Strange.
Do not understand how it can conflicts with S10. I have not run S10 my self so I don't know that it does.
But since it happens during right click it, S10 probably installs a shell extensions that is called when showing the context menu.

But nice to hear that it works in the 2.1RC.  But no issue around shell extensions has been changed for 2.1 (I think.. not sure).
But I will take a look at the dump you sent later tonight and see if it give any hints on that can have caused it.

Maybe is still crashes on some files and work some others..  If get the crash again, let me know.

4013

Support and Feedback / Re: Folder-Sorting Problem

« on: April 03, 2012, 12:14:59 »

The sorting will be fixed in next version.

Wrap text are planed, But not for next version

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Support and Feedback / Re: Folder-Sorting Problem

« on: April 03, 2012, 10:21:13 »

That is because the extension part of the name is ".5"

But it should probably not to get the extension part of the name for folders.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Quirky Administrator Mode

« on: April 02, 2012, 08:04:22 »

Thanks.

I found what the problem is.. It is when doing delete using "Delete to Recycle Bin".
Permanently deleting the file works, But delete to recycle bin should also work.. I will try to fix that

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Quirky Administrator Mode

« on: April 01, 2012, 13:32:54 »

But you still have problem with the "delete" operation ?

I have not been able to recreate the problem you have with 'delete', Can you try to describe how I could recreate the delete problem.. if possible.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Quirky Administrator Mode

« on: March 31, 2012, 16:09:03 »

I was not able to recreate the delete issue (2) But I found a bug with MoveFile and that has now been fixed.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Quirky Administrator Mode

« on: March 30, 2012, 08:00:54 »

"Run As Administration Mode" mean that, even if you run as standard users you can do some admin tasks. Then a admin helper process will start and do that.

Kind of Windows Explorer. but with less UAC dialogs for every tasks. Because the MCAdmin (that is the Admin helper process) will stay alive for a while. It will automatically close when MC closes or it has been idle for a bit or if the user right click on the "admin mode active" banner in the status bar and selects to turn it off.

The MCAdmin process that get started get the same permission as if MultiCommander would have if you right clicked on it and selected "Run as administrator".
So if you select "retry as admin" to delete a file, and it fails. Then the question is, Can MultiCommander when started as Administrator delete it. If it can. Then there might be a error in MCAdmin.

When running MultiCommander in standard mode and you retry a operation as administrator and the MCAdmin process get started. It will not automatically retry all other failed operations as administrator unless the options for that in settings has been selected.  ("Automatically retry as administrator if administrator mode is already active")

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Support and Feedback / Re: Word wrap for MultiDataViewer

« on: March 29, 2012, 10:44:14 »

Wordwarp is something that is on the list to add.

The viewer is a plugin and when it is started from within multicommander the "open" button does nothing. It really should be grayed out.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: hiding address/standard/file commands toobar

« on: March 29, 2012, 10:41:53 »

It is because it is rearrangeable. But since there is only 1 'banner' there.  it has nothing to rearrange around.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Quirky Administrator Mode

« on: March 29, 2012, 10:39:08 »

Strange.

If you start MultiCommander as administrator. Can you copy /delete the folder (without it asking for admin mode )
(The admin helper program get the same permissions as MultiCommander run as admin. and if MultiCommander can copy/delete the file then the admin helper should be able to. )

Folder 1 that only have user rights.. is it a normal user or system account ?

I wondering if it can be that the folder has permission for a user, that not even admin has access to until it has taken ownership of the folder.

I have to try to recreate that scenario later.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Double click on empty area goes up 1 level

« on: March 29, 2012, 10:29:57 »

This options does not exists yet. It was planed for the v2.1 release that are coming soon, but I had to remove it and push it to the next release after this, because it had some weird side affects that need to be fixed before it can be put back.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: hiding address/standard/file commands toobar

« on: March 29, 2012, 10:27:24 »

The whole tabbed toolbar area are on the list to be redesigned. and because of that I have not wanted to spent time of thinks that will be removed.
And because of some internal issue I can not add an option to disabled them fast.. 

But it will be fixed..

The 3de toolbar is a toolbar with all the drive ( C: D: E:  ) that toolbar can be disabled in explorer panel settings.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Is it possible to treat files inside archives as though inside folders

« on: March 29, 2012, 10:21:15 »

You are right the items you see in the right click menu are provided by windows, And they are also handled by windows when you select anything.
So it is not possible to show all the items you see when you are outside the archive.

However some special Multi Commander specific commands will be shown there in the future.

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Beta Releases / Re: 2.1 Beta - Changes

« on: March 28, 2012, 19:20:11 »

Release Candidate Build 1019 - 28-March-2012

  FIXED - Some minor problems with view filters.
  FIXED - Problem with "Single Instance" and when current instance was maximized.
  FIXED - Problem with quick search. Sometimes it was not possible to remove the first letter that was typed.
  ADDED - Large Icons Support for Folder Tree
  FIXED - Tweaked view filters a bit.
  ADDED - Multi-Rename now shows status of items renamed and error.
  FIXED - Rare crash in MultiRename for files with no file extensions.
  FIXED - Live preview did not always update in MultiRename.
  FIXED - The File searcher did not always find matching files when searching for content if the file was in unicode.
  FIXED - File Search problem if search for content and 'whole word only' and matching word was the last line in the file.
  FIXED - Fix very rare crash in File searcher when searching for file content.