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Support and Feedback / Re: Weird file names display

« on: February 15, 2026, 09:27:26 »

MC do not process filenames in anyway.. they are send them to Windows rendering call to be drawn the same way they are read from disk (from another Windows call)
More likely it is some windows issue, Because the window text draw engine is loaded into each process that is rendering text in the Windows UI. But I can't check for that since I can't reproduce it

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Support and Feedback / Re: How to make a path use a different order

« on: February 13, 2026, 23:24:05 »

Currently you can't set different settings by folder.. something like that are planed..

But you can switch sort column with Ctrl+F1 to Ctrl+F5  (Filename column Ctrl+F1 , date Ctrl+F4 if it is the 4th column)

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Support and Feedback / Re: Weird file names display

« on: February 09, 2026, 07:41:23 »

Unicode suport all kind of strange things like emoji and what ever..  MC has no control over it. I see any security risk. It not like it can execute any code.
MC just tell window to draw the unicode string. MC does not process., It is using Window built in support for drawing unicode strings.

You can't use zip for unicode filenames, zip is an legacy and old format. normally zip till convert filename to 7/8bit for current code page used, or to UTF-8 if enabled for zip. But that is only if the conversion from Windows Unicode to UTF8 will work and there are cases where it does not work so well. 7Zip support unicode much better.

Also it depends on what font is used and if it support all the characters included..  Unicode has over 297 000 characters.. and i don't think there is a font that support all of that

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copier/Coller

« on: February 05, 2026, 16:27:31 »

You can also check the log with Ctrl+L  If the renamed failed. it should be listed there.. BUT the rename operation can also be halted by security software in silent.. MC think it was successful but the security app prevented the call.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Dotfiles won't copy/move? Just...hangs?

« on: February 05, 2026, 08:57:06 »

Thanks for the information.. I will take a look.

I have not checked yet But I suspect the error is because of some workaround that MC has for the "hidden" file attributes and linux.
Linux does not have that file attribute, but on Linux a file is "hidden" if it begins with dot "."
So Samba (the thing on linux that make file sharing on Linux windows compatible) then say that the file has hidden attribute set since it is.
and that causes some combability issue. since you can't remove or set that attribute since it is based on filename.. so MC has some workaround for "." files and Linux.
So i maybe something might be wrong with the logic around that.

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Support and Feedback / Re: [BUG] Unicode NOT work

« on: February 04, 2026, 10:39:42 »

Yes font is important.  the font need to support the characters else it will not render correct

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Support and Feedback / Re: [BUG] Unicode NOT work

« on: February 03, 2026, 14:51:01 »

Strange. MC do not convert filenames and Windows NTFS is using Unicode for filename. So it should just work.

If you got a filename that does not work. create an empty file with that name.. and just 7Zip to pack that.. (7Zip should support unicode.. Zip does not) and send me it.

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Support and Feedback / Re: [Issue] New File Viewer is not opened if a previous one shows some modal message

« on: February 03, 2026, 09:51:23 »

its becuas the error dialog is open.. Its a modal dialog. so it catches all the message so they are not recieved in the module that shows windows.. it happens because each Viewer is not its own process.  Not sure it is a bug.. More a limitation on how Windows old UI system works.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: scp with winscp

« on: February 03, 2026, 06:35:45 »

I dont know WinSCP.. but  SFTP is using SCP

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: scp with winscp

« on: February 02, 2026, 11:21:14 »

Not sure what you question is.

But MC do support SFTP (Filetransfer over ssh) however.. some newer crypoalgorithms are not supported yet

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Support and Feedback / Re: Dotfiles won't copy/move? Just...hangs?

« on: January 30, 2026, 23:38:22 »

Normal local NTFS filesystem ? or remote into a linux ?
Any error in the logs (ctrl+L , FileOperation log  )

Something special with the file ? does it have readonly or system attributes ?

If I create a file call ".file" I have no issue with copy/move it..

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Support and Feedback / Re: MultiDataViewer problem with back search

« on: January 30, 2026, 13:52:04 »

This is not a new thing. its very old issue.
I will see if I can fix it.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Make Ctr+C/Ctrl+V (Ctrl+Ins/Shift+Ins) work in Search results panel

« on: January 27, 2026, 14:01:49 »

I might be able to fix that for next version..
However if you do Copy / Paste from files that are in search result from different folders at the same time. I think it can cause issue.. Windows Copy/Paste does not like that..  Then use MC own copy process.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: add link to MC change log under the HELP > ABOUT menu

« on: January 13, 2026, 22:38:04 »

You have it under Help > Multi Commander ChangeLog  ( row 3 in menu )

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Support and Feedback / Re: Column Width Problem

« on: January 12, 2026, 11:06:41 »

Can't reproduce that. But if you right click on column and select "Save Current layout as default" then it should save and remember it

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Support and Feedback / Re: [BUG] Unicode NOT work

« on: January 11, 2026, 18:14:34 »

I don't know why you get this. There is not much that MC can do. Everything in windows is Unicode (UTF32). MC do not do any own processing of the characters.

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Support and Feedback / Re: [BUG] Unicode NOT work

« on: January 11, 2026, 11:55:47 »

MC is build with unicode support and is using unicode for all text.
I don't know why it does not work for you.
Is it only some places that does not work or everywhere?
I seen Japanese and Chinese screenshot of MC, So it should be able to render it.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml

« on: January 07, 2026, 15:22:19 »

Very common that happens.. Filemanager application does a lot of stuff with files that are suspicious.
Normally fixes it self after 2-3 day after release.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Select files and create a drawer for each file and put each file on each drawer.

« on: January 07, 2026, 07:28:09 »

Ok if you just what to make the foldername same a filename without ext. then it is a lot easier.

I'm not an powershell expert.. but to fix the powershell script. try asking ChatGPT or similar.. they are pretty good at fixing scripts..

(The reverse is in MC as a copy plugin.  "Copy Content" )

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Support and Feedback / Re: Select files and create a drawer for each file and put each file on each drawer.

« on: January 06, 2026, 14:24:19 »

That is a very special use case.. There is no built in ready to go feature like that.

But you should be able to create a UserDefinedCommand of MultiScript type to do that.
The hard part is to figure out what that the folder name should be. If the folder name can be generated from what the filename is.. then it is easier.

From MultiScript you can get all selected files
Go through them one by one and from file name create the Directory name you want,.
Create that folder and then move the file to that folder..

Then you assign that command to a HotKey/Button/Menu and when you select that command it will run that on all selected files.

https://multicommander.com/Docs/UDC_multiscript
https://multicommander.com/Docs/multiscript/functions/getfilefromview#getselectedpaths
https://multicommander.com/Docs/multiscript/functions/filesystem#movefile
https://multicommander.com/Docs/multiscript/functions/string
https://multicommander.com/Docs/multiscript/examples#file-operations

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Support and Feedback / Re: Commander Panel

« on: January 04, 2026, 11:13:23 »

I don't know what "commander panel" is.
There is no extra extension in MC that is called that.

MC do not have a full folder compare and sync feature yet..
It has so it can compare two folders. and select what is different based on some rules. it does not compare subitems in folders. only what is shown in the two panels with each other
Menu > Edit > "Compare Folders , Advanced..."

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Support and Feedback / Re: Is there a way to change the fonts for the menu at the top and the icons below?

« on: January 02, 2026, 11:44:55 »

MC will scale with Windows scale settings.. Unless you turn that off and if you want  everything bigger.. scaling with Windows Scaling is often a better chooice

The font for the Freespace field is changed is changed in Explorer Panel Settings. the icons should scale automatically

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Support and Feedback / Re: Delete folders with content

« on: December 24, 2025, 10:47:00 »

It cant delete the folder if it failed to delete some files before under it.
So there must be some error before where it failed to delete some sub files..  Windows does not allow delete of a folder if it is not empty.. so if it failed to delete some files under it. it will also fail to delete the folder.

OR something protects it or permission prevents it or something else that are special with that folder

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Support and Feedback / Re: Delete folders with content

« on: December 23, 2025, 12:00:58 »

I does go down and delete every, Unless there are some issue
There must be some permission issue or other issue during the delete, Try run the application as administrator .
I can also be security software that blocks MC from deleting files.

Check fileoperation log (Ctrl+L and switch to correct log tab)

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Windows on ARM CPU

« on: December 17, 2025, 07:57:51 »

Windows ARM, Maybe.. But I don't have a Windows ARM computer so until I get one its hard to develop something for it.

MacOSX, No, all UI and other parts in MC are Windows specific and would need to be rewritten. Would require super much extra work and I don't have the time for that.