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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

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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" )