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Support and Feedback / Search complementary files

« on: April 27, 2026, 23:14:27 »

Hello everybody,

To get files from backups, I should need to find files in a date interval, and that are present on a disk but not another, with same path.

Say I have restored the disk to the 3rd of April, and some files are missing that were saved on 20th.

Those files that are missing on C: are listed on disk G:

After having listed them, my intent is to copy them to C:

The dates can be a help, to find files that are present on a backup and not on another.

I remember MultiCommander has interesting features to realize this, but I do not remember very well.

I find how to select files with same extension as selected, with different extension ...

But what matters is that the file name is present or not in the other panel. Then, it would help if the search can be done recursively on subfolders.

If I remember well, this is one of the key advantages of MultiCommander ?

Or perhaps I mix up ?

How would you do this ?

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« on: April 09, 2026, 22:59:05 »

Also, I remain unable to figure out how to have Folder Trees open on startup when using the -L and -R command line parameters.  Please point me to where the configuration option is to enable this.

Hello, I remembered I saw a question about providing paths on the command line, so I made a few tests.

As you did, I found the documentation of the command line parameters to be there, in the "Other" category of the lateral browsing menu :
https://multicommander.com/Docs/commandlineparameters

You can provide two paths in the order left panel followed by right panel, with nothing more on the command line.
You can also precise in a different order which one is to open left, and which one is to open right, in this case you must not forget the equal sign between /L or /R and the path.

Something more to signal : if you set a tab session to be active on MC startup, then the paths given on the command line are ignored. This can be surprising, but, without having explored parameters that make that change, it is like that –at least in some situations.
(Not sure I selected the correct quotation, as you mention folder trees, and I did not answer on that.)

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Support and Feedback / Re: The saved sessions are not visible/accessible

« on: April 09, 2026, 19:53:38 »

I unchecked this option and haven’t had the problem anymore 

Use multiple threads/cores when starting up (Faster startup)

Oh I did not notice that.

Shall try at next session.

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Support and Feedback / Re: The saved sessions are not visible/accessible

« on: April 09, 2026, 19:00:33 »

Hello,
I have got two machines : one on which the tab session works OK, and one that saves empty tabs.

The first one runs on Windows 11 25H2 [version 10.0.2, 6200.8039], it has 64 GB RAM.
The second one runs on Windows 10 22H2 [version 10.0.19045.6466], it has 8 GB RAM.

As I am administrator on a machine that has the same user names, I could create the tabs I wanted and save them to a tab session, and copy it to Windows 10.

Before having this idea I edited the file by hand in notepad, this is somewhat longer, especially since the Windows 10 does not seem to have any editor for XML files, so I had to redo the indentation by hand to understand what I had in front of my eyes.

If you have an idea of what would be useful to investigate ...

Normally they have roughly the same .Net versions, as I develop programs on one and transfer the executable directory to the other.
But maybe it deserves verification, although if the correct .Net platform was absent it could not have been unnoticed.
I imagine the components are deployed with the program.

By the way, I did not find the documentation of the tab sessions any more, except in this thread.
At least, Dertuek knows how to ask a question.

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On Windows 11 this is the version of MultiCommander : Multi Commander (x64) v15.8 (build 3135)
You know, to get it here I had to make a screen copy and then use the character recognition of PowerToys, as it is displayed "read-only".

I shall have to make a follow-up, the connection with the Windows 10 machine is now closed.

Both machines are updated with UniGetUI.

Sorry I clicked on Notify instead of Modify.

It was a good idea to read again, I had transcripted the gloobi-boolga created by the character recognition, and Windows version is displayed so little, that for young people it is no problem, but ... they are not supposed to die as soon as they cannot read Microsof's screens, happily.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Had lost the thumbnails

« on: September 25, 2025, 03:57:55 »

Thank you.
Oh, I come back because I had problems with recently downloaded pictures. Is there any mail alert normally ?
So, I used ie4uinit.exe again, and observed that Multicommander is way quicker than explorer to refresh the icons (after restarting Windows).
The picture quality for the thumbnail system is set to good, perhaps it is important.
My machine has 64 GB of memory, perhaps it helps to assume a good quality of cache.

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Support and Feedback / Had lost the thumbnails

« on: September 01, 2025, 03:32:15 »

Hello,

I had a problem with the picture files : instead of a miniature of the picture, the IrfanView icon was showed. OK it said it was a picture, but seeing the picture is much better.

I found a thread of 2015 from somebody who had the same problem.

From the Configuration menu he was said to go to the Core Settings command, then to the File System tab, and then find Thumbnails system at the end.

The tip was to switch the thumbnails system to Internal, from Windows or Auto.

Well you know, I had just the opposite. I had the Internal thunbnails system selected, as soon as I selected Auto the thumbnails appeared again.

I remember I once had to refresh the thumbnails in the Windows explorer with something like

Code: [Select]

ie4uinit.exe -show, I presume that something equivalent has to exist in MultiCommander ?

By the way, felicitations for the quality of the scrolling. The first line stays stable, just the next pictures take the place of the ones that were displayed.

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Documentation / Re: Missing Documentation - Status

« on: May 19, 2024, 00:08:33 »

Hello,
I discovered TabSessions by myself, so I am not quite aware of what exists about this.
Can you confirm the documentation is still missing ?
I imagine the preferred format is HTML ?
Any stylesheet ready ? Right that for this I can have a look in the existing pages.

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Documentation / Re: Missing Documentation - Status

« on: May 11, 2024, 03:20:46 »

Hello,

I am searching about the date/time formats, where it is proposed to create a folder named by the date.

I saw that dddddd formats 2 figures for the year, two for the month, and two for the date in month. I was not used to consider that obvious.

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In fact, perhaps the difficulty is to situate the exact context to use.
I later saw the Microsoft format is used, so I did not know exactly how this dddddd format was used.

I had to grope around but eventually created a folder with the date format I wanted.

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Support and Feedback / Preview of webp files

« on: October 04, 2023, 19:58:56 »

Hello everybody,

For pictures in format webp, there is no preview, just a white rectangle.

Is it something I did not install properly ?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Font sizes

« on: May 25, 2021, 11:52:10 »

The scale is already at 125%. I made an attempt at 150%, but many parts of the screen were not visible.
The drop-down font is readable, but as you say they are cut off at part of the text, as their width is not adapted.
This is the problem that would appear on the whole system with 150% -and some applications would not even have any place on the screen.
In fact there are only two parts that are still written too little : the menus, and the tips window at opening.
It is quite possible that the solution would be to go back to Windows XP, that did not arise all those problems.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Font sizes

« on: May 25, 2021, 01:10:03 »

Hello, thank you for your answer.
Of course, the first thing I did when receiving my machine was to increase the Windows standard font size. But I am afraid this is common to the whole system, and any new change that side will destabilize the whole display of the system.
After increasing the standard font size of the system, I had to increase the fonts to display each application. I began by Visual Studio, then the application for xml display needed a new version to solve this problem.
Maybe I have a memory problem, as the fonts settings are grouped, and you already indicated it to me for the files lists.
I should have said I saw only one font size before asking the question, and I see four ones now. But that seems strange, more probably my remembering lacks precision.
Now, I can read the sizes that are written down the tabs, that can be useful.
About the disks lists (Alt F1, Alt F2), are they affected by one of those four font sizes ?
For your information, it seems the texts in French, in the settings, for the labels in front of each font size, are maybe somewhat larger than those you wrote in English, so I only see the beginnings, and I have to guess what comes after that (some drop-down lists have that problem too). As there are only four font sizes, it is not a big problem as I can test all four, until I find the good one.
Do you think there is a possibility to choose the font for the menus ?
Yours faithfully
(I tried to put a screen copy, but it does not appear on the preview ; it is a png picture, it seems it should do it.)

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Support and Feedback / Font sizes

« on: May 19, 2021, 02:41:23 »

Hello,
You know, I do not see as well as 20 years ago ; and this is the main reason why I use multi-commander. You were very reactive about the font size to display the file names, thank you for that.
Some other areas of the UI would deserve attention on the same aspect.
Maybe the menus (dropdown and contextual) are the most often read. The file size area down the two panels is not obvious as there is rich information compared to the place available for it, so probably increasing the font size on it would require some more work to give it place to display.
I saw a few threads in the forum dedicated to readability, and I must admit I was unable to take profit of them. The drives lists (Alt F1 / Alt F2) loose their font in some badly identified situations I have read somewhere : this induces you can choose a font somewhere. Well sorry, I do not know where. Somewhere you mention the explorer settings, do you mean the Windows Explorer ? Oh, I came as I was pretty sure there was no easy way to modify the font there.
So, perhaps it is a question of documentation, I did not look at the correct place ?
Maybe I could better discover some other aspects of MultiCommander if did not have to spend so much time on opening the Windows lens and closing it again.
For instance, when opening the software you have a nice dialog to display tips, but I can only read that dialog with the Windows lens (the magnifier).

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User Contributed Content / Re: "Tooltip" poor name for "File Info" pop-up in Config. settings

« on: May 19, 2021, 01:29:18 »

Hello,
Do you have any idea how to choose the font to display this ?

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Tips and Tricks / Compare folders

« on: April 07, 2021, 17:20:09 »

Hello everybody,

I presume on Multicommander, there is a simple way to list file names that present in one panel and not the other ?
Where should I look for that ?

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Tips and Tricks / View and zoom, 2

« on: March 11, 2021, 00:31:31 »

Hello,

I was about to answer to "View and zoom" [1], but I am not sure about whether Daveme wants to stay updated.

So, you change the fonts for the file names by Configuration, Explorer panel (and ... scroll to the point  )

Hum, already much better, I should have guessed I should find that in the documentation (you know, I came to Multi-Commander because the font in the Windows explorer is definitely too little).

For the title bar and the menu bar I used System Font Size Changer (from wintools.info), but I see there are still buttons down there with little fonts.
I should have guessed Configuration / Preferences, but ... perhaps not ?