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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« on: September 04, 2025, 00:49:54 »

The password dialog only happens when I use the .ppk format private keyfile. When I use the OpenSSH keyfile then no password dialog appears (I think after setting and then deleting the PW again), but instead I get the "Failed to authenticate using keyfile : -19" error instead.

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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« on: September 01, 2025, 22:39:44 »

It's the same public key file and username I successfully used Double Commander. Both WinSCP and MuCommander don't ask for a public keyfile, just the private one and both work with that.

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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« on: September 01, 2025, 22:12:59 »

I also tried MuCommander and that worked, too.

The failed password message seems to always happen when MC opens the PW popup, regardless of whether the key file's PW is empty or not.

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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« on: September 01, 2025, 22:08:57 »

I added a password to the private key file via:

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ssh-keygen -p -f
But that leads to the following error:

> Failed to authenticate using keyfile : -19

Then I deleted the PW again via the same ssh-keygen command and now MC accepts the empty PW (no popup appears), but this still ends in the same failed authenticate error message.

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Support and Feedback / Re: SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« on: September 01, 2025, 21:39:01 »

Thanks for the quick answer. Problem is that I cannot just easily change the private key to include a password for my Oracle VM. WinSCP, Double Commander and Total Commander all work without a password for the private key (just left empty). When the password is left empty in MC then it popups up a pw dialog instead and leaving that empty produces the error I quoted.

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Support and Feedback / SFTP connection without SSH key password fails

« on: September 01, 2025, 17:01:51 »

Hello.

I am trying to setup a SFTP connection with a public/private keypair that does *not* use a key password. Unfortunately MC insists on asking me for a password and then claims that the empty password failed.

Ask for password for keyfile failed - Aborting...

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy operation time "Time elapsed" shows wrong value

« on: July 07, 2022, 23:01:09 »

Here is an animated GIF demonstrating the issue:

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Support and Feedback / Re: Version 12 * BETA *

« on: July 07, 2022, 22:55:11 »

I will set it to "Left" then and be happy with it. Maybe some conflict with Windows 11?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Version 12 * BETA *

« on: July 07, 2022, 21:28:34 »

I deleted the registry key and had MC create a new one. Did not help. What I see is that the focus=1 values moves correctly between panel 0 and 1 depending on how I close MC. But regardless of where the registry value is currently stored, MC still defaults to the right panel on startup, so the registry entry seems to be ignored.

PS: When I close all tabs on the right panel then MC defaults to the left panel at startup, even when I had the empty right panel active. But as soon as I create a new tab on the right panel it reverts to activate the right panel on startup.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Copy operation time "Time elapsed" shows wrong value

« on: July 07, 2022, 21:24:48 »

Yes, makes sense.

About the "Time elapsed" thing, though? It's not an important information, but if it is so much off the real numbers then it kind of hurts more than it helps.

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Support and Feedback / Copy operation time "Time elapsed" shows wrong value

« on: July 07, 2022, 18:49:25 »

Hello.

When I copy a 3.5 gb network folder to my local drive in 2:20 min then MC's "Time elapsed" shows 0:45 min at the end.

Furthermore I noticed that the copy operation slows down when "Show Queue" is used.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Version 12 * BETA *

« on: July 07, 2022, 18:46:16 »

My settings default to loading the last used tab session. But even when I change it to "do not autoload any tab session" the startup focus stays on the right panel.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Version 12 * BETA *

« on: July 07, 2022, 18:07:31 »

Since MC is not build on top of Windows Shell, MC filter out network items that are not file shares.

Makes sense. The other file-managers open the browser for web-access to the network devices, which can be useful. But filtering for SMB shares likely is closer to what a file-manager is meant to do.

Auto is the tab side that was in focus when application exited last time.

I even tried File -> Exit (popup asking for confirmation) instead of using the upper right X button, same results, keeps default to right panel. Additionally I tried to limit MC to a single instance and disabled StartAllBack (which modifies the taskbar and Explorer), no dice.

Is there any more setting that I might check for this? I can live with using the "Left" setting, but to me this looks like a bug.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Version 12 * BETA *

« on: July 07, 2022, 17:45:29 »

None of this are related new things in the beta. so moving topic

Thanks for the quick reply and moving to the proper section.

That is a settings. Explorer Panel settings. Look at "save on exit" section, there is a option if network devices should be rememberd

Turns out that the option works the other way around. By default it is set to "remember only path to local harddrive". I turned that off now.

Windows Network stuff are a mess.. MC have very little contorol. there 3 methods and you can switch between them

I get that and found a working setting after trying out all three of them. But it is noteworthy that other file-managers manage to display Windows network devices using default settings (usually not configurable anyway). And compared to MC they display and work with *all* my network devices, not just the SMB share.



Personally I don't need this often (if at all), because I can either use mapped drives or enter the IP directly. But it may be something to look into again?

The focus at startup works for me.. Maybe fails becuase of issue 1..

I tried with local and with network devices, different folders and same folders, exiting MC with the left or the right panel in focus. MC always defaults to the right panel when I open it using the "Auto" option. I don't know what "Auto" bases its decision on, though. For the time being I will use "Left", because I am more used to defaulting to the left panel.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Version 12 * BETA *

« on: July 07, 2022, 10:27:36 »

Hello. Thanks for this useful application! Here is what I noticed while running the beta:

- MC does not show the last tab session when folder when it is on a mapped network drive. Instead it defaults to root C:

- A network scan only finds my Synology SMB share when I use method C (shell).

- "Auto" focus on startup always seem to default to the right panel, even when the left panel was active in the last session.

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Beta Releases / Re: Version 12 * BETA *

« on: July 07, 2022, 10:19:25 »

For me PDF files are shown in an empty preview window...

Strange that PDF is not working for you. Do you have 3rd party PDF reader installed ? maybe they installs therir own preview handler..
Thing is that MC have almost no control at all over the Windows Preview Handler, the API for that is very basic.

MC shows an empty preview window when a third party reader is installed as preview handler. I tried Acrobat and Xchange Editor. The default handler (on W11) is Edge, but that one is both slow and unstable.