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Support and Feedback / Re: Transfer speeds to USB

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Today at 18:26:05 »

Are you sure it used the Read/write tweaks you changed ? You can in log see what settings is used.
When writing data there is not much to play with.. it is bypass cache or not and write chunck size (how many bytes to write in each write operation) and if writes should be threaded or not.
There are so many external factor that affect the speed.

Also you cant just compare the number from Windows.. since that number say nothing. That is not a real speed.

But getting really slow speed in MC then I suspect something is preventing MC from going full speed and checking the data before it sends it to the device.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Transfer speeds to USB

« Last post by Ulfhednar on Today at 16:24:35 »

Looks like I spoke too soon...
Files ~300mb to USB 3.0 stick, <20GB free space.
Tried MC first, cancelled after about 10mins, repeated with different file of similar size & took screen shot.
Then using MC panes ctrl+x / v - expected speed achieved, to be sure I ran a CRC check - OK.
Very different results.

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Yesterday at 19:47:27 »

If you want same setup all the time.. Just exist MC as you want it. then turn off that MC should remember and save setup on exit.

This didn't work.  Turning off the 'remember and save setup' options result in both panes opening to the root of C: even though MC had previously been exited with C:\ in one pane and \Documents in the other.  A startup while the 'remember' options were enabled opened to the saved locations but that failed once the 'remember' options were unticked.

We can drop this discussion because I intend to stick with what works which is to specify a tab session on the command line in conjunction with the "Set focus at startup to" option. 

IMHO, focus is not being recorded in tab sessions, and the remembered and saved setup items are not maintained once those options are turned off.

Please understand that my intention is only to report what I find isn't working that way I think it should.  I do not mean to be hyper-critical nor do I mean to disparage MC.  I have not used it very much yet, but so far, I prefer it to three other files explorers that I have been using (Q-Dir, Nexusfile, and Windows File Explorer).

That is strange.. works for me. If You have at least one save in the registry it should keep them. turning of Save option should just prevent them from being overwritten

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by 2wheelrider on Yesterday at 19:34:07 »

If you want same setup all the time.. Just exist MC as you want it. then turn off that MC should remember and save setup on exit.

This didn't work.  Turning off the 'remember and save setup' options result in both panes opening to the root of C: even though MC had previously been exited with C:\ in one pane and \Documents in the other.  A startup while the 'remember' options were enabled opened to the saved locations but that failed once the 'remember' options were unticked.

We can drop this discussion because I intend to stick with what works which is to specify a tab session on the command line in conjunction with the "Set focus at startup to" option. 

IMHO, focus is not being recorded in tab sessions, and the remembered and saved setup items are not maintained once those options are turned off.

Please understand that my intention is only to report what I find isn't working that way I think it should.  I do not mean to be hyper-critical nor do I mean to disparage MC.  I have not used it very much yet, but so far, I prefer it to three other files explorers that I have been using (Q-Dir, Nexusfile, and Windows File Explorer).

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Support and Feedback / Re: Transfer speeds to USB

« Last post by Ulfhednar on March 23, 2026, 15:28:08 »

Thanks Mathias.
Enabling use system cache in write/target for external devices has done the trick, speed is maintained & dialog closes appropriately. 

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by 2wheelrider on March 23, 2026, 15:07:25 »

That makes sense.  I'll give it a try.  Thank you.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Transfer speeds to USB

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 22, 2026, 10:21:53 »

In Read/Write stratergy settings you can enable to MC also buffer all the writes so you get extra fast write.. (It will do the same as windows. report that it is done before it actually is since the data only have gone to the buffers and not disk. and not wait for windows to say it has written everything)
Make sure the Write process uses both System And Drive cache in that settings for that R/W profile

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 22, 2026, 10:09:45 »

Focus is set for the active tab that are the "source" panel.

TabSessions and "Set focus at startup to" settings kind of collides with each other. now you got two thing trying to control it

If you want same setup all the time.. Just exist MC as you want it. then turn off that MC should remember and save setup on exit.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Transfer speeds to USB

« Last post by Ulfhednar on March 21, 2026, 16:13:30 »

Thanks for the replies. 
I'd wondered about teracopy but have been preoccupied with the ability to quickly use MC buttons.  I will have to test it tho!

ATM I see speed variations with SSD on USB connector & USB sticks (2 things I use all the time), sticks are always slower I think, but I tried moving a ~300mb video file to different things (so AV wouldn't be triggered), with Win cmds it was <1min, MC gave <3mins on the same port/stick.
I will need to spend some time with MC tx profiles & see if I can see any pitfalls.

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by 2wheelrider on March 21, 2026, 15:59:37 »

I took a look inside tabsessions.xml and see a <FOCUS> element within the <PANEL> element of the panel that had focus when the tab session is saved.  It does not appear to have an effect though.  I have saved two tab sessions, one focused in the L panel,  the other focused in the right panel.  In the .xml, the <FOCUS> element exists within the appropriate <PANEL> element yet focus is always on the Folder Tree in the R panel.  Closing the Folder Trees and then saving tab sessions does not make a difference.  The R panel is still always given focus.  I use the "Vertical layout" view. 

Edit:  I just tried setting the "Set focus at startup to" configuration to Left/Top.  Surprising to me is that this changes the behavior when a tab session is specified in the command line.  This gets me pretty close to what I have been trying to accomplish.  I still think a look at the <FOCUS> element in tab sessions is warranted.

This is the content of tabsessions.xml following my test with the folder tree open in each panel.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Sessions>
  <Session Name="TabSession01" ID="27c597a5a67746fdac3561e9ba876c3f" Slot="1">
    <Options>
      <Core FileColoring="-1" FileColoringProfile="" ButtonPanel="-1" TabClose="1"/>
    </Options>
    <Panels>
      <Panel Name="Explorer Panel" ID="a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0">
        <Side>L</Side>
        <Active>1</Active>
        <Focus>1</Focus>
        <Path>C:\</Path>
        <SortCol>0</SortCol>
        <SortAsc>1</SortAsc>
        <ViewMode>3</ViewMode>
        <ViewModeListWidth>0</ViewModeListWidth>
        <ViewModeDetailWidth>0</ViewModeDetailWidth>
        <Locked>0</Locked>
        <AllowSubPathChange>0</AllowSubPathChange>
        <ShowTree>1</ShowTree>
        <TreeWidth>519</TreeWidth>
      </Panel>
      <Panel Name="Explorer Panel" ID="a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0">
        <Side>R</Side>
        <Active>1</Active>
        <Path>C:\</Path>
        <SortCol>0</SortCol>
        <SortAsc>1</SortAsc>
        <ViewMode>3</ViewMode>
        <ViewModeListWidth>0</ViewModeListWidth>
        <ViewModeDetailWidth>0</ViewModeDetailWidth>
        <Locked>0</Locked>
        <AllowSubPathChange>0</AllowSubPathChange>
        <ShowTree>1</ShowTree>
        <TreeWidth>519</TreeWidth>
      </Panel>
    </Panels>
  </Session>
  <Session Name="TabSession02" ID="7059bd25cc6d42ecb5bc38da2ec1ec3e" Slot="2">
    <Options>
      <Core FileColoring="-1" FileColoringProfile="" ButtonPanel="-1" TabClose="1"/>
    </Options>
    <Panels>
      <Panel Name="Explorer Panel" ID="a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0">
        <Side>L</Side>
        <Active>1</Active>
        <Path>C:\</Path>
        <SortCol>0</SortCol>
        <SortAsc>1</SortAsc>
        <ViewMode>3</ViewMode>
        <ViewModeListWidth>0</ViewModeListWidth>
        <ViewModeDetailWidth>0</ViewModeDetailWidth>
        <Locked>0</Locked>
        <AllowSubPathChange>0</AllowSubPathChange>
        <ShowTree>1</ShowTree>
        <TreeWidth>519</TreeWidth>
      </Panel>
      <Panel Name="Explorer Panel" ID="a4c2985d9c7e4035a3221cfd600171d0">
        <Side>R</Side>
        <Active>1</Active>
        <Focus>1</Focus>
        <Path>C:\</Path>
        <SortCol>0</SortCol>
        <SortAsc>1</SortAsc>
        <ViewMode>3</ViewMode>
        <ViewModeListWidth>0</ViewModeListWidth>
        <ViewModeDetailWidth>0</ViewModeDetailWidth>
        <Locked>0</Locked>
        <AllowSubPathChange>0</AllowSubPathChange>
        <ShowTree>1</ShowTree>
        <TreeWidth>519</TreeWidth>
      </Panel>
    </Panels>
  </Session>
</Sessions>