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Support and Feedback / Background Colors Stop Working

« Last post by Kevin Parr on Today at 19:49:01 »

I am using MultiCommander version 16.1 build 3200, regular (not portable) version, running under Windows 11 Home version 10.0.26200.

I set background colours for the active and inactive explorer panels (Configuration / Explorer Panel Settings / Colors (tab) / Background / Active panel & Inactive panel) so that there are alternative colour stripes behind the file names.

After a while - a bit random and I haven't timed it specifically - the background colours stop working and the background of the panel is all white. If I close MultiCommander and restart it, the background colours are used again. If I open a new tab, including from a tab where the background colours stopped working, the new tab uses the background colours.

I had the same problem with previous builds of version 16.1. I don't recall it happening with the 15.x versions but (with apologies) I can't say that with 100% confidence.

My computer has 32GB of RAM. Process Explorer shows that about 26GB is in use.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Faster detection of offline network drives when starting Multi Commander.

« Last post by Barney63 on Today at 11:00:59 »

Faster detection of offline network drives when starting Multi Commander (Windows).

https://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,5213.0.html

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Support and Feedback / Re: Changing date and time sttributes

« Last post by wynford on Today at 00:16:52 »

This link does everything I want, but would prefer to have it implemented into MC

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/bulk_file_changer.html

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: About donating

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Yesterday at 20:32:31 »

weChat and Alipay are not really an option for me, Sorry
I Understand that only PayPal might be limited. but that is the biggest one, and I can't support them all.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Changing date and time sttributes

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Yesterday at 20:28:47 »

NOt built in. but not needed..
MultiScript is using time_t (c /c++ ) time type for date/time..  num of seconds since 1970-01-01
https://multicommander.com/Docs/multiscript/functions/filesystem#getfiletime
https://multicommander.com/Docs/multiscript/functions/datetime

You can just add X seconds to a timestamps and use that with setFileTime

SO if yiu can $currentTime and want to add one minute to that it it is $currentTime += 60;   //add 60 seconds.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Changing date and time sttributes

« Last post by Jungle on Yesterday at 17:53:16 »

I'm not sure that Multiscript supports "advanced" datetime functions like AddSecond, AddMinute etc. Without them it could be quite messy to take care of different edge cases like day change, year change, leap year etc.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / About donating

« Last post by ncnnnn on August 08, 2026, 18:13:40 »

I clicked on the donation option, but it only has PayPal and Bitcoin. Both are really complicated and troublesome for me. I also don't know if enabling WeChat Pay or Alipay would be a hassle for you. After all, the exchange rates are different, so I'm not sure if it's worth it for you. Thanks for your software.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Changing date and time sttributes

« Last post by wynford on August 08, 2026, 13:33:30 »

I strip all EXIF from my photos, mainly for security, I have tried Menu > Picture Tools > Adjust EXIF and with no metadata, I guess, doesn't do anything.

I have no idea how to use or what all those things do in User Defined Commands (Multidscript)

I have almost 7000 photos and 1800 photos that I want to change date and time photos from before 01/01/80, the rest are ok, that I have scanned and that windows doesn't show date and time (something about FAT 16) after using Change Properties in the Tools Menu.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Multi Commander startup time is about 70 seconds

« Last post by Barney63 on August 08, 2026, 11:21:39 »

Thank you.

P:, W:, and X: are mapped network drives belonging to PCs that are only in use intermittently and are powered off when Multi Commander starts up.
P: causes a startup delay but is not displayed as "offline" within MC; this only happens with W: and X:.
When I bring P: online, W: then causes a startup delay. It seems Multi Commander generally struggles with offline network drives and consequently skips the subsequent offline drives?
I also currently use Total Commander, which does not exhibit this behavior; it always starts quickly and immediately displays P:, W:, and X: as offline drives.

If P: ist offline, it delays startup:

2026-08-08 10:22:06.737 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : P
2026-08-08 10:22:30.442 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : P:
2026-08-08 10:22:30.457 [Device Manager] - Processing 'P:\' done
2026-08-08 10:22:30.457 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : W
2026-08-08 10:22:30.459 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : W:
2026-08-08 10:22:30.480 [Device Manager] - Processing 'W:\' done
2026-08-08 10:22:30.480 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : X
2026-08-08 10:22:30.483 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : X:

If P: ist online, now following W: delays startup:

2026-08-08 10:54:36.906 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : P
2026-08-08 10:54:36.907 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : P:
2026-08-08 10:54:36.916 [Device Manager] - Processing 'P:\' done
2026-08-08 10:54:36.916 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : W
2026-08-08 10:54:57.930 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : W:
2026-08-08 10:54:57.944 [Device Manager] - Processing 'W:\' done
2026-08-08 10:54:57.944 [Device Manager] - Starting to get device information for drive : X
2026-08-08 10:54:57.946 [Device Manager] - Get Device Icon for : X:

Can I change this behavior regarding network drives via configuration?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Are you sure you want to... window issue

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on August 08, 2026, 10:08:51 »

just generated fresh one:  1916-F108YK

Thx, I will do a manual check of the crash report next week.