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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on Yesterday at 07:22:58 »

Might be, Portable saves everything to a file.. so it recreates everything each time..  while the installed saves to registry and overwrite values.

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by 2wheelrider on March 26, 2026, 22:57:00 »

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

Perhaps my issue is the result of using the portable version.  Ideally, a portable version should save all settings to the MultiCommander\Config directory, which I thought it was doing, but maybe not the 'save settings on exit' stuff. 

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Support and Feedback / Re: Select files with right mouse button + hold

« Last post by StevenD on March 26, 2026, 17:49:49 »

Thanks very much, a solution on an instance.
Many Thanks.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Select files with right mouse button + hold

« Last post by Jungle on March 26, 2026, 13:20:05 »

I'm not sure I understand what you exactly want. If you use Multicommander Look'n'Feel, it is possible to select via RMB hold and hover (by default if I'm not mistaken). If you mean rectangle selecting like in Windows Explorer, it is possible via Left button (not sure about RMB) and can be enabled in Explorer panel settings > Display > Selection and checking of items > Selection Box.

Check Explorer panel settings > Mouse configurations > Right mouse button > Click. I have "Toggle selection" there.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Transfer speeds to USB

« Last post by Ulfhednar on March 26, 2026, 12:04:04 »

thanks for the reply Mathias.
Yes it is real difference - minutes vs seconds.
MC has full admin permissions & is 100% whitelisted for all ops in the AV.

I agree it appears to be something blocking MC but I am struggling to determine what as it isn't obviuos, I double checked the R/W strategy was as recommended...
I guess I need to run some sort of trace or something.

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Support and Feedback / Select files with right mouse button + hold

« Last post by StevenD on March 26, 2026, 11:48:23 »

Used to work with total commander in which it is possible to select files while klicking right mouse button+hold and hover.
Did not succeed to find correct way in MC, any one for help please?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Transfer speeds to USB

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 25, 2026, 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 March 25, 2026, 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 March 24, 2026, 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 March 24, 2026, 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).