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Support and Feedback / New user with questions

« Last post by 2wheelrider on March 16, 2026, 15:37:07 »

Hi All.  I saw Multi Commander mentioned in another forum and am impressed so far.  I am working on trying to configure it to startup ready for my use and have these questions:

1.  Is there any advantages to starting it with a Tab Session vs. using command line parameters to specify the path for the L and R panels (I won't use tabs in panels)?
2.  When I start Multi Commander using command line parameters, how can I get it to start with the folder tree showing in each pane.
3.  On startup, is there a way to make a specific Explorer Panel always have focus?
4.  I will want to frequently synch panels.  Is there a mouse-click option for any of the panel synch keyboard combinations?  I stack my panels (vertical) so the Ctrl+period (go to same path as target) will likely be the one I would use most (the Ctrl+> and Ctrl+< are not intuitive to me with vertical panels).

TIA!

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user: Folder size uses "size" and not "size on disk"

« Last post by iehichez on March 13, 2026, 21:05:56 »

Hi. Thanks for a great piece of software. Please allow me to suggest using Rebex Tiny SFTP server [https://www.rebex.net/tiny-sftp-server/] for testing the SFTP function of your file manager. Maybe it can help you resolve the issue of the 'expected' password while connecting to a remote server via RSA key when no password is needed. Greatly appreciated.

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Support and Feedback / Re: overlay-icons are mixed up

« Last post by frogl3p on March 10, 2026, 11:21:39 »

Thank you so much for your help, now I understand the root of the problem.

The Wikipedia site "List_of_shell_icon_overlay_identifiers" is also very informative and the references to also show the history of why it is what it is.

In my case Microsofts OneDrive has 4 space in front and taken already 8 slots, then comes Adobe with 3 spaces. This seems like a race to the bottom and every vendor just puts anothe space in front to become the new most important symbol. 

 All the best and thank you so much for your great work, it is highly appreciated!

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Support and Feedback / Re: overlay-icons are mixed up

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 09, 2026, 17:02:10 »

MC do not fetch overlay it self. MC ask Windows about the overlay icons.
The problem is that Windows only support 16 overlay icons..  So only the first 16 that are in the registry will work.
Also 32bit and 64bit extension that are installed can install different overlay.. If you run 64bit version of MC then MC only gets the shell extensions registered for 64bit.

REG:\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\  ( 64bit apps on 64bit system )
REG:\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers\  (32bit app on 64bit system)

They are loaded in alphabetic order. and only the 16 first are loaded.. as you see lots of them problably have space infront of the name to "force" them to be higher up the list.

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Support and Feedback / Re: change of date from number to "Today"

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 09, 2026, 16:53:34 »

Menu > Configuration > Explorer Panel Settings > Display (Tab)

Under section "Date / Time format"
There is a "Date Display format" settings. There you can change that

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Support and Feedback / overlay-icons are mixed up

« Last post by frogl3p on March 09, 2026, 16:39:03 »

Hi everybody,

I am new to Multi Commander and playing with it to evaluate if I can use it as my daily file-manager. I am using Windows 11 and see the following problem with icons:

- SVN controlled folders, folders with the ".svn" inside, do not have the overlay Icons with the green checkmark.
- Junctions to folders, created with "mklink /J" have the green checkmark icon.

I havent found anything about this problem yet. I have found the post about the registry-keys but these key seem alright. Btw, the icons are correct in other file-managers like "Windows-Explorer" and "FreeCommander".

I have attached an screenshot to this post but was unable to embedd it in the text, sorry.

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Support and Feedback / change of date from number to "Today"

« Last post by Babilon55 on March 09, 2026, 15:35:01 »

Hi.

I remember  that when I installed the app I saw in the Date field the word "Today" instead of numbers.
I made a change and now I see always numbers.
I searched how to change back and I didn't find it.
Can you advise?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Toolbar Size

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 04, 2026, 09:45:01 »

In Core Settings > Layout

You can disable the Quick Launch Bar (under Commad line bar) and then enable the Quick LaunchBar (Entire row)
Then you get an own row for that instead of just the area after the Command line bar

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Support and Feedback / Re: Toolbar Size

« Last post by Jungle on March 04, 2026, 07:29:29 »

Toolbar icons size can be configured in Core settings > Applications Layout > Toolbars > Icons size

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Support and Feedback / Toolbar Size

« Last post by bruce35dc on March 03, 2026, 22:19:26 »

I very much want to use Multi to have a row of icons for folders that I frequently use.
The Quick Launch toolbar lets me do this well.

But I have a high resolution (3440 x 1440) monitor.  I find size of the icons and the toolbars in general to be too small for me to use at that resolution.

I've dropped down the resolution but I would still love to be able to increase the size of user toolbars.

Also is there any way not to have Quick Launch icons all the way on the right?  Or to reduce the size of the command bar?
I've moved things over to the left by inserting a number of seperators but perhaps there's a better way to do that?