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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>

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« Last post by Jungle on March 20, 2026, 21:10:22 »

[SOLVED]
This is the change, which breaks the display:

Explorer Panel Settings > Display > Gridlines > Auto adjust text if it is too long

If I remove this option (I prefer to keep the text size, because of the eyes problem), the name do not displays properly, but if this is ON - as default - everything displays OK.

I don't see any difference. The only thing I see is that in Detailed mode filename part overlaps EXT column, but I'm not sure whether it's a bug or by design.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« Last post by milen-prg on March 20, 2026, 18:39:45 »

[SOLVED]

I experimented with the settings long time and I FIND IT!

This is the change, which breaks the display:

Explorer Panel Settings > Display > Gridlines > Auto adjust text if it is too long

If I remove this option (I prefer to keep the text size, because of the eyes problem), the name do not displays properly, but if this is ON - as default - everything displays OK.
I admit the Chatgpt helped me in investigation.

But why this option breaks the displaying?!

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Support and Feedback / Re: New user with questions

« Last post by 2wheelrider on March 20, 2026, 17:04:55 »

In the Explorer Panel settings there's an option Display > Tab > Default Settings for new tabs > Show folder tree. So you may open desired tabs, then activate left panel on startup via command line and UDC.

That option is checked but no folder tree is opened when using this command line:  MultiCommander.exe -L="C:\" -R="C:\Users\Me\Documents"
I have not yet figure out UDC's so more work to be done there.

You can get a lot of info in the official online documentation.

I know.  The quality and details in the online documentation is commendable.  I just can't seem to get things to work the way a understand they should from the documentation.  I am using the portable version if that makes any difference.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 20, 2026, 15:07:08 »

Packing filename with strange characters with zip is not good.  zip does not support UTF16. standard zip only support 7bit.,  But  modern zip will support UTF8..  and when unpacking they get converted to UTF16. but then conversion between different things are being done and if there are something specially strange with the filename. it might be lost..
I think 7z store names as UTF16

However. I can't replicate it.
Are you running any 3rd party Windows theme tool in windows ? or something else that hook it self deep into Windows that you know about ?
Something else that is special with your setup ?

In Windows 10/11. There is a new hidden settings.. Make sure it is not on. (maybe some other app have activated it, even if you have not done it maually)
In region settings dialog (the old one..) There is a "Administrative" page.
Clicking in "Change system locale.."
There is a checkbox that say

"Beta: Use Unicode UTf-8 worldwide language support"

Make sure this is NOT check.  This is a new Win10/11 thing that is buggy.. (They say that this will only affect Store apps. but some people are reporting issues in other old desktop apps)

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 20, 2026, 15:03:09 »

MC don't do any special processing.

Then maybe it should ? Personally, I don't experience any problem, but this is not the first report. Since other programs are not affected, this is most probably indeed MC-related.

I don't think so. There is nothing MC can do. ALL text in MC are UTF16. all APIs in Windows are UTF16. It should just work. No conversions are needed.
BUT there are lots of things in Windows that affect rendering of some apps. Like 3rd party theme things and combability settings or app that mess with scim settings (stuff for accessibility stuff)

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Support and Feedback / Re: Transfer speeds to USB

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 20, 2026, 14:49:25 »

Hard to say why you get that...  normally MC can detected and selected the correct read/write stratergy.
It also different what kind of USB device. is is a normal SSD/HDD or USB Memory stick.
Also security software making difference.. and other stuff.  hard to say why you have low speed with the limit information.
But everything that can be tweaked around file read/write can be tweaked in Read/Write stratergy settings,
you can tweak everything that can be changed.

Also Windows Copy Speed are often not real. depends on how you measure it. Sometimes Windows say it is done.. but what is done is just the writing to the cache. and all the data is not even written to disk yet.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« Last post by Jungle on March 20, 2026, 11:06:14 »

@milen-prg,
For me it looks the same in MC and Explorer. But at the moment I use Win10. Will check later on Win11