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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

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« Last post by milen-prg on March 20, 2026, 09:36:46 »

@Jungle,

This displays as strange symbols.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« Last post by milen-prg on March 20, 2026, 09:32:48 »

@Mathias,
I have Segoe UI and Segoe UI Emojis fonts... I also tried Consolas font like it is monospace... the same result.
As I said, the Windows Explorer and Double Commander shows the file properly.

I suppose that the text size in drawing is not processed correctly. You also can try with my current font:
Segoe UI Black 12.

But the font choice does not changes anything at me.
Also I see that the emoji at you also is not shown as must be (crying face).

I attach my settings, please, can you try them temporary for experiment. I like Multi Commander more than all alternatives, but can't understand this problem by myself.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Transfer speeds to USB

« Last post by total_annihilation00 on March 20, 2026, 09:18:58 »

I’m wondering if it’s just me or something that is a general issue.
I'm using v15.8 b3135 on Win11 x64

When using native Windows ctrl+x/c & ctrl+v to move files to attached USB drives I’m seeing very different TX speeds vs MCs’ copy/move commands With same file / hardware - I’m seeing MBs vs KBs on a USB3.0 link which leads me to suspect MC has something slowing the process. 
It starts out OK but then speed drops significantly to KBs using MC but using the MC dialog + win cmds it maintains MBs TX rates. 
Applies to NTFS > NTFS & NTFS > exFAT.

Can this be improved/altered?

Try using TeraCopy (free utility by CodeSector) —it greatly improves transfer speeds ! (especially Move operations which are sometimes instant, but other operations are faster as well when you use it !) It's a highly optimized file transfer tool.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« Last post by Jungle on March 20, 2026, 09:18:01 »

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.

@milen-prg,
just in case can you attach a real file (not a copy/pasted filename) ?

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Support and Feedback / Re: Filename displaying issues

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on March 19, 2026, 17:44:56 »

might depend on what font you used and also other system settings. If you use a font that does not include the unicode character you enter then it can render it.
MC do not do any special processes on the filename. Windows return unicode (UTF16) name. and MC just accept what Windows give it. and then WIndows render it.
MC don't do any special processing. everything is handled by Windows. All API call in Windows are UTF16, So no special handing for it are needed

The filename you show as example works without issue for me.