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Support and Feedback / MOVED: View File is broken in MC x64 v 16.0 (build 3166)

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on May 30, 2026, 09:10:00 »

This topic has been moved to Beta Releases.

https://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php?topic=5176.0

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Beta Releases / Re: v16.0 Beta

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on May 30, 2026, 09:09:17 »

( Issue #1 ) With the newest Beta update (3166), my File Internal-Text-Viewer hotkey isn't firing (it's set to Ctrl+Shift+F1.) As well as the View-File (set to F1) isn't working either. Was working before ! I'm on Windows 10.
P.S: Internal-Picture-Viewer is working fine though. I tried changing Internal-Text-Viewer to another keyboard combo, still doesn't fire. Also I have a "Smart Open (Ctrl+F9)" UDC script (that routes filetypes to custom apps) and that was taking a long time to fire (after the latest beta update), the script is finally working now (Internal-Text-Viewer and File-Viewer still remain broken) but might be related to the misfiring Internal-Text-Viewer. Also the User-Defined-command I have to open a Text File in Internal-Text-Viewer is also not working: MC.View FILE="D:\Download\My Docs\cpp programming notes.txt" VIEWAS=".txt" Please release a fix soon !
This is my Multi-File-Viewer config file I'm attaching (I use the "Audiowide" font if that helps):

Looks like the update tool miss copy of WebView2Loader.dll, The viewer now depends on that file to be able to show an embedded web rendering using edge,
On Windows 11 this fie exists already on the system so that is why it only fails on Win10.   

( Issue #2 ) When moving some file to my USB Drive (F:\) the progress got stuck & never completed ! Resulted in data loss.

Sounds very strange. The source file are not deleted until windows has reported all data to target file are written. Sounds more like HW error.
I can't reproduce it. next time check if there are any errors reported in the fileoperation log (ctrl+L)

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: BACKUP MC: Save the folder in the configuration

« Last post by total_annihilation00 on May 30, 2026, 05:46:18 »

I made the following User-Defined-Command 'Custom Commands' and assigned it as an alias named "bkp" so I can backup the config via the command Bar, repeatedly to the same file:

Backup MC Config:

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MC.BackupConfig FILE="C:\Users\dell\Downloads\MultiCommander_ConfigBackup(latest).zip" ONLY_CONFIG
Change path to the backup save path you want the ZIP saved in, once you make the User-Defined-Command and assign it "bkp" or whatever you choose as the Alias, you can backup MC from the Command Bar just typing "bkp" and hitting enter (it'll backup silently.) Each time you execute the command it'll overwrite the same file without prompt. Hope it helps !

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: BACKUP MC: Save the folder in the configuration

« Last post by Anti-Bacterial on May 30, 2026, 02:25:40 »

Any update on this suggestion? It would be nice if MC remembered the last used backup folder.
Thank you

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Support and Feedback / Re: Right-click Menu not Fully Displaying

« Last post by Anti-Bacterial on May 30, 2026, 02:16:46 »

ShellMenuView by NirSoft is a small freeware utility that displays the list of static menu items that appear in the context menu when you right-click a file/folder on Windows Explorer, and allows you to easily disable unwanted menu items.

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

You can disable some of the windows "junk" using this tool and streamline your context menu.

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Beta Releases / View File is broken in MC x64 v 16.0 (build 3166)

« Last post by Anti-Bacterial on May 30, 2026, 01:56:33 »

Today I updated to Multi Commander (x64) v 16.0 (build 3166).  Build date May 29 2026.
Problem: The View File menu (and F1 key) is no longer working for txt, csv files. When I select a txt file and choose View File, nothing happens. However it does work correctly for PNG files. I have not testing other file formats.  Any suggestions please? Thank you

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Beta Releases / Re: v16.0 Beta

« Last post by total_annihilation00 on May 29, 2026, 18:02:59 »

( Issue #1 ) With the newest Beta update (3166), my File Internal-Text-Viewer hotkey isn't firing (it's set to Ctrl+Shift+F1.) As well as the View-File (set to F1) isn't working either. Was working before ! I'm on Windows 10.
P.S: Internal-Picture-Viewer is working fine though. I tried changing Internal-Text-Viewer to another keyboard combo, still doesn't fire. Also I have a "Smart Open (Ctrl+F9)" UDC script (that routes filetypes to custom apps) and that was taking a long time to fire (after the latest beta update), the script is finally working now (Internal-Text-Viewer and File-Viewer still remain broken) but might be related to the misfiring Internal-Text-Viewer. Also the User-Defined-command I have to open a Text File in Internal-Text-Viewer is also not working: MC.View FILE="D:\Download\My Docs\cpp programming notes.txt" VIEWAS=".txt" Please release a fix soon !
This is my Multi-File-Viewer config file I'm attaching (I use the "Audiowide" font if that helps):

( Issue #2 ) When moving some file to my USB Drive (F:\) the progress got stuck & never completed ! Resulted in data loss.

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Support and Feedback / Re: Could change in Quick Look'n'Feel have slowed MC folder reads down?

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on May 25, 2026, 23:08:51 »

Quick look and feel just change settings in the normal setting you see in Core and Explorer Panel settings.. but one click change many settings.
If you enable full app logging. then you see in the log exactly what it does during startup and you can see what takes time.

Cache folder size is only if you have the "everything" tool installed. it is a external tool (https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/ ) that MC can ask to get folder size from.

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Support and Feedback / Could change in Quick Look'n'Feel have slowed MC folder reads down?

« Last post by 2wheelrider on May 25, 2026, 21:16:22 »

I continue to try to tweak settings in MC in an attempt to make it a program that I love instead of just like.  Yesterday I was playing in Quick Look'n'Feel Settings.  I now don't see any way to tell which option is currently active and am wondering if a change there could have caused the significant slowness I now routinely experience when opening a folder.  I reviewed all other settings in Core and Explorer Panel so I may have changed something there that has resulted in this slowdown.  Also, sometimes on MC startup I will briefly see a message in an explorer pane that says something about a filesystem scan.  I would appreciate advice on how I can determine which Quick Look'n'Feel Setting is active, and any option that could be causing the slowness in displaying folder content.  FWIW, "Cache folder size for better performance" is enabled but I don't know if that is dependent on "Everything" which is not enabled.

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Feature Requests and Suggestions / Re: Request: Update SFTP library to support Ed25519 and modern SSH

« Last post by Mathias (Author) on May 25, 2026, 09:44:08 »

MC is using newest version of LibSSH2 ( v1.11.1 )

Last time I check it was an issue with LibSSH2 not supporting it on Windows 7 since it require method that only exists on Windows 10. Problem is that they are not checking if that method exists dynamically. so it is required at build time.  so then MC will not work on Win7. (Still around 3-4% of users is using MC on Win7, But more and more issues popup to be able to support Win7.  )
I been thinking about building two version of the FS-SFTP extension, (Win7 version and one normal for newer Windows ) But that require a lot of handling and thing around that need to be changed. And I have not had time to investigate all that