admin wrote:The tab.dat files store the find files settings of each tab (as it says in the first line of each tab.dat
)
yeah, i saw that.
but i thought it would be good to ask anyway.
admin wrote:They should not be ignored.
i remember deleting all of them at least twice before without any noticeable side effects.
maybe i was just lucky.
btw, my pane\1 folder had 11 tab.dat files, but i always have only 8 tabs opened on BOTH panes (4 each).
admin wrote:I did not follow this. In one sentence: What are you trying to achieve?
the idea is to get the up-to-date list of locations in xy's "move/copy to" dialogs.
to do this i have to save xy's settings.
but some users don't want to have their settings saved.
so i need somehow backup, save/overwrite, read and then restore the settings.
doing this to the main config file is easy, but i can't say the same about the panes settings.
to start, they might be shared or private, which is not a big problem.
however, the tab.dat files might be in any number and aren't necessarily named sequentially (i.e. they might be tab2, tab5, tab9,...).
this what complicate things.
in the end i think i'll have to resort to copying, deleting, etc. the panes folder (not the best solution), or use a very slow loop to backup the tab.dat files.
and i'll also make the whole thing optional.