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by pstein
11 Jan 2026 07:05
Forum: Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers
Topic: Problem: External BlueRay Drive not visible in XYP - Only in built-in Windows Explorer. Why?
Replies: 9
Views: 188

Problem: External BlueRay Drive not visible in XYP - Only in built-in Windows Explorer. Why?

Occasionally I use an external BluRay Drive on my computer. After plugging in the USB (3.1) cable the drive appears (in Windows 10) in Windows Explorer. But it does NOT appear in XYPlorer v28 Why? The drive is working fine for reading and writing (burning) BlueRay medias. So the hardware isn't a pro...
by pstein
28 Jun 2025 21:24
Forum: Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers
Topic: How revert folder tree "+" point from dark to light?
Replies: 2
Views: 2773

How revert folder tree "+" point from dark to light?

I must have accidentally changed the crossing points in folder tree on the left from light to dark backgrournd.

See attached snapshot

How can I switch it back to light?
by pstein
21 May 2025 12:23
Forum: Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers
Topic: Access to Android smartphones via MTP or via ADB protocol?
Replies: 4
Views: 1630

Re: Access to Android smartphones via MTP or via ADB protocol?

Google never considered to take down ADB.

The opposite is true: Its much faster than MTP protocol
by pstein
09 May 2025 17:13
Forum: Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers
Topic: Access to Android smartphones via MTP or via ADB protocol?
Replies: 4
Views: 1630

Access to Android smartphones via MTP or via ADB protocol?

When I connect my Android smartphone via cable to my Windows computer then the Android device appears as new drive (without drive letter) in XYplorer. Good. The question now is: Does XYplorer access this drive and perform file+folder operations (copy/move/rename/delete) via windows built-in MTP prot...
by pstein
29 Apr 2025 16:36
Forum: Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers
Topic: How to setup Color filter for empty directory TREE (=only empty folders) ?
Replies: 15
Views: 4582

Re: How to setup Color filter for empty directory TREE (=only empty folders) ?

What makes you think I would not keep my promises? And in this case, it was not a promise, it was an announcement. And what keeps you from just looking at the release notes or the help file? I revisit now this thread. I am unsure about the meaning of your statement. Does that mean it is already imp...
by pstein
18 Feb 2025 11:38
Forum: Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers
Topic: Copy files with long path+name to Android device crashes; Meaningful popup + Auto-shorten?
Replies: 6
Views: 5991

Re: Copy files with long path+name to Android device crashes; Meaningful popup + Auto-shorten?

admin wrote: 18 Feb 2025 08:40 121 bytes, really? AFAIK it's 4096 bytes.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/132 ... in-android

At least it works when I manually shorten the filename

So its clearly a length problem
by pstein
18 Feb 2025 08:20
Forum: Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers
Topic: Copy files with long path+name to Android device crashes; Meaningful popup + Auto-shorten?
Replies: 6
Views: 5991

Copy files with long path+name to Android device crashes; Meaningful popup + Auto-shorten?

Occasionally I connect my Win10 computer via USB cable with my Android 14 Smartphone/Tablet and copy some files with XYplorer from Windows to Android. This works in general. But sometimes the copy operation fails without any helpful explanation. Further investigations showed that there is a path+fil...
by pstein
16 Feb 2025 15:16
Forum: Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers
Topic: How to coyp a filename into clipboard WITH prepended path?
Replies: 2
Views: 4706

How to coyp a filename into clipboard WITH prepended path?

Assume I have a file nested in a sub sub sub folder

How can I copy its filename WITH prepended full path into clipboard?
by pstein
08 Jan 2025 09:49
Forum: Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers
Topic: Drag & Drop of files not possible any more if XYplorer is opened by Everything
Replies: 2
Views: 579

Drag & Drop of files not possible any more if XYplorer is opened by Everything

Since a while (most probably since I updated to v26.70.0500) I cannot drag & drop files from a directory in first XYplorer window to a second XYplorer window. This happens when I double click on a directory in well known, wide spread "Everything" search tool. The XYplorer window opened...
by pstein
16 Dec 2022 18:56
Forum: Tips & Tricks, Questions & Answers
Topic: XYplorer cannot open folders after moving to new directory: Re-assign context menu?
Replies: 3
Views: 514

XYplorer cannot open folders after moving to new directory: Re-assign context menu?

in the past I ran XYplorer from a directory like this D:\tool\fileman\XYP\ It worked successfully for a long time. Recently I move the XYPlorer installation to a new folder D:\tools\file managers\XYplorer\ Mind the new space inside the path. At a first glance everything works as before. But when I r...