XYplorer Beta Club

Note that longPathAware was added to the manifest in v24.80.0020 - 2023-08-21 17:46. Probably this alone was/is responsible for the opening problems you were/are having? (You can check by testing an older version from the freezer: https://www.xyplorer.com/freezer.php) v24.60: overlong paths work pe...

PS: Does it work via context menu when you open it in File Explorer? Yes. The DOS 8.3 is correctly passed to the shell context menu, and then Windows takes over and apparently (black box) converts that path back to a long path internally before passing it to VLC. Nothing I can do about that. :| Int...

No, I am using the standard context menu. For testing, I use a fresh instance of XYplorer and default settings. Scripting > Run Script > Fresh

I've been testing overlong video files with VLC Player. Are you testing with the same program?

I tested v25.90.0154 and it does the same thing as v25.90.0152. The context menu still tries to use the overlong paths instead of 8.3 short names.

I also have the Long Paths setting enabled on my Windows 10.

For v25.90.0151, *both* double clicking and context menu did *not* open the overlong files.

For v25.90.0152, double clicking now successfully opens overlong files, but the context menu does not.

Yes, I am using LongPathAware Windows 10 64-bit. I'm sorry I did not mention that. Windows is weird sometimes, lol :) I tested the newest beta version v25.90.0152. 1) Good news -- overlong files now successfully open when double clicked! Nice job! :tup: 2) Bad news -- when right-clicking overlong fi...

I tried the newest beta and overlong files still don't open when double clicked. :( On the event handler for opening files, does XYplorer get 8.3 short names before opening overlong files? Maybe the code is only checking file *name* length instead of total path length? (folder path + filename > 259 ...

Thank you, I have downloaded and tested the new beta version. Here is what I found. 1) Using the menu option "File | To Clipboard | Item Short Path/Name(s)" now successfully copies the short paths. :tup: 2) Double clicking (or using context menu) to open overlong files in XYplorer still do...

No, the overlong path (300+ chars) is copied to the clipboard instead of the short path

If you can fix this in a beta build, I would be happy to help you test it.

Hello, the bug occurs when double clicking certain files in XYplorer with overlong PATHS (folder length + filename length > 259 chars). Popular apps like VLC Player (video player) and Notepad++ (text editor) cannot handle overlong files when opened by XYplorer. However, they can open 8.3 short filen...

Hello and thank you for developing a wonderful app like XYplorer! :appl: I have encountered some bugs regarding overlong filepaths. Here is what I found. Versions 24.80 and later of XYplorer can fail to open files when their total path length is longer than 259 characters. Previous versions of XYplo...