XYplorer Beta Club

For anyone else contemplating the repair-install solution, remapping the network drives over themselves seems to be a necessary extra step. Gotta say I have been so impressed how much stuff the r-i fixed, on a 6 months since new built PC with a W10 to 11 upgrade as soon as the build was stable. 'Wei...

I have experienced XY 64 not responding many times since Win 11 25H2 went on and finally a repair-install of Windows has fixed it. SFC /scannow clean and dism didn't do anything noticeable. The problem was a little evident in Explorer too, but not at the chaotic interminable hangs and crashes XY dis...

OK, put the latest 64 bit version on, still same 1/3 height previews of Solidworks files. Will pester more when the initial flood to get the main user base on 64 passes... Backed everything up (as instructed) and the upgrade was seamless. License came over, no pfaffing about - it just worked. So tha...

Within hours of the last post I bought a PDF-XChange Pro licence and completely obliterated Acrobat and some weird Adobe thing from my PC; used Revo Uninstaller Pro to be sure, and still found Adobe dregs in data directories, all gone. Not a single XY crash / winkout ever since. Was it an XY-Adobe t...

That fixed it. Just for fun, I changed default back to Acrobat, restarted XY and .pdf files copied while previewed too. However, I think I am going to take this step forward for .pdf mgt and buy a perpetual license for PDF-XC, after it gels OK. So that 64 bit previewer thing has quite a sting in the...

Eek and (oh no) - installed PDF-XChange Editor Pro (trial), set it as default for all .pdf related formats, restarted XY, saw the new icons, ctrl dragged a .pdf to a nearby folder and got the same "in use by XY64" pop-up, for which Retry worked after clicking on the Preview icon to turn it...

Referring to this FAQ, https://www.xyplorer.com/faq-topic.php?id=mse it sounds like a sensible thing to do. For Win 11, the process is entirely different, but one can bludgeon one's way to Virus & Threat Protection and add an exclusion. I already have exclusions for all my NAS folders. So I do a...

After many further crashes I am convinced the primary culprit is an incompatibility between XY and Adobe X1 Pro. Here is a composite of a typical Ctrl drag to copy a file from one folder to another, having preview on: XY64_Acrobat_Failures.jpg The most common fix is to leave the dialogue box open, c...

Re the permissions issue, it is always replicable (winkouts aside), that I have preview on (to see what the files are) and drag it to an email (per the below example) to copy it or to another location to file it. Permissions fail Note.jpg Always now, I get this type of notification, click OK, Click ...

admin wrote: ↑18 Aug 2025 09:20 1) Is the shell context menu (from right-clicking a file) involved at any point?

No, and when I use the 64 menu (several times a day) it always performs flawlessly, eg to combine files in Acrobat (of which I use an old Acrobat XI, from the days before SAAS kicked in; it does everything I need).

And you did try to use a different pdf preview handler? No. It is the same issue with .jpg, .mp4 and 'other stuff', like Solidworks. If I have preview on and drag them to an email or simply to another folder, I get an ambiguous can't do error which, usually, just clicking Preview off allows the ope...

The circumstances of XY winking out are very benign. No downloads occuring, or any other activity. The folder is fully listed. I just decide to tidy it up and get rid of the 4 things just needlessly downloaded by 'helful' sites, eg reports I didn't need or whatever. Simple pdf's. As per that specifi...

I have not done any disc checking. Given this is a 3 month old build on a MSI ACE Z890 285K with C: being a Crucial T705 4TB CT4000T705SSD3 M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 5.0 and the lesser drives being Samsung 990 Pro 4TB PCIe 4.0 M.2's, hardware weakness is not where I would go FIRST. If the Event Viewer reco...

There is something wrong with my Win 11 pro system wrt file handling. It may not be XY's fault as I note Solidworks seems to get stuck in interminible file addressing loops before getting control back. What I am seeing is regular short freezes followed by a winkout of XY. Many times a day now. Culpr...

Just went to do a vid of this and no dice. So there is another factor that commonly aligns to produce this irksome behaviour, but I still don't know what it is. I kid you not, I can change file selection and trying to right click Rename, or slow click rename highlights the selected file just fine, g...