Flatten Folder Failure

[armsys]

Hi Papoulka,
You got it.

[armsys]

The Flatten Folder's performance is random and inconsistent.
An hour ago it worked, but now failed.

[Papoulka]

armsys - what Windows are you running? I'm on Win7 32-bit. There may be some relevant difference between 7 and later.

Also, try a "::fresh" instance of XY (type that without the quotes in the address bar). In a ::fresh instance I find no failures of the menu "Flatten folder" command. And if my personal XY has just been restarted, it too works reliably.

But if my personal XY has been running for a while, the menu "Flatten folder" command always fails. This is on both the C: drive and other drives. "Fails" means no changes are made, no messages etc - just nothing happens.

My only use of Flatten is the script version where I've never had such a problem.

[armsys]

But if my personal XY has been running for a while, the menu "Flatten folder" command always fails. This is on both the C: drive and other drives. "Fails" means no changes are made, no messages etc - just nothing happens.

That's exactly the core issue. It happens to my XY.
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate (Service Pack 1), 64-bit (6.1)
I don't like ::fresh because it loses all my charming XY settings.

[Papoulka]

No, ::fresh does not affect your settings. And it's the only way for everyone to be on the same sheet of music.

[admin]

I could fix the "only empty folders" issue. I could not repro anything else.

[xman]

The error described by OP appeared again, but this time with different message:
"folder was flat already"

[armsys]

The error described by OP appeared again, but this time with different message:
"folder was flat already"

Excuse me, what's 'OP'?

[xman]

Original Poster, ie you.

[armsys]

I've just re-tested the Flatten Folder (right-click context menu command) and confirm it still fails. That's, no folders are flattened but it still shows a faulty status report.
After existing and re-starting XY, the Flatten Folder works as expected.

On the other hand, this time I discover a repeatable/reproducible cause of the Flatten Folder failure:
After stopping 'getting folder size" by pressing ESC, the Flatten Folder will fail.

Correction 2015.09.18 Fri 03:52:24 PM HKT
After exiting and re-starting XY, the Flatten Folder works as expected.

[xman]

Good job figuring it out .

I just tried content search, cancelled it using escape and got the same message. And it worked before the search, I tried.

[xman]

In fact, just pressing the escape without running a search or doing anything else triggers this bug. And I tried in ::fresh and it works there too.

[armsys]

In fact, just pressing the escape without running a search or doing anything else triggers this bug. And I tried in ::fresh and it works there too.

In my case, the ::fresh creates a new instance of XY, which forgets all my own settings c:\ArmSys.ini. I hate it.
::fresh; will force the data path to %appdata%\xyplorer\fresh.
Above all, ::fresh; is hardly a charming solution.
An anomaly is an anomaly.

[RalphM]

In my case, the ::fresh creates a new instance of XY, which forgets all my own settings c:\ArmSys.ini. I hate it.
::fresh; will force the data path to %appdata%\xyplorer\fresh.
Above all, ::fresh; is hardly a charming solution.
An anomaly is an anomaly.

You seem to have misunderstood the use of ::fresh.
It's use is solely to eliminate the influence of your settings in making a bug possible or show its ugly face, which is why it creates an environment with factory defaults without any user customized settings (in all cases not just yours).
It is not intended to use this fresh instance instead of your customized one for your daily XYing.

[armsys]

Oh! Thanks RalphM for explaining the original purpose of ::fresh.