Two critical features I can not find in XYPlorer

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Re: Two critical features I can not find in XYPlorer

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PeterH wrote:Sad to say: I especially understand the thing with priorities :(

And very sad seeing what happened to the german translation. :cry:
Really bad: I'm not the person for such kind of work.
Maybe someone else can be found the next days. I see that it wouldn't be fine if just German would be missing :roll:
Germany is THE market for me of all countries in the world: Big, rich, and afraid of English :) So, I just HAVE to do it.

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Re: Two critical features I can not find in XYPlorer

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Marco wrote:1. Right click on the desired folder in the tree > Expansion > Fully collapse
I don't see that submenu on Windows 8, strange. :veryconfused:

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Re: Two critical features I can not find in XYPlorer

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Filehero wrote:
Marco wrote:1. Right click on the desired folder in the tree > Expansion > Fully collapse
I don't see that submenu on Windows 8, strange. :veryconfused:
I do see the Expansion submenu on a XP system running the same XY version (current beta 11.90.0105).

Any Win 8 user around actually seeing thes expansion submenu?


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You can configure this under Configuration | Menus, Mouse, Safety | Custom items in shell context menu.

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Re: Two critical features I can not find in XYPlorer

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Hi Don,
admin wrote:You can configure this under Configuration | Menus, Mouse, Safety | Custom items in shell context menu.
:oops: :oops: :oops:

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DOUBLE FOLDER TREE

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It is possible in a file manager that has so advanced features (XYplorer is one of the best) to implement the option of a simple DOUBLE FOLDER TREE, one for each pane !
It may seem unnecessary, but it would be really convenient (as I have had experience with other file managers)
Some people already in the past have made requests like this. This would cause many users to CHANGE FILE MANAGER to use XYplorer: YOU SHOULD CONSIDER IT !!!

thanks very much !!

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Welcome to the club!

A double tree is not planned.

However, what I could imagine is a tree that completely changes its contents depending on the focused pane. So each list pane would have its own tree, but in one and the same tree pane. How's that?

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That is, the tree shown would always be that of the active pane?

Hm - I think this would have advantages (like: the tree doesn't show all that garbage of the inactive pane), but also inadvantages (sometimes you would miss exactly that).

But if you would have the contents of a tree per pane, so it can switch on selecting the other pane, would it be so hard to allow(!) showing both? I'm still a fan of that - after all the years.

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Even the synched tree would be hard. Dual tree even harder.

I just said "I could imagine", that's not a plan.

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admin wrote:Even the synched tree would be hard. Dual tree even harder.

I just said "I could imagine", that's not a plan.
Sad to hear - but thanks!
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Re: Two critical features I can not find in XYPlorer

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Here's one more supporter for the "Double Tree" feature. :biggrin:

And for the "Synced Tree" as well! Should(!) this one ever trickle up your ToDo list and become a reality it would be awesome if that tree would be synced to individual tabs. I use the "visual guidance" (that the folder tree gives me) a lot to identify tabs that contain identically named (yet different) folders. Having a folder tree that is individual to each of these folders (i.e. showcasing a different set of collapsed/open folders instead of always showing all folders that are open in all tabs) would help a lot. Basically just like one has it with multiple (Windows) Explorer windows. :wink:

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Re: Two critical features I can not find in XYPlorer

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PeterH wrote:That is, the tree shown would always be that of the active pane?

Hm - I think this would have advantages (like: the tree doesn't show all that garbage of the inactive pane), but also inadvantages (sometimes you would miss exactly that).

But if you would have the contents of a tree per pane, so it can switch on selecting the other pane, would it be so hard to allow(!) showing both? I'm still a fan of that - after all the years.
I'd be interested to hear what precisely the file-management problems are that would make this Incredibly Useful. I'm trying to think of a scenario where I'd prefer to give up the necessary screen space to use two trees.

I like the...tidiness...of having an option to have each tab synced separately to the tree, but even that, I'm not sure just what problems it would have a large effect on solving. Myself, I'd rather see something like perhaps a long-press, folder-contents preview - more information, same screen space. If I wanted two or four little windows with their own little file trees - I WOULD use Windows Explorer.

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