Colored Files

[Rainer.Friedrich]

Hello, I have some files color tagged.

What is strange:

When I start XYplorer (mine is portable, 28.10.0300 (64bit), W11-25H2, 4K)

- in a batch with %PATHNAME%\Xyplorer.exe - no colors
- in a Powershellsession with %PATHNAME%\Xyplorer.exe - colors
- in a Commandshellsession %PATHNAME%\Xyplorer.exe - no colors
- in a Explorerwindow: colors
- with a .lnk: colors
- in a batch with start "" %PATHNAME%\Xyplorer.exe - colors

Talked with Claude (Anthropic) a bit 'bout it ('coz was making with him a script), he told me it is the way the xyplorer process is created and how xyplorer reacts on this fact. Looks a bit strange to me. Everything else show no sign to care about the fact how the process is created, only the coloring...

Thought I should report it, maybe a bug.

cu
F. :-)

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[Rainer.Friedrich]

Hello, thanks for the reply.

Looked at my installation, the problem appears when I label in Paper Folders, I tried it in "normal" folders, then everything is well.

I used labeling with color only in Paper Folders so far.

cu
F. :-)

[admin]

Items are colored by their real path, regardless whether they are listed within a Paper Folder or a normal folder. The colors should show in any context.

Open "Edit Tagged Items..." under Configuration | Information | Tags | Options..., it might shed some light on the mystery.

[Rainer.Friedrich]

Interesting! Had two items with a question mark (the surely did no longer exist) one at the beginning, one at the end of the items which were shown. Removed both and now it looks like it runs if i start directly from command... It looks like to me that if you have missing files in the tagged files *and* start from the commandline that exclusively then the color tags are missing. Seemd very strange to me.

cu
F. :-)

[admin]

Tried to reproduce but couldn't. There are more factors probably. The non-existing items were shown and colored in the PF if "Allow Zombies" was on, otherwise they weren't shown at all. All as planned. Regardless which method was used to start XYplorer.

[Rainer.Friedrich]

No clue, looks like it fixed the problem with my installation. I see orphans if I choose this menu option (but cant remove them). The orphans looks like very old, I use Xyplorer for such a long time now, since autumn 2012. Maybe the config is a bit trashed, but now it runs (gladly).