Can't drag and drop files to create favorites.

[DorothyFan1]

You can't drag and drop files from XYplorer to create favorites and then assign keyboard shortcuts afterwards. To assign a file for favorites...you have to open a dialog box...which steals focus and THEN browse to find the file?! Why go through these contortions when you can see the file right on the browser tab?!

Users should be able to select the file or files in the browser tab and drag it/them to the favorites menu bar to create a link/links to the favorite menu dropdown. Done. As it is...it's very cumbersome...unless I'm missing an option to enable this in the options section.

[RalphM]

In menu Favorites there're menus to toggle favorite files and folders which puts them in the respective drop down lists w/o the need to open the manage favorites dialog.
And for even easier access to these functions, you can assign KS to them.

PS: Welcome to the forum, just saw you joined about two hrs ago.

[DorothyFan1]

In menu Favorites there're menus to toggle favorite files and folders which puts them in the respective drop down lists w/o the need to open the manage favorites dialog.
And for even easier access to these functions, you can assign KS to them.

PS: Welcome to the forum, just saw you joined about two hrs ago.

I've tried this but it doesn't "run" the file I want to open when selecting this option. I want to select a batch of my favorite files to open at a click of a mouse or put shortcut keys to them to open. Unfortunately my complaint is still valid.

[serendipity]

In menu Favorites there're menus to toggle favorite files and folders which puts them in the respective drop down lists w/o the need to open the manage favorites dialog.
And for even easier access to these functions, you can assign KS to them.

PS: Welcome to the forum, just saw you joined about two hrs ago.

I've tried this but it doesn't "run" the file I want to open when selecting this option. I want to select a batch of my favorite files to open at a click of a mouse or put shortcut keys to them to open. Unfortunately my complaint is still valid.

Hi and Welcome to the Club,
Drag and drop is not possible in Favorites window, but that will not help you to open file with a key as you cannot assign shortcuts to Favorite files.
To be able to open your favorite files using shortcuts you have to use UDC (User Defined Commands).
1) Go to menu "User | Manage commands".
2) In the category "Open" create a new command.
3) Browse to the file path in the "Item" field and assign keyboard shortcut.
Tip: Before step 1 you could use Ctrl+P to copy your file path and paste it in step 3 instead of browsing around.
Again, UDC window does not support drag and drop so your complaint is valid, but that only Admin (aka Don) can answer.

[DorothyFan1]

Thank god for Ctrl + P. This really saves me all that browsing to find the file I want to put in my favorites list.

One other complaint...I can't assign numbers or letters in sequence to launch files I want. For example...A1 to launch file 1, A2 to launch file 2, etc. I can only assign a keyboard number or letter singly...but not in any combination with another keyboard key. I can see there are 482 possible keyboard shortcuts...but if we had what I wish we had...there'd be alot more keyboard shortcut options to choose from.

[serendipity]

Thank god for Ctrl + P. This really saves me all that browsing to find the file I want to put in my favorites list.

One other complaint...I can't assign numbers or letters in sequence to launch files I want. For example...A1 to launch file 1, A2 to launch file 2, etc. I can only assign a keyboard number or letter singly...but not in any combination with another keyboard key. I can see there are 482 possible keyboard shortcuts...but if we had what I wish we had...there'd be alot more keyboard shortcut options to choose from.

Not possible with with "Open" command but possible with "Run Script" command.
In the UDC go to "Run Script" category and add new command and click edit in script field.
Paste all your file paths here in this format.

Code: Select all

"&1"
 open "C:\blahblahblah.jpg",w;
"&2"
 open "C:\blahblahblah.doc",w;

Assign A as your shortcut and you are done. A followed by 1 will open first file, A followed by 2 will open second and so on.