Show path for found file / OpenWith with all known apps

[cajhin]

A small but frequent (for me) issue:
I search for a file, and get some results, next I want to know where file X is located. This usually interrupts my 'flow'.
The only ways I know are:
- right-click > Properties > look > Ok (repeat n times)
- turn on the Path column > look > turn off Path column
- click on the XY Properties tab, but the path is shortened to 20 chars...

For me, it would save time if the path of the selected file was shown somewhere.
I think the full path should always be shown in the Properties tab - the path is an important property.
(Maybe show it in the Address Bar - there's enough space, it is semi-intuitive, and you can use it to go to the file's folder).

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I very much appreciate the portability of XY. I have a folder with core tools that I copy on all my PCs/servers/VMs. The common file extensions are configured in XY, with relative paths, so I can (for example) open .jpg with IrfanView without configuring ANYthing on the individual boxes.
The problem is that I cannot open files with undefined extensions.

Let's say I want to open .tiff in my image viewer or .any in my texteditor - those are not defined, so I wish XY would offer me a list of my tools (all that appear in the file association list).
A clunky workaround is to define all tools twice, like
.jpg > viewer.exe
.txt > editor.exe
* > viewer.exe
* > editor.exe

Then I have all tools in the OpenWith menu, BUT when I double-click code.cs (falsely thinking .cs is defined), then it is opened in Irfanview.

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(a cosmetic issue with my way of using XY: when Windows doesn't know the file associations, XY shows the "unknown" icon for all files. Would be lovely if I could configure XY to ALWAYS use ./icons/pdf.ico for *.pdf files, instead of nothing, or whatever is the registered pdf viewer on the specific PC).

[j_c_hallgren]

I search for a file, and get some results, next I want to know where file X is located. This usually interrupts my 'flow'.
The only ways I know are:
- right-click > Properties > look > Ok (repeat n times)
- turn on the Path column > look > turn off Path column
- click on the XY Properties tab, but the path is shortened to 20 chars...

For me, it would save time if the path of the selected file was shown somewhere.

So the fact that it shows in the tooltip when you hover on filename isn't good enough? You didn't list that option.

[nas8e9]

A small but frequent (for me) issue:
I search for a file, and get some results, next I want to know where file X is located. This usually interrupts my 'flow'.
The only ways I know are:
- right-click > Properties > look > Ok (repeat n times)
- turn on the Path column > look > turn off Path column
- click on the XY Properties tab, but the path is shortened to 20 chars...

For me, it would save time if the path of the selected file was shown somewhere.
I think the full path should always be shown in the Properties tab - the path is an important property.
(Maybe show it in the Address Bar - there's enough space, it is semi-intuitive, and you can use it to go to the file's folder).

From the help file:

Display Modes

The List supports 4 different modes: Browse, Find, Drives, and Network. Each mode has its own column headers and type of entries. Each mode can be configurated individually regarding column size, column position, background color, sort order and sorted column.

Based on this, you can add the Path column to just the Find mode, and disable it for the other modes. This doesn't work for you?

I very much appreciate the portability of XY. I have a folder with core tools that I copy on all my PCs/servers/VMs. The common file extensions are configured in XY, with relative paths, so I can (for example) open .jpg with IrfanView without configuring ANYthing on the individual boxes.
The problem is that I cannot open files with undefined extensions.

Let's say I want to open .tiff in my image viewer or .any in my texteditor - those are not defined, so I wish XY would offer me a list of my tools (all that appear in the file association list).
A clunky workaround is to define all tools twice, like
.jpg > viewer.exe
.txt > editor.exe
* > viewer.exe
* > editor.exe

Then I have all tools in the OpenWith menu, BUT when I double-click code.cs (falsely thinking .cs is defined), then it is opened in Irfanview.

As is, you're right. The one thing on the roadmap (i.e. currently planned already) that may help is Custom Event Actions, but based on its position on the roadmap that may be some way off.

By way of a workaround and depending on your scripting ability (mine isn't great), it may be possible to have the PFA/POM-entry for a pattern matching all files, link to an XYplorer script. In this script you'd define all your portable apps and select the right one through a popupmenu. The script then calls the app of your choice instead of the app being called directly through PFA-definitions.

Edited for clarity.