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Yes, everything that does not look like a full path (local or UNC) is just skipped. I don't think you can crash it by malformed input. Good luck.

admin wrote:UTF-16LE BOM ... , but normal ASCII should work as well. Maybe even UTF-8.
...everything that does not look like a full path (local or UNC) is just skipped. I don't think you can crash it by malformed input. Good luck.

Thanks. Very good news. This might turn out even easier than I thought. Cannot test it now, I don't own this software, it's at another location - can't wait to try it out, though.

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Confirmed, since some betas there's something odd with columns not being sorted as they should be.

Might be better next beta.

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OK, I saw it now. Fix comes.

OK, in the meantime you have seen it yourself. Nevertheless here what I have prepared in the meantime...

Unfortunately I can confirm what grindax says for 14.20.0311.

To me it seems trivial to reproduce - with exactly this sequence:

1. Make fresh the hard way (new folder; exes into it).
2. Start XY. Go to a tab with C:\ (or make a tab). Clone this tab to make few of them.
3. Add paper tool button to the tool bar (check "Always show path column" if unchecked, although factory is already on, I think).
4. Configuration > Styles > Apply to... > UNCHECK "Column layout" > OK
5. Close/Exit XY.
6. Using MS File Explorer, create a "Paper" folder under data and create there an empty *.txt file.
7. Start XY anew.
8. Go to one of the tabs with C:\
9. Click on Paper toolbar button > Open > open the paper prepared in step 6.
10. Click on any other tab - they all have the Path column visible (at least at my place ).

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We'll see.

BTW, remember that
- Allow Zombies
- Always Show Path Column
- On Delete Remove Items from Paper Folder

are all experimental. I expected such trouble and I might remove them finally.

Well, I find that "Always Show Path Column" is really useful when using papers (provided of course that it would not interfere with other modes), so - in my view - it would be pity not to have it.

Well, it will probably stay.

So, ok, after 10 days of hard work, only interrupted by about 60 football games, 14.30 is about to be released! I don't know who else is still in the file manager business (or faking to be), but I think the release of XY 14.30 is a good moment for them to give up and start trying something else.

Stef123 wrote:1) Open... "pap1.txt"
2) Open... "pap2.txt"
First time around I get the path, second time I don't.

It's worse with 14.20.0312 than with .0308
Before the update the path disappeared on repeated calls of paper files
Now I don't even get the path at all - not until I either toggle it off and on again (right-click menu TB) or enable it from the col-context menu. From then on - same as above - no path on subsequent calls. Switching to a new tab won't help anymore (as it did before)

Stef, sorry for bad luck with your bug. My bug seems indeed to be gone with 312. Thanks Don! Now a bit more hard work for Stef123...