the system cannot find the path specified...

[admin]

Can you at least reproduce it?

No, otherwise I would have long fixed it.

[kiku]

Ok, got it.
My computer's name is "shfom's Computer BS2725" and I get the error mentioned before
If I change my computer's name to "BS2725" for example I get no error
Hope it helps

Edit: I mean if I rename the My Computer icon on the desktop to "BS2725" which is the real computer name on system properties it works

[admin]

Ok, got it.
My computer's name is "shfom's Computer BS2725" and I get the error mentioned before
If I change my computer's name to "BS2725" for example I get no error
Hope it helps

Edit: I mean if I rename the My Computer icon on the desktop to "BS2725" which is the real computer name on system properties it works

I don't think this is the solution. I retrieve the name of the MyComputer node (CSIDL_DRIVES) the way it has to be done and it works with (almost -- you are an exception) every system and locale. Also your screenshots show the correct icon with MyComputer or whatever it is called. And the context menu works alright.

For unknown reasons a slash is appended at some point... I followed the whole program flow several times but could not yet spot a way how this could happen...

[admin]

kiku, can you reproduce it with a fresh installation of XY?

[zebulon3]

This is me again...

answering
"I don't think installation has any meaning here.
You can run XY as portable from e.g. a USB-stick on any system - and it should function correct, without respect to Win7, Vista, XP (or W2k).

If this would not be the case I would be a bit disappointed.":

I iput XYplorer (the noinstall version) on a usb key and tried it on various computers. It works everywhere: when I reach the computer level, it shows all the drives in the right pane. But unfortunately, not on mine, it still says "the system cannot find the path specified-computer"

[admin]

AFAIK that's only zebulon3 and kiku of all my users that have this problem. What could you two have in common apart from this bug?

[kiku]

kiku, can you reproduce it with a fresh installation of XY?

Yes, tried latest beta clean install and I get the error message

Did you try to rename your My Computer icon on desktop to "shfom's Computer BS2725"?

[admin]

kiku, can you reproduce it with a fresh installation of XY?

Yes, tried latest beta clean install and I get the error message

Did you try to rename your My Computer icon on desktop to "shfom's Computer BS2725"?

Just tried it: works just fine.

[kiku]

Ok, have no more ideas... I fixed it by just renaming the My Computer icon on desktop to BS2725

[zebulon3]

For me, no way...I renamed "computer" with the computer name, I even tried to rename the computer and restart Windows no changes

[zebulon3]

Oops...two more shortcuts are not found in the catalog tree of XYplorer: "XYplorer Application Folder" and "Notepad (try to dropping files here). Of course if I edit the locations and indicate the right path, it works...

[admin]

Oops...two more shortcuts are not found in the catalog tree of XYplorer: "XYplorer Application Folder" and "Notepad (try to dropping files here). Of course if I edit the locations and indicate the right path, it works...

Thanks for pointing me to a new (and very young) bug: the Notepad item in fact does not work alright in the latest versions (9.60.0100 and later).

No idea why the other one does not work. Something is a bit weird with your system...

Please run this through the address bar:

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::text "%computer%," . strlen("%computer%");

What is returned?

[zebulon3]

The answer is:"The location or item you have selected could not be found: text Computer, .strlen(Computer);" .
Is the upper case "C" in computer of some relevance?...

btw: right clicking on the computer icon in the left navigation panel and choosing "open" opens a regular (microsoft) window with all the drives on my computer, thus the "computer" link is working inside windows...

He wait! another weird thing: I can drop the computer icon from the upper left pane to the lower left pane (the catalog pane) and make a shortcut with it. This shortcut leads of course to the same "not found" message. I tried to reproduce this on another pc where everything is ok but the drag-and-drop doesn't work with the computer icon. Thus the icon "computer" has not the same value for pc1 and pc2.

[admin]

The answer is:"The location or item you have selected could not be found: text Computer, .strlen(Computer);" .

Hmm, are you sure you copied the whole thing including "::"??

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::text "%computer%," . strlen("%computer%");

[zebulon3]

Sorry I forgot to paste them. The result is Computer, 8