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Hi Petra, welcome to the club!

1) is planned.
2) has been discussed but declined so far I think -- no time to check now

Don

Hi
Am I missing sth, or could paper folders just have a suffix of their own and be opened by clicking?

joxymot wrote:Hi
Am I missing sth, or could paper folders just have a suffix of their own and be opened by clicking?

The TXT extension is obligatory in PF. This has practical reasons, and is also more secure.

There are ways to build a button to load the currently selected file as PF. Would that work for you?

There's a great idea lurking here.
A script that converts popular filelist formats into valid PFs...

There are popular filelist formats?

There's always this fun PFA:This will open any txt file in ?:\Path\To\XYplorer\Data\Paper and file ending with .xyp.txt as a paper folder when "opened".

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like PFA patterns accept XY variables so you cannot use <xypaper>.


EDIT: You don't have to use .xyp.txt so feel free to use any pattern you want for txt files outside of <xypaper> - just remember as Don said: "The TXT extension is obligatory in PF."

PFA supports xy variables partially

<xypaper>\ >::command //works fine
<xypaper>\*.txt >::command //this wont work. Nor does quoting it help

TheQwerty wrote:Unfortunately, it doesn't look like PFA patterns accept XY variables so you cannot use <xypaper>.

Supporting this is a bit tricky because of the overloading of ">". It might work, but needs careful testing. Remind me after 14.50 is out.

PS: OK, I'm doing it too in CFI, so I think I can just add it...

do paper folders have the ability to be shared?

It's just a .txt file. If the same files within the same paths exist on a different computer, sure, share them...

Not sure if this is a bug or not but here are the steps to produce it.

This is with the most recent version of XYplorer.
1. Fresh instance of XYplorer
2. In address bar, type "paper:Temp"
3. In the other pane, create 3 new random text files.
4. Add these 3 text files into the paper folder you just created name Temp.
5. Right click in paper folder bar and "Allow Zombies"
6. Delete the 3 text files.
7. Refresh the paper folder.
8. Now attempt to select more than 1 zombiefied file. You won't be able to.

It would be nice that you can manually select more than 1 zombie files to delete them after fixing them or something.

Confirmed and fixed.

I don't know why or how it happened but I have a few really old Papers that had a few duplicated files in them (the entire path and name). Could there be some kind of check and/or notification (give the actual name/path) if it finds any duplicates? Currently I had to clean it up manually and it's a pain when you have thousands of lines to go through.

Or perhaps making the Find panel able to find Dupes matching Names only? Currently whenever I tried doing it, it would just list all the files/folders in the Paper.

I see no way to get dupes in PFs via XY internal operations today. So it seems you created that PF manually (or in an old version of XY where dupes still were possible).

Auto-de-duping on reading a PF would be possible but would slow things down exponentially depending on folder size.
Also, it might even be desired by a user to have dupes in manually created PFs .

Tip for manual deduping:
- sort by name
- use Grid style "Highlighted Groups"
Any dupes are immediately visible then.

admin wrote:I see no way to get dupes in PFs via XY internal operations today. So it seems you created that PF manually (or in an old version of XY where dupes still were possible).

Auto-de-duping on reading a PF would be possible but would slow things down exponentially depending on folder size.
Also, it might even be desired by a user to have dupes in manually created PFs .

Tip for manual deduping:
- sort by name
- use Grid style "Highlighted Groups"
Any dupes are immediately visible then.

Thanks! This saved me a lot of time cleaning up! Yeah the paper folder is really really old and made when the feature first showed up.