XYplorer Beta Club

ok ok im sure there is..
but all i say is support for compressed file is a main feature for software this caliber... but thats up to you. i personally hate to open wzip or any other just to see the contents of a compressed folder. c ya

1) Toggleable sidebar, with preview, for batch file renaming ala Flash Renamer. Perhaps I should just stick with Flash Renamer, but considering you seem to figure out better ways to manipulate files than pretty much anyone else out there (I've tried LOADS of explorer replacements and nne of them lasted longer than two weeks), you may even be able to improve on Flash Renamer I do realise there are some of these abilities already in XYPlorer, but I love being able to preview and the ability to chop out chunks of the name and insert more in specific places along the name.

2) The ability to drag and drop email messages from MS Outlook 2003. I'm pretty sure this is MS doing things differently from "standard" apps, but if this one feature was in, I'd be able to get the whole office (9 people) to purchase XYPlorer and use it (gotta love bribery )

2.1) Ability to read/write SharePoint's "filesystem". This is kinda related to 2), but I'm trying to get work to ditch SP anyhow

lukescammell wrote:1) Toggleable sidebar, with preview, for batch file renaming ala Flash Renamer. Perhaps I should just stick with Flash Renamer, but considering you seem to figure out better ways to manipulate files than pretty much anyone else out there (I've tried LOADS of explorer replacements and nne of them lasted longer than two weeks), you may even be able to improve on Flash Renamer I do realise there are some of these abilities already in XYPlorer, but I love being able to preview and the ability to chop out chunks of the name and insert more in specific places along the name.

A preview for renaming is planned. Sidebar rather not; however, I plan to add a new tab "Rename" to the Info Panel at the bottom

lukescammell wrote:2) The ability to drag and drop email messages from MS Outlook 2003. I'm pretty sure this is MS doing things differently from "standard" apps, but if this one feature was in, I'd be able to get the whole office (9 people) to purchase XYPlorer and use it (gotta love bribery )

In that case, I'm gonna look into it...

lukescammell wrote:2.1) Ability to read/write SharePoint's "filesystem". This is kinda related to 2), but I'm trying to get work to ditch SP anyhow

??? Because of all the coding I do the rest of the world passes by unseen. What are you talking about?

admin wrote:

lukescammell wrote:1) Toggleable sidebar, with preview, for batch file renaming ala Flash Renamer.

A preview for renaming is planned. Sidebar rather not; however, I plan to add a new tab "Rename" to the Info Panel at the bottom

Well duh! I should have thought to put it there already

admin wrote:

lukescammell wrote:2) The ability to drag and drop email messages from MS Outlook 2003.

In that case, I'm gonna look into it...

As I say, I'm almost positive this is a case of MS doing things differently, but I'd love to be able to drag and drop an email message from Outlook 2003 to a directory in XYPlorer and have it save as a .msg, just like it does in standard WE. Currently all I get is a "Cannot drop text" error message

admin wrote:

lukescammell wrote:2.1) Ability to read/write SharePoint's "filesystem". This is kinda related to 2), but I'm trying to get work to ditch SP anyhow

??? Because of all the coding I do the rest of the world passes by unseen. What are you talking about?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/window ... rview.mspx
Basically, we run on Windows 2003 SBS and SharePoint is part of it. It's a group collaboration thing and I hate it. It's got worse usability than WE and has worse restrictions on file naming and path lengths. Added to that, since it stores everything in a single MSSQL file, trying to recover a single file from the previous night's backup is, well, grrrrr... unless you give symantec a LOT of extra money for a plugin for Veritas Exec.

Anyway, I digress with my hatred of SP. When I connect to it using XY, there's no error, no delay, it just shows an empty directory and none of the subdirs.

lukescammell wrote:

admin wrote:

lukescammell wrote:2) The ability to drag and drop email messages from MS Outlook 2003.

In that case, I'm gonna look into it...

As I say, I'm almost positive this is a case of MS doing things differently, but I'd love to be able to drag and drop an email message from Outlook 2003 to a directory in XYPlorer and have it save as a .msg, just like it does in standard WE. Currently all I get is a "Cannot drop text" error message

I have Outlook Express only, and when I drop a message from there to WE, a EML file is created. Currently XY cannot do this.
However, I can offer general workaround: whenever the "Cannot drop text" message appears I can offer to save that text in a file (name of your choice). Would that help?

admin wrote:However, I can offer general workaround: whenever the "Cannot drop text" message appears I can offer to save that text in a file (name of your choice). Would that help?

I'd say not the best workaround since .msg files contain more than just text.
It retains all the outlook specific data in that format, so if you dbl click on a .msg, it's opened in Outlook with exactly the same look and behaviour as a message that's stored in the .pst file.

Thanks for the offer, but I have to agree with Ralph here. .msg files contain attachments and formatting from the email. We save individual emails to our file system as additional proof of what a client has asked for, and if that includes and attachments, we need those as well.

I can't afford the £75 all by myself for Outlook 2003, but if we could get you a copy, would you be willing to do this?

admin wrote:However, I can offer general workaround: whenever the "Cannot drop text" message appears I can offer to save that text in a file (name of your choice). Would that help?

I like this idea. Don't mean on the subject discussed here specificly, but on a global note: the ability to paste what's on the clipboard directly into a newly created file would be pretty cool I think! (even better would be, when an image has been copied to the clipboard, to paste as a new JPG file!)

lukescammell wrote:Thanks for the offer, but I have to agree with Ralph here. .msg files contain attachments and formatting from the email. We save individual emails to our file system as additional proof of what a client has asked for, and if that includes and attachments, we need those as well.

I can't afford the £75 all by myself for Outlook 2003, but if we could get you a copy, would you be willing to do this?

Let my just try something first... it might work out cool... (get your money ready )

jacky wrote:

admin wrote:However, I can offer general workaround: whenever the "Cannot drop text" message appears I can offer to save that text in a file (name of your choice). Would that help?

I like this idea. Don't mean on the subject discussed here specificly, but on a global note: the ability to paste what's on the clipboard directly into a newly created file would be pretty cool I think! (even better would be, when an image has been copied to the clipboard, to paste as a new JPG file!)

Easy easy. The JPG thing is another story because you need a JPEG lib to do it (I won't write one very soon).
But paste (or even drop) text to file, yes yes, it ain't a bad thing to do...

jacky wrote:the ability to paste what's on the clipboard directly into a newly created file would be pretty cool I think! (even better would be, when an image has been copied to the clipboard, to paste as a new JPG file!)

I have to say, this would rock I don't think I've seen this in any other explorer replacement. I assume something copied from word would save as an RTF file? What about something like Adobe Illustrator? Ah, PDF PSD? Trickier

May be hard to implement, but it certainly would rock. Also, as we now have the OOo Oasis (?) format, that may make it easier to decide on what format to create for some other clipboard data.

I know nothing about how the clipboard stores data, can you tell?

lukescammell wrote:

jacky wrote:the ability to paste what's on the clipboard directly into a newly created file would be pretty cool I think! (even better would be, when an image has been copied to the clipboard, to paste as a new JPG file!)

I have to say, this would rock I don't think I've seen this in any other explorer replacement. I assume something copied from word would save as an RTF file? What about something like Adobe Illustrator? Ah, PDF PSD? Trickier

May be hard to implement, but it certainly would rock. Also, as we now have the OOo Oasis (?) format, that may make it easier to decide on what format to create for some other clipboard data.

I know nothing about how the clipboard stores data, can you tell?

Wait a moment, we are just talking about text here, good old ASCII characters. IF the stuff you are talking about does work at all, then it would need a fair amount of black magic to do it. Not now...

admin wrote:Easy easy. The JPG thing is another story because you need a JPEG lib to do it (I won't write one very soon).

yeah ok. Just thought since you can read/resize them already, and "write" them aswell somehow (caching thumbs) maybe all that part of the work was already done

jacky wrote:

admin wrote:Easy easy. The JPG thing is another story because you need a JPEG lib to do it (I won't write one very soon).

yeah ok. Just thought since you can read/resize them already, and "write" them aswell somehow (caching thumbs) maybe all that part of the work was already done

Thumbs are not written in JPEG but in a lossless format called BMP

Luke, if you read this, I'm curious, how extensive would you want XYplorer's renaming ability to be? You mentioned the excellent Flash Renamer (I love how Bulk Rename Utility which puts everything on one screen). Both ExplorerPlus and Directory Opus have quite thorough renaming options, but I rarely use them.

Maybe it's because I'm doing true batch renaming, by folder or many, many files. I just don't want to cycle through several tabs just to perform a basic renaming option on a set of files or a folders. It just seems that when I need a specific utility, I reach for that tool rather than what might be found in a file manager or graphics app, etc.

Oh, and Luke, welcome to the XYplorer forums!