XYplorer Beta Club

I had been using XYplorer Pro 15.20 for years, and just recently decided to see what's new and upgrade. There's one change that I dislike, and that's how Quick Search defaults to recursive mode. I used this feature extensively, and very rarely did I add the /r switch to make it recursive. Initially, QS was my work-around to XY not having a live filter box. So when I saw that a live filter had been added, I assumed that the change in QS default behavior was as a result of that new feature taking over the role of QS. But checking the changelog, I see this default was changed way back in 15.50.0002, which looking back is very likely one of the reasons I never upgraded all these years. In fact, searching the forum for this issue led me to an old thread where I raised the same concern to no conclusion while that version was still in beta.

So now while I'm using the new version, at first I thought it was no big deal, I'll just use the live filter instead. But it turns out that non-recursive quick search and live filtering both have different use cases for me, and neither is a suitable replacement for the other. I thought that I read in the changelog that QS would use the same settings selected in Find Files panel, but checking or unchecking "Include subfolders" has no effect on QS. Now I can't seem to find that mentioned in the changelog anyway, so maybe I misread something.

In any case, I would like to ask that an option be made available to select whether QS defaults to recursive or non-recursive mode.

Does nobody else want this option?

This is when it happened: I remember that I expected a reaction like yours but not that it would take more than 4 years to happen. Anyway, I will add a tweak to change the default behavior:

So, does it work for you? Or anybody? I might even raise it to the GUI...

Sorry for the late reply, the new forum post notification email went to my junkmail folder.

admin wrote: ↑02 Nov 2019 09:32 I remember that I expected a reaction like yours but not that it would take more than 4 years to happen.

I actually had mentioned it shortly after that beta was released (here), but I guess nobody else cared much about the change!

admin wrote: ↑02 Nov 2019 09:32 Anyway, I will add a tweak to change the default behavior:

An ini tweak is perfect, thank you!

EDIT: As a side note, the expanded info panel for the quick search dialog no longer lists /r as a switch, although it does still work.

Quaraxkad wrote: ↑16 Nov 2019 02:26 EDIT: As a side note, the expanded info panel for the quick search dialog no longer lists /r as a switch, although it does still work.

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