XYplorer Beta Club

Hi,

So I stumbled upon an issue. I don't know if this is normal behaviour.

Despite setting XYplorer as a my default file explorer in Shell Integration, a lot, if not all apps open files in the windows explorer, and not the XYplorer.

Photoshop, Display Fusion, Dropbox, Rainmeter, for instance, to name a few, do not open files in XYplorer.
Only Firefox seem to have the correct behaviour when opening the "Download" folder.

Is there a fix for that?

XY can't change the behaviour of other tools.
Some of it use hardcoded explorer calls and not the file management APIs.

I guess he talks about the "Open file" dialogs. No, they can't be replaced with XY

Horst wrote: ↑29 Mar 2022 22:39 XY can't change the behaviour of other tools.
Some of it use hardcoded explorer calls and not the file management APIs.

Oh...

Gotta say it's a real letdown for me as I was loving all of XYplorer so far.

But this specific issue may well be the reason i'll stop using it.

AlternativeShit wrote: ↑29 Mar 2022 23:20

Horst wrote: ↑29 Mar 2022 22:39 XY can't change the behaviour of other tools.
Some of it use hardcoded explorer calls and not the file management APIs.

Oh...

Gotta say it's a real letdown for me as I was loving all of XYplorer so far.

But this specific issue may well be the reason i'll stop using it.

Then tell me what other file manager will do that for you ?
I have installed several and none supports this.
I use an Autohotkey script which allows to switch file open/save dialogs to the active dir of my file manager.
This works for XYplorer and Total Commander.
https://github.com/gepruts/QuickSwitch
It does a similar function as the Listary tool.

Thanks for the tip about QuickSwitch @Horst, I just tried it out and it's a welcome improvement. A few programs it doesn't play nice with, but that's to be expected. For the most part it works really well. I'm liking the AutoSwitch functionality, it integrates well since I keep an instance of XY open pretty much 99% of the time I'm at my PC.

WirlyWirly wrote: ↑31 Mar 2022 02:40 Thanks for the tip about QuickSwitch @Horst, I just tried it out and it's a welcome improvement. A few programs it doesn't play nice with, but that's to be expected. For the most part it works really well. I'm liking the AutoSwitch functionality, it integrates well since I keep an instance of XY open pretty much 99% of the time I'm at my PC.

You may also be interested on the tool JumpToFolder from the same author.
It uses an Everything search and jumps to your selection in XYplorer.
This may be a file or folder.
This also works in standard open/save dialogs like QuickSwitch
but is most useful to jump to any place from inside of XY.
https://github.com/gepruts/JumpToFolder

Horst wrote: ↑30 Mar 2022 09:34 I use an Autohotkey script which allows to switch file open/save dialogs to the active dir of my file manager.
This works for XYplorer and Total Commander.
https://github.com/gepruts/QuickSwitch
It does a similar function as the Listary tool.

Mr. Horst, you made the world a bit better by sharing this tool. THANK YOU!