XYP opening in its Program Files folder

[FrankZ]

Until Monday, XYPlorer (now on 7.90.0260, running on Vista Business SP1) was working perfectly here. Opened to show where it had been when last closed - usually somewhere in the My Documents folder on our file server. Just fine.

But now, the folder displayed when it opens has changed to the XYPlorer installation folder on my PC's D: drive. Have tried opening several tabs and exiting using Alt-F4 to save, but to no avail. Cannot change it from opening to display this folder, and it's a bit of a nuisance.

The only difference - and it may be a key one - is that on Monday my folder-redirected MyDocs folder was moved from its previous Windows Server 203 share to an equivalent share on a new Windows Server 2007 box.

The rest of the system seems to have coped with this change OK (Windows Explorer opens in My Docs OK, pointing at the new file server rather than the old one, judging by the Properties of that folder), but XYPlorer isn't happy about something.

The LH pane of XYPlorer still does show my MyDocs folder near the top of the tree (just beneath Desktop, as before) but now it displays collapsed rather than open, and I can't persuade it to have the focus when opening XYP.

Any clues please?

Best regards.

[admin]

Hi!

Hmm, apparently XY thinks that your folder does not exist. Please paste the following (adapt the path!) into the Address Bar and press Enter:

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::exist "C:\Your\Mysterious\Folder\"

What do you get?

[FrankZ]

Firstly, very many thanks for such a quick response.

::exist "\\SERVFILE01\Data\Frank\" gives me a "True, True, True" (you know the dialogue box).

Have been looking around. Tools / Config / Startup & Exit was showing the word "Documents" in the box. Not sure what it used to say, but tried putting the network UNC path to My Docs, and that works OK, except that it opens it in the Network tree, as you'd expect. OK, but not ideal.

In Windows Explorer, My Docs folder is just named "Frank", so thought I'd try typing that in the Config box, even though doing

::exist "Frank" gives "False, False, False".

Lo and behold, it works. Interesting. Not quite sure how (since nominally it doesn't exist), but it does work for these purposes. All it now says in Tools / Config / Startup & Exit is "Frank".

Just the job. Thanks again for rapid response.

Best regards.

[admin]

(1) ::exist "Frank" gives "False, False, False".
(2) "Frank" works as Startup path: Tools / Config / Startup & Exit is "Frank".

Really? Wow. My own app surprises me from time to time...

UPDATE: Ok, it's not that mysterious. The next version will have some more lines in the secret "exist" command...

[FrankZ]

It happens to all of us! IT's ability to make us all feel gormless occasionally (or frequently in my case) seems limitless.

The ::exist thing got me curious, but I realised that there is a MASSIVE amount about what XYP will do that I've never looked at. Sorry....! Thought I should start with this. It lifts the corner of a page I've never turned.

Top support speed. Great work. Thank you.