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I have set up XYplorer to show my favourite locations in the bottom panel.

However, when I navigate away from a location and then restart XYplorer, the original location has changed.

Please see XY and XY1 images to show what I am trying to say.

Is there any way to lock the 5 bottom tabs?

Strange. What is the full path of "My Music" before and after?

I am changing the path!

What i want to happen is that the original path name is restord on restart.

Ahh, sorry, ok. No, this is not possible. But a feature is planned where you can load tab groups.

Any idea when this feature will be implemented?

Arablover wrote:Any idea when this feature will be implemented?

Hi Arablover, welcome.

Maybe an kind of work around would be (if you have XYplorer with scripting support)
to use an button or menu entry to load your five locations by an script?

The only work for you would be one or two clicks after XY start.

smtg like psuedo code:
- goto pane2
- close tab(all)
- open tab("X:\Music")
- ...
- open tab("X:\Pcs")


something approximately like this script ==> http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4722

Arablover wrote:Any idea when this feature will be implemented?

No.

Another solution, rather extreme, but I do it this way:

- open XY just how it should load
- unset Tools/Configuration.../Startup & Exit/Save settings on exit
- click File/Settings/Save Configuration (to save current settings)
Now on every start XY will open as saved.

If you want to change something:
- fresh open XY to load current saved configuration
- make wanted changes, then again:
- click File/Settings/Save Configuration (to save current settings)

Hint: after installing updates, especially for new production version, start XY and immediately save config. This way changes of XY to ini-file will be saved. Until you do, you will see difference between XY-version and version of .ini shown in window title.

Maybe some like it, others will say "he's crazy"

PeterH wrote:Another solution, rather extreme, but I do it this way:

- open XY just how it should load
- unset Tools/Configuration.../Startup & Exit/Save settings on exit
- click File/Settings/Save Configuration (to save current settings)
Now on every start XY will open as saved.

If you want to change something:
- fresh open XY to load current saved configuration
- make wanted changes, then again:
- click File/Settings/Save Configuration (to save current settings)

Hint: after installing updates, especially for new production version, start XY and immediately save config. This way changes of XY to ini-file will be saved. Until you do, you will see difference between XY-version and version of .ini shown in window title.

Maybe some like it, others will say "he's crazy"

Of course it would be trivial to add a checkbox or a tweak to not overwrite the saved tab settings on exit or on save settings. But is there really a demand for this?

Ahh, sorry, ok. No, this is not possible. But a feature is planned where you can load tab groups.

Being able to create and load tab groups is already possible in Firefox with Tab Candy -- http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/23/firefox-tab-candy/ -- so we have a point of reference against which we can base expectations of similar functionality in XYplorer.