How can I select drives by label and not the drive letter

[PepiX]

Hi All I recently found this excellent piece of software. Now I found one discrepancy that I can live with, but is annoying..

I have got used to select partitions by pressing their label starting letter. Unfortunately there is a discrepancy in the way XY is coded.. It is behaving the way I have used to when I am in the tree panel, but once I am in the files and folders panel the letter pressing selects the partition with the same letter.

Example: I have partitions
- C Disk (C:)
- Work (D:)
- Downloads (E:)
...

in tree view when I press D the third partition is selected, but when I am in the files and folders panel when I press D the second partition is selected. This makes me nuts sometimes.. Is there a way to change that behaviour?

And a side question: Is there a way to make XY always start with focus in the same panel? Currently my focus is either in the tree panel or the files and folders panel depending on that which one was selected when I closed XY the previous time I used it. I would like to know where I will be when I open XY.. as I start clicking right away and the results are not always the same (as I have more partitions and the tree contains some extra items..).

Once again: :THUMBS UP: to authors..

[highend]

1. I've assigned Strg + D to Menu - Go - Drives... to access partitions with their letter

2. Configuration - Startup & Exit - Startup pane: 1st pane
Works for me (at least the first pane is always the pane with the focus on it)

[PepiX]

Thanks for your attempt to help highend

1 - I want to access them by Label and I want the same behavior in the tree panel and the files and folders panel. (Now one uses labels and the other uses drive letters) BTW, what key is strg?
2 - I am talking about panels.. not panes. I usually only use pane 1 and have set up XY accordingly. Panel as the tree of the folders on the left and then panel as the panel on the right of the folder tree.. the one where you see both folders and files.

[PeterH]

BTW, what key is strg?

strg = ctrl

[highend]

1. Strg on a german keyboard = Ctrl on an english one

2. With the setting that I mentioned the focus is always on the right panel when I start XYplorer regardless if I switched to the left panel (tree) before I closed XYplorer.

Are you using "Save settings on exit" in Configuration - Startup & Exit?

[j_c_hallgren]

Hi All I recently found this excellent piece of software. Now I found one discrepancy that I can live with, but is annoying..

Once again: :THUMBS UP: to authors..

Hi and welcome to the XY forums frome me as well! We agree that XY is excellent and try to help it be even more so....

Just a point of clarification: There is only one XY author and that's the fabulous Donald Lessau (aka "admin" here).

[PepiX]

Just a point of clarification: There is only one XY author and that's the fabulous Donald Lessau (aka "admin" here).

Point taken

2. With the setting that I mentioned the focus is always on the right panel when I start XYplorer regardless if I switched to the left panel (tree) before I closed XYplorer.

Are you using "Save settings on exit" in Configuration - Startup & Exit?

Thanks for you help. Yes, I use Save settings on exit and I have already set the setting you mention to Pane 1 (set it like that since the first config). Still opens with the last panel selected.

[highend]

What happens if you select the right panel, save settings manually, disable the "Save settings on exit" and finally quit and restart XYplorer?

[PepiX]

With the small clarification that I wish my left panel to be selected.. this works, but then.. I don't want to work with saving set to False.

Will try to find a way to define a script that is to be executed before program closes and is putting the focus in the left(tree) panel. That should fix it. (or a startup script of course.. would be the same..)



Edit: It seems this topic gives me pretty much everything I need.

Edit2: It was enough to create a Startup.xys script containing

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focus T;

and add it to my AutoHotKey script as a startup parameter (in the form of ' /script=Startup') and it is OK to use autosave now.
Looking for input on the labels selection in the files and folders pane.

Highend - thanks for your input. It did not directly give me the answer I was looking for, but led me on the right path (Which is as helpful as giving me the answer directly. Maybe even more usefull as it makes me search and think..).