PFA validity check

[Garonne]

Hey Don, can you add a validity check option to portable file associations?

In case of a full path: check for existance
In case of a Windows Name: check if the name is registered and associated with a callable app

In case the file doesn't exist or no registered app (i.e. no icon can be found) the current PFA entry is ignored (or temporarily disabled)

For backwards-compatibility this might be combined with some kind of option that needs to be set for the test to occur.

This would allow for setups like:

zip>Winzip
zip>"portable zip alternative"

to use Winzip (if installed) and a portable alternative (if no Winzip installed)

[highend]

You could start a script instead that does such checks?

[jupe]

You may have to use full paths, but there is this:

PFAListOnlyExisting=1

follow these instructions exactly on how to tweak: https://www.xyplorer.com/faq-topic.php?id=tweak

[Garonne]

You could start a script instead that does such checks?

Sadly I'm not that good at scripting.

You may have to use full paths, but there is this:

PFAListOnlyExisting=1

follow these instructions exactly on how to tweak: https://www.xyplorer.com/faq-topic.php?id=tweak

Well, at least for full paths this does the trick, thanks. Didn't know that thing existed...

There probably isn't any guide about the tweaks existing, is there?

[highend]

E.g.:

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    $installed = "C:\Program Files\WinZip\winzip64.exe";
    $portable  = "D:\Tools\WinZip\winzip64.exe";

    $regcmd = get("regcmd", "zip"); // open="C:\Program Files\WinZip\winzip64.exe" "%1"
    if     (exists($installed) == 1) { $path = $installed; }
    elseif ($regcmd)                 { $path = regexmatches($regcmd, "[a-z]:\\[^""]+"); }
    elseif (exists($portable) == 1)  { $path = $portable;  }

    if ($path) { run lax("$path" "<pfaitem>"); }

[Garonne]

E.g.:

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    $installed = "C:\Program Files\WinZip\winzip64.exe";
    $portable  = "D:\Tools\WinZip\winzip64.exe";

    $regcmd = get("regcmd", "zip"); // open="C:\Program Files\WinZip\winzip64.exe" "%1"
    if     (exists($installed) == 1) { $path = $installed; }
    elseif ($regcmd)                 { $path = regexmatches($regcmd, "[a-z]:\\[^""]+"); }
    elseif (exists($portable) == 1)  { $path = $portable;  }

    if ($path) { run lax("$path" "<pfaitem>"); }

Thanks. But I guess, the tweak (PFAListOnlyExisting) does work for me... at least for installed and portable tools.