XYplorer Beta Club

After 2 days of evaluation I got myself a copy of XYPlorer and I'm enjoying my time so far :-)

There are a few things, that would make my life easier (apologize, if they are there and I haven't found them yet):

Copy Queue:
-) I queued 2 copy jobs and worked in another program. When the 2nd copy job started, the copy-window took over the focus (while I was typing in that other program). Would be nice, if the copy window would start minimized or in the background (without grabbing the focus)
-) There seem to be only 1 copy job at the time when you use the queue - sounds logical at the first sight, but if you are working with 4-5 different harddrives at the same time, there is no reason to hold back the copy from drive N: to P: when the active copy job is copying from C: to D:
My suggestion would be: start the next copy, where no drive is involved in any copy-process.

Find Dupes:
-) Possibility to pause the find process. At the moment you can only stop it. Had a long "find dupes" and just wanted to sneak a file onto that disk, so I could get the from my todo-list. To be fair, there is a way to pause the "find dupes" by holding down the scrollbar, but I doubt, that's "best practice" ;-)
-) you can find dupes by content. I do have several drive with big (80 GB) and lot of small files (2,5mio files). Creating the hashsum for big files takes unnecessary long. An option for "generate hashsum for first X MB of the file" would be nice. I'd accept false-positives with that option active (or an option to run a whole hashsum for a match)

Creating directory with Backslash:
If I create a directory called "a\b\c", XYPlorer tells me, that it cannot create it. Of course, a backslash is not allowed in a name (using ntfs on this drive). What I wanted to achieve is a directory "a" with a subdirectory "b" (inside "a") and a subdirectory "c" (inside "b"), like "mkdir -p" in linux.

mw611415 wrote: ↑16 Dec 2023 21:08 Creating directory with Backslash:
If I create a directory called "a\b\c", XYPlorer tells me, that it cannot create it. Of course, a backslash is not allowed in a name (using ntfs on this drive). What I wanted to achieve is a directory "a" with a subdirectory "b" (inside "a") and a subdirectory "c" (inside "b"), like "mkdir -p" in linux.

XY can do that: as Help files mentions, you must have an ending backslash to do the subs creation = "a\b\c\".

You don't need a trailing backslash.

Configuration | General | Sort and Rename | Rename | [x] Allow move on rename
needs to be checked and a\b\c will work

highend wrote: ↑17 Dec 2023 18:10 You don't need a trailing backslash.

XY Help needs an update: Address Bar topic >
(17) When you attempt to go to a non-existing location you are prompted to create it on the fly. Will also create whole new paths (as long as the drive exists and is writable). Note that the location must end with a backslash to enable this feature.

/cheers @eil & @highend

No update of the help needed, because I created a new folder inside the list with Ctrl+N and you need to enable that option as highend mentioned (that was my usecase and it's working after I enabled it).
The help is refering to enter a path into the address bar (so no Ctrl+N involved) - that's where you need the trailing backslash. Didn't know, that possibility exist and that's a nice way to create subdirectories. Thanks for bringing that to my attention!

br,
Matt