[Feature suggestion] clean out obsolete dir menu entries

[ap1978]

While doing my file-management I often add temporary shortcuts to dirs which later get deleted leaving dead entries in the directory menu. Therefore, it would have been nice with an option that cleans out non-existant dirs from the menu.

[ghisler(Author)]

This could be dangerous, because Network shares may be temporarily unavailable...

[jb]

Generally I agree that dead entries (broken links) are a reoccurring problem, but I think it's not worth to blow TC for this, (also) because the 'Directory Hotlist' of TC is typically rather small.

However there is a related topic I would like to mention: Currently wincmd.ini is a motley collection of keys and values that might be reorganized with little effort. Just as a rough idea I suggest to split wincmd.ini up into the following 3 files:
1) tc_core.ini for settings independent of the local drives and the LAN. Thus it would be easier to keep the TC-settings of multiple computers in sync (eg. a business-pc and a home-pc).
2) tc_env.ini for settings dependent of the local drives and the LAN (eg. [DirMenu]). Furthermore the format should be changed so that it would be easy to manage sections such as [DirMenu] directly in a text editor (now it's quite awkward).
3) tc_hist.ini for history data (eg: [SearchName], [SearchIn], [SearchText], [RenameTemplates], [Command line history]). Thus it would be easier to get rid of history data. Tools such as 'TC History Cleaner' would go obsolete.

[fabiochelly]

Why would you split the wincmd.ini file in 3 ?
It takes a few ms to load or save a text file like this in memory.

I think it's more simple like this.

[jb]

Why would you split the wincmd.ini file in 3 ?
It takes a few ms to load or save a text file like this in memory.

It's not about speed, first of all it's about managing TC-settings on multiple PCs. Please read my original post again, carefully.

[pdavit]

jb didn’t suggest 3 ini files for speed reasons fabiochelly.

Any way, I kinda find the idea very strange but at the same time very interesting somehow!!!

I don’t think though that the coding task will be that easy!