HerbieH wrote:I must say, that I totally disagree with your point of view. I think, that a tool like Total Commander absolutely should have a switch to activate the treat of junctions, symbolic etc. the way, zupermario (and I) want to: that is, to ignore the content of the link, and just copy it, as if it was a 'standard' windows shortcut.
Then you must have missed the point. I'm completely and totally
for such an option, otherwise I would not use the word "unfortunately" in the very first sentence.
But you must understand that automatic copying a bunch of data, among which somewhere deep inside there might appear symlinks, or searching through them, or any other function that processes lots of data
automatically, is one thing, and just navigating
manually through files and folders in file panels is completely different thing. To have an option to skip links or treat them specifically in the first case is a must — no doubts of that. In the second case however links must be links, they must behave as they are intended to behave, that is, show contents of the target dir while making impression that you are in a different dir. You don't like it? Then just don't use links, they are not what you want.
While manual navigation TC does what it must do according to the originally designed functionality. To help you not get lost (when working e.g. with OS-created links), TC allows you to easily distinguish links by their icons, by the name in the "Size" column, you can mark them by color or show additional info in custom columns (via plugins), etc. So you know that you are going to enter not an ordinary dir but a link — so just don't enter it if you don't want to.
HerbieH wrote:PS: The 'infinite loops' discribed by zupermario, has nothing to do with mr. Ghislers effords eleminate them. They WILL appear, if you have 'nested' j/s and do a search. A switch to treat j/s as described above, would of course avoid this problem.
That's wrong. As I said above, Ghisler worked hard exactly to detect infinite loops caused by links while searching and prevent TC from entering them.