Improvement for FileSync: Open Left / Open Right

seb- · Post by *seb- » 2012-05-04, 19:27 UTC

The other day while synchronising my Work back and forth i noticed a conflict. I wasn't entirely sure if the larger or the newer file was the one i wanted to keep (just because accidentially pressing save in Office changes the file date/time of course)...

I right clicked the files in the SyncList and searched for a possibility to open the right and the left file for Review.

It is possible to View them, but i dont have compatible Listers configured for these files.

But open in their associated programms would be fine to have.

Any Chance for 8.01?

thx+brs

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2012-05-04, 20:44 UTC

F3/Shift+F3 opens left/right file in Lister.

AFAIK there is a Lister plugin to open in external program... I'll try to recall its name.

Got it - AppLoader. Just try, I haven't tried it.

seb- · Post by *seb- » 2012-05-05, 08:28 UTC

That sounds promising.

I'll give it a try.

Maybe Christian can consider this feature to be natively implemented in the future anyway. It shouldnt be to complicated to implement.

Thanks for your answer!

Post by *Hacker » 2012-05-05, 10:32 UTC

Support++. Again.

Roman

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2012-05-05, 16:50 UTC

I think it would be useful to have submenus with shell context menus for that file (with internal association's items).

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-05-07, 12:36 UTC

"Open" isn't supported because TC cannot reliably track the modification of the files in external programs: When using a multiple document editor, Windows doesn't return a process ID to ShellExecuteEx, so there is no way to determine when the editor process is closed.

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2012-05-07, 17:29 UTC

Christian, I think TC should simply refresh list on Compare button and sync it (do exactly that actions that are in the list) on Synchronize, regardless of any open files. User may easilly open files to be synchronized via Explorer or via editor directly, so you shouldn't try to determine when editor is closed. So it is a user task to edit files and then recompare folders.

seb- · Post by *seb- » 2012-05-08, 06:09 UTC

MVV wrote:Christian, I think TC should simply refresh list on Compare button and sync it (do exactly that actions that are in the list) on Synchronize, regardless of any open files. User may easilly open files to be synchronized via Explorer or via editor directly, so you shouldn't try to determine when editor is closed. So it is a user task to edit files and then recompare folders.

For the ease of implementation i totally agree.

I often have Files i'm syncing open in parallel to the syncing.

No harm experienced up to now, as long as you are clever enough to save your work before comparing&syncing

The Shell Context Menu would be already enough. Or two Menu items for just opening without the necessity to open the context menu.