TC crashes when trying to use lister on windows 8.

avada · Post by *avada » 2012-10-10, 21:45 UTC

HI!

I'm experiencing a problem with Total Commander 8.01 x64. It crashes everytime I try tu view something with lister. No matter what I try to view. Out of curiosity I tried the x86 version since I used the dual installer, which didn't crash. All this is on windows 8. Anyone experienced something like this?

Post by *Hacker » 2012-10-10, 22:35 UTC

avada,
Do you use any Lister plugins?
What happens if you use Alt-Shift-F3 to view a file?
Does it happen with a clean ini?

Roman

avada · Post by *avada » 2012-10-11, 12:01 UTC

Hacker wrote:avada,
Do you use any Lister plugins?
What happens if you use Alt-Shift-F3 to view a file?
Does it happen with a clean ini?

Roman

Shame on me. I didn't think of that. It doesn't crash when I use it with alt+shift.
Although its a bit baffling to me. Why does it crash with anything if I use it normally. For plain textfiles it shouldn't use any plugin. In the matter of fact it crashes with a plain empty file without an extension.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-10-11, 13:06 UTC

There are plugins which make sense for text files, e.g. syntax highlighting or editor plugins.

avada · Post by *avada » 2012-10-11, 13:15 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:There are plugins which make sense for text files, e.g. syntax highlighting or editor plugins.

Yes, but I don't have any at the moment.

As it turns out Imagine was guilty. And even that only with the not recently updated archive plugins.

Imagine is not a text plugin so I'm not sure it should be able to do that. Also what's a bit ominous that TC also crashed when I wanted to reinstall or uninstall Imagine within TC as a WLX plugin.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2012-10-11, 13:32 UTC

Imagine is looking at the content of a file to decide whether it can load it or not. Your text file must have contained a special marker which made imagine "think" that it was an image file, e.g. the JFIF text contained in Jpeg images...

avada · Post by *avada » 2012-10-11, 13:56 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:Imagine is looking at the content of a file to decide whether it can load it or not. Your text file must have contained a special marker which made imagine "think" that it was an image file, e.g. the JFIF text contained in Jpeg images...

It happened with a plain empty (extensionless) file too, which I only created for testing. Although if it looks in every file as you said, then the crash is not surprising. Well, for the using lister part anyway. For installing I have no idea why would it get loaded.