Use of alternate path separator

[koahnig]

Hi there,
I am not sure if I should file a bug report. Also I am struggling in getting a reasonable list of bug reports for checking for this problem.

Anyway, I am using the button bar and I have created a new icon for simply changing the current drive and folder.

The command is: cd d:/OwnCloud.
This command is working in most cases fine. I can change to subfolders and do the typically navigational stuff.

Some weird behaviour starts when moving one folder back. The window will show directly the root folder. Also an error message appears when using the sync folder feature.

The origin is the use of the forward slash as separator.
It will show d:\/OwnCloud/\ as the new folder but probably should have been converted to d:\OwnCloud\

This is with TotalCommander 8.52a 64 bit on Windows 10.

The command has been used already under Win 7 64 bit, but I am not sure if there has been the same problem.

I have changed to standard folder separator for windows \ and all is working fine for me.

[Horst.Epp]

This is not a TC bug !
The /OwnCloud is of course interpreted as command line switch which makes no sense in this context.

[Stefan2]

Hi,

and what is the actual problem now?

Just use the standard folder separator for windows \ and all is working fine



On my test I nowhere see such "d:\/OwnCloud/\" behavior. ( Tested with CD e:/temp)
Locks like some escaping...
WHERE did you saw that string?



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[koahnig]

The command "cd d:/OwnCloud" is used within button bar icon.

The problem is with 8.52a and 8.52.
I have just tried on my laptop with TC 8.52. It does change to the folder as well, but the same problems.
Both machines are running Win10 64 bit. Both TC versions are also 64 bit.

The string appears above the pane window and below the tabs where typically the current complete folder path is shown. For 8.52 the end of the path does not have the combination of forward and backward slashes.

Thanks for suggestion, but I had solved it already as written in initial post. I merely thought to report it. Personally I do consider it as a minor bug.

[MVV]

Standard folder name separator for Windows is backslash so many programs may not work correctly if you use forward slashes instead.

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, please use backslashes in TC for local paths. While the forward slash may work in many places, TC expects the backslash.