Pressing ESC in Synchronize directories sometimes failes

[barockengel]

Pressing ESC in Synchronize directories will fail after selecting an item in the folder-/filelist

[Horst.Epp]

Not confirmed.
Whatever I select ESC always leaves the sync screen.

[barockengel]

UPS
I'll give you an example:
[left] c:\Windows\Resources\
[right] c:\Windows\Branding\
[Synchronize directories]
On my Win7 x64 PC I get:
Gefundene Dateien: 22 (Gleiche: 0, Verschieden: 0, Einzelne links: 18, Einzelne rechts: 4)

If I click on one of the blue or green arrows, this arrow will be deactivated.
And in addition, this click deactivates the [ESC key].

[ghisler(Author)]

This is actually intentional: As soon as you change anything in the compare results, ESC gets disabled. The idea is that you don't close the compare dialog by accident after selecting many files manually.

[barockengel]

OK that's the right behavior!
How about double ESC Or Ctrl-F4 to close?

[Dalai]

You can always close it via Alt+F4, just like any Windows window (except CMD ).

Regards
Dalai

[MVV]

That's VERY VERY VERY UNOBVIOUS! I've seen this bug many times and haven't found the reason until today! It should be really documented somehow...

[Gral]

You can always close it via Alt+F4, just like any Windows window (except CMD ).

Regards
Dalai

That's not true anymore with Windows 10

[Dalai]

[OT]

That's not true anymore with Windows 10

Yes, I know. But only if the extended CMD of whatever it's called is enabled, which admittedly it is by default. But MS still hasn't bothered to implement and enable Ctrl+D hotkey to close such a "terminal" window until today, not even in PowerShell, although this exists and is the default on Linux since more than a decade (probably even longer). Well, MS still has to learn a lot (not just from Linux) ...

[/OT]

Regards
Dalai

[petermad]

2MVV

It should be really documented somehow..

30.03.03 Added: Synchronize dirs dialog can now be closed with ESCAPE as long as the user doesn't change the copy direction of any files!

But I admit that it is pretty well hidden - 15 years back in the history... The current history.txt doen't even go that far back (only goes to 10.08.08).

http://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/history.txt