Folder color cheated by name-extension

[bogordo]

Hi,
I have defined a yellow color for folders, works fine but if i hace a folder named "folder.txt" TC colorize this following the .txt color definition in white, is this normal? the thing is a folder, not a .txt file, but in this unique case the name of folder ends in .txt

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[Hacker]

bogordo,
Try moving the .txt definition lower. Or change the .txt definition to exclude folders.

Roman

[petermad]

Yoiu have to maka a search that explicitly finds folders only:

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[Searches]
Folders_SearchFor=
Folders_SearchIn=
Folders_SearchText=
Folders_SearchFlags=0|000002000020||||||||22221|0000|

An then assign the colorfilter to >Folders - like this:

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[Colors]
ColorFilter1=>Folders
ColorFilter1Color=40704
ColorFilter1ColorDark=45056,40704

See also: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=52472

[bogordo]

Hi Peter,
I already have folder only search with this, not know the difference with your code:

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Folder_SearchFlags=0|002002000020||||||||22221|0000|||

[petermad]

It works fine here: https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/coloredfoldernames.png

It works for ordinary drives and for Archives, FTP-sites, Network shares, Virtual folders, Search results etc.

[bogordo]

Thank you Peter,

The problem comes with another Search/color definition for .TXT files, that is priorized over the Folder one, do you have one for .TXT?

Moving down the .TXT filter works, but i thonk this is not the correct solution, since really the folder is a folder, even ending wth .txt...

Image: https://i.ibb.co/R38XCLF/CAPT-0005.png

[petermad]

If you don't want to move the >Folder item above the *.txt *.log then you can redefine so that it explicity rule out folders: https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/txtnotfolder.png

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[Searches]
*.txt *.log_SearchFor=*.txt *.log
*.txt *.log_SearchIn=
*.txt *.log_SearchText=
*.txt *.log_SearchFlags=0|002002000020||||||||22220|0000|||

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[Colors]
ColorFilter3=>*.txt *.log
ColorFilter3Color=16711935
ColorFilter4=>Folder
ColorFilter4Color=33023

It works: https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/txtnotfolder2.png - but is more cumbersom to maintain.

It is really much easier to move the >Folder item up in the list.

[bogordo]

Thank you Peter, yes, it's better to move up the folder definition.

It really wasn't a real problem, it was more like reporting the weird (isn't it?) behavior of taking a File definition being a Folder

Best regards,

[Hacker]

bogordo,
Well, a folder is a file that contains names of other files.

Roman

[petermad]

2bogordo
From Wikipedia:

Files (or links to files) can be located in directories. However, more generally, a directory can contain either a list of files or a list of links to files. Within this definition, it is of paramount importance that the term "file" includes directories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_file

[bogordo]

Ok thank you both for clarifying, i thought "the nature" was different