Wrong directory selected on drive change

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2Sheepdog
Hi Stefan !

Thany wrote:
1. On the right, go to d:\test\
2. On the left, go to your floppy drive. Make sure there's NO floppy inserted
3. In the window that pops up, correct your mistake by going to drive D.
4. On the left, go to drive D once more.

ghisler(Author) wrote :
…The reason why TC doesn't retry to go to d:\some\subdir is that the disk was probably changed, e.g. a different CD, so even if the dir would exist, it wouldn't be the same, so it wouldn't be good to go there.

¤ Indeed, I tested with an empty floppy !
* I guess that Ch. Ghisler has misunderstood that Thany said, about his D: drive; following his reply, it seems he thought that D: is a CD drive…
* I performed the same test than Thany, and specified that my D: drive is not a CD, but a HD.
* Following this, the Ch. Ghisler's answer is not satisfactory.

 V G
Claude
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[Sheepdog]

* I guess that Ch. Ghisler has misunderstood that Thany said, about his D: drive; following his reply, it seems that he thought that D: is a CD drive…

You are right. @ghisler misunderstood something.

sheepdog

[nevidimka]

>>nevidimka
- You are right, the default status is indicated alright in the Help /Tutorial as :
«If set to 1, Total Commander will always switch to the root directory when changing drives (like the Win95/98 Explorer).»

whaddyathink? Did you read the TC help thoroughly? Did you thought twice about that what you wrote?

AlwaysToRoot=0 If set to 1, Total Commander will always switch to the root directory when changing drives (like the Win95/98 Explorer).

In this case zero is default setting and is indicated by the zero in "AlwaysToRoot=0". This indication is true for the most of the descriptions.

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2nevidimka
Hi !
-You are looking for hairs on eggs ! I didn't repeat the first part which is the entry in <wincmd.ini>. You might see above, before to mock me…
- That you quote is only the continuation / explanation for that entry.
- I make the Tutorials, I know what they contain, and I've some neurons remaining.

Regards
Claude
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[Hacker]

Christian,

The following happens:
[...]
3. It also fails. Now TC tries d:\
4. It fails too. TC asks user. User chooses d:\, so TC stays in d:\

No, user chooses c:\ and TC should go to c:\where\I\was\before\ but it goes to c:\ instead.

HTH
Roman

[Sheepdog]

Christian,

The following happens:
[...]
3. It also fails. Now TC tries d:\
4. It fails too. TC asks user. User chooses d:\, so TC stays in d:\

No, user chooses c:\ and TC should go to c:\where\I\was\before\ but it goes to c:\ instead.

TC does not look up, if he has already changed the path on the selected drive. Otherwise he seems to use a lookup table.

sheepdog

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2Sheepdog
Hi Stefan !

TC does not look up, ( ) if he has already changed the path on the selected drive. Otherwise he seems to use a lookup table.

* TC could use easily the last previous path for that drive from the Historical dirs list; it's stored somewhere (in a cache, I guess), instead to set the root every time.
* What do you think ?

 V G
Claude
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2Hacker
Hi Roman !

No, user chooses c:\ and TC should go to c:\where\I\was\before\ but it goes to c:\ instead.

- Nicely said in brief !
- This is the problem exactly.

 KR
Claude
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[Sheepdog]

* TC could use easily the last previous path for that drive from the Historical dirs list; it's stored somewhere (in a cache, I guess), instead to set the root every time.
* What do you think ?

I guess TC fails to use a subroutine to look for the current path by accident. Probably two lines code to correct it.

If one knows where and how to put it in of course.


sheepdog