Questions about the main page buttons?

[Ronintt]

I want to know what these two buttons do exactly. First one is this "\" and there is no tooltip when I hover over it. When I click it, the whole Total Commander freezes and after a while, it shows 'Loading...' (which can be cancelled). The other button with ".." also doesn't do anything when clicked. Can these two buttons be hidden or closed? What is the meaning of these two buttons?

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[Horst.Epp]

The meaning of these buttons should be clear, even for a newcomer.
\ jumps to the root of the current drive.
.. One level higher

If you have problems with them, start your TC with a fresh Ini file.

[beb]

Can these two buttons be hidden or closed? What is the meaning of these two buttons?
Image: https://pic.rmb.bdstatic.com/bjh/231225/7a07029ddd60ab13cd58fc63ca5e64365953.png

Just from the neighboring topic:

If you want to also remove the parent and root dir buttons (as originally requested in the first post), then you need to add a period to the parameter:

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DriveBarHide=-.

Thus, if you want to remove these buttons ([/] and [..]) you need to put 'DriveBarHide=.' parameter in the '[Configuration]' section of the 'wincmd.ini'

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[Configuration]
DriveBarHide=.
[Layout]
DriveCombo=0

Edit: Thanks 2petermad, added the 'DriveCombo=0' line which I initially missed since it's my permanent setting.
Edit2. My bad. Added a proper section. Thanks 2Fla$her.

[petermad]

Thus, if you want to remove these buttons ([/] and [..]) you need to put 'DriveBarHide=.' parameter in the '[Configuration]' section of the 'wincmd.ini'

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[Configuration]
DriveBarHide=.

That is not enough, you also need to use:

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DriveCombo=0

2Ronintt
If clicking those two buttons makes your TC freeze or do nothing then I am afraid that there is something seriously wrong with your TC configuration.

Does pressing Ctlr+\ (same as pressing the [\] button) or clicking BackSpace or Ctrl+PgUp (same as clicking the [..] button give you the same problems?

Does it happen with all you drives or just as shown on the X: drive:

Does it happen if you start TC with a fresh configuration file (Start TC with: totalcmd64.exe /i="%TEMT%\test.ini") ?

[beb]

... or do nothing

If it simply does nothing may mean nothing, but of course, only if a user is already at the root of a disk.
Otherwise, a user should be interested in elaborating petermad's advice, for sure.

[Ronintt]

Thus, if you want to remove these buttons ([/] and [..]) you need to put 'DriveBarHide=.' parameter in the '[Configuration]' section of the 'wincmd.ini'

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[Configuration]
DriveBarHide=.

That is not enough, you also need to use:

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DriveCombo=0

2Ronintt
If clicking those two buttons makes your TC freeze or do nothing then I am afraid that there is something seriously wrong with your TC configuration.

Does pressing Ctlr+\ (same as pressing the [\] button) or clicking BackSpace or Ctrl+PgUp (same as clicking the [..] button give you the same problems?

Does it happen with all you drives or just as shown on the X: drive:

Does it happen if you start TC with a fresh configuration file (Start TC with: totalcmd64.exe /i="%TEMT%\test.ini") ?

Thank you for your help and reply. When I click "\" after selecting drive "X", the program freezes and a pop-up window appears saying "Reading folder". As mentioned in the reply by "Horst.Epp" in the 2nd post, the program is already frozen and becomes unresponsive no matter what I click, even "Cancel" cannot be clicked. This situation may be due to too many files in my X drive? . The only solution to this freeze is to end the process and reopen it - waiting doesn't seem to have any effect. Also, when I click the ".." button next to the ".." button, there seems to be no response. In addition, I tested adding the statement to block "\" and ".." in [Configuration] section of wincmd.ini, but it didn't seem to work. Thank you for your help. Sincerely,Ronintt.

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[Ronintt]

Can these two buttons be hidden or closed? What is the meaning of these two buttons?
Image: https://pic.rmb.bdstatic.com/bjh/231225/7a07029ddd60ab13cd58fc63ca5e64365953.png

Just from the neighboring topic:

If you want to also remove the parent and root dir buttons (as originally requested in the first post), then you need to add a period to the parameter:

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DriveBarHide=-.

Thus, if you want to remove these buttons ([/] and [..]) you need to put 'DriveBarHide=.' parameter in the '[Configuration]' section of the 'wincmd.ini'

Code: Select all

[Configuration]
DriveBarHide=.
DriveCombo=0

Edit: Thanks 2petermad, added the 'DriveCombo=0' line which I initially missed since it's my permanent setting.

Thank you for your help and response. It seems that your code didn't work. After testing, the buttons in the software are still there.

[Fla$her]

Edit: Thanks 2petermad, added the 'DriveCombo=0' line which I initially missed since it's my permanent setting.

In that topic, he suggested hiding the drive selection list and the drive bar. That's why, 8 months later, I quoted only the drive bar, because it's still necessary to hide the drive selection list, which is essentially DriveCombo=0.

2Ronintt
There's another section here:

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[Configuration]
DriveBarHide=.

[Layout]
DriveCombo=0

[beb]

I've set the latter option via GUI, so didn't pay proper attention to where it actually resides in the ini. Sorry.

[Ronintt]

It seems that the cause of the freeze after clicking "\" may have been found, which is caused by the plugin "dirsizecalc". I had set it to load the sizes of all folders, which resulted in the program freezing when loading a large number of folders. Currently, switching to the built-in size display of TC (folder size as "DIR") seems to temporarily resolve the issue. Thank you to everyone who has helped me. Sincerely, Ronintt.

[Fla$her]

Currently, switching to the built-in size display of TC (folder size as "DIR") seems to temporarily resolve the issue.

Everything handles this much better: cm_Config2 > Calculate space occupied by subdirectories > ☑ 'Everything'