Total Commander

Environment: RC4 on XP Prof (5.1.2600)

Entries disappear from hotlist. This have occured several times, but I'm not able to reproduce the problem (on demand, that is!).
I've been doing som configuring of the hotlist (moving and deleting items), but if that has anything to do with the problem I don't know...

Best regards
Kenneth

Sorry, never seen this problem, and I use the hotlist a lot. How many entries does your hotlist contain?

Hi

There's 11 topis in the Hotlist. All straightforward ie. no subitems, etc.

Kenneth

PS: I'll try to see if I can find some way to reproduce the problem.

Maybe you have chosen "Remove" by mistake? If you are in a directory of the hotlist, the "Add directory" item will be changed to "Remove directory".

Ups.

That does sound like a reasonable explanation (wasn't even aware that Add changed to Delete, so): I'll watch out for this in the future...

For my part, this issue can be considered as closed/solved...

Thank's for your help
Kenneth

2kc44

Hello !

• Maybe did you use "R" as a hotkey for a directory ?

- In that case, it stands for the Remove entry…

- The only way to use that letter is to use the standalone English LNG
and to remove this hotkey (that I do here in French to get more letters, since the letter is "E", not "R")

 Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

Ups again

That's right on the spot. Now the (my) problem is certainly solved.

Thanks a lot for your input.

Best regards
Kenneth

Clo wrote:Maybe did you use "R" as a hotkey for a directory ?

- In that case, it stands for the Remove entry…

To avoid accidentally executing this "remove" action you can define another entry with the same hotkey as remove (&R...).
This way the removing is not executed without confirmation of the user ("remove" is first displayed after pressing "rr", and then only executed after pressing return).

BTW, in german the hotkey is the same for add & remove (both "A" for "Aktuell"), so there's quite a high risk to accidentally remove an already existing entry...

StatusQuo wrote:BTW, in german the hotkey is the same for add & remove (both "A" for "Aktuell"), so there's quite a high risk to accidentally remove an already existing entry...

Not in my Language-File. Link see signature...
BTW Language & Menu for 7.0 is Ready

[mod]Moved to the TC7 beta discussion forum.

Hacker (Moderator)[/mod]

Suggestion: "Remove" will probably be used for one or two entries. If someone wishes to remove more entries, he would probably use "configure". Wouldn't it be better if there was a confirmation dialog in "remove"?

Hi

My vote goes to Wanderer's suggestion - sounds like a pretty simple solution too.

Kenneth

wanderer wrote:Wouldn't it be better if there was a confirmation dialog in "remove"?

Support (with option to disable for the confirmation-haters).

But I found a workaround (changing TC's *.LNG file), which disables the hotkey for removing: http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=67834#67834

wanderer wrote:Suggestion: "Remove" will probably be used for one or two entries. If someone wishes to remove more entries, he would probably use "configure". Wouldn't it be better if there was a confirmation dialog in "remove"?

Only if its turned off by default
If you use a Filemanager you are expected to use your brain and eyes and all what god gave you...

Sir_SiLvA wrote:Only if its turned off by default

Ok, but...

Sir_SiLvA wrote:If you use a Filemanager you are expected to use your brain and eyes and all what god gave you...

...i'll only say this. Give a user a panel with 100 buttons. 99 do nothing, one of them resets the computer. Chances are at a critical moment he'll push that one! This happens under pressure which is the case with most people during the day.

That's why Recycle Bin and similar means of protection exist. To save you from trouble in the 1% of the cases you won't be focused on what you're doing.