Incredible BIG bug in Total Commander all version !

[coolice]

Hi !

I had found an incredible BIG BUG in Total Commander which exist in all version. I would like to report it to the owner of the program for immediate correction. To see the problem, lets to the following under windows 2000 or XP :

1., Open a notepad, and save a file into C:\ (or system root).
2., Rename it to "program" without any extension.
3., Restart windows.

(If you still have windows in 1 piece)

4., Start up Total Commander.
5., Select the file named "program" which you had been created and delete it....

If you were not lucky enough to have a good undelete program, you suck, because Total Commander deleted ALL Program Files completely.

It is not a mistake, I am a system admisitrator, I am pretty serious, and as I did not beieved to my eyes, I had tried 4 different times, results always the same.

Good playing...

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[Aezay]

I think Windows is to blame, it has this so called "feature" that will delete directories named "filename"_files.
So if you delete a file called index.html it will delete the index_files directory.

Someone explained this much better than I can elsewhere on the forums, just cant remember where.

[pdavit]

I think Windows is to blame...

And if that's true and since Christian cannot debug Windows itself he can at least add a feature to not allow the corresponding deletion or just add a warning message that will inform the user about the consequences of his/her actions!

[jb]

I think Windows is to blame, it has this so called "feature" that will delete directories named "filename"_files.
So if you delete a file called index.html it will delete the index_files directory.

Sounds tempting, but coolice wrote that all "Program Files" were deleted, not "Program_files". At least on my system (Windows 2000 SP4) the "_" is necessary. I made a quick test with file "whatever" and directory "whatever_files" respectively "whatever files", but I did not dare to verify coolice's statement. Can sombody else confirm it?

CORRECTION :
I made a quick test with file "whatever.htm" and directory "whatever_files" respectively "whatever files", ...

Someone explained this much better than I can elsewhere on the forums, just cant remember where.

It was here http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=3972#3972 by Christian himself. In the same thread he also explained how to disable this dangerous Windows feature and promised to workaround it in the next version of TC.

[ghisler(Author)]

I tried it myself, and the folder "Program files" is definitely NOT deleted. "Program_files" is not deleted either! Only when deleting a file named "Program.htm", the folder "Program_files" gets deleted here (Win2k SP4)! And Total Commander does not do this by itself, it just deletes the file - Windows does all the rest! So you should get the exact same effect in Explorer too.

I guess that you have an invalid configuration in the registry. Or maybe you had "Program files" selected when deleting that file (outside the visible screen).

[waelder]

You can disable this "feature" with the following registry entry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer]
"NoFileFolderConnection"=dword:00000001

[ghisler(Author)]

This still doesn't explain why he has this connection with files without an extension. Any ideas?

[Blight]

Probably longname/shortname issue, there is a window setting that disables creation os short file names with the ~1 appendage, so the short file name may actually be set as "program" for his program files and when you erase...