Remembering tabs the way Firefox does

[commodore]

Is there any setting I don't know yet of, which could make my Total Commander remember open tabs the way Firefox does? Which means in case of an unexpected crash, outage, freezing etc., the opened tabs would be the same next time I launch Total Commander.
From what I can see, the tabs are now saved only when I close Total Commander "regularly". This setting would probably mean saving them each time you change their order or open/close a tab.

[ts4242]

Assign this command cm_ConfigSaveSettings to a toolbar button.

Also you can right click on a tab and choose Save to/Load from file

[commodore]

Is cm_ConfigSaveSettings the same as the Configuration | Save Settings menu option?

Anyway, maybe this could be added to the "wishlist" - something like "flush/save settings every N minutes".

[ts4242]

Is cm_ConfigSaveSettings the same as the Configuration | Save Settings menu option?

Yes, it is.

[chrizoo]

Problem is, once TC has crashed, you can't magically go back in time and press the save button. Other than that, I like the cm_ConfigSaveSettings of course.

I fully support commodre's motion, would be a great idea for implementation.

[chrizoo]

something like "flush/save settings every N minutes".

There is a cleverer way of doing that. My Firefox for example crashed loads of times and I never lost any tabs that would have been opened between the last interval save and the time of the crash. I think Firefox achieves this by writing the tab location (along side with the back/forward history) to a file immediately when it is opened. So when the program crashes, the tab has already been "saved" beforehand.

Same could be done in TotalCommander.

[commodore]

That's about what I in turn suggested under
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=25973

It's a great thing to get back to "where you were" after something unpredicted happened.

[chrizoo]

That's about what I in turn suggested under
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=25973

It's a great thing to get back to "where you were" after something unpredicted happened.

support++

[wanderer]

I don't have any of the "save" settings enabled so commodore's "Save/flush settings every N minutes" wouldn't work for me, however i find this request very useful. I guess it would be better if TC saved all tabs settings to a temp file every time something was altered in a tab (opening/closing a tab, file sorting, filtering, etc), and delete it when TC was closed normally (as chrizoo suggested).

There would probably be some problems with multiple TC instances though. Perhaps TC's ProcessID could be used as part of the filename...

[Samuel]

Support++
Its anoying if TC crashes and the current tabs are not saved.

[MVV]

I think it would be useful to save current tabs every time when tab state is changed (e.g. new tab opened, changed or removed) to temporary file (e.g. under Application Data\Ghisler), so if user wants to load previous tabs, he can create button.

[DrShark]

Tabs autosaving suggested several times:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=18720
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=21119
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=25210
+ already mentioned http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=25973
+ related Undo Close tab suggestion