Total Commander

TC only allows disabling (automatic) refresh on a per drive basis.
This is not convenient in many cases. For example, I would generally prefer to just disable refresh for a few particular folders that contain an unusually large number of files, instead of a whole drive.

As well the drive setting is not accurate, as it deals with absolute drive letters. To stop the refresh of "C:\Users\Me\AppData\Opera\cache", I have to exclude "C:" from refresh... except the folder C:\Users is a mountpoint to a completely different drive. That drive has not been assigned a drive letter.

I propose a Tab setting/override of "Enable Refresh" and "Disable Refresh".

This would greatly decrease the wait-times with TC. As when refresh is not disabled, every time TC is activated - even if the File Tab with many files is the inactive tab, TC still goes into a long refresh (reading from drive) period before you can do anything. This delay will also occur after adding a comment in the active Panel, or any of TC's commands that create a modal dialog (as the modal dialogs put TC in the background).

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support

don't know if this makes sense, but a "don't refresh me anymore" context menu item? It's hard enough to open a Bad directory in the first place, but the updating is just deadly to productivity. Said context item might be 'always' or 'this session' as well (and Please remove the 'center selected item in pane at refresh' feature, i.e., refresh occurs and the selected item is centered when you are trying to scroll through the directory to find something and -need- for refresh to be active).

I know my computer and network are crap, but I also know I am not the only one that cannot go to fibre (and yes, I devote some of my vacation days each year to cleaning, pruning, and arranging the mess.. there is just.too.much.data anymore).

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