Total Commander

Let's assume that TC is installed in "C:\Program Files\Total Commander". Let's perform some tests:

1) cd "C:\Program Files\Total Commander" -> TC goes into "C:\Program Files\Total Commander".
2) cd "C:\Program Files\Total Commander\NotExistingName1" -> TC goes into "C:\Program Files\Total Commander".
3) cd "C:\Program Files\Total Commander\NotExistingName1\NotExistingName2" -> nothing happens.

So the improvement could be: TC could follow the path until the last existing name - similarly as Ctrl+D menu already does.

This could be useful when dealing with paths to uninstalled applications - we may still want to go to the folder that was containing the uninstalled application.

Regards

Is your suggestion for using cd on the command line?

Btw. I mentioned this behavior here.

Yes, it is about using "cd" command in TC command line.

You are right, you already described this behavior in your post (in the "Edited" frame).


As I just tested, same behavior is also when omitting double-quotes in my tests above.

I thought that TC opens last valid dir with any invalid subdirs in path... I confirm that TC does nothing if more than one invalid dir in path. Strange that I haven't noticed this behaviour before.

If TC cannot go to
C:\Program Files\Total Commander\NotExistingName1
it assumes that NotExistingName1 could be a file, so TC goes to
C:\Program Files\Total Commander
and tries to set the cursor on NotExistingName1.

You can do it much easier: if X:\A\B\C\D exists, it is accepted, otherwise you truncate path (X:\A\B\C, X:\A\B etc) until object exists. When you found existing object, there are not so much things to do: if it is a file, you focus it, if it is a folder or archive, you focus or enter it depending on command line options.

TC already does this when refreshing the current directory, and it doesn't exist any more. However, when you use "cd" to a specific location, I'm not sure that the user wants to check all parents too. Therefore this isn't currently done.

Someone may want TC to do nothing instead of opening nearest existing parent?

And the current behavior is inconsistent with the Ctrl+D behavior - which is in my opinion the right behavior.