Uppercased drive letter in Lister (not only for unpacked files)

The behaviour described in the bug report is either by design, or would be far too complex/time-consuming to be changed

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Uppercased drive letter in Lister (not only for unpacked files)

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By default TC uses lowercase drive letters. You can see for example in the Lister title bar after pressing F3, something like:

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c:\Temp\test.jpg
However, when you want to view files packed in zip, 7z, rar etc. TC unpackes them to %TEMP% subfolder and Lister always shows drive letter uppercased - just as it is saved in %TEMP% variable, something like:
in Windows XP

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C:\DOCUME~1\USER\LOCALS~1\TEMP\_tc\test.jpg
in newer systems

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C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\_tc\test.jpg
You can see such differences saved in [LastTracks] section in wincmd.ini, when playing packed multimedia files in Lister.
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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DrivesShowUpcase is currently not used in Lister. I will consider it.
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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This should be fixed in TC 10.51 RC1, please test it.
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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This should be fixed in TC 10.51 RC1, please test it.
Sorry - DrivesShowUpcase=0 has no effect in Lister's Title bar when opening files inside archives.

Tested with TC 10.51rc1 32bit and 64bit under WIndows 7 and 10 - also with a fresh ini file.

But DrivesShowUpcase does now have effect when opening a separate instance of Lister by using the /S=L command line parameter.
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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Sorry - DrivesShowUpcase=0 has no effect in Lister's Title bar when opening files inside archives.
Confirmed - that's not one of the cases I tried. Any others?
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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Any others?
Well not exactly the same but if I open a file on a Windows Workgroup Network using the "Show administrative shares" the Server name part of the path is all capitalized. But if I open a named share it si not captalized.
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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The file lists are not affected by DrivesShowUpcase. The same as you observe also happens when you open the "Computer" virtual folder. This is intentional.
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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ghisler(Author) wrote: 2022-08-11, 08:09 UTC This should be fixed in TC 10.51 RC1, please test it.
Nothing has changed for unpacked files. And it's broken now for other files when viewed with Lister.

Real case - TC started with default settings, viewing its own file and folder:

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c:\TotalCmd\DEFAULT.BAR
c:\TotalCmd\
32-bit TC shows in Lister:

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c:\TotalCmd\dEFAULT.BAR
c:\totalCmd\
64-bit TC shows in Lister:

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C:\TotalCmd\dEFAULT.BAR
C:\totalCmd\
As you can see, 64-bit Lister always uppercases drive letter, and both versions revert case of the first character in the last path element.
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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Yes, I changed the upper-/lowercase character in the wrong place, so it only worked when a path+file name was passed to Lister, not when they were passed separately as it is the case for example for archives.
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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32-bit TC shows in Lister:

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c:\TotalCmd\dEFAULT.BAR
c:\totalCmd\
64-bit TC shows in Lister:

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C:\TotalCmd\dEFAULT.BAR
C:\totalCmd\
Hmm, here it shows the same in 32bit and 64bit:

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c:\TotalCmd\dEFAULT.BAR
c:\totalCmd\
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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I can provide a screenshot taken yesterday in Windows 7: tc1051-noUpcase.png. You can see default lister background (white color, while I keep bright yellow color in the working wincmd.ini). I'm not sure what ini has been used then as today I cannot reproduce those results, but I'm sure that "DrivesShowUpcase" is absent in all ini files.
It looks like drive letter is randomly uppercased, here's a screenshot from today, taken with working wincmd.ini: tc1051-randomUpcase.png - it's always lower case for drive c: and Upper case for drive D:
TC run with a fresh ini shows both lower case c: and d:.
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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I just tried all my drives (A,C,D,E,F,G,H,Z) and the setting of DrivesShowUpcase is honored in Listers title bar for all of them with TC 10.51rc1 x64 on Windows 7. https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/listerdriveletter.png

I also noticed that when using DrivesShowUpcase=1 the first letter of the file name is always in uppercase (just like it is always in lowercase with DrivesShowUpcase=0). Removing DrivesShowUpcase from the ini file gives the same results as DrivesShowUpcase=0 - as it should.
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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Here's a screenshot from Windows XP with working wincmd.ini and no DrivesShowUpcase present: tc1051-randomUpcaseXP.png.
As you can see, this time drive C: is Uppercased, drive d: and other drives are lowercased. Language English internal, wincmd.ini in UTF-16 (the same was for working wincmd.ini in Windows 7). Clean ini shows all drives lowercased in Windows XP (EDIT: both ANSI and UTF-16 ini).
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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Hmm, tried in my Windows XP with a Unicode ini file: https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/listerdriveletterXP.png

Still lowercase drive letter in Lister, but my Windows XP is 32 bit, and you say you only experience it with 64bit TC so I guess your XP is 64 bit?

I get the same for my c: drive, and I only have c: and d: drive on under my XP computer.

Sorry for asking this, but you don't show TC's title bar in your screenshots, are you sure you are running TC 10.51rc1?
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Re: Uppercased drive letter in Lister for unpacked files.

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Random drive letter upper case is for both TC 32- and 64-bit in Windows 7 and for TC 32-bit in XP. It's definitely TC 10.51rc1 - see lowercased first letter of directory or filename? TC 10.50 in Windows XP shows C:\IO.SYS (all uppercased) and d:\IO.SYS (d: and other drives properly lowercased).
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