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#38 not all TC dir menu items appear in FF Fav menu

Scott R — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:20:49 -0000

in both images the "old" sub menu is shown expanded correctly. by FF

not all TC dir menu items appear in FF Fav menu

Scott R — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 13:16:29 -0000

I have been using FlashFolder (FF) with total commander for many years and have not had any significant issue. I though I would try "Share Total Commander (TC) directory menu" for first time. When I tried this the FF favorites menu changed to TC dir menu but only picked the first entry as shown. All my TC dir menus are in sub menus as shown. Has anyone else seen this behaviour.

In attached image FF fav menu shows "old" submenu but other subfolders shown by TC dir menu in second image are missing from FF fav menu.

Tested with FF v1.9.181.0 + TC 8.51a + WIn XP SP3 (32bit)
Tested with FF v1.9.181.0 + TC 8.51a + WIn XP SP2 (32bit)

(I notice the developer has not changed anything in 6 years - are you still reading new tickets?)

FlashFolder not working after login

Michal Kočárek — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:26:09 -0000

I am using 32-bit Windows XP Professional SP3. FlashFolder is installed as a service and set up to start "Automatically". I have disabled themes and am using classical login screen dialog.

PROBLEM:
When I log into XP, FlashFolder service is running, executable is visible in Process Manager, however the hooks do not work. The program seems not to run at all.
I recompiled the SVN version from July 2010 and the log produced following:

===== Logging started =====
Process version: 1.10.252.0, 2010/07/04 23:06:51
Cmd: "D:\Program Files\FlashFolder\FlashFolder.exe" /startservice
Task: Starting service
ServiceMain()
StartHookInCurrentUserSessions()
WTSEnumerateSessions() error (1702)
Service running, waiting for events...
SERVICE_CONTROL_SHUTDOWN event received
Setting hook termination event
Service stopped.
===== Logging ended =====

WHY IT HAPPENS:
The problem is on line WTSEnumerateSessions() error (1702). I was searching for the error code 1702, and I found that the problem occurs when Terminal Service is not running yet, but program tries to execute WTSEnumerateSessions. (Search page http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/32071826/find-interactive-user-name--token-again-problems.aspx for 1702 number.)

SOLUTION:
I solved the problem with adding dependency to the FlashFolder service. Now XP wait for Terminal Services to start and they start FlashFolder after that. This can be done by typing "sc config FlashFolder depend= TermService" into command line.
Now, when I open FlashFolder service options dialog from services.msc MMC console, it shows me that FlashFolder is dependent on Terminal Service.
Everything works well now. The FlashFolder logs shows that it is allright.

The solution can be incorporated into WiX installer as well. In file Installer/Files.xws, there are XML keys ServiceInstall (specs on http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_serviceinstall.htm ). By adding subkeys named ServiceDependency one can specify the dependency on other service (service TermService).

Custom window classes

igitur — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:38:09 -0000

FlashFolder doesn't work for SoapUI. I think it's a Java app and that its dialogs use a different window class name.

It would be great if I could add custom window class names somewhere in a configuration setting.

Flash Folder doesn't save docx-docs

halie10 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:12:50 -0000

1. Save docx-documents (office 2007) using "save as".
2. But FF doesn't open the favorite folder. Instead it saves the document in the last opened folder. The same time it changes the document name. Sometimes it doesn't save the document at all and paste the Favorite Folder path into the document(!)
3. 1.9.181, Windows XP, Office 2007

*.doc-documents are saved in a proper way.

TC Integration destroys Entrs in WINCMD.INI

Peter Murschall — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:38:20 -0000

Flashfolder 1.9.181.0 beta destroys some entriys in WINCMD.INI Section [DIRMENU]
if they have the form
cmd99=CD %temp%
and change them to
cmd99=%temp%
so that Totalcommander open this folder in a separate window !
This is a real hard bug !
Also Flashfolder cannot handle this format by itself !!
E.g. Path/command = %temp% does not work.

Very sad :-)

Mit freundlichsten Grüßen

Peter Murschall

Path characters missing in Office 2007 products

Mike Krowiak — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:04:52 -0000

When "Saving As...", folders from Flashfolders' global history, current folders or favorites are missing characters (like "t" and "u:") when copied into the "File name:" area. -Mike.

Adding Root of Drive is Missing Backslash

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:54:30 -0000

Hi,

Using the 181 Beta of FlashFolder. I've added the root of the C drive as a favourite. When I do, it comes up as "cd C:" in FlashFolder. This link will not work however (you can try it, it won't change folders when you click it). When you go in to edit the favourite and add the "\" (so "cd C:\"), it will work. This behaviour is the same for any drive root. Add the K drive - it adds it as K: and won't work until you change it to K:\.

Thanks.

Go to Favorite Folders fails when IME working

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:45:28 -0000

I'll try to describe the bug as much as I can. It happens 100% of the time with Microsoft Office 2003 applications.
I use WinXP SP2 Japanese version and can switch between Japanese and International English IME (language bar installed). Whenever the language bar is switched on Japanese (including the case where input is in English; I know this is confusing but the Japanese IME allows English input; I have a separate English input to be able to use accented characters), choosing one of the folders in the Favorite Folder (star) of Flashfolder will result only in the file name to be highlighted with the file name (if written in English) to be transformed into the same name but using 2 bytes characters from the unicode set.
If the language is switched to English, Flashfolder will behave appropriately.
This seems to happen only in Microsoft Office applications (I use Office 2003).

Removing Hotkeys

zett42 — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:50:40 -0000

mhe Says:
December 11th, 2008 at 6:26 pm e

I had some problem with hotkeys, i added a hotkey but could not remove it. I had to go into the registry and manually delete the entry to get rid of it.