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Ah, thanks!
My bookmark uses the download path, so I never saw that.

Hello,

I have received an email stating a test version 954 would be available that is "compiled with a newer version of Delphi."
However, I couldn't find that version on the registered downloads, so just wanted to make sure this is not some kind of scam...

Hello,

I like to have only the things I need on my desktop, but automated software updates regularly create their icons on the public desktop. As in this environment, I don't have write permissions on that directory, I cannot delete those icons easily. My workaround was to also remove read access ...

Hi,

it is possible to open a zip or 7z as if it was a directory. From that view, it's possible to Ctrl+C a file and copy it into another directory.
For a password protected archive, FC asks for the password and opens the archive as a directory as it does with "normal" archives. However, it is *not ...

Build 928 now has the encoding selection field always visible (the value is saved and restored).

@Marek: Thanks for changing this!

Thanks for the workaround, but please also change this in the program itself.
Also, I still need to have the advanced mode enabled, which I prefer not to.
Main problem I see is that many users might be surprised or not even notice that the search dialog doesn't return what the user expects.

btw ...

As you didn't state a reason why this should be necessary, I can only guess that you mean downloading the file would change the encoding or something else.
Doesn't make a difference. Just tested it.

Came upon this problem again and noticed my old thread.
FreeCommander XE 2025 Build 927 64-bit donor

UltraEdit doesn't store a BOM. Notepad++ (8.7.8 ) shows UTF-8, but apparently saves the file with the Little-Endian-Notation "FF FE" BOM.

It works in FC when I manually configure the encoding to ...

Probably wouldn't have tried this with Win XP

As yesterday was patchday, I have rebooted my laptop and now the dialog opens in 2-3 seconds (doesn't matter if using the default settings instance). Didn't think that this could be influenced by this so I didn't test before.

Normally, I only reboot on patchday and use hibernation mode to shutdown ...

This is not the newest laptop, but still, opening the search dialog shouldn't take 7 seconds.
Doesn't matter in which directory I try this. General use of FC is as expected without any delays.

What might cause this?

FreeCommander XE 2024 Build 904 64-bit donor
Win 10 Pro, 22H2
Intel Core i5-3210M ...

That was quick, thanks!

FC doesn't open "shell:startup" using "Go to folder" (nothing happens). Should open the "Current User" Startup folder (C:\Users\myuser\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup).

Should also work for "shell:common startup" to open the "All Users" Startup folder (C:\ProgramData ...

Got it: Renaming works on NTFS file system, but not on FAT32 or exFAT (neither in Windows Explorer).

Just to verify: You ONLY changed upper/lower case WITHOUT changing any other part of the filename?