Some comments after testing the Ultimate version.
Posted: 2012 Mar 11, 02:15
Hello,
After testing the new features of the Ultimate edition of x2 I would like to share my personal opinion about it.
I think that it would be good to add an option during the Xplorer2 Ultimate installation to choose where the program must save its settings.
I use to have unchecked the “Save program state on exit”, but it seems to me that this option must be enabled to be able to change where x2 store its settings. Could not be both options be independent one of the other?
In some occasions x2’s settings are not transferred during their transition from the windows registry to an ini file. For example, I had X2 Pro installed with “Save program state on exit” unchecked before the installation of X2 Ult, and doing the following steps x2 Ult would not create an ini file with the customized settings:
1. Check “Save program state on exit” and choose “file in user appdata folder”.
2. Accept changes.
3. Uncheck “Save program state on exit”.
4. Accept changes, and exit X2 Ult.
I think that it would be good to allow users to choose to save the program settings as reg or ini files and not only as ini.
It is curious that when you choose to save the program settings file in the installation folder when you do not have permissions, you get the following error message: “You don’t have write permission in C:\Program Files\zabkat\xplorer2_ult\ The program settings cannot be placed here, try the appdata folder”. But after getting this error if you try to export the settings you get the following message: “Program settings are already exported to INI file: C:\Program Files\zabkat\xplorer2_ult\x2settings.ini” and obviously there is no ini file there.
I hope to see more options to manage CIDA files in a near future, like to be able to edit the location of the files stored in them (Edit file location in the context menu), be able to store relative paths of the files (depending upon the location of the CIDA file), etc. It would be really useful and even more taking into account the portability of the Ult version.
After testing the new features of the Ultimate edition of x2 I would like to share my personal opinion about it.
I think that it would be good to add an option during the Xplorer2 Ultimate installation to choose where the program must save its settings.
I use to have unchecked the “Save program state on exit”, but it seems to me that this option must be enabled to be able to change where x2 store its settings. Could not be both options be independent one of the other?
In some occasions x2’s settings are not transferred during their transition from the windows registry to an ini file. For example, I had X2 Pro installed with “Save program state on exit” unchecked before the installation of X2 Ult, and doing the following steps x2 Ult would not create an ini file with the customized settings:
1. Check “Save program state on exit” and choose “file in user appdata folder”.
2. Accept changes.
3. Uncheck “Save program state on exit”.
4. Accept changes, and exit X2 Ult.
I think that it would be good to allow users to choose to save the program settings as reg or ini files and not only as ini.
It is curious that when you choose to save the program settings file in the installation folder when you do not have permissions, you get the following error message: “You don’t have write permission in C:\Program Files\zabkat\xplorer2_ult\ The program settings cannot be placed here, try the appdata folder”. But after getting this error if you try to export the settings you get the following message: “Program settings are already exported to INI file: C:\Program Files\zabkat\xplorer2_ult\x2settings.ini” and obviously there is no ini file there.
I hope to see more options to manage CIDA files in a near future, like to be able to edit the location of the files stored in them (Edit file location in the context menu), be able to store relative paths of the files (depending upon the location of the CIDA file), etc. It would be really useful and even more taking into account the portability of the Ult version.