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by Kilmatead
2017 Oct 01, 19:51
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: How to update my portable version?
Replies: 4
Views: 421

Re: How to update my portable version?

I've never seen a portable app that needs to be installed first. The ultimate version is not a "portable app" out of the box per se, simply a version which allows the conversion into one. There are essentially two ways to update a portable install: 1. Install the new version on a host (yo...
by Kilmatead
2017 Aug 16, 20:50
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Bookmarks/Favorite Folders IN GROUPS?
Replies: 2
Views: 289

Re: Bookmarks/Favorite Folders IN GROUPS?

Can I or is there a way to bookmark a GROUP of folder tabs? Customise -> Folder Groups -> Add Current "Folder Groups" are, despite inclement nomenclature, the collected set of folder tabs open in the current pane, so they may be saved/recalled collectively whenever you want. You are not l...
by Kilmatead
2017 Aug 13, 21:56
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: clicking and dragging to select files
Replies: 7
Views: 1308

Re: clicking and dragging to select files

A little searching reminds me that this is the result of an absurd change back in version 3.3.0.0: * Easier to access background menu (right click "nowhere" in a folder view) and do lasso (marquee) selection if you click the mouse on the empty space to the right of a filename. Works even i...
by Kilmatead
2017 Aug 10, 20:42
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: clicking and dragging to select files
Replies: 7
Views: 1308

Re: clicking and dragging to select files

Edit: Proper solution provided below.
by Kilmatead
2017 Jul 19, 09:19
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: blog: optimal I/O buffer size, revisited
Replies: 11
Views: 3492

Re: blog: optimal I/O buffer size, revisited

There is anecdotal evidence that supports your experience, so I don't doubt that the Loch Ness Monster could be somebody's secret love-child :wink:, but as long as no one goes looking for verifiable reasons why it might be so, it's harmless enough to swim in deep waters, though it will undeniably sl...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jul 19, 08:01
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Namespace extensions and/or Total Commander plugins?
Replies: 3
Views: 488

Re: Namespace extensions and/or Total Commander plugins?

Can I use 7z NSE for archives and TC plugins for other purposes at the same time? Note that both 7zNSE and plugins allow themselves to be separately targeted at specific (file-extension) types, so from that point of view if you (for some reason) use 7zNSE for handling RAR and ZIP's, but a plugin fo...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jul 19, 07:29
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: blog: optimal I/O buffer size, revisited
Replies: 11
Views: 3492

Re: blog: optimal I/O buffer size, revisited

I use it prior to accessing my NAS with X2, it speeds things up considerably. As the Laws of Unintended Consequences go, that sounds more like a speeding ticket making you late for your wedding, and thus annoying your flibbertigibbet fiancée so much that she rejects you for a South-American dwarf-t...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jul 16, 19:57
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: Are custom macros possible in x2?
Replies: 10
Views: 822

Re: Are custom macros possible in x2?

It's just that I noticed the custom user commands option but haven't a clue how to use it. Custom user-commands are more of an "on demand" programme-launch type of paradigm, rather than a scheduler-based one. For example, if you needed to select a group of .MP4 files and convert them (usi...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jul 12, 23:12
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: blog: optimal I/O buffer size, revisited
Replies: 11
Views: 3492

Re: blog: optimal I/O buffer size, revisited

Of course the big problem is taking the windows cache out of the picture. How can this be done? a simple solution is to reboot the PC and run the timing code on "fresh" RAM — but that would be tedious and take ages. since there's no API to flush the read cache :(, best you can do is eithe...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jul 10, 18:44
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: How to add start external program from menu?
Replies: 7
Views: 670

Re: How to add start external program from menu?

Huh, "Lank, Joined: Fri 12-Oct- 2007 "... :wink: 2007, eh? That's only... <counts fingers and toes>... a decade? :D (Sorry, couldn't resist.) To add to Frizzle's instructions, you may also use $P to pass the current folder x2 is browsing, instead of any specific file therein, though whethe...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jul 09, 16:35
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: blog: putting advanced text matching to the test
Replies: 3
Views: 505

Re: blog: putting advanced text matching to the test

that sounds like quantum computing, intriguing but in the end of the day... wtf!? Your man was using an example based on gophers burning old computer manuals in the most efficient way possible with an idea from the guy who created q-sort... how much more dumbed-down can it get than that? Gophers &a...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jul 09, 14:23
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: finding long file names??
Replies: 19
Views: 4326

Re: finding long file names??

The Characters [S] column was introduced in version 3.0.0.0, for the record. As the regexp won't work either (even in the newest versions), you might be limited to using some form of scripting (as mentioned previously in this thread). so you don't need to bother finding them in the first place Often...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jul 09, 13:07
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: finding long file names??
Replies: 19
Views: 4326

Re: finding long file names??

Curiously, that regexp seems to only work with smaller numbers... for example .{150,} would find anything over 150 characters, but .{200,} fails to find anything, even when they exist. I would posit this has something to do with how x2 internally represents the paths (nikos loves his 8.3 reductions)...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jul 09, 11:29
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: blog: putting advanced text matching to the test
Replies: 3
Views: 505

Re: blog: putting advanced text matching to the test

not sure how it would work bytewise on unicode or UTF8 encodings It's solved (at least in one method ) by separately hashing the shift-table rows limited to characters in the pattern itself... It is easy to build a shift table with the number of rows equal to the number of charset characters if the...
by Kilmatead
2017 Jun 25, 16:10
Forum: xplorer² Professional
Topic: build 3402 released
Replies: 10
Views: 809

Re: build 3402 released

Nirsoft gives away his stuff for free; in my case, any false positives result in lost sales. Look on the bright-side, because of that, you get to have a more personal understanding of Kafka than Nirsoft might: it's the casual indifference of these AV companies (towards you) which results in the gre...