big error still not fixed

DeathAxe · Post by **DeathAxe** » 2006 Aug 04, 16:06

Hello, there has been a bug in this for quite some time now. It is not fixed... I am wondering if it is fixed on the pay for version and we free users are loosing out on a fix?

anyways.. some programs (not all but alot) think that they are being launched from the xplorer2 install folder when they are opened. Programs that use other files to operate (ini files dlls etc) batch files also have this problem when being opened from xplorer2.

Do you have a fix for this? it is annoying as I have to use win explorer for these files or make a shartcut. The whole point in this is replacing win explorer isnt it?

Thanks.

other than that, good bit of software.

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2006 Aug 04, 18:41

on the Tools | Options... | Advanced tab
uncheck Don't lock browsed folder

jacobsee · Post by **jacobsee** » 2006 Sep 22, 20:58

I have this same problem and the "Don't lock browsed folder" option doesn't seem to affect it.

I have a batch file where the first thing I do is to set the current directory path to a variable with:

set currentDir=%CD%
echo The current directory is %currentDir%

With Windows Explorer this works fine, but with x2 my path always ends up set to "C:\Program Files\xplorer2\snap"

any other ideas?

jacobsee · Post by **jacobsee** » 2006 Sep 22, 20:59

i am using 1.6.0.1 LITE

jacobsee · Post by **jacobsee** » 2006 Sep 22, 20:59

i guess I should also mention that I am using Windows 2000 SP4

Post by **nikos** » 2006 Sep 23, 06:18

it depends how you set up %CD% in the first place

jacobsee · Post by **jacobsee** » 2006 Sep 23, 18:02

ok...could you elaborate?

I'm running a batch file out of windows explorer or xplorer2 (lite) by double clicking it.

what do you mean by setting up %CD%? that's a built in windows environment variable right?

Post by **nikos** » 2006 Sep 24, 07:31

i didn't know about it but you're right. When i do a $echo %CD% from the addressbar it shows me the current folder, like i expect it to

jacobsee · Post by **jacobsee** » 2006 Sep 24, 16:48

ok, when I do this from my x2 addressbar I get a command windows opened with the C:\Program Files\xplorer2_lite\snap displayed and the prompt set to that directory as well.

The only place i could find this in the registry is the Editor2/szInitialFolder key but removing this key doesn't affect this behavior.

I'm actually on my WinXP Pro SP2 laptop now but am getting the same behavior

Post by **nikos** » 2006 Sep 24, 18:24

i can't see how editor2 a program external to x2, can affect it's path! Double check your "don't lock browsed folder setting" (it should be cleared) and if that doesn't fix it... i give up!

jacobsee · Post by **jacobsee** » 2006 Sep 25, 16:48

well, since at least one other person has seen this I don't think I"m crazy...i did double check the setting and it is cleared but I continue to seet his behavior.

if you don't have this on your list of bugs to fix, better writer 'er down

jacobsee · Post by **jacobsee** » 2006 Sep 25, 16:50

or if you explain to me why the "don't lock folder" setting would cause this kind of thing it might give me an idea of other things to check for on my system....

Post by **nikos** » 2006 Sep 25, 16:52

since the other guy got silent after fred's recommendation, we'll have to assume that for his case the clearing of the "folder lock" setting did the trick, so you're on your own there

when x2 "locks the folder" it means it does a SetCurrentDirectory on each active folder you enter, so the last one is always "locked" ie can't be deleted

try a $dir in the addressbar and see which contents you get

jacobsee · Post by **jacobsee** » 2006 Sep 25, 18:41

$dir gives me the same results as $echo %CD% but playing around just now I did discover that I can occasionally get the current directory set correctly, just not very often.

once I get it to persist as some other folder than the xplorer2/snap that it defaults to it will get stuck on that new folder for a while, no matter how many other folders I open or navigate to.

still playing with it to try to get something reproducible...

jacobsee · Post by **jacobsee** » 2006 Sep 25, 18:51

ok, I think i found the problem.

turning off "extract custom icon overlays" fixes my problem. i switched to 20 different directories in serveral different ways and $echo %CD% always gave the right current directory

when i turned the custom icon overlays back on, the problem was back. i use TortoiseSVN 1.3.5 for version control so they must be doing something with the current directory when it updates those icons on all my versioned files.

i'll just use windows explorer to browse my versioned files and use x2 with overlays turned off for everything else unless you have any other ideas.

thanks for sticking with me nikos, cheers
ej