I have been using FreeCommander for a few days now, and although I like it there is a minor usability issue that keeps bugging me.
The scenario is as follows: I'm navigating to a folder containing a number of music files. I draw a selection rectangle with my mouse over the files that I want to queue in my music player. I press enter to open them, but FreeCommander goes up one level to another folder. This happened to me a number of times, and after carefully analyzing what was happening, I discovered that there seem to be two selection methods that are active at the same time. Whenever I select files with the mouse, the dotted line still stays over the ".."-entry for navigating up one level. Upon pressing enter, the ".." action is performed and my mouse selection is ignored.
Fine, I thought, from now on I will use click and another shift-click to select a range of files and then press enter. This works fine. However, most of the time I just want to open every file in a particular folder. So I can press CTRL-A to select everything, and then press enter. But to my surprise this still takes me to the upper folder instead of opening all the files. I think this is a very unusual design choice...
As a workaround I have been looking at removing the ".." entry from the folder view altogether, maybe replacing it by a toolbar button to go up one level, but I found no way of doing that.
So my question is: am I using the program wrong or is this an actual issue/bug?
Up one folder instead of opening files
Re: Up one folder instead of opening files
I don't know if it's a bug or a deliberate design issue. I've been using a workaround for so long, I forgot about the odd behavior.
I highlight the top file in the list then press SHIFT+END. That gives the behavior one would expect from CTRL+A (selecting all files and NOT selecting "..").
I highlight the top file in the list then press SHIFT+END. That gives the behavior one would expect from CTRL+A (selecting all files and NOT selecting "..").
Re: Up one folder instead of opening files
The selection of ... with Ctrl+A can be avoided by one mouseclick anywhere in the panel. At least that always works for me. I seldom have the ... selected; maybe it's the way I navigate.
Windows Vista 64-bit
Pentium E5200 Dual Core 2.5GHz
Pentium E5200 Dual Core 2.5GHz
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