Remove <DIR> and <LINK> extension for folders

[TheOne]

Hi

I tried to remove the <DIR> and <LINK> string from the extension column.

I searched the forum, the help, the wincmd.ini settings, the internet but I could not find anything.

The only thing that somehow worked was to edit the language file *.LNG and remove the <DIR> and <LINK> entries. But this does not work like expected. There is still one > left in the size column.

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Can somebody help?

Thanks

TheOne

[Clo]

2TheOne

Hello ! Welcome aboard !

• AFAIK, this is not designed to be removed…

- The <DIR> indication is replaced with the size of the contents when asked for,
when so, <DIR> means that the directory is empty.

• Let know that we have this translatable since the 7.0 version only, and had to wait for …
… ages before to get the strings for DIR and LNK…

 Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[StatusQuo]

I tried to remove the <DIR> and <LINK> string from the extension column.

I have done this by defining a custom columns set: Shift-F1 / Configure custom columns / New

If you just enter a name without adding more columns, then only file/dir name + extension are displayed, you can add more as you like.

[TheOne]

2Clo Salut
Thanks, but there is no reason do have to display it, if it's empty just display 0 or nothing at all. The only reason I see to have to have this string is to sepearte beween a directory and a junction.

2StatusQuo
Thanks, I forgot obout the cutom column solution. The problem is if I want to display the size information I get the <DIR> back . Only if i use the *.lng file with my empty definitions for DIR and LINK I get an empty Size row

I am going to report it as a bug in the beta forum. I am not new to this forum I just forgot my loginname , but thanks for the warm welcome back Clo

Bye

TheOne

[m^2]

2Clo Salut
Thanks, but there is no reason do have to display it, if it's empty just display 0 or nothing at all. The only reason I see to have to have this string is to sepearte beween a directory and a junction.

Writing 0 is not a good solution - there's a difference between empty directory and directory full of empty files.
You wrote a reason not to use an empty string...