Total Commander

When you have plenty of extensions in Internal Associations, it would be very handy to sort the list of associations by row upon load for readability. For example, I have the following list:

• *.jpg;*.gif;*.bmp;*.ico;*.jpeg;*.png
  *.vproj
  *.img
  *.gz
  *.ipsw
  *.asm
  *.dmg
  *.dex
  *.mobileprovision; *.provisionprofile
  *.b64
  *.dmp
  *.cs
  *.cpp
  *.c
  *.apk
  *.pyc
  *.asc
  *.gpg
  *.torrent
  *.exe; *.dll; *.msi
  *.cert;*.pem
  *.db; *.sqlite
  *.class
  *.jar
  *.log
  *.BinDiffWorkspace
  *.plist
  *.pcap
  *.dUP2
  *.idb
  *.i64
  *.accdr
  *.pdf
  *.mkv;*.mpg;*.avi;*.wmv;*.flv;*.mpeg;*.mov;*.mp4;*.m4v; *.mts; *.ts;*.swf
  *.mp3;*.aac;*.ogg;*.spx
  *.h264
  *.*

As it stands, TC will duplicate newly added extensions if already exist. It would be best to sort them as a list. It would be even better if the extensions in each row is sorted first before sorting each row.

Will this be considered or has it been discussed before?

billiebub wrote:Will this be considered or has it been discussed before?

Why is the sort of this list so importand ?
I open it only for adding new associations which occours max every few month.
Also you can sort it with drag and drop

I don't get the point of this suggestion at all. It's a hierachical list. First matching items wins. There is no other meaningful sort order other than the before mentioned manual sorting.

Why is the sort of this list so importand ?
I open it only for adding new associations which occours max every few month.

As you've seen, I have a large list of extensions and I constantly add new ones. When I add new associations, I first need to know whether they already exist or not. For that I have to go through the entire list.

Also you can sort it with drag and drop

Thanks for the tip. At least now I can sort manually.

It's a hierachical list. First matching items wins

Thanks. Good to know.

I think that search feature would be useful here... You enter file path and extension, or filename only, or *.ext and TC checks which item matches for given file and selects that item.

Various issues exist for me here:

1- If you have a group of extensions in one row (example *.jpeg; *.bmp) and you decide you disable that row, if you click at the beginning of the row, it will only disable the *.jpeg by switching to -.jpeg. The *.bmp won't be affected. Also if *.jpeg exists more than once in that group (happened to me by the way), the second *.jpeg won't be affected. It obviously makes sense to group extensions so that you don't duplicate the same behavior for individual extensions (for example, I open *.jpeg; *.bmp using a specific image viewer)

2- Since it is possible to add the extension more than once (either in a group or on it's own), it can be tedious to sort out which extension was matched first from a large group of extensions (see my list above). I think MVV's suggestion is good where you type out the extension and select the desired group or individual extension on it's own. There is also a suggestion I make at the end. Please see below.

3- The thought of using individual extensions per row can be handy as well but only if there is a "duplicate" button to duplicate an existing extension. For example, now I would like to add *.ico. Currently the way I do this is editing WINCMD.INI file (it's tedious and error prone especially when having to increment all these "Filter#_XXXXXX") . It would be handy to have a duplicate button pressed say on *.jpeg so that I don't have to type out the same thing for the newly added *.ico. I find this handy so that I can get around issue #1 by disabling individual extensions since it's now possible to disable them if they're not the first entry in a group. You will probably say "Just create a new entry called "*.ico" and move it to the top. Not a clean approach.


4- Sometimes I would like to merge some behaviour between extensions. For example, I would like certain extensions to have an encryption capability or "send to dropbox". Currently I have to edit WINCMD.INI and edit the necessary extensions.


** just a thought. Can the list be a group of extensions (like shown below). For example, an "Images" group having a list of graphic extensions that can be easily controlled by selecting the group itself. Something like this:

• + Images
  • *.jpeg
    *.bmp
    *.ico

• + PE
  • *.exe
    *.dll
    *.msi

If you click on "Images", it will affect all contained extensions. For example clicking on Images will toggle it to -Images, which will disable all contained extensions (*.jpeg, *.bmp; *.ico), etc. If I decide to disable only *.ico, I can only click on that without affecting the other graphic extensions in that group. if I decide to handle *.ico separately, I can drag it out of "Images" on to its own row. Also, If I would like to copy some actions that exist only in *.doc for example to other extensions, I can right click on *.doc, display current actions for *.doc, select a particular action or group of actions, click copy. Then I can go to individual extensions and click paste.