Total Commander

When i show the contents of a folder on a Linux host where i connected via SFTP Plugin, the symlink icons are visible as files. Is there some way to display them as the target type? For example, when the symlink target is a folder, display it as a folder (and sort it as folder), if the target of the symlink is a file, use the file icon...

You can't see from the directory listing whether a symlink points to a file or a folder. That's why they are shown as files - when you then try to open them, the plugin will resolve the symlink and see whether it points to a file or folder.

Can you please try to add this as a feature request? At least i have seen this working in Ghost Commander. But i would like to use Total Commander. It has the better handling for favorites and some more things.

I'm not aware of an easy way to add this. The plugin would have to visit each target just to check whether it is a file or a folder. When there are, say, 10'000 symlinks in one folder, it would mean 10'000 requests to the server.

I have no idea, if you get back a single object with all the fs entries in it or you get back a object per fs entry. If the first is the case, maybe there is a way to update the object with the needed info, before you send the reponse. If the later is the case > mostly there are only a handfull symlinks in a directory. Personally i use them a lot (I dont use Windows anymore, since Windows 11 as released) on Desktop (Arch) and Server (Debian). But i have never more than 10 symlinks in the current directory. But its your app. Its only a small wish/request.

It's like you logged into the server via SSH secure shell and issued a few ls -l commands - they don't tell you whether the target is a file or a folder. Or is there an ls parameter to get this information?

What's with or . In the last case, this adds a / to the target, if the target is a directory.

I will try it, thanks!