-New directories not shown in second window

[JFierce7]

If both TC windows show the same folder and one creates a new subdir on the one side, it is not shown on the other side. This is kind of confusing.
Strange, but I never noticed that before.

[white]

If both TC windows show the same folder and one creates a new subdir on the one side, it is not shown on the other side.

I can not confirm (TC8.51 32bit).

[MarcinW]

Maybe it is a drive, that doesn't support change notifications? What kind of drive is it?

Regards

[JFierce7]

Thanks - it seems like the default configuration is not set up to refresh on changes! After I checked that option, the newly created folder appears, although a bit delayed.

Besides the question whether this option could be set by default, it seems to me that this very option shouldn't be necessary at all for internal operations if both windows show the same folder. For instance, as soon as I remove a folder, this folder vanishes from both windows even if "Refresh" is disabled.

[white]

Besides the question whether this option could be set by default, it seems to me that this very option shouldn't be necessary at all for internal operations if both windows show the same folder. For instance, as soon as I remove a folder, this folder vanishes from both windows even if "Refresh" is disabled.

As soon as I create a folder the folder appears on both sides (auto-refresh on system change disabled). What operation did you do? What TC version did you use?

[JFierce7]

Initially I had used 8.50 (both 32 and 64bit), but I tried it with 8.51b1 as well. No change.

The drive is NTFS, but it shouldn't matter.

I create the new folder with F7.

[white]

2JFierce7
Works fine here.

[Ovg]

white wrote:

As soon as I create a folder the folder appears on both sides (auto-refresh on system change disabled).

Confirm. And files too. TC 8.50 x64

[JFierce7]

Well, that's too strange.

Say, I had c:\temp on both sides. It didn't work. I navigated through some folders on one side and then pressed on c: in the button bar so TC synchronized both windows to c:\temp again. Now I tried to create a folder and it suddenly started to work. However, when I return to the "previous" c:\temp through history TC fails again to show a new folder on both sides.

If it mismatches the "current" folder, why does it work for removing folders?

And how could I possibly determine where the difference between those "c:\temp" is?

Edit: This is from my wincmd.ini

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[RightHistory]
0=C:\temp\m7\
1=c:\temp\
2=c:\temp\v1\
3=C:\
[LeftHistory]
0=C:\temp\m7\
1=C:\temp\
2=C:\temp\t2\

I have no idea how this could happen, but it seems like somehow I got paths with capital 'C' and small 'c'. Nevertheless, TC always showed "c:\temp" (small 'C') above the files list.

Now it seems if you manage to get the same folder with differing case in the path name in both windows, TC doesn't update the second window after creating a folder, but does when deleting. So, the check if folder is the same, compares case-independent only when files/folders are deleted.

[Sir_SiLvA]

cant confirm that either and in my [*History] the drive is allway a capital letter so the question is how you manage to get "different"
letters?

[JFierce7]

so the question is how you manage to get "different"
letters?

Really, I have no idea how this happened. I haven't edited the history myself, but to reproduce the problem you could do just that.

[petermad]

2Sir_SiLvA

the question is how you manage to get "different"

Maybe JFierce7 hasn't set DrivesShowUpcase=0 in wincmd.ini as you apparanty have - or he has it set to -1 (equals not having it set) or 1...

Besides of that, when I create a new directory having %temp% folder shown in both panels, then the new directory appears immediately in both panels - even when using a clean ini-file (no refresh settings) - so I cannot confirm JFierce7's report. Tested with Windows XP 32bit, Windows 7 64bit and Windows 8.1 64bit. Meybe there is a slight delay (1/10 of a second) when using TC 64bit compared to using TC 32bit

[Gral]

There is inconsistency with uppercase/lowercase handling for drives, if DrivesShowUpcase=0.
Dropdown menu (ALT+F1 or ALT+F2) show drives lowercase while "Computer (drive overview) [cm_OpenDrives] always show drives uppercase.
To ilustrate this behaviour try this:
1. set DrivesShowUpcase=0
2. enter to root of any drive from dropdown menu - in history drive letter is printed with lowercase.
3 goto "Drives" and enter to root of the same drive - drive letter is now uppercase.

Probably this may be considered as a (minor) bug.

[petermad]

The content you get with cm_OpenDrives is a virtual folder which is handled by Windows Explorer - hence the capital letters

[JFierce7]

Let's summarize: TC should compare path names case independently when it needs to decide whether an operation should be visualized immediately in both navigation windows. It behaves like that when a folder is deleted, but doesn't when a new folder is created.