settings gone after upgrade to version 9.51 rc5 (from rc4)

[wtktje]

Good morning,

This morning when I started up my computer and TC I got a message that there was an update to RC5 for version 9.51. I immediately updated (from version 9.51 RC4) and when I restarted after that I found out that all my settings were gone. I was back to square one. I always keep copies of wincmd.ini, default.bar and default br2 files, so I thought to be able to fix the problem by overwriting these files in their respective directories (wincmd.ini in c:\windows, and default.bar and default.br2 in c:\Program Files\Total Commander\). Normally this works, but I now found out that nothing changed. What went wrong?

Thanks for any help.
regards,

WTKTJE
Dongen., Netherlands

[DrShark]

What paths to your ini settings files Total Commander does show in "Help"->"About Total Commander..." ?
Will TC use your ini files at previous locations if to downgrade TC back to 9.51 RC4 (install as update over RC5 from
tc951x32_64_rc4.exe (32-bit + 64-bit versions), tc951x32_rc4.exe (32-it version) or tc951x64_rc4.exe (64-it version))

[wtktje]

Drshark,

Thanks for your quick reply.

In RC4 the wincmd.ini file is located in C:\windows, as I expected.
In RC5 this file is renamed to WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini.

(screenshot of part of my About-box RC5)
Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i12u2gxk8kebmg1/Knipsel2.JPG?dl=0

screenshot of my C:\windows directory, with both my old (RC4) wincmd.ini and the new (RC5)-one:
Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6dionhuqfzmhl3c/Knipsel1.JPG?dl=0

I solved the problem by renaming the old RC4-wincmd.ini to WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini.

After restart RC5 reads my old RC4-settings in the renamed ini-file.

[ghisler(Author)]

That's very strange. Could you please give me some additional information?
1. Your Windows version
2. Start regedit.exe and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ghisler\Total Commander
then tell me the contents of these values:
iniFileName and ftpIniName

[wtktje]

Ghisler,

Thank you for your time in this matter.

My windows version:
windows 10 pro, ver. 1909, build 18363.719
Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/43rv1i8l7ko4i0h/win10.JPG?dl=0

regedit:
iniFileName: wincmd.ini
ftpIniName: wcx_ftp.ini
Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0rmhxvu3voqg4yi/regedit.JPG?dl=0

my TC about screen:
Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ui8l2er0x42ln1a/TC_about.JPG?dl=0

[TifKag]

Same problem here, had to change filenames in Windows directory..
But it seems "wtktje" has the file name 3 times (WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini), i got it only 2 times (WINCMD.INIwincmd.ini)

Windows 8.1 64bit

Windows directory
wcx_ftp.iniwcx_ftp.ini
WINCMD.INIwincmd.ini

regedit:
iniFileName: wincmd.ini
ftpIniName: wcx_ftp.ini

About screen
C:\Windows\WINCMD.INIwincmd.ini
C:\Windows\wcx_ftp.iniwcx_ftp.ini

EDIT: When i use the 32 bit version i also have the filename 3 times (WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini wcx_ftp.iniwcx_ftp.iniwcx_ftp.ini)

[wtktje]

EDIT: When i use the 32 bit version i also have the filename 3 times (WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini wcx_ftp.iniwcx_ftp.iniwcx_ftp.ini)
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I use only the 64-bit version

[ghisler(Author)]

Sorry for the troubles. The problem is that the ini file locations are stored without path in regedit:
iniFileName: wincmd.ini
ftpIniName: wcx_ftp.ini
As a quick fix, just change this to the real location, e.g.
iniFileName: c:\windows\wincmd.ini
ftpIniName: c:\windows\wcx_ftp.ini

TC was trying to convert inaccessible locations to 8.3 names, and this failed when no path was specified.

[wtktje]

Christian,

That did almost do the trick. It worked only for the wcx_ftp.ini-file. After editing the regedit and restarting the PC, TC created again a WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini file in c:\windows. But the info in my aboutscreen shows the correct filenames: wincmd.ini and wcx_ftp.ini, both in c:\windows

Therefore I renamed WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini in wincmd.ini and now it works again. Probably everything shall work after a clean install of TC instead of an upgrade.

Thanks for your help, and keep up the good work

[TifKag]

For me it did the trick in one go.....Thanks

[ghisler(Author)]

Restarting your PC is not necessary, just restarting Total Commander after the registry change is sufficient.

[ghisler(Author)]

This should be fixed in RC6, please test it!