Missing treeinfo.wc file

[rahreg]

Hi All,

I wanted to search all the treeinfo.wc files on all drives (local and mapped) for a dir that contains a word in it. I saw that some drives didn't have a treeinfo.wc file so I built them all. Then I noticed that some drives still didn't have it. When I pressed Alt+F10 again to auto build it, the tree immediately came up. I searched the drive using Alt+F7 across all drives on the computer and it only found the one on the D drive, not the C drive which is the one that's missing.

This is TC 8.01/9.12 and TreeFileLocation is not in the ini file. I added TreeUpdateLimit=4096 to it and restarted TC thinking that I hit the limit since it's the OS drives on more than one computer this seems to be happening to but that's when I pressed Alt+F10 and saw that the tree popped up even though I can't find the file. I am logged in with administrator rights for these computers when I build the trees.

Is the tree done differently for the OS drive?

Any ideas how the tree is popping up if the file isn't in the root?

TIA

[Sir_SiLvA]

This is TC 8.01/9.12

How about updating to 10.52?

Version 8.01 is 11(!) years old and 9.12 is 6 years old....

[Dalai]

If you search TC's help file for "treeinfo.wc" you'll find the section "Show directory tree" which says:

After reading the directory structure, the tree is saved in the file treeinfo.wc in the root directory of the drive - if writeable - otherwise in %LOCALAPPDATA%\GHISLER\ on NT based systems.

In short, treeinfo.wc is only saved in a volume's root if the user running TC has write permissions there. In all other cases TC saves the files in %LocalAppData%\Ghisler - unless a specific location is set via TreeFileLocation (and optionally TreeFileLocationE/TreeFileLocation__server_share), as described in TC's help file, section 4.b.

By default, only administrators are allowed to write a file to the system volume's root, hence treeinfo.wc file will not be written there if TC is run as regular user.

2Sir_SiLvA
Suggesting an update is OK, but please keep in mind that there might be reasons for not doing so. I myself have reasons to stay with 8.52a, checking new versions out of interest only on occasion. But that's OT anyway.

Regards
Dalai

[rahreg]

Thanks Dalai!!

And thanks for quoting the help file because I don't have that quote in either versions help file for that section. I went to that dir and sure enough it's there, BUT it's called treeinfoC.wc (with a C not a c), not treeinfo.wc which explains why the search didn't find it.

I'm surprised I can't write to the root since my account has administrator rights but it doesn't matter. I eventually got what I needed and mystery solved.

BTW, do you know if there is any way to automate rebuilding the tree? That can come in handy for me at times.

Thanks again.

[Dalai]

And thanks for quoting the help file because I don't have that quote in either versions help file for that section.

It looks like this help section was updated in TC 10.0 to include the piece of information about %LocalAppData%. Older TC versions behaved the same, just the help file got an update.

I went to that dir and sure enough it's there, BUT it's called treeinfoC.wc (with a C not a c), not treeinfo.wc which explains why the search didn't find it.

Should have added that. Each treeinfo.wc file for each volume needs to have a unique name, of course, and what better way to add the volume drive letter.

I'm surprised I can't write to the root since my account has administrator rights but it doesn't matter.

No, it doesn't by default. The user account might be member of the administrators group, but administrator rights are only granted after confirmation. This is what the whole UAC (user account control) and "run as administrator" thing is all about.

BTW, do you know if there is any way to automate rebuilding the tree?

No, sorry, I don't use the directory tree at all (and it annoys me when I accidentally open it and have to delete the treeinfo.wc files manually).

Regards
Dalai

[white]

No, sorry, I don't use the directory tree at all (and it annoys me when I accidentally open it and have to delete the treeinfo.wc files manually).

In that case, perhaps you should make it a 0-byte file and make it read-only. Then the file doesn't change and Directory Tree (Alt+F10) doesn't work.

[petermad]

No, sorry, I don't use the directory tree at all (and it annoys me when I accidentally open it and have to delete the treeinfo.wc files manually).

If you use 'Everything' and enable the 'Everything' option in the Directory tree dialog (Alf+F10), then the treeinfo.wc files will not be created at all.

[Dalai]

In that case, perhaps you should make it a 0-byte file and make it read-only.

Well, I don't want to have these files in the volume roots at all. Maybe I should set a different location via TreeFileLocation. Or perhaps I should remap Alt+F10... We'll see the next time it bothers me.

If you use 'Everything' and enable the 'Everything' option in the Directory tree dialog (Alf+F10), then the treeinfo.wc files will not be created at all.

I looked at Everything a while ago and as soon as I realized that I have to learn a new search syntax (which I'm not willing to do) to use it efficiently and really take advantage of it, I stopped investigating further. I'm one of the people that needs knobs and dials to set search parameters.

Regards
Dalai

[Horst.Epp]

If you use 'Everything' and enable the 'Everything' option in the Directory tree dialog (Alf+F10), then the treeinfo.wc files will not be created at all.

I looked at Everything a while ago and as soon as I realized that I have to learn a new search syntax (which I'm not willing to do) to use it efficiently and really take advantage of it, I stopped investigating further. I'm one of the people that needs knobs and dials to set search parameters.

Regards
Dalai

To use Everything in the TC Tree info there is no need to learn any of its Syntax rules.

[Hacker]

Dalai,

I'm one of the people that needs knobs and dials to set search parameters.

Those are there under Search - Advanced Search.

HTH
Roman