Auto create non-existing dirs on copy/move

[White Wind]

I mean that if I have not folder C:\blabla and trying to copy into it, I will get an error, but almost all File Managers will create this folder.
Btw, if I trying to unpack files in non-existing folder TC will create it.

(Sorry for bad english)

[SanskritFritz]

Hey the idea is good!

[Clo]

2White Wind
Hello !
- Yes, this is a good idea, no doubt !
- I support it as a feature request.

 Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[djk]

Yes, good idea and... seems to be easy to implement.

[White Wind]

Yes, it's realyeasy:

function ForceDirectories(Dir: string): Boolean;
Creates a new directory, including the creation of parent directories as needed.

- from Delphi help

[White Wind]

And two more feature request(Hacker moved only one from "programs similar to total commander"):
Keyboard macroses and General plugins, e.g. for modifying columns in Full view or for Advanced search...
This could not be implemented using Packer or FS plugins.

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately it's not that easy. For example, if you copy a file named 'test' to c:\somedir, TC will show
c:\somedir\test
as the proposed target. How should TC know whether this is a directory or a file? This is impossible, so by not creating any dirs by itself, TC can find out that c:\somedir is an existing directory, and 'test' the new name.

[Clo]

2ghisler(Author)
Good evening,
- It's so rare that a dir have an extension, and a file have not, at least when created by the user !
- For the most cases, you could consider...\test as a dir., and new_file.xyz as a file…

- The installers make a new dir., when you ask for install a program in a non-existing directory…

m.f.G.
Claude
Clo

[djk]

2ghisler(Author)
IMHO it should work like this:

- if the destination path ends with backslash eg. if the user typed: c:\somedir\ it should create a folder somedir (or choose existing one) and put a file test into it,

- if the destination path doesn't end with backslash and look like this: c:\somedir but there already exists folder somedir it should also copy test into it,

- if the destination path doesn't end with backslash and looks like above but there is no such folder - it should copy test as somedir file.

Of course if the path looks like this: c:\dir1\dir\2\dir3 it should create the directories dir1 and dir2 (if they don't exist) and with dir3 do what I've described before.

It doesn't matter if the file/dir has extension or not - it should behaves in all cases the same way.

[White Wind]

2djk
Yes, FAR manager do it this way.

[bago]

2djk I support this behaviour too! AFAIK linux shell does this too.

[ghisler(Author)]

I will consider it, thanks!

[djk]

2ghisler(Author)
Thanks

[Valery_Kondakoff]

As far as I understand this functionality was not included in TC6.5/6.51...

Christian, have you change your mind? What are your current plans about this feature request?

Thank you!

[Clo]

2Valery_Kondakoff
Hi !
¤ What about this (from the Help - F7…) :

…Furthermore, you can create multiple subdirs in the same (or different) dirs. The syntax to use is:
dir1|dir2|dir3 or c:\dir1|c:\dir2|c:\dir3

?

 KR
Claude
Clo