[Help]Show color for NTFS compressed file

[EasyCao]

Which guru could tell how to display blue(or other color) in TC which files are compressed at NTFS ?

[poiuytr]

Look at Wiki

[848]

This should work..

Configuration > Options...

A new window "Configuration" opens.

Click on Color

enable (default on) "Define colors by file type.." and click on this button.

A new window "Define colors by file type" opens.

Click on Add..

A new window "Specify file type" opens.

Click on the "Define.." button

A new window "Define selection" opens.

Click on the "Plugins" tab.

enable "Search in plugins:" and select "AND (all match)"
Use these values;
Plugin: tc
Property: compressed
OP: =
Value: Yes

Click on the Save button


A new window "Save" opens.

Enter "Encrypted files" (or whatever you want) and click on OK

The "Save" window closes and the "Specify file type" becomes the active window.
Now you see "Encrypted files" under "Or predefined selection type:" Select this line.
This name will popup in the specify file type box starting with >
Click the OK button.

Now a window "color" pops up. Select or enter a color. Microsoft uses

blue (Hue:160 Red:0, Sat:240 Green:0, Lum:120 Blue:255) for compressed files
and Green (Hue:80 Red:0, Sat:240 Green:128, Lum:60 Blue:0) for encrypted files.


Click on OK.

Now the window "Define colors by file type" becomes active again. Now you see >Encrypted
files in the color you selected earlier.

Press OK twice.

Now the encrypted files should have the color you selected.

Follow this procedure again for the compressed files.


Succes

[petermad]

You could also do this change manually to your wincmd.ini file

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[Searches]
Compressed_SearchFor=
Compressed_SearchIn=
Compressed_SearchText=
Compressed_SearchFlags=0|000001000020||||||||22222|0000

[Colors]
ColorFilter1=>Compressed
ColorFilter1Color=16711680

If you already have a ColorFilter1 then use another number (like ColorFilter8).

[SanskritFritz]

... and finally, you can use an AutoHotkey script!



Just kidding...

[848]

@SanskritFritz: Could you fill me in on the AutoHotkey script?

@petermad: I think your example misses one line;

Encrypted files_plugin="tc.encrypted = 1"

Without this line all files and dirs get the color defined in ColorFilter1Color.

I've completed your example with coloring both encrypted and compressed files and dirs the way MS does;

[searches]
Encrypted files_SearchFor=
Encrypted files_SearchIn=
Encrypted files_SearchText=
Encrypted files_SearchFlags=0|000002000020|||||||||0000
Encrypted files_plugin="tc.encrypted = 1"
Compressed files_SearchFor=
Compressed files_SearchIn=
Compressed files_SearchText=
Compressed files_SearchFlags=0|000002000020|||||||||0000
Compressed files_plugin="tc.compressed = 1"

[Colors]
ColorFilter1=>Encrypted files
ColorFilter1Color=32768
ColorFilter2=>Compressed files
ColorFilter2Color=16711680

[SanskritFritz]

2848

Could you fill me in on the AutoHotkey script?

Sure:

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loop 1000
  Send 848{Enter}

This was just a joke, hope you dont mind as I said above in my post: Just kidding...

[gbo]

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loop 1000
  Send 848{Enter}

[848]

@SanskritFritz

Hmm.. My mistake, Missed the small letters there. This happens to me all the time

[petermad]

2848
I do not have:
Encrypted files_plugin="tc.encrypted = 1"
and it works fine here.

Notice that my:
Compressed_SearchFlags=0|000001000020||||||||22222|0000
is different form your:
Compressed files_SearchFlags=0|000002000020|||||||||0000

So maybe that makes the difference.

[848]

@petermad

Your solution works indeed. Not only I should read the small letters beter, numbers too.

I've looked into this some more and it seems there is more than one way to color files. The difference is that you select the compressed files in the Advanced tab of the define selection window. I used the plugins tab to select the files. I've completed "your way" with coloring of encrypted files.


[Searches]
Compressed_SearchFor=
Compressed_SearchIn=
Compressed_SearchText=
Compressed_SearchFlags=0|000001000020||||||||22222|0000
Encrypted_SearchFor=
Encrypted_SearchIn=
Encrypted_SearchText=
Encrypted_SearchFlags=0|000000000010||||||||22222|0000
[Colors]
ColorFilter1=>Compressed
ColorFilter1Color=16711680
ColorFilter2=>Encrypted
ColorFilter2Color=32768

I've tested both my examples by adding the lines to a clean ini file and the result looks the same. No mistakes this time I hope

[BrainSlugs83]

...
blue (Hue:160 Red:0, Sat:240 Green:0, Lum:120 Blue:255) for compressed files
and Green (Hue:80 Red:0, Sat:240 Green:128, Lum:60 Blue:0) for encrypted files.
...

Thanks, this works great for me!

I would like to point out -- at least for the Aero theme in Windows 7 (x64) the colors you provided looked a bit off to me. So I took a screen shot and eyed it up a little bit.

For Compressed files you supplied: #0000FF (0, 0, 255) -- but I think #0039FD (0, 57, 253) looks a lot closer. (From a screen shot, this color shows up the most I think. Friggin' anti-aliased text!)

[Note #1: FYI, you don't have to enter the HSL values in the color picker dialog (you can enter either/or but you don't have to enter both RGB and HSL) but it's good to provide them for confirmation that I didn't typo something -- so, the HSL values for the above color are: (151, 240, 119)].

[Note 2: Some parts of the file text, if you take a screen shot in windows explorer are #0000FF (the color you specified), but those are mostly blended edges AFAICT. To me, #0039FD looks much closer when I just eye it up.]

Apparently my organization has a user policy that prevents encryption, but from memory, the color looks spot on (and #008000 sounds right anyway), so I won't nitpick.