Total Commander

Hi all,

when I mark one file, say test.001, and put the cursor frame to another file, say test.002, then TCMD seemingly begins combining at test.002 . Is that intended? Because I'd rather expect it to behave the other way round, like when I copy files, then TCMD ignores the cursor frame and takes the files I'v e marked.


Cheers,

Stephan

Indeed you must put the cursor on the first file to be combined. You cannot use the selection for choosing the files to be combined.

ghisler(Author) wrote:Indeed you must put the cursor on the first file to be combined. You cannot use the selection for choosing the files to be combined.

Wouldn't it make sense to have consistency?

Hi,

thanks very much for the info . @both: Yep, that would also be my question, can this be changed or are there reasons against it?

Cheers,

Stephan

2Hachi

Hello !

• IMHO, there is rather an advantage in having to mark the first file only :  No need to select all, you save time.

- Also, I guess that TC needs that first file only to be able then to find the others (and verify when there's a CRC check-sum).

- If you select all xxxx.00* files, then how the programme could know from which one it must begin the JOIN job ?

 Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

Hi Claude,

thanx for your answer. Yep, I totally agree with you. You got me a little bit wrong -> I don't want the behaviour with "mark one file" to be changed. The question just was, if TC could - if ONE single file is marked - use the marked file instead of the one under the cursor. Because for noobs the follwoing might IMO be a bit misleading:

1) Noob selects a couple of files to join.
2) TC tells him "only the first file should be marked"
3) Noob de-marks all files but the first one (so his cursor is now on the last one, because he went from file no. 2 to file no. N in order to de-mark the files
4) TC now does not complain any more, but joins only from the file where the cursor sits - not from the first file he left marked.


Cheers,

Stephan