Fake directories

[Sob]

It's about the fake directories (Windows\System32\drivers\etc and friends) on x64 systems in TC 7.55pb1. First, I do understand the motivation for doing that. But at the same time, I think the current approach is not very good.

They still look as normal directories. Yes, missing date should get user thinking that they might not be regular directories. But IMHO it should be emphasized even more. Make them look as links instead of directories for the start. Or even show some note "this is a fake directory" in place of missing date. Nothing is too much, since fake directories are in principle the evil thing.

Another funny thing happens when the directory actually exists. In that case its date is shown in the list. But TC still redirects user elsewhere, so there is no way how to get to the content of the real directory and even tell that it exists. And while I agree that there probably isn't any good reason to create this directory and the probability is very low, it might happen and TC should be able to deal with it.

[ghisler(Author)]

No, Total Commander does not redirect you anywhere! The fake directories really do exist, and you can go there also with older TC versions by typing their names! It's Windows itself which redirects you to the true location, probably for programs which have e.g. the hosts file location hard-coded.

So all that TC does here is display these existing redirections.

[Sob]

Ok, sorry, my bad, I didn't know that Windows have this redirection too. I thought that only system32 is redirected to SysWOW64 for 32-bit apps and nothing else.