Sorting Folders by Size, Remember Selected Files and Folders

[dekiblue]

It will be nice if the sort function can work on Folders as well. Showing Ascending/Descending folder content by name, extension, size and date works only on files, so why not on folders as well?

Other thing is that when there is a lot of folders from which I want to copy only some, the process can be very tiring: I usually have to go in some of those folders to check the content before selecting it, but at the moment I do so all previously selected folders get de-selected. It would be nice if TC can enter some kind of Mode for Remembering Selections, it will help a lot.

Thanks for the great program BTW!

Deki

[Vochomurka]

First question: folder size. You can press Shift+Alt+Enter - you will see the result. Also, you can install the DirSizeCalc plugin.

Second question: remembering selection. Try the following internal commands:
cm_SaveSelection
cm_SaveSelectionToFile
cm_SaveSelectionToFileA
cm_SaveSelectionToFileW
cm_LoadSelectionFromFile
cm_LoadSelectionFromClip

Good luck.

[HolgerK]

It will be nice if the sort function can work on Folders as well. Showing Ascending/Descending folder content by name, extension, size and date works only on files, so why not on folders as well?

Configuration -> Options... : Display
Sorting directories
(_) always by name (x) Like files (also by time)

And one additional key in wincmd.ini section [Configuration]

SortDirExt=1
;Allow to sort directories by extension (only when SortDirsByName=0)

Regards
Holger

[dekiblue]

First question: folder size. You can press Shift+Alt+Enter - you will see the result. Also, you can install the DirSizeCalc plugin.

Second question: remembering selection. Try the following internal commands:
cm_SaveSelection
cm_SaveSelectionToFile
cm_SaveSelectionToFileA
cm_SaveSelectionToFileW
cm_LoadSelectionFromFile
cm_LoadSelectionFromClip

Good luck.

Thanks for your reply.

I'm using Shift+Alt+Enter and I also have DirSizeCalc installed. I think that what HolgerK said did the trick. Great!

I haven't seen these internal commands for handling selections before so I gave them a try. It works fine to save selection to a file and then load it from a file, but I have problem with LoadSelectionFromClip. Let me see if I'm doing it correctly:
1. I make a selection,
2. I do cm_SaveSelection,
3. I enter in sub dir and go back, (TC lost selections)
4. I do cm_LoadSelectionFromClip I that should get me saved selection?

I don't want to be too demanding but this method is not very productive. Let's say you have to go through few dozens of folders to decide what to copy. That means that I will have to Save/Load selection every time I enter a sub folder to check the content.

Cheers

[Vochomurka]

Here is a part of extended menu by Petermad:

POPUP "Save/&Get file Selection"
MENUITEM "Save Selection to &Memory", 530
MENUITEM "Get Selection from Mem&ory\tNum /", 529
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "&Save Selection to Clipboard", 2017
MENUITEM "&Get Selection from Clipboard", 2033
MENUITEM SEPARATOR
MENUITEM "Save Selection &to File...", 2031
MENUITEM "Get Selection &from File...", 2032
MENUITEM "Save Selection to File (force &ANSI)...", 2041
MENUITEM "Save Selection to File (force &Unicode)...", 2042
END_POPUP

You can manually add it to your menu (*.mnu) file, or just download and install the whole menu. These are all (or almost all ) commands to save/restore a selection.