Total Commander

2ghisler(Author)

If I in File Explorer right-click on "This PC", there is an option to "Add a network location". Here I can add an FTP location (ftp: //username@domainname).

This FTP location will be shown also in TC under This PC - see: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/ftpsite.png

In TC this kind of location seems to be treated like a virtual folder (hence lightblue on the screenshot).

I can copy files to and from a local folder to the FTP folders, and if I copy a file to the FTP folder, the content of the panel is updated.

But if I delete a file (or overwrite it), the FTP folder panel is not updated, so there is no way, but restarting TC to see that the file was really deleted/changed. Going in and out of the folder does not cause it to update, neither does cm_RereadSource 3.

Is it possible to make TC update this kind of folder after deleting/overwriting files?

No, TC reloads the folder from Windows each time you go out of it or press Ctrl+R. It sounds like Windows is incorrectly keeping the folder cached. Does the folder refresh when you create a new subfolder, or rename a file? Maybe this makes deleted files disappear too?

Does the folder refresh when you create a new subfolder

No.

or rename a file?

Yes

It sounds like Windows is incorrectly keeping the folder cached

How can it be then, that restarting TC removes the deleted files/folders from TC's directory listing?

It also happens if I move a file out of the network location, then it is still shown in the file panel..

If I have tried to delete a file, and then copy a file with the same name (also case-wise) to the folder, then TC shows the same file twice: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/ftpsite2.png

If I have tried to delete a file, and I try again, I get a Windows' error box saying that the file cannot be deleted: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/ftpsite3.png because it does not exist

Tested under Windows 7 and 10.

How can it be then, that restarting TC removes the deleted files/folders from TC's directory listing?

Sorry, no idea, there is very little documentation of that feature. Maybe Windows drops the connection when all apps accessing it are closed.

@petermad I see you have "å" in the path (and spaces) does that make any difference?
Windows can be funny with such things, so if you have "\testfolderwithoutspacesoranynonazcharactersinit\" does it work better in such a case?

2hi5

It is not really in the path - "på" is danish for "on" - so the Current directory bar says:
\\:madsenworld.dk\public_html on madsenworld.dk\test on madsenworld.dk\

So the word "på" and the spaces are put there by Windows. Here is how it looks if I run Windows with an account with English locale: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/ftpsiteeng.png or with separate tree: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/ftpsiteseperatetree.png

For some reason Windows adds " on madsenworld.dk" to every directory in the path.

The path with FTP is: /domains/madsenworld.dk/public_html/test/ - so no spaces from my side

Here is how it looks in Explorer: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/ftpsiteexplorer.png

Also timestamps and case of folders are different from the normal FTP-view: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/ftpsiteftp.png