LOADLIST does not load records about files on partition E:\

[AntonyD]

I tried to start to use an option described in a topic: Open Everything GUI results with TC LOADLIST
but failed... See posts starting from https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=471687#p471687

What is known at the moment:
1) This has not worked since the very first 10 version of Total, when this command was introduced.
But because I didn't need this functionality then, I didn't even try it.
2) There are no errors when loading file-list! So Total clearly understands and recognizes each record as a file on disk.
For verification, I deliberately entered an absolutely incorrect entry in a list - and Total warned me about it.
3) It concerns showing records about any file of any nesting level. Even showing about a file from the root of the disk
E:\qwe.txt
it is not displayed after the command LOADLIST <full path to the file-list>
4) For partitions C:\ - D:\ - everything works as it should. Everything is displayed correctly.
5) If we insert an USB flash drive, we get another partition - the F:\ disk - and if we take some file entries from it and put
them in the same loadable file-list - then they will be shown!!! That is, just the file entries on the E:\ partition will
be ignored.
6) There are no exceptions for either the partition itself or the file attributes on this partition E:\.
Everything is stable and identical to the other parts from which the file records are displayed in a tab "Search result:".

[white]

One thing that wasn't clear to me in the mentioned thread: Does it only happen with one line in the list file?

[Horst.Epp]

What shows Everything itself if you search for E:\
Is drive E: listed as NTFS in Everythings Index settings ?
If not, do you have a Folder index settings for it ?

[AntonyD]

Does it only happen with one line

Any number of lines.
Single line was used just for simplicity.

[AntonyD]

1)What shows Everything itself if you search for E:\
2)Is drive E: listed as NTFS in Everythings Index settings ?
If not, do you have a Folder index settings for it ?

1) - all files|folders.
2) Yes, NTFS.

BUT 3rd party tool is not a key of my problems.
Total's command LOADLIST does not work properly for unknown reasons...
We need a detailed debug logging inside TC itself.
We have already encountered errors here so often - which cannot be repeated - but it would be very useful and necessary to see the ENTIRE path that the code goes through during the execution of conditions/actions leading to these errors. And the Total still has the smallest level of detail of logs... And now it's obviously only through a detailed log = we could try to understand WHAT's going wrong...

[ghisler(Author)]

Can someone send me a sample list file with which this happens, please?

[AntonyD]

2ghisler(Author)
Dear author. I've used words ANY file. Which means on my computer there is no diff between file
E:\qwe.txt with 0 bytes. And E:\long\strange\nested\folder\with_some_unusual+but-real_file.zip with 100MB for ex.
The only matter thing here is - files records belong to E:\ partition and they do exist on it physically.
And again - I am really fully believe that this bug will not be reproducible on any another comp.
so the best we can do - a deeeeeeep and useful debug logging sub-system introduced inside the Totals' code.

P.S.
Also it does not matter file-list will be saved as ANSI (1251 in my case), UTF-8 (w or w/o BOM) or UTF-16LE

[tuska]

2AntonyD
What is your complete LOADLIST command (anonymized)?

Examples:

command:

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%COMMANDER_EXE% /O /T /S LOADLIST:%COMMANDER_PATH%\EV-Results\EV-Results.txt

AHK script:

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Run %TotalCmd% /O /T /S LOADLIST:%DestinationFile%

Note: The AHK script has been modified by you.

Just out of interest, because my drive E: is a DVD drive.

[white]

2AntonyD
Do I understand it right that this is the problem:

If you test with LOADLIST (capitals!) on the command line, and use a list file with files from different drives, files NOT on the first partition of a drive are not shown?

So if you use a list file with the following lines:

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c:\test.txt
e:\test.txt
d:\test.txt

e:\test.txt doesn't show up in the file list panel and no error is displayed?

[AntonyD]

2white
exactly.
e:\ will not be shown.
c:\ and d:\ will be.

2tuska
AHK we should not touch here (especially because it started to work for me)
the only problem is related to the internal cmd itself. And yes - I can use your line:
%COMMANDER_EXE% /O /T /S LOADLIST:%COMMANDER_PATH%\EV-Results\EV-Results.txt
and as I said: records from this file-list with file names from C:\ + D:\ partitions will be shown,
but from E:\ will not.

[tuska]

2tuska
AHK we should not touch here (especially because it started to work for me)
the only problem is related to the internal cmd itself. And yes - I can use your line:
%COMMANDER_EXE% /O /T /S LOADLIST:%COMMANDER_PATH%\EV-Results\EV-Results.txt
and as I said: records from this file-list with file names from C:\ + D:\ partitions will be shown,
but from E:\ will not.

Thanks!

[nsp]

Have you tried to launch TC as admin and empty ini ?
Does it works if you search on E: drive for some txt file using Alt+F7 and feed to listbox ?
check that you do not have any custom view mode nor auto switch mode.
check that you do not have any ignore list enabled ?

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately I cannot reproduce that, that's why I asked for a test list file.

Here is what I tried:
1. I have created a sample file C:\test\list.txt containing

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c:\test.txt
e:\test.txt
d:\test.txt

2. Then I copied test.txt to all 3 locations (as Administrator to c:\).

3. And then used the following command:

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%COMMANDER_EXE% /O /T /S LOADLIST:C:\test\list.txt

Please note that Total Commander calls FindFirstFile for each of the names to get the file details like size and date/time. If FindFirstFile fails to find the file, the file name isn't added to the list. Are you able to see the file test.txt when you manually go to the root of the e: drive?

[AntonyD]

It's really hard for me to constantly describe everything that I've already clarified and told.
It looks like as the difficulties with translation into another language just add other portions of problems
during the process of solving another problems(((

Any operations with this disk partition are performed without problems. All files/folders are available, and all operations
can be performed on them. Everything is in perfect order in terms of simple use of the disk and its contents.
There are no restrictions on them from the point of view of the administrative resource. All file attributes are correct.

And yes, I understand for sure that Total first checks these file entries for their reality by their presence on the disk,
and I already wrote that I checked it by making an incorrect entry and received the expected warning window.
So yes, Total knows/sees for sure that the file entry on the E:\ partition exists - but for some reason it just doesn't show it.

And yes, I'm asking a direct question again, dear author, why are you so reluctant to introduce and develop logging sub-system at all?
Already in more than one topic and on different subjects, the only way would be to make a complete log of the actions of a particular
operation. Because the error cannot be reproduced. But no - just as there were no full-fledged logs, so there still aren't any.
Yes, you bring something to the log, there is such functionality in principle - but it's just a drop in the sea compared
With the volume that could really close the issue with the procedure for analyzing the behavior of a particular piece of code.

It's in this situation - I already wrote this in mentioned above another topic - that I believe/am sure that many people will not
be able to reproduce it from scratch.
We need a GOOOD LOG! the internal log of ALL actions that are performed when the file is displayed on the Total's file panel.

[siealex]

Is your E:\ a removable drive?