Filer, from OpenAmiga.org

@orgin

53.25 out

Unfortunately file system notifications on usb devices doesn't work with DOS only notifications so I had to turn on non DOS notifications. However this might cause some system instability. Please report if this is the case and I'll revert back to DOS notifications, with the drawback that the Filer will no longer detect changes to USB devices automatically.

Change history:

DONE - Fix deselection of items when in persistent select mode

DONE - Add custom code for seconds display

DONE - Fix startup directory link resolve bug

DONE - Replace asynch sub process mode "sleep" with "wait"

DONE - Add ability to resolve assigns to fully qualified path names

DONE - Add ability to turn off autofit columns

DONE - Add option for automatic keyboard mode on at startup

DONE - Modernize the command line parameter parsing

DONE - Add window position, width and height as command line parameters

DONE - Add thousand separator to show size in bytes and remove "B"

DONE - Add additive pattern selection

DONE - Add menu entry for opening current path as wb window

DONE - Add ability to disable device usage fuel gauge

DONE - Add a selection of color themes to Filer prefs

DONE - Add option to hide the column separators

DONE - Prefs: Add resolve paths option

DONE - Prefs: Add autofit columns option

DONE - Prefs: Add keyboard nav by default option

DONE - Prefs: Add disable usage bar option

DONE - Prefs: Add show separators

DONE - Fix pen handling problem

DONE - Fix disk full crash

DONE - Change device notification method to non DOS so that USB device changes are detected

@orgin

Absolutely great tool! I like it! No problems here.

@orgin

Wow - Filer is getting better and better. Here are my two cents for feature requests:

1. I really like the "permanently selected" option combined with the "invert selection" button. This is of course rather similar do Dopus4 et al. To make Filer even more perfect i would like to see two more buttons: "select all" and "de-select all".

2. 'Cos I really never liked (or get used to) the "multi-window" source/destination window thingie (ala Magellan) I love to use the copy/cut/paste functionality - here someone do not need to switch between dedicated source/dest operation. My request: is it possible to mark the "cutted" files in the source filer window? maybe with italic style font or greyed out font colour or another "marked for getting moved" background colour or...

that would rock!

@orgin

I'm randomly getting Grim Reaper errors when accessing partitions.
This has only started to occur with the last update.

Sam 4.1

@TiredOfLife

Okey, seems I'll have to go back to DOS based file system notifications then. With the drawback that usb devices won't update their contents automatically.

@orgin

Yes, I'm getting GR's too. Very consitantly in ram-handler

Just in case it's a seperate issue here how to get it (on my system at least)

Double click on workbench to open filer.

Select Ram Disk: from volumes list.

Return to Volumes list. select any other drive / assign, ram-handler will GR. Occasionally ram-handler survives until you slect a directory or file in that volume.

If however you open a second lister and select a file / volume or whatever no GR happens, until you close or navigate away from Ram: in the first lister.

I confidently over wrote my previously insatallation, (that'll teach me) is the previous version still available to download?

@broadblues

Sound like there's problems in the ramhandler with non DOS notifications. Ohh well.

I'm preparing a new version with a hidden option for turning it on and off. (default DOS on)

So just wait for a few moments until I've uploaded it.

@orgin

53.26 uploaded.

You can now turn on/off DOS only notifications manually (default on). Read the readme for how to turn it off.

Do note that turning it off may cause system instabilities. For some reason the ramhandler does not like non DOS file system notifications. Not turning it off on the other hand means that the filer will not notice changes on USB devices.

@orgin

have upgraded an all seems fine now.

@orgin

Can you add also a better keyboard support ?
I need it to browse the directory, maybe you can use a Windows like system, "Up/Down arrows" for browse the various directory and the "Enter" key to select them

@samo79

Read the readme please.

@samo79

The space bar is your friend.....

@orgin

Since the latest update the filer doesn't update it's list when creating / deleting copy files. This applies to *all* filers not just ones listing usb, in fact I have no usb drives attached at the moment.

I have sfs on my hardrives and whatever the ram disk uses.

The crashes have gone though ....

@broadblues

Works just fine here.

If it doesn't work for you then it has never worked for you. That is, that would mean that file system notifications does not work on your system at all.

@orgin

I'm pretty sure I would have noticed that. Need an older version to test with, do you have an archive of previous releases?

@broadblues

Found 53.24 at openamiga, and strangely it show the same behviour.

However I have a test version of Yafray running a render at 100% CPU in the background, it may just be that notifications are affected by this.

I'll test again when the render is finished. (Sometime next year at it's current rate od progress :-0)

@broadblues

Okay. It seems to be caused by high CPU load. All is okay in normal usage but when rendering or some other activity with 100% cpu usage then the filer never updates on changes, (unless you manually refresh), I might have expected it to be slow but am suprised that it never updates at all.

@broadblues

Not much I can do if the OS never sends the notification messages.

@orgin

Absolutly, I'm not so much suprised that Filer doen't update, more that the notifications don't make it though under high CPU. maybe they timeout in someway.

Anyway here's another bug for you

Copy files with filer clears some of the file permisions, specically the user and group permisions

List the original



Now copy to ram: with FILER and list



Copy to ram: with C:COPY and list



I found this when I copied my SDK and Projects: assign from one drive to a new one with Filer. It confused 'make' something awful!

@orgin

First time in a little while that I've checked on the progress of this project. I must say I'm very impressed! Thanks for all your hard work