@Gazelle
@Gazelle
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It's one main purpuse of Filer to change paths *inside* the Filer itself. What would be the benefit of opening a filerequester where you click throu the dirs whan you can do it in Filer itself?
If you have favorite dirs you want to change to, make a userbutton for each of them:
$CD MY:Favorite1
$CD MY:Favorite/Dir2
It was meant as a work-around.
Filer does not always work properly for me. Below more about that.
My main reason for that would be to be able to drag and drop a Drawer to have Filer change to that directory.
Maybe in a similar way to RAWBInfo, where you can drag and drop certain elements to some fields.
Having Filer accept a drag and drop to the Directory Path would help a lot.
About Filers problems: Workbench gets unstable when I use Filer and DSI-
Errors appear. I was not able to reliably reproduce, I would have reported it already. Apps do not start when using Filer (increasing Stack did not help either).
The Middle-Button-click taking you to the parent directory is annoying and clashes with other commodities when the Mid-Button is set up for some action. I can't find a way to disable this as it seems hard coded. I did report this to the author however but I suppose he had no time to correct this.
Your suggestion to use the buttons as a quick-link solutions are ok, but cumbersome to use. I am reorganizing the recovered data of a hard drive and a quick way to change "Favourites" is indispensable because very dynamic in this stage.
The hardcoded keyboard-shortcuts are not well thought too IMHO. As it is a replacement or enhancement to Workbench, some of the same shortcuts would be logical. Creating a new drawer with Amiga-N seem logical.
Destructive actions like deleting are done by pressing of two adjacent Keys while something as useful as cloning a file needs to use two hands or rotate the keyboard to be able to press Right-Amiga-3
There are many more things I'd like to say about but it would be off the purpose of this.
Thanks for your suggestion.
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And don't get me wrong, to me Filer is still the Best File Manager for OS4.1. Thanks go to Origin for developing it.