Comments on: Direct Folders 3.32

By: rei

rei — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:08:41 +0000

Using 3.32 it works in Vista 32 bit but not in the Save-As dialog. Works in Open dialogs. Wonder if this is a known bug?

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:59:08 +0000

Hi,
Direct Folders is a nice program. But one thing that I find annoying is that if you have just lost a network connection that you were previously viewing, or if you were viewing a DVD drive that no longer has a DVD in it, then direct folders “hangs up” for 10 or more seconds (I assume this is a time out condition while it’s trying to access the now non-existant drive).
Regards,
Peter.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:25:45 +0000

Hello Jeff,

I have a problem with Direct Folder 3.32 under Windows XP 64-bit. I had to upgrade my old computer that used Windows xp, and with the new computer i had two options to choose from: xp 64-bit or Vista 64-bit DSP. I choosed the first one. Well everything worked so far, except, that DirectFolders don’t show up at double click with the left mouse button on the desktop. I have to activate it with Win+Q or Win+W.

The funny is, that the double click does work in save dialogs (except MS Office Viewer applications) and also in Windows Explorer windows. What is the problem?

Thanks for your response,
Peter from Slovenia

By: Jackal

Jackal — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:08:39 +0000

I have a problem when using Direct Folders 3.32
After I opened a file in a removable drive and remove the drive
Then when I active DirectFolders, a Window dialog will popup saying that that removable drive cannot be found
Maybe the Recent function is trying to access the file somehow

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:52:28 +0000

PS I’ve finally uninstalled my good old, if somewhat buggy, Autodialogs 2.44 at last. Nice interface but brought my system down occasionally, so goodbye.

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:49:32 +0000

Hi I’m using the freeware v3.21 and would like to add here that both Directory Opus and Direct Folders can be activated by Double-(left)-clicking on the Desktop. The Directory Opus Desktop option can be disabled in Preferences, allowing Direct Folders to open.

Since I don’t use Vista but prefer to stay with XP, and since there seems to be a confirmed Desktop bug (see above) which I don’t notice in the 3.21 freeware version, I think I’ll stay with my version for the time being!

Good work Jeff with this app. I hated Direct Folders at first because (a) it would not display the full path in Recent Files so I could not be sure I was clicking on the proper link, and (b) I had no idea where the user config files were kept, so I couldn’t back up my settings in case of a crash. Now I know that (a) Configure > Options > Recent Items Length and increasing this value to say 200 chars will fix the first problem, and (b) looking in C:\Documents and Settings\[User]\Application Data\Direct Folders will locate the (plain text, editable) menu items, I’m much happier.

Suggest you give these 2 points more prominence in your userguide/faq pages.

Looking forward to the next, bugfree version.

By: bourne

bourne — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:40:57 +0000

Incredible tool. Thank you very much for providing it. All the best, Markus, a poor Mac user with a windows machine in his office ;)

By: Athena

Athena — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:50:35 +0000

Where is the x64 version? Whenever I download it the program it installs as if it is the 32-bit version and it doesn’t work in Vista’s, imho, stupid dialog/save windows.

Please help.

By: Nik

Nik — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:52:11 +0000

great product. Except one thing. One -I’m-*sure*-easy-but-vital thing:
Before I mention what it is, I must tell why it is important. That you can swiftly switch to or open folder of choice shows that DF is here to cut down unnecessary steps that waste time. Now when Win+Q shortcut is pressed or double-click is done, the menu contains all my regularly visited folders, I can use the up/down arrows to highlight the one I want open. That really takes a long time to do sometimes. The alternative, using of the mouse, is as bad, or worse. I advice you build a simple type to select feature. Just like in a normal Windows Explorer window, you type the letter ‘k’, it jumps to the first file that has ‘k’ as the first letter. you type ‘k’ again it goes to the second file and so on. If you type ‘ki’, it goes to the first matching file that begins its file name with ‘ki’, e.g., “king arthur.doc”.

Thank you for this app.
All the best,

By: Pacheco

Pacheco — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:08:55 +0000

Feature Request:

I’d like to ask for a request, that is to your program to handle dialogs like this one:
[img=http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/3986/20080803000000rq5.jpg]

That is a dialog, of choosing a folder… Thx