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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Add Word-Count Capability to Context Menu or Tool Tip

« on: January 25, 2012, 04:31 AM »

Basically, is there any way of easily displaying how many characters are in a file path?  (I am using Windows XP.)

I keep running up against a frustrating problem when making backups. It seems the length of the path to any file should not be longer than 255 characters (I think). I find Windows will allow a file to be saved to a path even if doing so will cause the number of characters in that path to exceed the limit. (Saving webpages with their original - sometimes very long - file names can throw up this problem a lot.) But the problem only tends to pop up when I try to do anything with that file - eg make a backup - as the backup software then reports it cannot access the file because the path is too long. 

So, what I am looking for is some way of easily displaying how many characters are in a file path. I thought maybe highlighting the path in the address bar, say, and then right clicking to see a character-count in the context menu, or in a tool tip. Whatever works. I can then make the necessary adjustments to the path length as needed.
Thanx. 

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Quickly remove redundant recursive folders

« on: November 29, 2011, 04:12 AM »

I wonder if anyone can help or advise.  I am looking for a simple way to easily remove recursive similarly-named folders.

So, rather than have something like "C:\this_is_a_folder\this is a folder\data contents" I'm looking for an easier way of ending up with "C:\this is a folder\data contents" without having to do lots of manual moving of files in order to delete the redundant "\this_is_a_folder" folder. 

I come across the problem of too many nesting similarly-named folders a lot when unpacking RAR archives. On occasion, if the archive has been repacked more than once, I have even found some unpacked archives ending up as "C:\this_is_a_folder\this is a folder\this is a folder\data contents", or an even longer chain of similarly named folders.  Most exasperating. 

Thanks. 

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Clipboard Help+Spell / CH+S Error Message

« on: July 13, 2011, 11:34 AM »

I wonder if you can advise.  I occasionally get "Error DB65: DBISAM Engine Error # 11013 Access denied to table or backup file 'query (10601)' "  If I click the OK (the only option), I then get another box that reads: "Error EX63: Operation aborted"

I am (still!) using Windows XP (sp 3).

The error occurs when I press Ctrl + C to copy highlighted text.  It does not occur often, maybe once every couple of days.

[BTW comment: Until I recently stumbled across other threads on such error messages in this forum, I did not realise these particular error messages related to CH+S.  The reason being, the error notification box that pops up does not identify the program it relates to.  In the blue topic area at the top of the box all is says is "Error.." There is no program name. 

Also, it actually 'pops under' rather than 'pops over' and so other than the error noise from the computer, for quite some time I had no idea what had caused what I tend to call the "dummy-you-pressed-the-wrong-key-again" noise.  I would only discover the error message some time later, after closing all windows. The trouble was that by then I had no idea what it was referring to.

Please don't take that as a criticism -- especially given that you produce such wonderful programs, and for free  .  It's just quite a number of programs these days have similar error message boxes -- ie none of them adequately identify the program they are reporting on imho -- so CH+S is not alone in this.  I wish programmers would be more aware of this issue. I'd better stop going on about this. Sorry!   

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Flag Exit Pops in IE8

« on: April 08, 2011, 07:26 AM »

Hi,
I was wondering if it's possible to devise some sort of indicator (eg traffic lights or red flag?) to show if a particular webpage will trigger an exit pop-up message (I understand these are also known as Exit Pops) when you come to close that page in Internet Explorer 8.

I feel such a tool would be helpful because some web pages have Exit Pops that are quite badly behaved and refuse to close properly, giving pop-up box after pop-up box in a frantic bid to get you to stay on the page and buy whatever it is they’re selling.  Such behaviour creates problems when exiting IE8 for the day, as the next time you come to open IE8, you discover too late that the "Reopen Last Browsing Session" option has not saved all open pages from the previous session, but only those to the left of the page that had the ‘bad’ exit pop.

Apologies if I haven't explained that too well, but basically I'm looking for some sort of automatic indicator (that will float on top of IE8 perhaps, or sit in it's toolbar?) to show if a webpage in IE8 has an Exit Pop in it’s code or not.  That way, I can close such Exit Pop infested pages individually before closing Internet Explorer 8 itself, and thus prevent such annoying pages from corrupting the "Reopen Last Browsing Session" function.  Hope that makes sense.

BTW, there's no need to suggest I use Firefox and/or Chrome instead, or whatever browser you happen to personally prefer.  This request is about addressing an issue with IE8. Thanx. 

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Finished Programs / SOLVED: Open a group of Favorite webpages at once in Tabs in IE8

« on: March 30, 2010, 02:06 PM »

Hi,
I wonder if it’s possible to develop a simple way of opening a group (folder) of saved Favorite web pages all at the same time on individual tabs (obviously) in Internet Explorer 8?

While I accept IE8 is not most sophisticated surfers browser of choice these days, there are reasons I still prefer it.   However, one of it's (no doubt numerous) failings it that there doesn't seem to be a quick and easy way to re-open multiple saved Favorites.

As you know, Firefox has the ability to open a number of saved bookmarks at the same time -- if they are grouped together (in a folder) -- by simply selecting the "Open all in Tabs" from the Bookmarks menu.  And while Internet Explorer will also willingly let you save all open tabs into a group (folder) -- by selecting “Add current Tabs to Favorites…” – it doesn't seem to have the ability to then re-open them all together in the same way Firefox can.  Any solution?