What is the significance of persistent grayed-out filenames? They are showing up in a lister after a move or rename operation and correspond to the source filename that no longer exists after the operation. They accumulate and clutter up the listing. The only way I've been able to get rid of them is by terminating and restarting the program.
Could you share a screenshot or even better a video cause as you describe it, it sounds rather unusual.
Are you perhaps referring to the selected file list in the Advanced Rename UI ?
These are probably ghost files. They have recently started to be occasionally shown longer than needed. I noticed that as well, but haven't detected a pattern yet.
You can turn the feature off by unchecking Preferences / File Operations / Copying Files / Show ghost files for queued copies.
That's what I thought first, but:
a. I never had it triggered upon renaming
b. It never stayed longer than the required (until the copy finishes or the move between drives).
@bpeate : Is this occurring on any drive or specific ones? Are these fixed (HDD/SSD) or network drives?
This occurred copying or moving between two fixed drives. As for the renaming, I have since realized that occurred when I moved several files and then renamed them one at a time. After renaming, the original filename still appeared grayed out in the lister, along with the new filename (not grayed out).
It doesn't happen all the time, and so far I haven't been able to figure out what conditions will lead to the consistent grayed-out filenames, so I haven't been able to reliably duplicate the result. I just wasn't able to find any mention of grayed-out filenames in the manual, so I wasn't even sure where to start.
Thanks for the pointer - I hadn't been able to find that. I'll leave them on for the moment so I can try to figure out the conditions that causes them to persist after the copy operation is complete. But it's nice to know how to get rid of them without having to restart the program.
I do see this behavior with a button I just created to move and rename a file in one go:
Go /favs FOLDERCONTENT=move,nofiles,showempty,resolvedirlinks,dblclickmenu
[
Rename FROM "{$targetpath}\{file}" TO "{dlgstring|New filename|{file}}"
]
The file is moved, then the dialog asks for a new filename, then the file is renamed; but a "grayed out" duplicate of the original file is still shown in {$targetpath}.
We've made a change in the next beta which should fix this - please let us know if you still see it.
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