"This PC" Folder Format Loses Column Names on Re-edit

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This appears to be a bug in how DOpus handles specific columns when saving and re-editing Folder Formats for "This PC".

When you open the Folder Format dialog and display the format for "This PC", you can see the column names are displayed normally.
For example, the three column names "Free Space", "Percent Full (Graph)", and "Filesystem" all show correctly.

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However, after saving it as a folder format (in this example, named "ThisPCTemp"), if you go to Folders / Folder Formats / Favorite Formats and double-click to edit the format you just saved, you'll find that these column names cannot be displayed—they appear blank.

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Moreover, at this point, if you select "Reset Page → Set From Favorites → ThisPCTemp" in the bottom-right corner to apply the format you just saved,

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This compounds the error: these columns with empty names will disappear entirely. Once the format is saved, these columns cannot be recovered.

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Since I haven't tested further, I'm not sure if only these specific columns have this issue or if others are affected as well. However, what is certain is that even when these column names appeared blank (before the entire column disappeared), the folder format could still be correctly applied to "This PC".

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Does the same here.

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Is there any update on this bug? I’ve noticed that the last two beta versions didn't mention a fix, and the issue still persists in my testing. The Folder Format of "This PC" still loses column names when double-click to edit.

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Columns like Free Space only work in the This PC folder and cannot be saved into general folder formats (e.g. a Favorite Format or Path Format).

They work when used on the actual This PC format (under the System Folders category), and when editing the folder format from the lister when in the This PC folder. They aren't available in any other places, as they would not work there.

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