Right click: Open Containing Folder

[Troken]

Hi,

a very handy feature that (at least) I would use daily, and that I cant imagine would be hard to implement:

In the thumbnail pane, when right clicking, add "Open Containing Folder". Choosing this would open up a ordinary windows folder where the file is located - with the file selected. Easy and convienient, dont you think?

Idea came from Foobar 2000, very handy when you want to do an operation outside the program.

[Dreamer]

Added in 1.97 beta 1, but I don't think it should be the first item in context menu.

Moved to "1.97 Testing - Feedback".

[xnview]

Added in 1.97 beta 1, but I don't think it should be the first item in context menu.

Second?

[Troken]

I agree, should be 2nd–5th somewhere. But it works very nice.

And I guess that "Open containing folder" is better than "Open container folder". Any native english opinion?

[xnview]

And I guess that "Open containing folder" is better than "Open container folder". Any native english opinion?

Or "open file location"?

[Troken]

Or "open file location"?

Yes, why not?

[oops66]

Or: Open Windows Explorer ?

[JohnFredC]

Some of us have redirected Explorer to another tool.

I vote for "Open containing folder"

[Troken]

Or: Open Windows Explorer ?

Well, is it called Windows Explorer in all Windows versions?
For consistensy with XnViewMP (if this will be added there too), I would not use that term.

[oops66]

In this case, why not only : "Explore" or "Explore in folder" ?

[ckit]

It is possible to set other file managers like xplorer2 pro to open folders by default instead of Windows Explorer so I think it should stay as "Open Containing Folder"

[ckv]

Currently "Open Containing Folder" is shown in the folder context menu too, but it doesn't do anything. I think "Open Containing Folder" should not be shown in the folder context menu.

This feature could be improved by using method supported by windows explorer. You can pass /select,"<filename>" command-line option to explorer.exe (Windows Explorer Command-Line Options) to open the containing folder . With this method the file you used to open the containing folder is also selected in opened folder.

Example:

Code: Select all

explorer.exe /select,"C:\somefolder\foo.bar"

[Dreamer]

Added in 1.97 beta 1, but I don't think it should be the first item in context menu.

Second?

All other items are used to open the current file, this will open the current folder, so it should be placed below all "file" items:

open
open in fullscreen
open with
<here?>
open all selected
<or here, since "open all selected" is still to open file(s)>

[Troken]

All other items are used to open the current file, this will open the current folder, so it should be placed below all "file" items:
open
open in fullscreen
open with
<here?>
open all selected
<or here, since "open all selected" is still to open file(s)>

Here is a screenshot from Foobar2000 as an inspiration. The item is placed almost last in the list.

[Dreamer]

OK, changed in beta 2.

Closed.