Problem with new window open path

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fabL
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Problem with new window open path

Post by fabL »

Hi everyone.

Since the new version of everything, it opens a new window each time i right click on a file and click "open path".
Previously, it was just opening a new tab on already existing windows tabs. is there a way to restore this feature ?

In an hour i can open multiple customer files, and each time it opens a new window....it's kind of annoying when i just want to open new tabs in the same window, juste like a web browser.

Thanks
therube
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Re: Problem with new window open path

Post by therube »

> Since the new version of everything

What version is this "new", & what were you using prior?

> open path

By default, should be opening Windows Explorer.

> Previously, it was just opening a new tab on already existing windows tabs

This new tab, it was a new Tab in Everything or in Windows Explorer?
(Does W/E do tabs?)

> i right click on a file

Note that right-click on a file is different from right-click on a Path (or at least from what I can tell).
Right-click on a Path would seem to to what is defined in Tools | Options | General -> Context Menu --> Open Path
(which defaults to, $openpath("%1")).

Also in Context Menu are Search in Everything (New Tab) / (New Window).
But those are accessed when you click on a Path, on the Path context menu item that Everything adds, not on a file.
NotNull
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Re: Problem with new window open path

Post by NotNull »

What will be started with Open Path?

That can be found by:
- Menu => Tools => Options => General => Context Menu
- From the Context menu items: list, select Open Path
- Copy the command
- Paste it here.
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