File has been removed dialog box

[alexpc]

I have not found a setting to get rid of the dialog box “File has been removed. Do you want to keep it showing here?” popping up many times after deleting files, a major annoyance. It would be okay to have a checkbox in that dialog box that said “Ignore further messages for this directory” or something like that. Right now (unless there is a setting that I have not found), if I am, for example, deleting many photos from a trip, I get a dialog box for each photo deleted. I even get multiple warnings for the same file. (See attached image.) The only “fix” I have found so far is to simply close FileVoyager and reopen it. Is there a better way?

Thanks

[FileVoyager (Author)]

Hi alexpc,

This message is supposed to be shown when an item is open in the Viewer, and its underlying file has been removed/moved.
And birmally it is supposed to be shown only once per file in this situation…

Can you describe a bit more ?
– Was the Viewer showing the file ?
– If yes, was the Viewer embedded in a panel, or an independent window ?

Anyways, I write down a todo in my backlock to allow “Don’t show again” for some messages.
And also, thank you so much for reporting issues actively. It help me makes FileVoyager a bit more robust every time 🙏

[alexpc]

I think that it happens even if the file is no longer in the viewer. So, for example, if I have in the past seen the file in the viewer momentarily, but it’s not being displayed now, I still get the message. For example, say I have looked at 5 files of photographs, and they were momentarily in the viewer, but I have decided to keep only one of them, I would prefer not to have to get warning for all of the deleted ones. Moreover, if you look at the image I included in the previous post, I am being asked about the same file multiple times.

What I often do is use an external viewer (Irfanview) and delete unwanted photographs from that app. What I guess I would really like is something in preferences that allows me to say that I don’t want those warnings at all.

Does this help?

[alexpc]

One more point. Note that the “File has been removed” dialog box comes up for the same file multiple times (see image in earlier post).

[FileVoyager (Author)]

I’m completely unable to reproduce this issue…

I checked for the places where this message is displayed and there’s only one place.
And the conditions to display the message is that the file doesn’t exist anymore + a Viewer has the file loaded.

Can you check if in Task Manager you find some “ghost” FileVoyager.exe ?

 

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