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Open pietror opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

any possibility to add a filter for the file extensions? todays computers have so many registered extensions and the special sort order filemeta is using now doesn't help either

and when i am at the ideas to extend the filemeta, it would be nice to have a button to export the reg part for the given extension to a file for portability/backup :)

pietror avatar Jan 02 '20 10:01 pietror

sorry for double posting, I only now seen that there has been already a similar request

pietror avatar Jan 02 '20 10:01 pietror

Would the ability to search the extensions list for a given set of characters meet your needs? I could recycle the search control from the custom profiles page onto the front screen to support this.

On exporting registry entries, the tricky bit is that the changes made depend on what is already there, for instance whether there is already a handler defined, or any existing PreviewDetails etc. property lists present. This makes portability a definite issue, and restoring from backups potentially dangerous as they will become incorrect if any further changes are made. If traceability is an issue, it might be possible to produce a log of the changes it makes, but I think I would deliberately not record these in .reg file format.

What do you think?

Dijji

Dijji avatar Jan 02 '20 12:01 Dijji