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Thread ID: 65789	2006-01-31 03:18:00	Odd problem with ACDSee	IanS (924)	Press F1

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425655	2006-01-31 03:18:00	XP Home CPU AMD Sempron 1.5Ghz RAM 512 Mb An odd problem has arisen on different computer to the one I referred to yesterday. I have ACDSee32 v2.42 (unregistered) installed. Every time I double left click on a folder icon to open it, it opens OK but always with "ACDSee32 v2.42 (unregistered)" at the top of the window followed by the name of the folder. Always the first file that is shown in the window has two dots under it in place of a name. Sometimes the dots are in a rectangle. Sometimes this file looks like a paper folder and sometimes it looks like a drawing of a Hard Drive. Double clicking on this brings up a display of the contents of the C drive. If I right click on the folder icon and select OPEN, it will open with only the name of the folder at the top of the window and without the odd first file referred to above. i.e. all is normal. Everything works OK, it is just minor annoyance and ODDBALL!!! Maybe another corrupted registry file??? I hope someone can solve this oddball problem.	IanS (924)
425656	2006-01-31 03:23:00	The program has windows shell extentions to give drop down selection at folder level. I would imagine there are options to enable/disable this feature. Or could be corrupted registry as you say V2.42 appears to be a dated version, try upgrade	SolMiester (139)
425657	2006-01-31 03:33:00	It might not be a "problem" with ACDSee . Those are legal directory names . They shouldn't be shown, but every directory (exceptthe root directory) has in it two special entries . They are " . " and " . . " . " . " is "this directory" . " . . " is "the directory this one is in" . When you click on " . . ", that moves you to that directory, which is one level up . If you are old enough to remember DOS, the command "CD . . " moved you up one level . It's still used in *nix, and probably other OSs . Quite often in Linux you have to use the " . /" prefix to filenames, because " . " (the current directory) isn't in the path . Generallly, files with names starting with " . " are hidden . Have you got "display hidden directories" ticked?	Graham L (2)
425658	2006-01-31 23:03:00	Problem solved. It was mostly a matter of settings in ACDSee. Open ACDSee and go to Tools/Options/Miscellaneous/Set File Associations, under "Commands to Add" untick all except View with ACDSee. Then I found that this computer had the same corrupt registry file as my other computer. Refer to my post 30/1/2006 at 4.47pm. It is a mystery how both computers had the same registry file corrupted but the same fix worked on both. Thanks to all for the help	IanS (924)
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