FC is unable to handle too many icons in one folder
Posted: 27.06.2022, 18:08
Some time ago I reported so glith-in-matrix-like bugs concerning renaming and moving ICO files [viewtopic.php?p=38954, viewtopic.php?p=38932]. But it seems that FreeCommander has problems with icons in general - i.e. with showing proper graphics for ICO files
I keep all of my icons that I used or might use in one folder. I view them as a list [i.e. Plain View]. And today after increasing their overall number from ~290 to 330+ [and overall weight from ~290 to 330 MB], I started to experience two kinds of display impairments, happening from time to time
A] Some icons are no loaded at all, creating whole group of adjacent white/blank [OS default] icons
B] Some old icons [that I have not touched during current session] change their appearance to some [apparently] randomly chosen other icon
In both cases a quick reload of content usually makes all [?] icons look A-OK
And as I constantly switch tab and navigate through folders using FreeCommander, I was unable to repeat this in Windows Explorer- aside from delayed load up of some icons. But this might be a clue- because this delay [i.e. blank icons] in WE is removed on a column-by-column basis starting from the bottom - in other words each column of files is treated at the same time but separately and the icons turn from blank ones to proper ones starting always from bottom one and ending at the top most. So it seems like [in case of bug "A"] FC skips such column - which because of Tabs and Toolbars is not a column but a group [i.e. a column split visually between two columns]
This is happening in version 861 32-bit public on Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 19042.746 x64. I have quite a new hardware, including 16 GB (2X8) of RAM G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 DIMM 3600 Mhz CL16 [F4-3600C16D-16GVKC]. So it is obvious that FC has some issues with RAM - or is more or less repeating the mistakes of Windows Explorer in that regard
I keep all of my icons that I used or might use in one folder. I view them as a list [i.e. Plain View]. And today after increasing their overall number from ~290 to 330+ [and overall weight from ~290 to 330 MB], I started to experience two kinds of display impairments, happening from time to time
A] Some icons are no loaded at all, creating whole group of adjacent white/blank [OS default] icons
B] Some old icons [that I have not touched during current session] change their appearance to some [apparently] randomly chosen other icon
In both cases a quick reload of content usually makes all [?] icons look A-OK
And as I constantly switch tab and navigate through folders using FreeCommander, I was unable to repeat this in Windows Explorer- aside from delayed load up of some icons. But this might be a clue- because this delay [i.e. blank icons] in WE is removed on a column-by-column basis starting from the bottom - in other words each column of files is treated at the same time but separately and the icons turn from blank ones to proper ones starting always from bottom one and ending at the top most. So it seems like [in case of bug "A"] FC skips such column - which because of Tabs and Toolbars is not a column but a group [i.e. a column split visually between two columns]
This is happening in version 861 32-bit public on Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 19042.746 x64. I have quite a new hardware, including 16 GB (2X8) of RAM G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 DIMM 3600 Mhz CL16 [F4-3600C16D-16GVKC]. So it is obvious that FC has some issues with RAM - or is more or less repeating the mistakes of Windows Explorer in that regard