#1] Create wherever folders named
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#2] Turn on Quick Filter feature for that Panel which shows these folders
#3] Write as filtering expression
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#4] Select 2 shown folders, i.e. the
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#5A] Click your selection with Right Mouse Button - and then hold it and drag the selection to Desktop
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#5B] Click your selection with Right Mouse Button - and then hold it and drag the selection to wherever except Desktop
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#5C] Click your selection with Right Mouse Button - and then release it and choose the Create Shortcut entry from the shell menu
What happens depends on the last step:
A] Nothing
B] You get an error box saying
Windows can't create a shortcut here.
Do you want the shortcut to be placed on the desktop instead?
C] All two shortcuts are created as they should
So this comparison shows that FreeCommander has a problem both with processing a request for shortcut creation when some of the folders are temporarily hidden but deals with it in two ways [with error and without]
This is happening to me in Build 912 64-bit Donor Portable and Build 901 32-bit Public Installed on Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 x64 [10.0.19042]