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Graz Font

HI,
When I right click on more than 15 files the “edit with Notepad” option no longer appears, is there any setting to change this? The version is 8.7.5 64bit and the operating system is Windows 7. Another PC with Windows 7 does not have this limit, but the Notepad++ version is 32bit.

Alan Kilborn

@Graz-Font

Is it the exact same “more than 15” files you are trying in both the success and failure cases?

I’m wondering if there is a command-line length limit you may be hitting in one case and not the other.

Graz Font

@Alan-Kilborn the same. I tried also whit files shorter, like 1kb, and the trouble is the same.

PeterJones

@Graz-Font said in menu right click:

I tried also whit files shorter, like 1kb,

Not file size. Path+Filename length. That is, are they 15 files at c:\toplevel.txt or are they 15 files at c:\really long path\with multiple subdirectories\with long names\so each filename\has dozens\of characters\name.txt. Because the Windows right-click interface does have a limit to the number of characters it will send via multiple-select-and-run-action commands. So if on one PC, the 15 path+filenames take 500 characters but on the other they take 2000 characters (or some other length difference – I don’t remember exactly where the threshold is for how many characters Windows will attach to the command launch)

Note that when you select multiple files and launch a command from Explorer, Windows uses the full path name for every file. So 15 files in c:\folder\123456789\ will have 10 more characters per filename, or 150 more characters total, than the same 15 files in c:\folder\. So if on one PC, they are a couple directories deeper, or the directories have longer names, it can quickly go from “fitting” to “not fitting” in the Windows limit.

Graz Font

@Graz-Font I solved it. I edited the Windows registry to add a “MultipleInvokePromptMinimum” entry. Thanks to all for the suggestions, but it wasn’t a character length issue.