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    • Robert van GeelR
      Robert van Geel
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      Sometimes I have a folder with a lot of files and I want, for instance, to filter all files containing ‘boat’. In older versions, I could just type ‘boat’ in the file location, hit enter and I would see my files filtered. In the new version it seems this changed, it just closes the dialogue box. Is that a setting?

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      • Doug KeysD
        Doug Keys
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        I’ve run into the same problem. In prior versions I could enter something like *foo* in the filename field of the File Open dialog, hit return and see the matching files to select from in the main pane. When I do the same in 7.5.6, it opens all files matching *foo*. I’ve checked the configuration settings and if there is a setting to control this behavior, I’m not seeing it. I also reviewed the change.log and don’t see any mention of this change, so it is possibly inadvertent. In any case, it’s also highly annoying when I enter a wildcard that matches 50 files and they all open.

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        • Claudia FrankC
          Claudia Frank @Doug Keys
          last edited by

          @Robert-van-Geel @Doug-Keys

          goto Settings->Preferences->Default Directory
          and check use new style dialog…

          Cheers
          Claudia

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          • Scott SumnerS
            Scott Sumner @Claudia Frank
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            @Claudia-Frank

            Questions that lead to this answer seem to have overtaken missing-Plugin-Manager questions as our most-frequent of FAQ. Because the questions are occurring en masse NOW, I would guess that installing 7.5.6 over a previous version un-ticks a previously ticked Use new style save dialog (…) setting? If true, there is (of course) no mention of this in the change log.

            Just a supposition as I don’t ever “install”, and I don’t use 7.5.6 as I don’t like being on the “bleeding edge” of things…so I haven’t noticed this myself. Indeed, if I had, and it bothered me, I would “tick the box” and not give it another thought.

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            • Claudia FrankC
              Claudia Frank @Scott Sumner
              last edited by Claudia Frank

              @Scott-Sumner

              Hi Scott,

              how are you doing? Hope you are fine.

              I agree, this question pops up quite often lately but I didn’t do any research yet.
              I don’t install npp myself, always using the zips, so can’t say for sure but from my understanding an
              update would not overwrite custom configurations. New installation might be different.

              I remember, when introducing this new style dialog feature we saw also a lot
              of complains that users can’t see the file extensions anymore, so I suspect that when it
              will be reenabled as a default setting the complains would arise again :-)

              Cheers
              Claudia

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              • Doug KeysD
                Doug Keys @Claudia Frank
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                @Claudia-Frank said:

                @Robert-van-Geel @Doug-Keys

                goto Settings->Preferences->Default Directory
                and check use new style dialog…

                Cheers
                Claudia

                Thanks, this resolved the issue. Since this setting also controls the new Unix style path issue, I assume the change to support Unix paths had something do with it. In 7.5.1, the setting is “use new style save dialog” instead of just “use new style dialog”.

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