Cannot readily manually enter a dirname?

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Cannot readily manually enter a dirname?

Postby therube » Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:06 pm

One cannot readily manually enter a directory name into the "directory bar" - if said directory name did not exist prior to the time BRU was opened. (Or something of that nature.)

say you have a directory

c:\out\123

& you open BRU & you type 'c:\out\123' into the "directory bar"
with that, BRU displays the directory contents thereof

Now, lets say you say, "oh, "123" is not a good directory name, i should have used "abc" instead"
so you open Windows Explorer, focus on 123 & rename it to abc, & all is well.

BRU is still open, but at this point is "looking" at something that no longer exists.
No big deal.
You just type: c:\out\abc into the "directory bar".
And.
And c:\out\abc is not read.
To BRU it does not know it exists.

There is no readily (that I saw) simple means of telling BRU, hey, yes, "abc" does exist!

The directory tree does seem to be able to be refreshed.
The directory picker is awkward, & depending (?) it might or might not pick up on the change.

One should simply be able to paste a directory location into the "directory bar", & BRU should be able to use that.


(And, in messing with this, externally renaming, trying to figure a way to get BRU to pick up, to find, to see, that, yes I do exist, I had a crash?
BRU_crash_6330.7z, emailed.
Win7, x64.)
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