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My biggest gripe with the new "tree" display?

https://i.imgur.com/s9VGpUp.png

File 20 is clearly in "FOTO\2019". File 21 is... in "FOTO\!LRCAT"? Or maybe in "FOTO\2019\!LRCAT"?
Wait, wrong, both files are in the same folder!

Why fix what isn't broken? There are many ways to coll...pse paths ...

Often when syncing folders on which other users may have worked I find that they've made "cleanups" by moving or renaming folders. FreeFileSync doesn't recognize this. Perhaps it could, by looking for a folder with a similar content, but that could be complicated and could go beyond the scope of the ...

Is this really how the new interface is supposed to be working? It's completely unreadable :(


I'm back to 10.24 and hoping this is can be made optional in the next revision.

This could be addressed by noticing large-scale file replacement operations. If a folder is suddenly getting all (or most) of its files replaced, and a simple file type ("magic bytes") check detects the files no longer match their extensions, then it could cause a red flag, for the user to take ...