Almost too tiny to mention:

Win2k SP2 Xolox 1.12

Go to Tools | Preferences | Sharing tab

Click on the main app which hides the property sheet behind. Then go to Tools | Preferences again and the list of shared folders on the Sharing tab has doubled up.

Close and reopen prefs and everything's ok again.

Cheers,
Mart

Hmm... it's not some little thing not worth mentioning. It's actually quite serious. Thanks to you, I can now reproduce, at will, the 'doubled settings in the registry' bug. (Both shared directories and extensions are doubled)

I thought it had to do with XoloX hiding the preferences window upon closing instead of killing it (Or, conversly, creating a new preferences window instead of showing the old one), but it's really that it re-reads the registry data and appends it to the lists instead of overwriting the lists or not reading the registry if it detects that the preferences window is already open. (Clicking on preferences in the menu, while it's already open, just brings it to the front instead of creating a new window.)

OK, so, for the bug:

1) Click preferences in the menu.

2a) Drag the preferences window so when you click on the main form you can still see it.
AND/OR
2b) Click on the main form.

3a) Click on the preferences window.
AND/OR
3b) Click on preferences in the menu again.

4) Click Apply


You do not even have to look at the directory settings tab for it to take effect. If you do this a lot, you will get errors that it did not set the registry keys for sharedextension and probably shareddirs too (though I never did it enough to overflow the key length there) In older versions, the repeated registry keys would have added threads, but now I think it just adds CPU overhead because it searches directories multiple times and looks for the same extenions over and over.

Cleanup is a pain if you don't want to delete the whole XoloX key and start over.

I didn't save the prefs when I saw that issue, so I had no idea it was a much bigger problem.

So I've spotted an even smaller one...

win2k sp2

The title bar has 'Xolox version: 1.12' and then a piece of vaguely-centred text which floats around as you resize the window (why?) - 'Next Generation File Sharing'

If I maximise the window I lose the trailing 'g'.

I can't think of any possible bigger implications of that one

Mart