Window Names Not Saved

[William Tribley]

I've been using OneCommander for several years now and really like the ability to name windows to separate them. I just got a new computer and for the first time set up a separate admin account for software installation and maintenance. I'm running as an ordinary user. Window names do not save.

Windows 11

Version 3.16.0.0

Pro User

Settings: C:\Users\bill\AppData\Local\OneCommander\Settings

Do I need to install for myself only?

Thanks in advance for any help.

-Bill

[Milos Paripovic]

There is no need to install it differently. Create a new window, open a few new tabs, move window around screen and change some panel sizes, close window, reopen. 

Do you see previous tabs? Is the window position and layout as from the moment you closed it?

If not,

From system tray, right-click on OC, and View Logs. Is there any errors logged?

Check that settings folder for Window-THATNAME.json and TabsTHATNAME1.json

For tabs to save you need to have Settings>Other>On Start: Restore last used tabs (first option in that settings tab)

[William Tribley]

Restore Last Used Tabs was set, this appears to be the default because I didn't have to set it on my old machine. The last open window position and tabs are preserved and presented when the app is closed then opened. Log shows no errors, see below. 

However, there is no window name next to the Open New/Saved icon in the upper right. I've saved several windows like I did before. I was able to name one window Work-Matlab but after that I couldn't create another named window. Before I was able to name all windows and this worked seamlessly.

[09:06:22 INF] ----------------------
Starting 3.106.0.0
[09:06:22 INF] Initializing OC Window
[09:06:22 INF] OC Window initialized
[09:06:22 INF] Window created
[09:06:22 INF] Initializations finished
[09:06:25 INF] Drives listed. 4
[09:08:20 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[09:08:38 INF] Initializing OC Window
[09:08:38 INF] OC Window initialized
[09:08:38 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[09:08:38 INF] Window created
[09:08:43 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[09:09:03 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[09:11:32 INF] Panels reloaded
[09:11:36 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[09:14:47 INF] App activated
[09:14:55 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[09:15:07 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[09:16:05 INF] App activated
[09:16:18 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[09:17:16 INF] App activated
[09:17:24 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[09:17:44 INF] Panels reloaded
[09:17:59 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:00:41 INF] App activated
[10:01:15 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:16:22 INF] App activated
[10:16:30 INF] Created new item: P:\Bill\Financial\_2025_Data\Taxes\Charitable Receipts
[10:16:33 INF] MSG: File opened
[10:16:33 INF] MSG: File opened
[10:16:35 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:34:09 INF] App activated
[10:35:27 INF] App activated
[10:35:35 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:36:11 INF] Panels reloaded
[10:36:13 INF] Window Personal state saved
[10:36:13 INF] Window closed
[10:36:13 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:36:18 INF] App activated
[10:36:23 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:36:23 INF] Window hidden
[10:36:28 INF] Started again - Switching to window instead
[10:36:28 INF] App activated
[10:36:28 INF] Panels reloaded
[10:36:37 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:37:49 INF] App activated
[10:37:57 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:39:44 INF] App activated
[10:39:47 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:39:59 INF] Initializing OC Window
[10:39:59 INF] OC Window initialized
[10:40:00 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:40:00 INF] Window created
[10:40:00 ERR] C:\Users\bill\AppData\Local\OneCommander\Settings\TabsWork-Matlab1.json does't exist
[10:40:00 ERR] C:\Users\bill\AppData\Local\OneCommander\Settings\TabsWork-Matlab2.json does't exist
[10:40:07 INF] Window Work-Matlab state saved
[10:40:07 INF] Window closed
[10:40:07 INF] Window deactivated:Work-Matlab
[10:40:09 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:40:09 INF] Window hidden
[10:40:13 INF] Started again - Switching to window instead
[10:40:13 INF] App activated
[10:40:13 INF] Panels reloaded
[10:40:16 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:40:30 INF] Initializing OC Window
[10:40:30 INF] OC Window initialized
[10:40:31 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:40:31 INF] Window created
[10:40:35 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:40:43 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:40:46 INF] App activated
[10:41:11 INF] App activated
[10:41:18 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[10:41:31 INF] App activated
[10:41:36 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:03:23 INF] App activated
[13:03:26 INF] Window Personal state saved
[13:03:26 INF] Window closed
[13:03:26 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:03:37 INF] App activated
[13:03:40 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:03:40 INF] Window hidden
[13:03:44 INF] Started again - Switching to window instead
[13:03:44 INF] App activated
[13:03:44 INF] Panels reloaded
[13:03:48 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:04:01 INF] Initializing OC Window
[13:04:01 INF] OC Window initialized
[13:04:02 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:04:02 INF] Window created
[13:04:08 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:04:24 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:04:26 INF] Window Personal state saved
[13:04:26 INF] Window closed
[13:04:26 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:04:31 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:04:34 INF] Initializing OC Window
[13:04:34 INF] OC Window initialized
[13:04:34 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:04:34 INF] Window created
[13:04:38 INF] Window deactivated:Work-Matlab
[13:04:47 INF] Initializing OC Window
[13:04:47 INF] OC Window initialized
[13:04:47 INF] Window deactivated:Work-Matlab
[13:04:47 INF] Window created
[13:04:58 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:05:15 INF] Window Personal state saved
[13:05:15 INF] Window closed
[13:05:15 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:05:16 INF] Window Work-Matlab state saved
[13:05:16 INF] Window closed
[13:05:16 INF] Window deactivated:Work-Matlab
[13:05:22 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:05:22 INF] App activated
[13:05:25 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:05:25 INF] Window hidden
[13:05:29 INF] Started again - Switching to window instead
[13:05:29 INF] App activated
[13:05:29 INF] Panels reloaded
[13:05:32 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:05:46 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:05:46 INF] Window hidden
[13:05:53 INF] App activated
[13:05:54 INF] Panels reloaded
[13:05:54 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:05:59 INF] Window deactivated:Personal
[13:05:59 INF] Window hidden
[13:06:02 INF] App activated

[William Tribley]

Here's the settings directory. I tried to create Personal and Work-Matlab

01/23/2026  01:05 PM    <DIR>          .
01/15/2026  07:53 AM    <DIR>          ..
01/20/2026  10:35 AM             1,371 Favorites.json
01/16/2026  04:31 PM             1,557 Favorites1fff1d4d-6e97-4c28-8877-2cc73f8d8113.backup.json
01/20/2026  10:34 AM             1,605 Favoritesb9623eea-e92c-496c-a692-b4c08ca61cf3.backup.json
01/21/2026  11:27 AM            32,768 FolderView.db
01/23/2026  10:36 AM            15,506 OneCommanderV3.json
01/23/2026  09:17 AM            15,506 OneCommanderV3Backup.json
01/23/2026  10:36 AM            15,506 OneCommanderV3Previous.json
01/16/2026  09:38 PM               453 TabsPersonal1.4c87188cd8fd4d3aaf999142ce0840cc.tmp.json
01/20/2026  09:45 PM               915 TabsPersonal1.90c6d8ff5b14453f9ea3b4829149956a.tmp.json
01/16/2026  04:12 PM               431 TabsPersonal1.d6505b20c0e740f5904b8f577a510054.tmp.json
01/18/2026  10:14 PM               447 TabsPersonal1.e452781818834363aa3750707b0d17c0.tmp.json
01/23/2026  01:05 PM               931 TabsPersonal1.json
01/22/2026  09:56 PM             1,137 TabsPersonal2.98c8650085b342c780969e4bd93f153d.tmp.json
01/23/2026  01:05 PM               905 TabsPersonal2.json
01/23/2026  01:05 PM               197 TabsWork-Matlab1.json
01/23/2026  01:05 PM               197 TabsWork-Matlab2.json
01/22/2026  11:40 AM         2,039,808 Thumbnails.db
01/23/2026  01:05 PM             1,089 Window-Personal.json
01/23/2026  01:05 PM             1,061 Window-Work-Matlab.json
              19 File(s)      2,131,390 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  1,768,218,132,480 bytes free

[OneCommander Support]

The "Personal" windows doesn't display top-left. Is that the only source of confusion? I thought novice users will be confused what is meaning of "Personal" top-left. In the future that one will be called "default" but that would be only slighly less confusing. If you create other windows those should show

[William Tribley]

OK, I created another window "Home" and now Personal appears in the list: Personal, Home and Work-Matlab. However, if you switch to Personal the name isn't to the left of the icon. I went back to my old computer to see how that worked. Without thinking about it, on that conputer I was using no-name as Personal and had two work windows. So all is well. 

It begs the question, "What's so special about default/personal that its name is treated differently?" When you create one window it would be consistent if both appeared. If it was named Default at the beginning, it can be changed easily. 

This is no big thing. I am a huge fan of OneCommander and feel like I have one arm tied behind my back if I have to use a work computer without it installed!

[OneCommander Support]

I hardcoded the name "Personal" to be ignored and not shown on window. I don't remember why I chose Personal instead of Default. The only thing I remember from reasoning about it is that it is not user-chosen, and it would be confusing to see it there. In v4 I plan on making that name editable above, so I hope that being able to change it would make it clearer