Parent column (or narrow path in a separate column)

[eugenesv]

Discussion of a way to fit more into Path viewtopic.php?p=69309#p69309 lead me to this idea:

Currently the "narrow path" option suffers from the issue of breaking vertical alignment, so instead of

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C:\Users\username\AppData\Aaaaaa..
C:\Users\username\AppData\Bbbbbb...
C:\Users\username\AppData\Cccc

You get

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa (C:\Users\username\Ap...
Bbbbbbbbbb (C:\Users\username\AppDa...
Cccc (C:\Users\username\AppData\)

So you don't easily see that all of these paths are identical for the starting point

But then this gets easily solved if you just move the last part to a separate column!

So that's what this suggestion is - add an option add last path item from the path column into a separate one similarly to how you already have the very last part of path in the Name column

(so this could be "Parent" column)

[void]

Already exists

To show the Parent Name column:

• Right click the result list column header and click Add Column....
• Search for: parent
• Select Parent Name and click OK.

Was just thinking about your rewrite suggestion too..
I like the idea of rewriting C:\Users\my_long_user\AppData\Roaming to %APPDATA%

[eugenesv]

Already exists

Oops, sorry

[eugenesv]

I like the idea of rewriting C:\Users\my_long_user\AppData\Roaming to %APPDATA%

This MS default is rather confusing since it doesn't open AppData, but Roaming (%LOCALAPPDATA% is less confusing, but then that's too long and the ALLCAPS when you could have something like AppDatLoc)