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Better handling of "Expand folder shortcuts" #555

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@DietmarSchwertberger

Hi!

I have several shortcuts to drives and folders in my start menu.
Open Shell correctly expands them such that I can quickly navigate through them as a menu.
But: When I open a folder by clicking on it in the menu, there is a small problem:
The path displayed in Explorer is not the real path, but it includes the start menu.

A drive, e.g. D:\

grafik

Clicking on "Code" opens an Explorer window. The path is quite odd, though:
grafik

When I click into the path, it looks better, so this case is OK for me:
grafik

But, when I don't click on a subdirectory but on the toplevel item, it's completely odd:
grafik
grafik
There's no way to get rid of this. Well, this is not a major problem, but when you copy the path from the explorer window into a "File Open" or "File Save" dialog, it's really not nice.

It would be great if Open Shell could open the Explorer window with the correctly expanded path.
If that's not possible with the shortcuts from the start menu, maybe you could add a configuration option to add drives and folders as user specific "Special Items".

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  1. changed the title [-]Feature Request: better handling of "Expand folder shortcuts"[/-] [+]Better handling of "Expand folder shortcuts"[/+] on Dec 4, 2020
  2. added a commit that references this issue on Aug 20, 2021
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  3. DietmarSchwertberger commented on Jan 29, 2022

    @DietmarSchwertberger
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    Implemented in 4.4.170. Thanks a lot.

  4. added a commit that references this issue on Aug 13, 2022
    27e5c2b
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