emeraldflame

Join Date 08/2010

Fences 4 - Target-based sorting rules not working as expected

I recently made the switch to Windows 11 (21H2, build 22000.527) and Fences 4 (4.0.0.3), but the sorting rules don't seem to be behaving the same as they did with Windows 10 and Fences 3.

I've always had a rule that moves Steam games into their own fence by setting up the following

The link's target starts with steam:// and The icon's type is lnk, url Screenshot of rule

However this rule now seems to capturing everything. If a I make a shortcut to a PDF for example, the rule catches it, despite it very clearly starting with C:\, not steam://.

Is this some sort of known issue? And is there any current fix for the behavior?

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I have forward your problem/question to Stardock Support Team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience.

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sdrohan

Join Date 10/2012

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Try this....

Sean Drohan
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These settings still aren't working correctly for me.

After some additional testing here is what I can detail:

Target contains "rungameid"
- Seems that no shortcuts, folders, or other items are captured by the rule, period. Completely non-functional
- Creating steam shortcut fails to organize
- Creating new folder named "rungameid" fails to organize
- Creating a local file shortcut to "C:\rungameid" fails to organize
Target starts with "steam://"
- Also seems to be completely non-functional
- Creating steam shortcut fails to organize
- Manually creating a shortcut including "steam://" fails to organize
- Unable to test with folders/files since ":" and "/" are illegal characters for file names
Target contains "rungameid" AND The Icon's type is "url"
- Organizes all URL links regardless of content
- Steam shortcuts do organize
- A shortcut to target "https://google.com" is also picked up by the rule
- A shortcut to a local folder like "C:\rungameid" is not sorted, presumably because it is a .lnk
Target starts with "steam://" AND The Icon's type is "url"
- Organizes all URL links regardless of content
- Steam shortcuts do organize
- A shortcut to target "https://google.com" is also picked up by the rule
Target contains "rungameid" AND The Icon's type is "url" AND Target contains "rungameid"
- By duplicating the first rule into the 3rd rule, sorting now behaves as expected
- Creating steam shortcut organizes
- Creating shortcut to "https://google.com" does not organize
- Creating local file shortcut to "C:\rungameid" does not organize
- Creating new fold named "rungameid" does not organize
Target starts with "steam://" AND The Icon's type is "url" AND Target starts with "steam://"
- Overall nearly identical results to the other 3 rule sort.

At least from my testing, it seems that no matter what I do, the first rule is always ignored, and to get proper sorting I have to duplicate the first rule.

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sdrohan

Join Date 10/2012

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Quoting emeraldflame,

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At least from my testing, it seems that no matter what I do, the first rule is always ignored, and to get proper sorting I have to duplicate the first rule.

After some testing on my own yesterday, I seem to have come to that same conclusion.. That 1st rule is the only item that should be needed and its not working like it should.

I have placed an internal ticket to have this looked at.

Internal ref: FEN-89

Thank you very much for the report and effort, emeraldflame.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

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Just wanted to see if there was any update on this issue? Thanks!

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sdrohan

Join Date 10/2012

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Quoting wlubetkin,

reply 5

Just wanted to see if there was any update on this issue? Thanks!

Please see:

https://forums.stardock.com/512519/fences-40511-beta-feedback-thead

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

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