Ability to background download queue with D&D/Portable mode

I use the portable version of WinSCP synced in Dropbox. I've learned I had to change my drag and drop mode as shell association doesn't work in portable mode. This is fine, but I also found you can't background tasks while downloading with this configuration. It works okay with uploading though. I really dislike modal Windows and am trying to speed up my process, so I'd love to find a solution to this.

The only thing I can come up with is switch to non-portable version and symlink the .ini settings to Dropbox, but that's a bit hacky and I have to set it up on every new PC I use. I wish I could install the proper shell association even in portable mode.

Do you have any solutions to how I might enable backgrounding using D&D / temporary download mode? Is this considered a bug, or is it by design?

Gonna stick with WinSCP either way, having encrypted passwords and a "please overwrite all" dialog was the reason I left Filezilla. And portable mode, of course.

Wes wrote:

The only thing I can come up with is switch to non-portable version and symlink the .ini settings to Dropbox, but that's a bit hacky and I have to set it up on every new PC I use. I wish I could install the proper shell association even in portable mode.

Just try to "regsvr32 dragext.dll" manually. It should do.

Do you have any solutions to how I might enable backgrounding using D&D / temporary download mode? Is this considered a bug, or is it by design?

It's by design.

That did it, thanks. :)

For anybody else Googling for this topic, these were my exact steps:

1. Install the non-portable version so you can grab the .dll. In my case it was DragExt64.dll.
2. Run a command prompt as admin. Run "regsvr32 DragExt64.dll".
3. Reboot.
4. In settings, change the drag and drop setting to "Use shell extension".

There is one thing though. I notice that when I upload, it copies the file, and when I download, it moves it (deletes it from the server). Would it be possible to change that to copy by default? I know you can hold ctrl, but I'm afraid I'll forget and accidentally steal somebody's files.

Thanks.

Yep, it took all of an hour for me to accidentally move (instead of copy) all the files on a web server...

Please read FAQ:
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Ah okay, thanks. Disabling "move" is good enough for me. A little less hacky than moving the temp folder (plus I'd rather not spin up a drive every time).

Thanks muchly, sorry for missing the FAQ.

Since 5.14, it is always possible to use drag&drop to move remote files to external applications, while copy is always the default operation.