#820 "right click --> edit" is very buggy

[Anonymous]

I changed privoxy's config/action/filter file directory. Then the "right click --> edit" becomes very buggy. The "user actions" is incorrectly grayed out, and clicking "default actions" turned out to open user.action instead.

I'm on windows 7 32-bit with privoxy 3.0.16. My config is on the screenshot.

[Anonymous]

Here is part of my config.txt:

logdir D:\David Da\Documents\Privoxy
logfile log.log

confdir D:\David Da\Documents\Privoxy
actionsfile D:\David Da\Documents\Privoxy\default.action
actionsfile D:\David Da\Documents\Privoxy\user.action
filterfile D:\David Da\Documents\Privoxy\default.filter

[Anonymous]

[Fabian Keil]

Thanks for the report. This is known problem, but while the code has been marked as broken for years now, nobody seems to care enough to actually do something about it.

The issue is that Privoxy itself doesn't access the action files by the names used in the menu, but by a index. "user actions" translates to "third action file" and if you only have two, the entry gets grayed out.

If you don't want to use the rules in one of the files before user.action, you can work around the problem by deleting the files content instead of disabling the file completely, thus keeping user.action in the position Privoxy expects.

[Anonymous]

Thanks. The workaround works.

Since vista/win7 limits user/program rights to access files under C:\Program Files, I think it's better putting all config/action/filter files to user's directory.

[Fabian Keil]

You're welcome.