21.03.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 release candidate 1 (RC1) 21.03.07 Fixed: Show "." command in Network Neighborhood only on Windows Vista 21.03.07 Fixed: Compare by contents: Don't show the context menu with Shift+F10 or menu button while the left mouse button is down 21.03.07 Added: New icons for tcmadmin and tcuninst 21.03.07 Fixed: Deleting of files in the ignore list in subdirs couldn't be confirmed with 'All' button 21.03.07 Added: Increased maximum length of "Search in" input field also to 2 kBytes, e.g. for specifying multiple paths separated by a semicolon ";" 21.03.07 Added: Increased maximum length of "Search in" string to 2 kBytes, to support environment variables like %path%. 20.03.07 Added: Do not update the treeinfo.wc file when adding/removing subdirs and the tree file size is larger than 2 MB. This limit can be set in wincmd.ini [Configuration] TreeUpdateLimit=2048 (in kBytes) 20.03.07 Fixed: Prevent the user from dropping a folder from outside of Total Commander (e.g. Explorer) to a subfolder of itself 18.03.07 Fixed: Redraw ftp panel when switching secure status button on/off, necessary for WinXP classic theme when theme background turned on 18.03.07 Fixed: Cache folder icons even if the folders have the default icon. Necessary for CD and DVD drives where all folders have the "read only" attribute. 16.03.07 Fixed: cd *.txt on button in button bar didn't save the new wildcards *.txt in wincmd.ini 16.03.07 Added: Log successful unpacking of CAB files. Note in Help that logging of CAB-unpack errors isn't possible due to limitations of Microsofts CAB unpack interface 16.03.07 Fixed: CAB unpack: Didn't detect when target file already existed, but was opened with deny-write rights 16.03.07 Added: FTP change attributes (CHMOD): Put cursor in numeric input field by default 16.03.07 Fixed: ESC in CHM help file not working if the help doesn't contain "Total Commander" in its title, e.g. Help with Russian locale 16.03.07 Fixed: Delay-loading of network neighborhood: Adjust column width in brief view 16.03.07 Fixed: ENTER on file inside an archive was not working when there was no key under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, e.g. because the user had used "open with.." to create the association 14.03.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 4.6 14.03.07 Added: Vista: Use WinHlp32.exe if the file is larger than 50kBytes, otherwise it's the empty dummy help -> use winhelp.exe 14.03.07 Added: Load Network Neighborhood in background thread, so plugins can be accessed more quickly. Can be turned off via wincmd.ini [Configuration] NetHoodInThread=0 14.03.07 Added: Use part of File-Split dialog also for the creation of multi-part archives (ZIP, ARJ, RAR, ACE). For ZIP and ACE, the size will be rounded down to the next kByte value 14.03.07 Fixed: Alias commands on the command line no longer supported numeric values 14.03.07 Added: Network Neighborhood: New "Refresh" pseudo-file allows to refresh network neighborhood by double click 14.03.07 Added: Network Neighborhood: Do not auto-refresh also on Vista 13.03.07 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Shortcut keys (underlined letters) not working for search/replace boxes 13.03.07 Fixed: Ignore list: When deleting subdirectories, treat files on the ignore list like hidden files. Show user a warning with remark ignore list=hidden. 13.03.07 Fixed: Lister search function: Auto-scroll found text into view horizontally if invisible. Try to show start of line if possible. 13.03.07 Fixed: Vista: Do not call the 16-bit winhelp.exe on Vista 64bit, it isn't there. Instead, the user will have to download winhlp32.exe from Microsoft 11.03.07 Fixed: Vista: Associations not working when created via "open as user". -> Support for new registry key "UserChoice" 11.03.07 Fixed: Create new comment with Ctrl+Z: Wrong behaviour (OEM font checked) when no comment file exists even if OEM is off in settings 11.03.07 Fixed: Find files: When clicking in search results box below last find item, a bad status line was shown 11.03.07 Fixed: Separate tree: click on [-] button while the current dir was out of sight moved the current dir back into view 11.03.07 Fixed: Compare by contents: Don't show the right click context menu while the left mouse button is down 11.03.07 Fixed: Environment variables in RedirectSection were only resolved when a full path was given 09.03.07 Fixed: Removed creation of debugging file c:\treelog.txt (it was for finding problems with separate trees) 09.03.07 Fixed: When using Applocale tool with East Asian languages, the file names were cut off in many places. Reason: Bug in Applocale: WM_GETTEXTLENGTH returns number of characters, not bytes! 09.03.07 Fixed: Out of memory when creating directories on a drive with a very large treeinfo.wc file (with 388'000 lines) Reason: Fragmentation of memory -> realloc larger blocks in one step 09.03.07 Fixed: Alt+F4 no longer worked in synchronize dirs (since adding quick search) 09.03.07 Fixed: FTP connections in active (PORT) mode no longer worked 07.03.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 4.5 07.03.07 Fixed: Compare by content: When the inactive panel showed an archive subdirectory and no file was selected, TC couldn't find the file with the same name as in the active panel 06.03.07 Fixed: Compare by content with file in archive subdirectory, modify file -> Re-packing packed to root instead of the correct subdir 06.03.07 Fixed: cd \\server\share: If connecting to the server fails, or the user clicks Cancel, do not try to read the directory again (showing the password dialog a second time) 06.03.07 Added: FTP: Auto-fallback to PASV mode from PORT mode if the server reports an error like "Only client IP address allowed for PORT command." 04.03.07 Added: cd \\\Pluginname is now case-insensitive, so it works even if the plugin root path is PLUGINNAME or pluginname 04.03.07 Fixed: cm_gotofirstfile didn't also move the position for selecting with Shift+Click, so the wrong file range was selected 04.03.07 Fixed: Call ShellExecuteEx on ENTER also when no association found in the registry, only in win.ini 04.03.07 Fixed: Recognize association where no default verb is set in the registry 04.03.07 Fixed: FTP: Empty directory after connecting when the other panel showed the TEMP directory and watching directory changes 04.03.07 Added: FTPS: Command CCC in the "send commands" field allows to switch the control connection to unencrypted after sending user name+password, e.g. for PORT mode across a firewall 02.03.07 Fixed: Cursor was positioned on 2nd file in list when switching away from TC and back 28.02.07 Fixed: FTPS: Didn't always detect when the server was offline (disconnected) 28.02.07 Fixed: FTP: When connection was lost and user decided not to reconnect, then the ftp connection wasn't removed from the separate tree 28.02.07 Added: Separate tree: Also load initial root view of tree in the background, to speed up starting of Total Commander 28.02.07 Fixed: Separate tree: Don't try to get icon for ftp item, can cause long delays 28.02.07 Fixed: Cache ToolTipDelay for button bar to avoid reading too much from wincmd.ini 27.02.07 Added: Files - Split File: Remember user-defined split sizes (max 20) in section [SplitPerFile]. Can be removed with Shift+Del 27.02.07 Fixed: Lister: When switching from audio/video view to text view, the lister window was no longer resized to its normal size 27.02.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Checkbox "Confirm overwrites" was ignored for file system plugins (the user was always asked for confirmation) 27.02.07 Fixed: Command selection dialog: Allow to choose commands with parameters also when defining user-defined commands (em_xyz) 27.02.07 Fixed: Turning off auto-refresh in Configuration - Options - Refresh didn't take effect immediately 27.02.07 Fixed: Second panel not refreshed after "create CRC checksums" if both windows showed the same directory 27.02.07 Fixed: Case-insensitive search in UTF-8 not always working properly 25.02.07 Fixed: Double click on splitter bar in vertical arrangement made spitter invisible 25.02.07 Fixed: Double click on splitter bar (cm_50percent) moved windows by a few pixels compared to Ctrl+mouse move of the splitter (rounding errors) 25.02.07 Added: Ctrl+Insert in Synchronize dirs now also copies TAB-delimited list of selected file names and file details to clipboard 25.02.07 Fixed: When dragging OLE objects to TC, like the URL from a browser, TC tried to copy one more object than available 25.02.07 Fixed: Command selection dialog: Categories empty after opening nested Command selection dialogs, because translation file was unloaded when closing the dialog 25.02.07 Fixed: Shift+F4 new text file: Allow user to change/re-enter file name if file creation failed, or file couldn't be opened for reading 25.02.07 Fixed: Shift+F4 new text file: TC still passed the short DOS names to programs in many cases 25.02.07 Fixed: Show error message about error in plugin when there is an access violation in the plugin function CanYouHandleThisFile 25.02.07 Fixed: IsPluginByContents() function stopped on the first packer plugin which wasn't found 25.02.07 Fixed: cd directory\filename didn't place cursor on filename when already in that directory 23.02.07 Fixed: Configure ignore list: Overwrite message shown even when nothing was configured 21.02.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 public beta 4 21.02.07 Fixed: Double click on any window above separate tree (causing this window to close) caused a directory change in the tree 21.02.07 Fixed: Unpacking of encrypted ZIP produced CRC error when the CRC was stored behind the data in a separate header 21.02.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Memory leak when comparing by content where one side was an encrypted ZIP archive 21.02.07 Fixed: Search in directories with Unicode names not always working 20.02.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 public beta 4 release candidate 1 20.02.07 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SortDirExt=1 re-enables sorting of directories by extension (if sorting directories by name is turned off) 20.02.07 Added: Screen reader support to Find files (Alt+F7) result box 20.02.07 Fixed: Search function: Correctly save the non-maximized dialog size also when closing the dialog in maximized state 20.02.07 Fixed: Search function: Resizing when starting the search not perfect when maximized 20.02.07 Fixed: Internal ZIP: When creating multi-volume archive on the harddisk, propose a size of 1423 kBytes, which is the real maximum of a 1.44MB Floppy disk 18.02.07 Added: cm_EditPermissionInfo etc. now also work with drive letters in "My Computer". Unfortunately these functions are no longer available on Windows Vista. 18.02.07 Added: Ctrl+N new URL now supports URLs of up to 1kByte length (for HTTP downloads with very long paths) 18.02.07 Added: Lister now supports a new lister plugin command ListSearchDialog which allows plugins to show its own search dialog (e.g. for special plugin-specific search parameters) 18.02.07 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] ResolutionSpecific=0 -> resolution-specific data like font style+size are stored in a single section called [AllResolutions] 16.02.07 Fixed: Couldn't find anything in subdirs with a Unicode file name, even if it had an alternate 8.3 name 14.02.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 3.7 14.02.07 Fixed: ESC in CHM help files wasn't working on Vista, because global hooks aren't allowed any more -> use thread-local hook 14.02.07 Fixed: When pressing ENTER on a file on Windows 2000, XP and Vista, do not search for the default verb, but pass a NULL pointer to ShellExecuteEx 14.02.07 Fixed: OPENBAR command now looks in the program directory if no path to the bar file is given. The same also works when giving just the bar name in the button bar 13.02.07 Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts were not working in main menu on Windows 95+95b when using menu icons 13.02.07 Fixed: French+Italian language only: 'Save' dialog in compare by contents showed invalid or empty buttons if both sides need to be saved 13.02.07 Fixed: HTML Help: ESC sometimes not working after switching languages 13.02.07 Added: Button bar, start menu: By putting one of the placeholders %P,%p,%T or %t directly in front of %S or %s, the corresponding path will be inserted with every selected file name 13.02.07 Added: Button bar, start menu: New parameters %S and %s now support a maximum command line length of 32kBytes, by using CreateProcess instead of ShellExecuteEx. Only use these parameters with EXE files. 13.02.07 Added: Set time stamp from file name via attributes dialog (plugin fields)! Example: Name "03.04.2005 1330.txt", use [=tc.Name:1-10] [=tc.Name:12-13]:[=tc.Name:14-15] to set date+time from the name (on European systems) 13.02.07 Fixed: Invalid second progress bar when unpacking a TAR archive where the occupied space of subdirs was calculated (e.g. with spacebar) 11.02.07 Added: OPENBAR command now allows to show button bar when it was turned off, and hide it via an empty .bar file (e.g. no.bar) 11.02.07 Fixed: Ignore list: Ask before overwriting existing ignore list file (only if the user has changed the name) 11.02.07 Fixed: Ignore list: Load ignore list from tcignore.txt if present, also when not configured before 09.02.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 3.6 09.02.07 Fixed: Copying: When the creation of a directory fails, allow the user to continue with the rest of the operation (the other selected files/dirs) 09.02.07 Fixed: Drag&Drop: Additional NTFS streams were not copied when dropping files from outside of Total Commander (e.g. from Explorer) 09.02.07 Fixed: Lister: Ctrl+Left arrow (go to previous word break) not working at the end of a file 07.02.07 Added: Quick search in synchronize dirs. Only the modes Ctrl+Alt+Letters and Letters with search dialog are supported. The latter is used in place of all other search methods from the configuration. 07.02.07 Added: Button bar, start menu: New parameters %S and %s accept numeric value to limit the number of files. Example: %S2 passes the first two selected files (maximum) to the called program. 07.02.07 Added: Button bar, start menu: New parameters %S and %s pass list of selected files (long names/short names) to the called program. Note that the command line cannot be longer than 8191 characters on Windows XP, 2047 on Windows 2000/NT, and 259 characters on Windows 9x 06.02.07 Fixed: Access violation when entering Network Neighborhood (in some special cases only) 06.02.07 Added: Lister: Dynamically increase horizontal scroll width for lines containing Tabs (if the text would exceed the available width) 06.02.07 Added: Button bar/Start menu: cd c:\path\filename.ext switches to c:\path\ and positions cursor on filename.ext (except for archives, which are opened as before) 04.02.07 Fixed: Memory leak in ARJ archive test/unpack function 04.02.07 Added: Allow to change directory date also via Change attributes - tc plugin (not on Windows 9x/ME, here we just don't show any error) 04.02.07 Added: When external compare tool cannot be found, show error with the path to the compare tool 02.02.07 Added: Ctrl+C in Synchronize dirs copies TAB-delimited list of selected file names and file details to clipboard 02.02.07 Fixed: Configuration - button bar - Choose user command: User could define an internal command em_xyz containing spaces, although spaces aren't supported in internal commands 02.02.07 Fixed: Double click on split bar had some negative side effects (split bar continued to move without pressing the mouse button) 02.02.07 Added: Internal command OPENBAR c:\path\barfile.bar opens this button bar file in TC. Only works when TC already shows a bar, and the file can be found. 31.01.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 3.5 31.01.07 Fixed: Win9x/ME: Overwrite dialog shown when saving settings in various dialogs even if no settings with that name existed 31.01.07 Fixed: Turn off inplace edit when ANY internal command is received 31.01.07 Fixed: Removed execution of internal commands by number in command line, because it was causing a lot of confusion. Use the cm_ commands instead. 31.01.07 Fixed: After using "Change start menu", the icons were missing from the menu 31.01.07 Fixed: Vista: Drive label showed only "CD Drive" instead of the volume name, even when a disk was inserted 31.01.07 Fixed: Vista: Access violation when entering some dirs with admin rights (as a non-privileged user) 30.01.07 Fixed: Remove inplace edit (for rename) when opening directory hotlist (bookmarks) 30.01.07 Added: The file system plugin now supports names longer than 259 characters in the following functions: download, rename (source name only), delete. The creation of such names is NOT supported. 30.01.07 Fixed: SYNCOPEN command (in button bar) couldn't restore sync options and display options 30.01.07 Fixed: Don't close HTML help file on ESC when the search dialog was up (Ctrl+F in the search window) 30.01.07 Added: Set current directory to the program directory before loading the help file on F1 30.01.07 Fixed: Don't load HTML help on startup when a CHM file is given, only when needed 28.01.07 Added: FTP over SSL/TLS: On servers which support encryption of the data connection, it can be turned off via the "Send commands" field containing the command "PROT C" 28.01.07 Added: Multi-rename tool: Search+Replace now supports case-sensitive search. For space reasons, the option is shown just as ^ and described in a tip window 28.01.07 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: After loading/editing the file names via an external editor, keep the search+replace and upper/lowercase boxes enabled so the user can apply them on the edited names! 28.01.07 Fixed: Find files - Shift+Click on "Feed to listbox" opened a new tab, but didn't consider the option "Open near current" 28.01.07 Fixed: Access violation in Alt+Shift+Enter if file name in current path exceeds 259 characters (including the path itself) 28.01.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Compared files were deleted by mistake when a configured external compare tool wasn't found 26.01.07 Fixed: Separate tree panels not updated on Ctrl+U (swap panels) 26.01.07 Fixed: When moving the last files from a long file list to a different directory, the cursor was placed about 1 screen too high -> place it on the last file instead 26.01.07 Fixed: Move multiple directories as admin failed after the first directory 26.01.07 Fixed: Rename folders didn't show option "As administrator" if user doesn't have sufficient rights 26.01.07 Fixed: Could not pass ftp path as right path parameter to new instance of TC (because of the registration screen being in the way). 26.01.07 Added: Button bar: When dropping a file to a program on the button bar, pass the long name instead of the short DOS name to the program (in double quotes "" if needed) if the program isn't an old 16-bit program. If this causes problems, put %p%n in the parameters field of the button 26.01.07 Added: Mouse wheel support in Print file list 26.01.07 Fixed: Auto-complete was enabled in the command line when closing the command line history, even when auto-complete was disabled in the configuration 26.01.07 Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir mode: Function was turned off when leaving archive via updir [..] 26.01.07 Fixed: Compare by content: Could not save file in a special case: After typing text and saving the file, type some text without moving the cursor, then try to save again (Reason: the text was combined into a single UNDO item) 26.01.07 Fixed: Configuration - Change start menu: Disable edit boxes when the list of menu items is empty 23.01.07 Added: Lister and Compare by Content: Shift+Mouse wheel scrolls horizontally 23.01.07 Added: Commands - Search: "Search in" field now supports environment variables like %path% 23.01.07 Added: Log file: Store user name and computer of the user who started TC 22.01.07 Fixed: Icons in menus not working on NT4 21.01.07 Added: Changed way how the new overwrite dialog resizes when clicking the "thumbnails" or "custom fields" checkbox: Resize so the top and left of the buttons remain at the same location (top of the dialog moves up/down) 21.01.07 Added: When ThreadFindFirst=1, also put WNetAddConnection3 in separate thread so cd \\10.0.0.5\share also shows a wait dialog 21.01.07 Fixed: Prevent the execution of the command line with RestrictInterface=2 if text gets there in any way 21.01.07 Fixed: secure ftp (ftps) URL as parameter to TOTALCMD.EXE wasn't working when only 1 instance of TC was allowed and TC was already running 19.01.07 Fixed: Change attributes dialog now fully supports odd seconds in timestamps ("Current" button, "Load from file under cursor", default loaded values) 19.01.07 Fixed: Change attributes dialog: Button "Load from file under cursor" now also loads seconds from DateTime fields (e.g. CreationDate) 19.01.07 Added: Double click on divider bar between the two file panels moves divider to 50:50 (center) position 19.01.07 Fixed: Enlarged text fields in Configuration - Options - Tabstops to give more room for some translations 19.01.07 Fixed: With WatchDirs enabled, only update file listing if not currently inplace-renaming a file. In this case, refresh the list only after closing the inplace rename box. 19.01.07 Fixed: Icons were not removed from internal English main menu when unchecking the option in the configuration 17.01.07 Fixed: Problem in selecting text in the F5 dialog with Chinese text 17.01.07 Fixed: Try to set current charset for main menu when using icons in menus 17.01.07 Fixed: Only set focus to TC after mapping a new network drive inside of TC, but not when a drive is mapped outside, or when the right click menu is used 16.01.07 Fixed: cm_CopyFullNamesToClip copied drive letters in uppercase 16.01.07 Added: Confirm deletion of entry in saved searches 16.01.07 Fixed: Don't show two errors when trying to delete [..] item from file system plugin 16.01.07 Added: Close help file when changing language if there is a language-specific help. Fixes also a problem that ESC doesn't work in CHM help after changing language. 16.01.07 Fixed: One separate tree, vertical arrangement -> moving splitter between the two file panels caused wrong panel width in bottom panel 16.01.07 Fixed: Dual monitor operation: When enlarging search window for search results, restrict size and location of window to current screen (do not stretch across multiple screens, or move outside visible area) 16.01.07 Fixed: FTP connection wasn't removed from single separate tree if the connection wasn't shown in the active panel when disconnecting 16.01.07 Fixed: Editing files in branch view with WatchDirs enabled would show the file twice in the list if it was at least 2 levels below the current level 16.01.07 Fixed: Auto-complete in F5/F6: If user starts path with a backslash, suggest names from the current drive root 16.01.07 Fixed: Ignore list: Lines with backslash at end containing wildcard didn't work, e.g. \WINDOWS\$*$\ 16.01.07 Fixed: Cursor left in Lister sometimes jumped to the wrong position (when the file buffer changed its starting point) 16.01.07 Fixed: Alt+F3 still tried to call the Windows QuickViewer applet if its registry keys were present, although the program itself wasn't there 14.01.07 Fixed: Couldn't redefine hotkey NUM+ (without any modifiers like Shift) 14.01.07 Fixed: Lister, UTF8+HTML view: URLs were not shown highlighted when the display buffer didn't start at the file beginning 14.01.07 Fixed: New F5 overwrite dialog: Left/Right arrow key could move the cursor to one of the file information panels, although they are marked as "do not focus" 14.01.07 Fixed: Catch floating point exception when plugin returns extremely high numbers for file sizes (so the sum would exceed the available 64 bits) 14.01.07 Fixed: Cursor not staying on renamed file in branch view 14.01.07 Fixed: Only delete _tc subdir under TEMP when closing Total Commander, also when opening archives 10.01.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 public beta 3 10.01.07 Fixed: Give the hidden Delphi Application window the style WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW so it can never appear in the task bar 09.01.07 Fixed: Invalid free and total space shown in dirs visited "As Administrator". Get disk size from the drive root instead in this case. 09.01.07 Fixed: Auto-complete showed subdirs from current dir for search string ..\ (instead of dirs from the parent) 09.01.07 Fixed: The quick view panel wasn't deactivated when switching to different drive using the drive button bar (only when using the drive dropdown list) 09.01.07 Fixed: No [+] and [-] icons shown in tree with TreeLineColor=-2 09.01.07 Fixed: Lister: Could not jump directly to file with index>100 09.01.07 Fixed: Copy function: Open source file with "deny write" flag to avoid that a file is overwritten by itself (e.g. when using hard links). If this fails, open the source with deny none, but the target with deny read. 09.01.07 Added: wincmd.ini [Packer] PluginOverrideZip=1 allows to use packer plugin which overrides the internal ZIP packer 07.01.07 Fixed: Close HTML help via ESC, minimize with Shift+ESC (by setting a keyboard hook) 07.01.07 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Give controls a bit more space 07.01.07 Fixed: Wrong panel width in vertical arrangement mode with 1 separate tree after showing+hiding the quick view panel (Ctrl+Q) 07.01.07 Fixed: Unpack in background with external packer showed "Error packing files" in case of an error 07.01.07 Added: Unknown size is now stored as 64-bit -1 instead of 32-bit -1. May cause wrong size display for plugins which expect that -1=unknown size 07.01.07 Added: Files in TAR archives can now be larger than 4GB 07.01.07 Fixed: Ignore any other hotkeys than Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab and user-assigned hotkeys to cm_SwitchToPreviousTab and cm_SwitchToNextTab while in delayed tab switching mode 07.01.07 Fixed: Problems starting programs with similar names containing spaces from CD 06.01.07 Added: Checkbox for SSL/TLS to ftp connection details. Cannot currently be translated (no shortcut either) 06.01.07 Fixed: ftp over ssl/tls: don't revert to unencrypted connection if server doesn't support ssl/tls 06.01.07 Added: Look for certificates in wincmd.pem file in the same dir as wincmd.ini (so the user has write rights and can append his own certs) 06.01.07 Added: Look for openssl libraries in path if not found in program directory 01.01.07 Added: New version of tcmadmin.exe to follow hard links on Vista also in directories accessible only to the admin 01.01.07 Added: Follow symbolic hard links on Vista 01.01.07 Fixed: Vista: focus loss after elevation prompt when working as normal (non-admin) user 30.12.06 Fixed: Empty menus when wcmicons.dll is present but wcmicons.inc is missing or empty 27.12.06 Fixed: Make sure that separate trees never take more space than the left/right panel when using 2 separate trees 27.12.06 Added: Support for FILEDESCRIPTORW clipboard format (for drag&drop from programs like Maxthon browser, which do not send the ANSI version of the format) 27.12.06 Fixed: When adjusting the cursor position because of WatchDirs mode, also adjust start point for selection with Shift+Click 27.12.06 Fixed: Preferred view (e.g. brief view) lost when making a search while a search result is shown (2x Feed to listbox) 27.12.06 Fixed: Icon Configuration: Menu icon size lost when switching to different dialog page and back 27.12.06 Fixed: Delete from RAR containing spaces in name failing if short DOS names are disabled in the file system 24.12.06 Fixed: Error message when accessing network neighborhood on Vista when no network card connected, or card disabled via device manager 24.12.06 Added: Detect USB sticks also on Windows Vista (they have name _??_USBSTOR in the registry) 22.12.06 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 2.6 22.12.06 Fixed: Support environment variables in cm_list 22.12.06 Fixed: Menu: Reduce space reserved for checkmarks and icons if there is only one of the two (or none at all) 21.12.06 Fixed: Force refresh if in custom columns view after using "change attributes" function with plugins 21.12.06 Fixed: Copy files with path to clipboard: use ftps:// prefix for secure ftp connections 21.12.06 Added: If libssl32.dll isn't found, load ssleay32.dll (the name given to the dll when compiling it yourself) 21.12.06 Added: Icons in the main menu are now on by default. 1 MUST be added now (even for type 2 menus) so TC can preserve menu options made in the configuration dialog 20.12.06 Added: Made main menu items completely owner-drawn when showing bitmaps in menus 20.12.06 Added: Custom columns view: New unit styles "bkMG" and "bkMG2" to show file size in GByte (for files >1GB) 20.12.06 Fixed: Custom columns view: Unit styles "bkM" and "bkM2" for size showed file sizes also in GBytes. 20.12.06 Fixed: Couldn't Drag&Drop files from outside of TC to empty space behind last item in thumbnails view 20.12.06 Fixed: Vista: Start program with enter or double click from CD: Do not use WinExec, it doesn't support elevation (run as admin) 20.12.06 Added: Call InitializeOLE2 before creating the main window, because of problems with TortoiseSVN on Windows Vista 20.12.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Duplicate file warning on ftp (same name, different case) did cut off long names 17.12.06 Fixed: Do not react to any internal commands (sent via PostMessage or SendMessage) while the file context menu is up 17.12.06 Fixed: Only react to cm_contextmenu sent to Total Commander when TC has the input focus. Otherwise an access violation may occur. Applications which want to show the context menu need to activate TC first. 17.12.06 Added: Delete files which have a name with more than 259 characters (however, we cannot enter directories with such long names) 17.12.06 Added: Directory history: Limit displayed path length to 100 characters to avoid very wide menu (which doesn't even display on Win9x if wider than the screen) 17.12.06 Fixed: CM_LIST with file as parameter could crash certain plugins when the file name is passed without full path 17.12.06 Fixed: Brief view: The column width set via LB_SETCOLUMNWIDTH must be >0, otherwise there will be a division by zero within windows! (can happen if listbox has width of 0) 17.12.06 Fixed: Windows XP 64: If redirection of system32 folder is turned off, it will be temporarily re-enabled while reading from network paths 15.12.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Colors] TreeLineColor=rgb-value now also supports the values -1 for default color and -2 for invisible tree lines 13.12.06 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 2.5 13.12.06 Fixed: Could no longer move a directory elsewhere if it contained a file locked by another program. Copy+delete the dir instead of moving it directly 13.12.06 Fixed: Swap panels (Ctrl+U) twice where one side shows unlocked tab and one locked with dir changes allowed -> unlocked tab shows wrong tab title 13.12.06 Added: Case-insensitive search for UTF8 text in the search function and in lister (currently only the forward direction works with non-English characters) 13.12.06 Added: F7 Create directory: Suggest name of file under the cursor as the default (minus the extension) 13.12.06 Fixed, Lister: In normal and UTF8 view, the cursor movement and the selection of multi-byte text didn't work properly. 13.12.06 Added: Alias commands on the command line now also support numeric values 13.12.06 Added: User-defined custom commands (em_xyz) may now also contain numeric values instead of the equivalent cm_xyz commands 13.12.06 Fixed: FsGetPreviewBitmap passed name in wrong (UTF8) format to plugins 12.12.06 Fixed: Cannot pause background copy/move when skipping all files 12.12.06 Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir now also works when one side shows a directory and the other an archive 12.12.06 Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir: Turn off sync dir change when going up one level, and one of the panels is already in the root 12.12.06 Fixed: Configuration - Colors: Disable "cursor font" label on startup when none of the inverse options is checked 12.12.06 Added: When leaving a Tab which shows an inner archive (e.g. zip inside zip), return to outer archive and put cursor on inner archive when returning to the tab 12.12.06 Fixed: Tree and virtual folders: if the system returns a path in the form of ::{GUID}, ask for the display name instead of the "for parsing" name 12.12.06 Added: cm_SyncChangeDir now also works with archives. The archive name and type must be identical on both sides 12.12.06 Fixed: New overwrite dialog showed the wrong custom fields when multiple field types were defined via saved searches (e.g. >Comment) 12.12.06 Fixed: Lister: Image not centered (when this option was chosen) when resizing or maximizing lister 12.12.06 Fixed: Create directory: Only save typed name in history when the user clicked on OK, not when he clicked on Cancel 12.12.06 Fixed: ftps:// URLs didn't work as parameters passed to Total Commander 10.12.06 Fixed: Multi-monitor: Separator line between main menu and button bar too short if program spans across both screens 10.12.06 Fixed: Multi-monitor: Moved various dialogs so they do not span multiple monitors, but appear on the monitor where the larger part of TC is shown 10.12.06 Fixed: Multi-monitor: Quick search dialog was positioned incorrectly in some cases 10.12.06 Fixed: Multi-monitor: Show tooltips on the screen on which the mouse cursor is currently located (Except for Ctrl+Tab folder tab switching) 08.12.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with archives: When unpacking, file attributes like hidden or read only were not unpacked with the files 08.12.06 Fixed: When mapping a network share to a network drive, tc switched to that drive, but the focus was lost 08.12.06 Fixed: cm_list no longer supported parameters in some places, and didn't work with parameters in em_xyz commands 08.12.06 Fixed: Improved the wait dialog which appears when editing a file from zip with a multiple document editor: F2 for background, Left+right arrow keys, auto-scroll name box to see/copy entire name 08.12.06 Fixed: No file window was focused when starting TC minimized while the stored position was maximized (TC restores to maximized then) 08.12.06 Fixed: Drive bar: With some XP themes, small drive letters like "i" in the drive bar were not shown because GetThemeTextExtent reported an invalid value 06.12.06 Fixed: Compare by contents editor: Incorrect handling of double byte characters by DEL and BACKSPACE when nothing was selected 06.12.06 Added: Separate tree: Click on [+] or [-] only expands/collapses the tree branch without switching to that directory (except when the current dir is a part of the collapsed branch) 06.12.06 Fixed: Tab order in configuration - custom columns 06.12.06 Fixed: Less flickering due to resizing when creating search dialog 06.12.06 Fixed: Do not use this workaround with WindowBlinds, because it ignores the custom menu bar background from Total Commander 06.12.06 Fixed: Workaround to Windows XP menu bar drawing bug when cleartype is on and a theme background is used with a non-standard theme: make all menu bar items completely owner-drawn 06.12.06 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Do not allow to mix (via re-sorting) files added initially and manually (otherwise the initially added cannot be downloaded any more) 06.12.06 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Re-sorting items in list caused the wrong files to be downloaded if at least one file has already been transferred 06.12.06 Fixed: On Windows 9x/ME/2000, use the 16 color icon for the system tray because these systems do not support any hicolor or truecolor icons 05.12.06 Fixed: Crash in lister when scrolling with cursor through file while the file size was considerably reduced 05.12.06 Fixed: Sometimes a space was inserted before the name on Ctrl+Enter 05.12.06 Fixed: Resized search dialog a bit to make it work better with certain themes 05.12.06 Fixed: Access violation on startup (Windows 9x only) with DirTabOptions=955 (multi-line) 04.12.06 Added: Since no new bugs in WMF display have been found, re-enable display of WMF files (windows metafile) when WMF Windows patch has been installed 03.12.06 Fixed: Do not load color cursors with shadows on Win2k with 24bit colors mode (they will show up with a black border instead of a shadow) 03.12.06 Fixed: Search in packer plugins: Do not pass folders for extraction to the plugin! 03.12.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Colors] TreeLineColor=rgb-value set color of tree lines 03.12.06 Added: Separate trees and trees in file panels now use the same default color for lines as the frames in thumbnails view 03.12.06 Added: Expand selection (Num-"+"): When defining a new filter via "Define" button, auto-select this filter after returning from the "define" dialog 03.12.06 Fixed: Refresh file lists when saving folder tabs to file 03.12.06 Added: Change attributes: Confirm overwrite when saving plugin parameters 03.12.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: Confirm overwrite when saving multi-rename parameters 03.12.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Confirm overwrite when saving sync parameters 03.12.06 Added: Search: Confirm overwrite when saving search parameters 03.12.06 Fixed: Ignore list: When using watchdirs and branch view, files and folders on the ignore list could suddenly appear if they were changed outside of Total Commander 03.12.06 Added: Support for Office 2007 File->New (create empty .docx document) 01.12.06 Fixed: Button bar: After converting a separator (no icon) to a button with icon, the button wasn't accessible 01.12.06 Fixed: Auto-complete for current dir stopped working when typing any path with backslashes -> use ACLMulti object where one ACList handles current dir and one typed path 01.12.06 Added: Increased total number of color filters (colors by file type) from 100 to 250 01.12.06 Fixed: ZIP: Packing no longer supported encryption even with the replacement zip library installed 29.11.06 Fixed: Unpacking to junction showed debug message 29.11.06 Fixed: Remove ftp connection from separate tree when disconnecting 29.11.06 Added: Two new internal commands cm_GotoNextSelected and cm_GotoPrevSelected to jump to the next/previous selected file in the current file list 29.11.06 Fixed: Different method to load buttonbar icon from cache, to make it work with Linux (Wine) 28.11.06 Fixed: More corrections for "Select only name in rename" for Asian versions of Windows 28.11.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Do not disable checkbox "only selected" when loading sync parameters. When "only selected" is checked, TC reverts to current left+right dir 28.11.06 Fixed: Command choose dialog: Buttons to edit em_ commands not shown/hidden when moving cursor while focus remains in quick search box 28.11.06 Fixed: wincmd.ini [Configuration] IconsWindowBlindsFix= allows to control width of space reserved for icons: -1=auto-detect, 0=small width, 1=large width 28.11.06 Fixed: With IconsInMenus=17, reduce width of space reserved for icons, except when WindowBlinds is installed 28.11.06 Fixed: Ignore IconsInMenus if not 1 or 2 contained in value 28.11.06 Fixed: User-defined file filters were no longer shown in the main menu, only *.* 28.11.06 Added: Search window now has minimum size. Unresolved: Text in all boxes gets selected on resize 26.11.06 Added: ZIP self-extractor now supports files up to 4 GB. Unfortunately Windows cannot run EXE files >4GB 26.11.06 Fixed: Abbreviation for kBytes not translated in status bar of synchronize dirs (when comparing by content) 26.11.06 Fixed: Search on FTP: Disable option "Search archives" 26.11.06 Fixed: Search on FTP: Search text in files didn't work 26.11.06 Fixed: Switch from folder tab with tree to full/brief view didn't turn sorting header back on 26.11.06 Fixed: Alt+F8 Command line history and Ctrl+P (path to command line) worked even with RestrictInterface=2 24.11.06 Fixed: By mistake, MODE Z transfers were disabled in TC7 beta 24.11.06 Fixed: Win9x: No text was shown for CD-ROM drives in Alt+F1 when no CD was inserted 24.11.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Ctrl+Shift+F3 forces internal compare tool if an external was defined in wincmd.ini 24.11.06 Fixed: When using icons in menus and switching to two separate trees, the file list contents were sometimes drawn within the menu 24.11.06 Fixed: Do not revert position of splitter (and width of left+right panels) to save position when switching between different views (brief, full etc), just to last used width 24.11.06 Fixed: ftps:// prefix was not saved when adding connection via Ctrl+F - New URL 24.11.06 Fixed: _tc subdir was still deleted when leaving lister - delete it only when Total Commander itself is closed 24.11.06 Fixed: Do not show drive letter twice in root in folder tabs when using different separator, e.g. just c: instead of c|c: 24.11.06 Fixed: Folder tabs sometimes showed drive letters in uppercase, e.g. C: instead of c: 22.11.06 Release Total Commander 7.0 public beta 2 22.11.06 Fixed: Change Start Menu dialog: Parameters and Start Path fields disabled for internal commands 22.11.06 Added: Lister: Shift+Click to select text from last selection position to current position 22.11.06 Fixed: Alt+Left/Right both scrolled by 30 characters AND copied the marked text to the other panel - turn off the first in edit mode 22.11.06 Added: For the moment, remove admin shares completely from tree, they just do not work properly. May be re-added at a later time. 22.11.06 Added: Show checkmark for command cm_SwitchSeparateTree if one or two trees active 22.11.06 Fixed: Some versions of external LZH unpacker (lha32) seem to ignore target path if it doesn't end with a backslash \ -> append it 22.11.06 Fixed: ZIP to multiple parts: Cancel packing if user clicks cancel in dialog box which asks about individual file size 22.11.06 Fixed: ZIP to multiple parts: User wasn't asked for part size when no target path was given 22.11.06 Fixed: Logging stopped when log file itself was copied. Now stop logging only if opening of log file fails during program start 21.11.06 Fixed: Icons in "Show" menu lost when changing any of the custom column view options 21.11.06 Fixed: FTP delete directory: Cancel button shown only in half (the lower part was obscured by the confirmation dialog, and not refreshed after closing it) 21.11.06 Fixed: Increased width of listbox with dir tabs by 1 pixel 21.11.06 Fixed: Reduced flickering when adding/removing first tab (Ctrl+T/Ctrl+W) or when showing/hiding command line 21.11.06 Added: Add 16 to IconsInMenus value to show selected items in menu as frames with checkmark or icon in it 21.11.06 Fixed: Choose better default color for frames around thumbnails when background color is almost black 21.11.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Save button was active when one of the files was missing, although nothing could be saved 20.11.06 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 1.6 20.11.06 Fixed: Redefined hotkeys with Alt worked also in other TC dialogs 20.11.06 Fixed: Access violation with some lister plugins when loading lister 20.11.06 Added: Compare by content: Hotkeys Alt+Cursor up/down go to previous/next difference, Alt+Cursor left/right copy difference to left/right panel (or upper/lower) 19.11.06 Fixed: Switching away from archive in archive to other tab didn't store correct path if tab was locked with directory changes allowed 19.11.06 Fixed: Startup screen didn't yet use latest main icon 19.11.06 Fixed: cm_usermenu1 etc. were not supported on the command line, also not via aliases 19.11.06 Fixed: Alt+F5 pack: When re-packing a password-encrypted RAR archive to ZIP and the crypto-enabled ZIP library wasn't installed, the ZIP was encrypted with a fake key (3 times -1). 19.11.06 Fixed: Alt+F5 pack: When choosing "archive on multiple disks", the resulting dialog box wasn't modal, so the user could switch back to TC and select different files... 19.11.06 Fixed: Alt+F5 pack: When pressing Alt+F5 repeatedly, select name+extension without trailing quote " if name contains spaces 19.11.06 Fixed: Redefined hotkey for cm_renamesinglefile wasn't used to select only part of name 19.11.06 Fixed: Unpack function: Check whether admin rights could be needed fails if target is a reparse point (junction), because GetFileSecurity returns the security attributes of the reparse point, not of the target 19.11.06 Added: Change attributes: Setting attribute "compressed" now also works for folders. It has the effect that files copied to that folders will be compressed (but not files which were in that folder before, use the "also files in subdirs" option for that 19.11.06 Fixed: cm_SelectCurrentName not working with spaces in name, or with name without extension 19.11.06 Fixed: Hide drives in tree and in "My Computer" if a line allowed= exists in wincmd.ini and the drives aren't explicitly allowed 19.11.06 Fixed: Parameter /T not working when no tab was open yet 19.11.06 Added: 256 color icons for buttons in compare by content (used in hicolor and truecolor modes only) 19.11.06 Fixed: Main menu with icons: Do not reserve any space for icons if that part of the menu doesn't contain any icons 19.11.06 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree: Didn't put cursor back on current directory after F2 refresh when directory brackets were turned on 17.11.06 Fixed: plugin function FsLinksToLocalFiles not working correctly with Quick View (ctrl+q) 17.11.06 Added: Lister plugins: New function ListLoadNext to load the next file with the same plugin, e.g. in Ctrl+Q or F3 when pressing 'n' 17.11.06 Fixed: Inplace rename: Cursor wasn't placed on renamed file when renaming file on ftp server 17.11.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: "Synchronize" button was enabled while the comparison was still going on 17.11.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Ask user whether he wants to overwrite a read only or hidden/system file when saving 17.11.06 Fixed: Lister: When viewing file from plugin and closing lister, only refresh file lists if file was re-uploaded or a local directory was shown 17.11.06 Fixed: Use internal function to add current time to log file (with the system function, a leading 0 was sometimes missing) 17.11.06 Added: Lister: Show current file number and total file count in menu bar when multiple files are loaded. A click on this menu item allows to jump directly to a specific file 17.11.06 Fixed: Lister: "%" menu item was no longer right-aligned 17.11.06 Added: Hint to "Save" button in compare by content 15.11.06 Fixed: Commands like cm_SrcSortByCol1 didn't use bullets in the main menu to signal that they are radio items (only one of them can be active at a given time) 15.11.06 Fixed: Bugfix for WindowBlinds error: If icons in menus are enabled and icons and checkmarks overlap, add 16 to IconsInMenus value (e.g. IconsInMenus=17) 15.11.06 Fixed: Search on FTP: 0 byte file created in TEMP when viewing a found file with F3 15.11.06 Fixed: Search on FTP: "Search only selected files" wasn't working yet 15.11.06 Fixed: Search on FTP: couldn't find exact matches, only searches with wildcards worked 15.11.06 Fixed: Button bar was black after restart on systems other than WinXP with 32bit color mode 14.11.06 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 1.5 14.11.06 Added: Re-added tree for just one drive as in TC 6.55. It can be enabled via wincmd.ini [Configuration] OldStyleTree=2 14.11.06 Fixed: Shift+F6 inplace rename: Ignore input when user closed rename box with no name in it (empty) 13.11.06 Fixed: Support 32bit true color icons with alpha channel on XP for the button bar (load from .br2 file produced image without alpha) 13.11.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Ctrl+Shift+F3 forces internal compare tool if an external was defined in wincmd.ini 13.11.06 Fixed: Lister: Don't delete "_tc" subdir after deleting temp file. Reason: sometimes the dir may remain in "delete pending" state, so it cannot be recreated during that time 13.11.06 Fixed: If FsGetLocalName returns false, e.g. when viewing a file in a plugin, use the normal method (download then view) 13.11.06 Fixed: Tree shown in tabs not saved on exit when not on active tab 13.11.06 Fixed: Compare by content: After "resync from here", re-count the number of differences found 13.11.06 Fixed: Horizontal scrollbar not removed when switching from custom columns view to full or tree view 13.11.06 Added: Various descriptions added to the help 12.11.06 Added: Experimental: wincmd.ini [configuration] IconsInMenus=1 shows 16x16 icons from wcmicons.dll in main menu. IconsInMenus=2 shows icons with button-style border. Add 4 for 24x24 icons, 8 for 32x32 or 12 for 48x48 12.11.06 Fixed: Folder tabs: If option "show old 8.3 names lowercase" is used, all uppercase tab titles couldn't be saved 12.11.06 Fixed: Overwrite dialog: New lines at the beginning of the custom fields were ignored 12.11.06 Fixed: File tip window: increased limit of per custom field size from 259 to 1023 characters 12.11.06 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree: Ctrl+Cursor Up/Down showed wrong path in status line 12.11.06 Added: Old log files are now named totalcmd.20061111.log instead of totalcmd.log.20061111 (same for numbered log files) 12.11.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Disable file name edit boxes while editing a file (as soon as there is any change to the file) 12.11.06 Added: Compare by content: Save button to save the changed side(s). Hotkey: Ctrl+S 12.11.06 Added: Compare by content: Ctrl+Z for Undo (in addition to Alt+Backspace) 10.11.06 Fixed: Button bar: Failed to load buttons from cache (.br2 file) which only existed in 128x128 pixel format 10.11.06 Fixed: XP only: Various "File not found!" error messages when closing lister 10.11.06 Added: Show button state for commands cm_ToggleLockCurrentTab and cm_ToggleLockDcaCurrentTab 10.11.06 Fixed: Configuration - Log file: Disable log file configuration sections when logging is disabled 10.11.06 Fixed: cm_RightQuickInternalOnly didn't work like cm_LeftQuickInternalOnly 08.11.06 Fixed: Improved name shortening function for copy progress dialog: first take the drive and name part, then more and more directories until the limit of 60 characters is reached 08.11.06 Fixed: Double click on folder in separate tree didn't show its subdirs if the tree was scrolled to the left 08.11.05 Added: Search on ftp servers 08.11.06 Fixed: Lister: Ctrl+Q on multiple audio or video files played only every second file (same with 'n'/'p' keys) 08.11.06 Fixed: Lister: When reloading a file with F2, make sure that text cursor isn't beyond the file length limit (could cause crash or hang) 08.11.05 Added: wincmd.ini [configuration] NewStyleProgress=2: use smooth Win32-style progress bars in normal progress dialog (=1 -> segmented, =0 -> old style). Only supported with classic theme. 08.11.06 Added: Shift+Click on primary sort column in sorting header (e.g. on "Size" when sorted by size) makes list unsorted 08.11.06 Added: The following operations are now supported in directories with no read access: Copy/Move from/to such directories, delete files and subdirs, create subdirs 07.11.06 Added: Instead of granting the user full read access to a folder via admin functions, just call FindFirstFile etc. inside of tcmadmin. This limits a lot what can be done in such directories. 07.11.06 Fixed: FTP: Changing directory by editing current path and pressing Enter no longer worked 07.11.06 Fixed: FTP: When duplicating a connection, e.g. by opening the same connection also in the opposite window, also duplicate any used templates (for custom server types) 07.11.06 Fixed: Wrong data buffer freed when changing custom field in overwrite dialog, could lead to errors when TC was closed 07.11.06 Fixed: When using two separate trees, the black line shown while resizing tabstop headers was at the wrong location (shifted to the right) 07.11.06 Fixed: State of button cm_SwitchWatchDirs incorrect on startup if WatchDirs disabled 07.11.06 Fixed: WatchDirs: Only set caret index if absolutely necessary, e.g. a file was added or removed before the caret index 07.11.06 Fixed: Compare by contents editor: Just beep when user presses Insert button (overtype mode isn't currently supported) 07.11.06 Fixed: Compare by contents editor: When clicking on "Copy ->" and some text was selected, then the entire line was selected afterwards 07.11.06 Added: Compare by contents editor: When clicking on "Copy ->" and nothing was selected, copy the entire line and beep to notify user 07.11.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: [y] with lowercase 'y' inserts 2 digit year (uppercase Y inserts 4 digit year) 07.11.06 Added: 4 new internal commands: cm_SelectCurrentName, cm_UnselectCurrentName, cm_SelectCurrentNameExt, cm_UnselectCurrentNameExt to select/unselect all files with the same name or name+extension as the file under the cursor (e.g. for branch view and FTP on UNIX servers) 07.11.06 Fixed: Compare by content: black splitter bar was no longer shown when changing relative size of the two panels 07.11.06 Added: Special handling of Alt+Letter user-defined hotkeys: catch them before they can get to the menu handler, so Alt+S doesn't invoke both the internal command and open the Start menu 07.11.06 Fixed: Made new choose command listbox owner-drawn due to alignment problems with right to left languages 07.11.06 Fixed: Quick view panel: Enable text cursor on Tab to the Quick view panel 07.11.06 Fixed: F6 didn't toggle the text cursor in quick view panel (Ctrl+Q) 07.11.06 Fixed: cm_OpenDesktop, cm_OpenDrives etc. now also update the separate tree (doesn't work with cm_OpenFonts and cm_OpenPrinters) 07.11.06 Fixed: When changing drive via command line by just giving the drive letter (e.g. c:), the separate tree wasn't updated 07.11.06 Fixed: Archive in archive: When inner archive already existed in TEMP and user didn't allow to overwrite it, the archive icon remained in "open" state 07.11.06 Added: Ignore list: An item with a backslash at the end explicitly hides only directories with that name, e.g. html\ hides directories (but not files) named "html" in all directories 07.11.06 Added: When both files wciconex.dll and wciconex.inc exist in the Total Commander directory, TC will use these for new buttons instead of wcmicons.dll 07.11.06 Fixed: Overwrite dialog, Option "Rename target file": If user cancelled the new name request dialog, the entire copy operation was cancelled 07.11.06 Fixed: Two separate trees: Tree not updated for Ctrl+Cursor left/right when using two separate trees, and the directory was transferred to the inactive panel 05.11.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Access violation when choosing "Delete on both sides" in empty results list 05.11.06 Fixed: Button bar: Button not redrawn correctly when option "Flat icons" was unchecked 05.11.06 Added: Middle mouse button click on empty space in tab header adds new tab 05.11.06 Added: Command line: em_xyz commands now also support command line parameters, e.g. for external programs 05.11.06 Fixed: New internal command SYNCOPEN: If stored sync had no paths saved, the sync dialog opened with two empty paths 05.11.06 Fixed: Date picker control in Attributes dialog: Focus lost when leaving month overview. (Only way to fix was by sending a simulated mouse click to the dialog...) 05.11.06 Fixed: Disable any hotkeys while Total Commander is minimized and a copy dialog is displayed 05.11.06 Fixed: When ejecting a CD, the drive letter disappeared from the separate tree! 05.11.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] TabSwitchMode=1 turns on old Ctrl+Tab switch mode: Jump directly to tab, not only when releasing the Ctrl key 05.11.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] UpdateTreeAtStartup=1 determines whether separate trees show entire path to current dir at program start or when switching on separate tree (set to 1 for testing now) 05.11.06 Fixed: F5 copy: When specifying a new subdir below the source/target which had to be created, e.g. c:\target\newsubdir\filename, the directory list wasn't refreshed 05.11.06 Fixed: Slightly improved control alignment in F5 copy dialog 05.11.06 Fixed: Control distance in configuration - options - display - help texts 05.11.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] TabSeparator=: sets different separator between drive letter and current directory name in tabs (default is a ":"). Only a single byte character is allowed! 05.11.06 Fixed: Content plugins: DateTime values didn't work in any file filters except for the main search function itself 03.11.06 Fixed: The following dialogs didn't use a user-defined icon from icon library: Search, Tree, Change Start menu, Command selection dialog, Synchronize dirs 03.11.06 Added: Copy dialog: Not only F5/F6 but also Shift+F5/F6 will select separate name parts 03.11.06 Added: Pack dialog: F5 or Alt+F5 can now be used to select specific name part (name with ext, name without ext, everything) 03.11.06 Fixed: Shift+F4 (create new text file): Error not always shown when a folder with the same name already exists 03.11.06 Fixed: Lister plugins like SynPlus no longer had a text cursor on startup 03.11.06 Fixed: New Menu item "Select All With Same Extension" didn't do anything when using internal English main menu 03.11.06 Fixed: F5 copy: If target is write protected (e.g. CD or floppy) and user clicked on Cancel or Skip, the source file remained locked 03.11.06 Fixed: My computer: For free and total space, use size style defined for footer, except when it's set to bytes or kbytes, then use x.x bkM mode (only refreshed when switching to other folder and back) 03.11.06 Fixed: While singleclickstart=1, disable mouse move detection while quick search dialog is up 03.11.06 Fixed: When changing tabs while separate tree is active, switch cursor to active file panel 03.11.06 Fixed: Open archive in archive, switch to different tab -> archive location lost. Solution: Switch that tab to the outer archive 03.11.06 Fixed: Separate tree: Cursor not always placed on "0:" item when showing an ftp connection 03.11.06 Fixed: Configuration - Button bar: When deleting the last button, no button was selected any more -> select last remaining button 03.11.06 Fixed: Ctrl+F3 (Compare) could be opened in overwrite dialog also in the unpack function, although the source file wasn't available -> disable Ctrl+F3 01.11.06 Fixed: Quick search label "Search:" was not using user-configured font 31.10.06 Release Total Commander 7.0 public beta 1 31.10.06 Fixed: Reloading of menu bar background on XP caused memory leak (GDI object) 30.10.06 Added: Several missing topics added to Help: Separate tree, Thumbnails and Hotkeys in overwrite dialog 30.10.06 Added: Compare by contents in synchronize function: Increased buffer size from 32k to 1MByte 29.10.06 Fixed: Copy as administrator of single directory also asked for subdirs within this dir 27.10.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a15 (alpha test version 15) 27.10.06 Fixed: FTP over SSL: Only try to load libssl32.dll and libeay32.dll, but not ssleay32.dll (was causing problems to some testers) 27.10.06 Added: Windows 2000/XP: Verify signature of tcmadmin.exe, and warn user if unsigned or bad (Windows Vista already performs such a check) 25.10.06 Fixed: "Search subdirectories" didn't have an underlined letter (for hotkey) and wasn't described in the help 25.10.06 Added: Windows XP 64: Possible workaround to internal media player not working with redirection off 25.10.06 Fixed: "bytes" not translated in ftp upload progress (was fixed in download progress previously) 25.10.06 Fixed: Turned off autocomplete in print with subdirs (again, didn't work in first fix) 25.10.06 Added: Autocomplete to encode and split dialog boxes 25.10.06 Added: Windows XP 64 with redirection off: fixes for ftp, http, watchdirs, FindFirst in background 25.10.06 Added: Copy as admin: If user confirms to copy a single directory as admin, also copy all files of that dir as admin (but not other dirs in the same location) 25.10.06 Fixed: Memory leak (hbitmap) when recreating the main button bar was only partially fixed 24.10.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a14 (alpha test version 14) 24.10.06 Added: Some new drive buttons (e.g. for removable drive) 24.10.06 Fixed: Unpack as admin to drive root not working (gives access violation) 24.10.06 Fixed: Lister with no plugins: Access violation when pressing 'n' key with text cursor shown near the end of a very large file, when switching to a smaller file 24.10.06 Fixed: Do not show dialog "Cannot access directory -> admin" when refreshing or at initial start, only when explicitly trying to access a directory 24.10.06 Fixed: WantXPLook= in wincmd.ini will only be checked at program start now (otherwise the menu bar could appear all black) 24.10.06 Fixed: Windows XP 64: turn redirection of system32 folder back on in various places before calling LoadLibrary 24.10.06 Fixed: If Shift+ was defined for cm_GoToPreviousTab or cm_GoToNextTab, this key combination caused a search result tab to duplicate itself (which was of course not intentional) 22.10.06 Fixed: Inplace rename overwrote files without confirmation if they were hidden via the ignore list 22.10.06 Fixed: XP only: Select files in inactive panel while quick search was up didn't activate that panel 22.10.06 Fixed: Increased buffer for delete confirmation to show also very long names 22.10.06 Fixed: Shift+F5 copy in place dialog didn't have hotkey for Tree button (English only) 22.10.06 Fixed: Re-enable main program before closing "Drive not found" box to avoid that Windows Vista steals the focus from Total Commander (untested) 22.10.06 Fixed: Temporary list file not removed when using button with parameter %F inside of an archive 22.10.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs didn't show file sizes >4GB on FTP servers 20.10.06 Fixed: Change button bar loaded default bar when changing both the bar settings (e.g. size) and bar name without making it the new default bar 20.10.06 Added: Restrict quick search window, tooltips and overwrite dialog to current screen also when using multiple monitors 18.10.06 Fixed: Viewing file in ACE file in compare by contents left copy progress window open 18.10.06 Fixed: Hotkey for "Commands" not working in Configuration - Misc 18.10.06 Fixed: "bytes" not translated in ftp progress dialog 18.10.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Copy buttons were enabled by mistake when no comparison was made 18.10.06 Fixed: Memory leak (hbitmap) when recreating the main button bar 18.10.06 Added: Experimental: wincmd.ini [Configuration] ThreadFindFirst=1 moves FindFirstFile to separate thread, so the user can abort reading from a hanging network connection 18.10.06 Added: Allow user to install plugin to location where he has no write rights, e.g. under c:\program files, via tcmadmin.exe 17.10.06 Added: When directory is inaccessible due to insufficient rights, allow user to gain permanent read+execute+read_acl rights via tcmamin.exe 17.10.06 Fixed: Memory error in LookupAccountNameW 13.10.06 Fixed: Content plugins: Full text search didn't work correctly with operators !contains and !cont(case) if contents longer than 1 kByte 13.10.06 Fixed: Thumbnails in overwrite dialog not always shown, e.g. when starting with fresh ini with just ThumbsInDlg=1 in it 13.10.06 Fixed: Windows XP 64: redirection of system32 folder not turned off in background threads (copy,delete,transfer manager,icon+thumbnail thread) 13.10.06 Fixed: Watchdirs: Cursor was sometimes placed on wrong file after deleting a directory (reason: Watchdirs sets flag UpdateWhenActive causing duplicate updating) 13.10.06 Fixed: Watchdirs problem: To watch changes in the root of e.g. drive c:, need to specify c:\ and not c: alone (which will watch the current directory!) 13.10.06 Fixed: Buttons with images didn't have any focus rectangle when using XP themes 13.10.06 Fixed: Lister: When searching, remove selection and put selection start point at the cursor position behind the found text 13.10.06 Fixed: F3 inside desktop or other virtual folder: Not working when viewing multiple files is the default, and nothing is selected 13.10.06 Fixed: XP only: Clicking on last item in separate tree selected the item after it. The only way to prevent that seems to be to set the list top index back to what it was before the button down click... 13.10.06 Fixed: Removed autocomplete from more dialogs where it's useless, e.g. upload confirmation dialogs 13.10.06 Fixed: Overwrite dialog: User clicks on rename, then cancel -> the entire file operation was cancelled. Instead, just return to the overwrite dialog now. 13.10.06 Added: Run as user now also works with users from the current domain, even without specifying domainname\username 12.10.06 Fixed: Unpack files: Giving empty target path could cause out of memory error (due to GetFileSecurity call failing on empty directory) 12.10.06 Fixed: F3+Shift+F3 no longer working in F5 overwrite dialog 12.10.06 Fixed: Removed autocomplete from print - with subdirs dialog box 11.10.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a13 (alpha test version 13) 11.10.06 Fixed: Strange name shown in Windows Vista admin dialog when starting tcmadmin.exe -> added versioninfo resource with descriptive name 11.10.06 Fixed: When moving a directory from search - feed to listbox, only the directory contents were moved, not the directory name itself 11.10.06 Added: When inplace-renaming in search results and another file in the results is overwritten, remove that duplicate from the list (this isn't done when renaming multiple files). 11.10.06 Added: When renaming/moving a file in search - feed to listbox, show the new names even if they wouldn't be part of the search results. The list isn't updated when using the multi-rename tool. 10.10.06 Fixed: Windows 9x: Disable overlay icons options (it's not available on Windows 9x) 10.10.06 Fixed: Could not turn off 9th additional sort order via Shift+Click 10.10.06 Added: Windows XP 64: Allow user to turn off redirection of system32 folder: wincmd.ini [Configuration] x64disableredirection=1 (will be temporarily re-enabled while loading a plugin) 10.10.06 Added: FTP client: Use MFMT instead of MDTM to set timestamp in sync (if server reports to support MFMT in FEAT command) 10.10.06 Fixed: Separate tree: Left click on partially visible item at the bottom didn't select that item, but the next 10.10.06 Fixed: Desktop in tree: Sort order different depending on whether it was loaded at startup or later via collapse/expand 10.10.06 Added: Print file list: increased maximum possible number of pages from 1000 to 10000 (for people who print e.g. to PDF) 08.10.06 Added: Ctrl+F3 in new overwrite dialog opens compare by contents 08.10.06 Added: Unpack selected files to inaccessible directory as administrator 08.10.06 Added: Unpack all to inaccessible directory as administrator (unpack to TEMP, move from there) 08.10.06 Fixed: (Again:) Closing window with double click over separate tree could cause access violation on XP 08.10.06 Added: New tree: Show new drives when they arrive, and remove them when they get disconnected (react to WM_DEVICECHANGE) 08.10.06 Fixed: Separate tree: When copying subdirectories, do NOT show them in the separate tree except when the directory with these subdirs has already been expanded 08.10.06 Added: Rename files/dirs as administrator, move files/dirs to other drive as administrator if source or destination is not writable 06.10.06 Added: tcmadmin.exe: Terminate if no connection established within 20 seconds 05.10.06 Added: Edit (F4): Edit items on the desktop also from "All users" location 05.10.06 Added: Lister (F3): View items on the desktop also from "All users" location 05.10.06 Fixed: Standard input dialog: Only enable auto-complete if either the tree button or the browse button is shown, to avoid auto-complete for entering user names or similar 05.10.06 Added: Change attributes: Jump between field value edit boxes with cursor up/down, comboboxes (e.g. for yes/no fields) with Shift+cursor up/down 05.10.06 Added: Change attributes: When loading settings via F2, set cursor in the first value edit box instead of last 04.10.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a12 (alpha test version 12) 04.10.06 Added: New default.bar with different buttons like separate tree, the multi-rename tool and synchronize dirs 04.10.06 Fixed: "Mark newer, hide same files" converted the displayed path to lowercase by mistake 04.10.06 Fixed: New overwrite dialog: Arrow icon looks incorrect on Windows 9x (need to use monochrome mask bitmap for icon) 04.10.06 Added: Internal command selection box: Keys up, down, pageup, pagedown, home and end now also work within the filter edit box 04.10.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] AdminTimeout= determines after how many seconds of inactivity tcmadmin.exe (used for copy/delete etc. as admin) is terminated. Default: 180 seconds (3 minutes). Set to 0 to disable 03.10.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Position of divider was saved, but not restored when re-opening the window 02.10.06 Fixed: Bug in packer plugin interface: Search text in plugin called ProcessFile twice, once with PK_SKIP and again with PK_EXTRACT... 01.10.06 Fixed: WantXPlook=0 no longer had any effect 01.10.06 Fixed: Lister: Searching in UTF-8 view selects wrong text in first line (due to UTF-8 marker at the beginning of the file) 01.10.06 Fixed: Lister: Copy to clipboard from UTF-8 file damages last character 01.10.06 Fixed: Moving the cursor over the separate tree panel could mark the root (Desktop) as selected 01.10.06 Fixed: XP Closing program by double clicking while cursor is above separate tree panel could cause an access violation 01.10.06 Fixed: Click on empty space in separate tree could select some random item 01.10.06 Fixed: Lister: In text file containing sequence, could not scroll up with text cursor beyond this point 01.10.06 Added: Show shield icon on "As admin" buttons under Windows Vista 27.09.06 Added: (experimental) copy to protected directories as Administrator (via an extra program). Also supports move, delete, mkdir, rmdir 26.09.06 Fixed: Show old 8.3 names uppercase - not working for files in subdirs of branch view (Ctrl+B) 26.09.06 Fixed: Prevent Ctrl+T during Ctrl+Tab 26.09.06 Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+W (delete tab) while switching through tabs with Ctrl+Tab could switch to wrong directory 26.09.06 Fixed: Edit mode in Compare by content, click again on Compare -> copy buttons not enabled although still in edit mode 26.09.06 Fixed: Dialogs for waiting for multiple document editors (F4) to be closed were only hidden, not deleted 26.09.06 Added: New overwrite dialog: F3 opens upper file in lister, Shift+F3 the lower. With Alt, open lister without plugins 26.09.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Backwards search (Shift+F3) could crash when reaching the beginning of the file 26.09.06 Fixed: New overwrite dialog: Resize dialog when user adds/removes custom fields 26.09.06 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Click on thumbnail, use cursor left/right to go to other thumbnail within _same_ line, Shift+Click on other thumbnail -> wrong files selected 26.09.06 Fixed: Clicking on F5 button and pressing F5 at the same time opened copy dialog twice, sometimes resulting in an access violation. Same for F6, F7, F8 (irrelevant for F3 and F4). 26.09.06 Fixed: Search in compare by content: If a search string appeared multiple times on the same line on both sides, it would be found multiple times on F3 26.09.06 Added: New overwrite dialog: When the user clicks a button while thumbnail extraction is still going on, remove thumbnails from queue and wait up to 5 seconds until current extraction finishes 24.09.06 Fixed: Right click in overwrite-dialog, open lister -> right click menu stopped working 24.09.06 Added: "My computer": Separate drives from folders (sorting) 24.09.06 Fixed: Packer plugins: Shorten path received via callback also for pack function, not only for unpacking 24.09.06 Fixed: Change attributes dialog: Width of fields not correct when adding more than 4 lines 24.09.06 Added: Change attributes dialog: Allow to load/save settings of plugins section 24.09.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Pressing F2 after loading new names from file caused an error 22.09.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a11 (alpha test version 11) 22.09.06 Added: Search function right click menu now also supports to view the file with lister 22.09.06 Fixed: Better sorting of separate trees: consider sorting options like natural sorting, and separate drive letters from other virtual folders like the control panel 22.09.06 Added: Suggest lowercase .lnk extension on Ctrl+Shift+F5 if more than one file/dir is selected 22.09.06 Added: Button bar: Load image from .ico files via LoadImage instead of ExtractIconEx, allows to load sizes like 24x24 pixels 22.09.06 Fixed: Drop to TC file lists stopped working when Alt+Tabbing to other program during drag&drop 22.09.06 Fixed: Branch view, Download in background to a _subdir_ within the branch, watchdirs on -> file appears multiple times 22.09.06 Fixed: FTP download from list: URLs in the form user@server@ftp.servername.com/file.ext didn't work (here, the second @ must be used!) 22.09.06 Added: FTP client: Allow to store account password in wcx_ftp.ini. The entry acct= must be added manually (copy+paste from another password line) 22.09.06 Fixed: FTP client: Show *** when typing in account password (ACCT command) 22.09.06 Fixed: Improved way to detect drives where the setting of the file timestamp fails: Remember if it fails even once, and also reset option each time copying to a network share starts 20.09.06 Fixed: [=tc.xyz] fields not recognized correctly in change attributes dialog 20.09.06 Fixed: SortUpper option was stored incorrectly when switching to a different page before closing the config dialog 20.09.06 Fixed: Ignore list was not used by WatchDirs function, so files/dirs which are normally hidden could suddenly appear if they changed 20.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Better resizing to make the preview and additional fields fit into the dialog 20.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Allow user to define custom fields (e.g. image dimensions) using a plugin 20.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Right click on preview image or small icon opens normal file context menu 19.09.06 Added: F5 copy dialog: Allow user to remove no longer needed file filters with Shift+Del 19.09.06 Fixed: Text input dialog may now also use underlined characters (e.g. in Search - Save search) 19.09.06 Fixed: Configuration: Quick Search - "Exact name match" not saved with Apply/OK. 19.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: resize dialog width to smaller size if the path of the file names is smaller 19.09.06 Fixed: Special handling of right click on [..] -> show right click menu of _current_ directory 19.09.06 Fixed: Right mouse button drag&drop and Ctrl+Shift+F5 can now also create shortcuts on virtual folders like the desktop 19.09.06 Fixed: Background transfer manager, overwrite dialog: After choosing "compare by content", the main TC window was disabled 19.09.06 Added: Packer plugins: Shorten path received via callback so it fits into the progress dialog 19.09.06 Added: Pack dialog: Always show encrypt option, but disable it for all packers except for ARJ, RAR, ACE and plugins with PK_CAPS_ENCRYPT. It's also disabled for ZIP, except when the encryption dll is there 19.09.06 Added: New overwrite dialog: Always center the direction arrow horizontally (not between the images) 19.09.06 Added: New overwrite dialog: Resize buttons when switching on preview thumbnails 19.09.06 Added: Command line parameters: Accept paths in the form file://c:\windows or file://c|/windows or file://\\server\share\dir 19.09.06 Fixed: Save selection to file/load from file: Look in current directory by default 17.09.06 Fixed: F2/Ctrl+R not working properly in Lister for UTF8 and Unicode (UTF16) files, lines beyond the previous last line couldn't be scrolled into view 17.09.06 Fixed: Overwrite dialog: Use same background color for preview as for the main window 17.09.06 Added: Drag&Drop cursors now don't have a shadow if cursor shadows are disabled in the system 17.09.06 Added: Drag&Drop cursors now also have shadows on Windows 2000 in truecolor mode (it doesn't work properly in hicolor) 17.09.06 Added: Send WM_COPYDATA with dwData='E'+256*'M' and lpData pointing to em_xyz internal command (0-terminated) to execute that command. Accepts parameters separated by a space 15.09.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a10 (alpha test version 10) 15.09.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: now acts the same as a click on the direction checkbox, + like a double click 15.09.06 Added: Support for accessibility tools (e.g. for blind users) to main lists+separate tree+sync+CD-Tree, allows to retrieve current line via LB_GETTEXT 15.09.06 Added: New event contst_showhint sent to content plugin when hint window is shown with data from that plugin 15.09.06 Fixed: Inhibit Tab change with Ctrl+Tab when tabbing to ftp tab and the server hasn't finished updating the list yet (otherwise the ftp dir is shown in the next tab!) 15.09.06 Fixed: Host define dialog (Alt+Shift+Enter) not working if caching of visited directories disabled 15.09.06 Fixed: Host define dialog was resizeable, but the controls didn't follow the resizing -> make it fixed size 13.09.06 Added: 16 color bitmaps for new overwrite dialog 13.09.06 Added: Change attributes: When calling the content plugin editor with a single file, pass that file's value to the plugin 13.09.06 Added: If a copy progress or search dialog is active and something changes (WatchDirs set), then refresh the file list when the dialog is closed 13.09.06 Added: New drag cursor with shadow (Windows XP only) 13.09.06 Added: Lister configuration: Path to Irfanview/Xnview now supports environment variables 13.09.06 Added: New internal pseudo-environment variables %$MYMUSIC% and "%$MYVIDEO% - they seem to work on Windows XP only, though. 12.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Show overlay icons with a good sign for the file which is kept, and an X for the file which is overwritten 12.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Show arrow to indicate which file will overwrite which 12.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Show icons if there are no thumbnails 10.09.06 Added: Packer plugin interface can now support encryption 10.09.06 Fixed: Ctrl+F, Edit -> Keep alive command was selected 10.09.06 Added: and are translatable now, but limited to max 7 characters including the <> 08.09.06 Added: Show preview images (thumbnails) in overwrite dialog (must be turned on by the user) 08.09.06 Fixed: Drag&Drop of folders from outside of TC causes TC to hang when selecting "Abort" 08.09.06 Fixed: Tab order in compare dialog is more logical now 06.09.06 Fixed: XP: base line of text in checkboxes and edit boxes not identical 06.09.06 Fixed: Do not change cursor to wait cursor when watching directory changes and the option "update header" is on 05.09.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: when comparing two archives via external sync tool, TC marked all equal files with a '?' after the sync tool was closed 05.09.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: when comparing via external sync tool, handle situation when sync tool had already been open 05.09.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: when comparing via external sync tool, refresh list when files have changed 05.09.06 Fixed: Paths were not shortened in compare by content progress dialog 05.09.06 Added: Improved function used to shorten long names in progress dialog: Shorten dir name just before file name instead of cutting off file name 05.09.06 Added: The Ctrl+D directory hotlist now supports also numeric internal commands, e.g. 2010 instead of cm_switchlongnames 05.09.06 Added: Documented new Alias commands in help 05.09.06 Added: wcx_ftp.ini [General] PreventFEAT=1 allows to turn off the sending of the FEAT (features) command (some proxies hang when the command is sent) 05.09.06 Fixed: Minimized synchronize or search dialog prevented Windows from shutting down 03.09.06 Added: Lister now auto-scrolls also horizontally when selecting text with the mouse (but not both horizontally and vertically at the same time) 03.09.06 Fixed: Wrong display after Brief view -> Search -> Feed to listbox -> Custom columns view -> Refresh 03.09.06 Fixed: Separate tree: Sometimes two items could get highlighted (if the tree was expanded above the highlighted item) 01.09.06 Fixed: Drag&Drop of EXE to button bar added icon with short dos name if the program was written in uppercase 30.08.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: F5 not disabled even when the reload button was disabled 30.08.06 Fixed: Moving cursor in separate tree with pressed left mouse button didn't correctly update active item if cursor outside of tree area 30.08.06 Fixed: Custom columns configuration: Changes not saved when choosing a file system plugin from the list 30.08.06 Fixed: Right mouse button drag&drop (with shift if right selection mode) didn't work to virtual folders in (separate) tree 30.08.06 Added: Internal command selection dialog: If invoked via cm_CommandBrowser, clicking Shift+OK copies entire line like Ctrl+Shift+C 30.08.06 Added: Internal command selection dialog: Ctrl+Shift+C copies entire line (including numeric value and description), Tab-delimited. 30.08.06 Added: Quick search in separate tree: ENTER opens selected directory, ESC jumps back to previous, INSERT stays on new dir, but only opens if configured to auto-open 30.08.06 Added: Quick search with letters only now also works in separate tree 29.08.06 Added: Quick search with Alt or Ctrl+Alt now also work in separate tree (letters only to be added) 29.08.06 Fixed: Turn off inplace rename when switching folder tabs 29.08.06 Fixed: Show hourglass and disable button while compacting thumbnail database 29.08.06 Added: Alias commands on the command line support a command placeholder %A in the command definition, e.g. %A %N will be replaced by the parameter typed by the user, followed by the current file name under the cursor 29.08.06 Fixed: Winhelp: Missing menu image in multi-rename tool topic 26.08.06 Fixed: Closing multi-rename tool with double click caused access violation on XP only when the left separate tree was below the double click position 25.08.06 Added: Ctrl+Space now also supported in path inplace edit 25.08.06 Added: Do not close inplace rename on Ctrl+Home/End 25.08.06 Added: Date-time picker controls in change attributes now also work with the keyboard 25.08.06 Added: When focus lost during Ctrl+Tab, cancel tab switch operation 25.08.06 Fixed: Directory tab drag&drop couldn't be aborted with ESC, although the cursor changed its shape accordingly 25.08.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Made top section 3 pixels higher to fully show focus rectangles around checkboxes 25.08.06 Fixed: Added: Alias commands now support parameters, which replace parameters of the command. Example: np points to em_notepad which starts notepad.exe -> np test.txt starts notepad with test.txt as parameter 24.08.06 Fixed: New configuration option "Alias" not translatable 23.08.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a9 (alpha test version 9) 23.08.06 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Always open "+" button context menu below the button 23.08.06 Added: Translation of special keys in Configuration - Options - Misc. 23.08.06 Added: Ctrl+Shift+F5 create shortcut: Suggest complete name if a single directory is selected 23.08.06 Fixed: Disable some more options in configuration when they have no effect (e.g. some icon options) 23.08.06 Added: Show background of current dir in separate tree with second background color 23.08.06 Added: Show background of separate tree in first background color only 22.08.06 Fixed: Dropping a virtual folder to the button bar also mostly didn't work, e.g. when it pointed to a folder with file target.lnk in it 22.08.06 Fixed: Trying to add virtual folders like the desktop to the Ctrl+D menu added a wrong directory 22.08.06 Fixed: Center overwrite dialog over the TC window 22.08.06 Fixed: When background transfer manager shows overwrite confirmation dialog, and a dialog is already open in the main TC make the overwrite dialog the child of the already open dialog 22.08.06 Fixed: Search function: Limit length of text search input field to 127 characters when using Unicode search (the search functions support a maximum of 255 bytes) 22.08.06 Fixed: When trying to delete the directory under the cursor, but it fails, leave the cursor on the directory and do not go to the next below 22.08.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Multiple choice values were not translated (e.g. tc.filetype) 20.08.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: New icon for >> button 20.08.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: >> button showed menu at wrong location when button invoked via keyboard (spacebar) 20.08.06 Fixed: Custom columns configuration for file system plugins: "Switch to this view when using this plugin" is missing when adding a new custom columns view 20.08.06 Fixed: Lister: Hide caret (blinking text cursor) when switching from text view to bitmap/multimedia view 20.08.06 Fixed: Gray out menu items in lister which aren't currently applicable (cannot be done correctly with lister plugins) 20.08.06 Fixed: Buttons in edit dialog with checkboxes (e.g. rename/copy em_xyz command) weren't right-aligned 20.08.06 Fixed: When activating two separate trees with cm_SwitchSeparateTree, make sure that the trees don't appear in front of an open quick view panel 18.08.06 Fixed: Separate tree: Wrong item selected when moving cursor with mouse while automatic tree change is off 18.08.06 Added: Content plugins: New function to support custom value editors (like the internal date/time editor) in Files - Change attributes 17.08.06 Added: New cursor for dragging tabs 15.08.06 Fixed: Change attributes: When changing comments, the wrong comment file was created with the following comment options: files.bbs, read from both 15.08.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Wildcards (*.* etc.) are only saved if the field isn't empty (there is no checkbox for it, though) 15.08.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Allow user to not save the paths, just the options 15.08.06 Added: Change button bar dialog: Disable edit boxes for parameters and start path and set to empty when the command field contains an internal command (cm_xyz or em_xyz) 15.08.06 Added: Extended commands em_xyz now also support internal commands, e.g. em_editor calls cm_edit (with user-assigned icon) 15.08.06 Added: Alias commands are defined via Configuration - Options - Misc 15.08.06 Added: Command line now supports alias commands, e.g. type ls -> cm_list is invoked 15.08.06 Added: Command line now supports internal commands cm_xyz and em_xyz 14.08.06 Fixed: Wrong error message when renaming a file with Shift+F6, and a directory with the target name already exists (wrong path was shown) 14.08.06 Added: Shift+F4: Warn if a directory with the specified name already exists 14.08.06 Fixed: Drive buttons had become 1 pixel wider than in TC 6.5x (this was not intentional) 14.08.06 Added: New color cursors without white borders (drop forbidden and external links) 13.08.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] DropExtensions=0 allows to turn off drag&drop Explorer extensions for right mouse button drag&drop 13.08.06 Fixed: Right mouse button drag&drop: Also look in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder key, some shell extensions don't add themselves to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory or Drives 13.08.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right in command line now also works when entire text selected (although a bit different from other edit boxes, because the cursor position can neither be set nor retrieved) 13.08.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right in command line now also stops at underscores 13.08.06 Fixed: Do not create a new auto-complete object when changing auto-complete options, but use interface IAutoComplete2 to change options 13.08.06 Fixed: Tab order in lister print configuration dialog 11.08.06 Added: Right mouse button drag&drop now also accepts the separate tree(s) as the target (only to real directories, not virtual folders for now) 11.08.06 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Some error messages showed "FTP" in the title even for local file operations 11.08.06 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: Initial position wasn't centered on TC window (on all subsequent calls, the last used position is restored) 11.08.06 Added: Minimum size of command selection dialog and ftp connect dialog 11.08.06 Added: Command selection dialog: Show buttons to add/change extended user commands also in category "All" when in the relevant section(s) 11.08.06 Fixed: Lister, font configuration dialog, didn't save OEM charset (255) when chosen 11.08.06 Added: New internal command cm_CommandBrowser opens command selection dialog. Clicking OK copies the command name to the clipboard 11.08.06 Added: Command selection dialog now remembers last position 11.08.06 Fixed: Cursor down in user command change dialog could open another instance of the command selection dialog, resulting in a crash on close 09.08.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a8 (alpha test version 8) 09.08.06 Fixed: Print margins dialog: Didn't support underlined characters for hotkeys 09.08.06 Fixed: Win9x: Show error if user tries to set encrypted attribute 09.08.06 Fixed: Right mouse button drag&drop: Do not show "Create shortcut" and Explorer drag&drop extensions if the target is an archive 09.08.06 Fixed: Using watchdirs can cause an access violation if the file list is initially 100% empty (not even a [..] item, e.g. in a drive root) 09.08.06 Fixed: WipeDir= line in wincmd.ini not working for temp dir _tc, only for the old $wc 09.08.06 Fixed: Various items missing in the help, section wincmd.ini 09.08.06 Added: Automatically create non-existing folder in copy/move function if path given in any of the following ways: c:\notexisting\ c:\notexisting\*.* c:\notexisting\file.ext notexisting\ notexisting\*.* notexisting\file.ext (appended file name only when copying a single file) 08.08.06 Added: 256 color cursors for drag&drop (just the attached part of the cursor) 08.08.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Reload result button wasn't working when renaming files from branch view subdirs, or from a search result 06.08.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, >> button: "Edit names" menu item was missing if default editor was notepad 04.08.06 Added: Change attributes dialog: Replaced frame around change date by a groupbox for correct theming on XP 04.08.06 Added: When TC is started with a path parameter and /T, create a new tab for the passed path 04.08.06 Added: When TC is started with a path parameter, and the current tab is locked (no dir changes), create a new tab for the path parameter 04.08.06 Added: When TC is started with a path parameter, and the current tab is locked with directory changes allowed, switch to the new dir, but keep the saved dir as locked root 04.08.06 Added: Made Ctrl+F connect to FTP resizable 04.08.06 Fixed: File list wasn't refreshed after Mark - Save selection to file 02.08.06 Added: Separate tree: Auto-scroll horizontally to ensure best visibility of current directory 02.08.06 Fixed: Use configured main icon also in background copy/move/delete/zip/unzip etc. dialogs 02.08.06 Added: Workaround to files.bbs creation for systems where alternate DOS file names are disabled. Will not work with files with spaces. 02.08.06 Fixed: Winzip disliked some of the zip64 headers created by Totalcmd7 (for files >4GB in zip files) 02.08.06 Added: Increased maximum command line length for external packers to 1 kByte to handle long TEMP paths 02.08.06 Fixed: Wrong custom column width when changing widths via "configure this custom column view" when a separate tree is displayed 01.08.06 Added: Auto-complete to Start menu and Directory menu configuration dialogs 01.08.06 Added: Change attributes dialog: Only show plugins which support field changes. Attribute flags are cached in the wincmd.ini together with the timestamp of the plugin to detect updates 01.08.06 Added: Buttons to the command selection list to add user-defined commands to the usercmd.ini and wcmd_lng.ini files 31.07.06 Added: Tab and Ctrl+Space now also work in inplace edit of current path and when renaming a single file 31.07.06 Fixed: Configuration - Folder tabs: Check option "limit length" when user edits length limit number 31.07.06 Fixed: Attributes dialog: Only check option "Change date/time" when user changes something in the date field, not when the cursor justs gets to this field 30.07.06 Added: Configuration - Button bar: Place cursor on last item of the bar 30.07.06 Added: Adding an EXE without an icon to the button bar now uses icon Nr. 3 (blank window) instead of Nr. 2 (DOS window), both for drag&drop and for adding via >> button 30.07.06 Added: Button bar: Changed order in which tooltips are chosen: 1. User-defined tooltip, 2. Command description from wcmd_lng.inc (English: from totalcmd.inc), 3. Same command from main menu, 4. cm_xyz without the prefix cm_ 30.07.06 Added: Show user commands em_xyz from usercmd.ini and wcmd_lng.ini in internal command selection dialog (button bar, start menu, hotkey configuration) 25.07.06 Fixed: Moved all calls to enable auto-complete from OnShow to OnCreate handler to avoid infinite loop crash on Windows 98 (original) 23.07.06 Added: Read em_xyz commands from wcmd_lng.ini (where wcmd_lng is the base name of the selected mnu file) if not found in usercmd.ini, allows custom mnu files with user-defined commands 23.07.06 Added: em_xyz commands can be used in the button bar, main menu, start menu, directory menu and for hotkeys 23.07.06 Added: Support for user-defined commands em_xyz: usercmd.ini in same directory as wincmd.ini, with entries like this: [em_notepad] cmd=notepad.exe param=%P%N path=c:\windows iconic=0 (same as in .bar file, but not numbered) 23.07.06 Added: Pack-dialog: Don't revert to ZIP when checking encrypted option for RAR, ARJ and ACE archives 23.07.06 Added: When resizing the multi-rename tool, also resize the name and extension boxes, not only search+replace 18.07.06 Fixed: When using custom icon size like 24x24, the displayed icon background could reach into the next line 18.07.06 Fixed: Saved searches: Removed limit of 8 kBytes for all headers also in copy dialog and select/unselect files (note: these dialogs require the *_SearchFlags entry to be present to work) 18.07.06 Fixed: Folder shortcut showed arrow icon instead of folder icon. Show default folder icon instead. 18.07.06 Added: Ctrl+Left/Right arrow now stops at the following characters instead of just the backslash: \/ .- 14.07.06 Fixed: Change attributes, custom fields: Wrong field width if adding so many buttons that the vertical scrollbar appears 14.07.06 Fixed: Logging of file creation with Shift+F4: didn't log full path, logged dot at end if no extension used 14.07.06 Added: Right mouse button drag: Show default drag&drop operation "Copy" in bold 12.07.06 Fixed: Show internal folder icon instead of the one from Windows if the folder doesn't have a special icon was only working for small 16x16 icons 12.07.06 Fixed: Command-line history still not working correctly when auto-append enabled 11.07.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a7 (alpha test version 7) 11.07.06 Added: Installer: Recognize also other active languages than English, German and French, also custom language files if _xyz.lng is used in the name 11.07.06 Added: 48x48-size main icon 11.07.06 Added: New synchronize history icon added in hicolor and truecolor modes 11.07.06 Added: New browse command icon in change button bar, start menu and hotkey dialogs 11.07.06 Fixed: Button bar two pixels too high when using small icons and XP style off 11.07.06 Added: Control how the Tab key works in the command line when auto-complete is enabled: [configuration] AutoCompleteTab= 0: Tab switches to active file list; 1: Choose next file from auto-complete, as '0' if nothing to complete; 2: Choose next file from auto-complete, ignore tab if nothing to complete 11.07.06 Fixed: Main menu: Radio item numbers must be in ascending order, otherwise the radio item checkmark will not show up! 05.07.06 Added: Ctrl+Left/Right arrow now jumps to next/previous backslash in most path input dialogs, e.g. in copy/pack/unpack/unpack all/encode/decode/searchIn dialogs and the command line 04.07.06 Added: XP: Draw groupbox controls with correct visual style 02.07.06 Added: Explicitly unload all lister windows when closing TC, so plugins can save files if necessary 02.07.06 Added: Force-unload all lister plugins on close, to make sure TC doesn't remain in memory 30.06.06 Fixed: Turn off autocomplete and autoappend in command line while dropdown list is open 29.06.06 Added: Internal command CD (change directory) in button bar or start menu now also accepts plugin filters, e.g. cd c:\dir\>largefiles or cd >largefiles (where 'largefiles' is a stored search) 29.06.06 Added: New internal command LOADSEARCH opens the search dialog box with the specified search parameters 29.06.06 Fixed: Ignore list not working on Windows 9x if absolute or relative path given 29.06.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: Ctrl+F3..F6 allow to sort the names exactly as in the main window. 29.06.06 Added: Log creation of files with Shift+F4 (only if the file is created, or the creation fails) 29.06.06 Added: Changed title for SFX packing to "Create self extracting archive" because it now also applies to RAR and some plugins 21.06.06 Added: Support right mouse button drag&drop even in right button selection mode, by holding down SHIFT when starting the drag 21.06.06 Added: Support Explorer drag&drop handlers when dragging files with the right mouse button to a TC panel 18.06.06 Added: Normal and big file copy functions: When there is a read error in the middle of a file, allow to retry last block, or skip all (separate from file open error - skip all!) 18.06.06 Added: Button bar: cd c:\path\filename.lnk switches to directory referenced by the lnk file if the lnk file points to a directory or virtual folder 16.06.06 Fixed: When Quick View (Ctrl+Q) is active and has the focus, going through items with n/p sometimes lost the focus 16.06.06 Fixed: When Quick View (Ctrl+Q) is active and has the focus, switching to another mode with '1'..'7' sometimes lost the focus 16.06.06 Added: When inplace-renaming (Shift+F6) and a directory with the target name already exists, ask the user whether he wants to move the file/dir to it 16.06.06 Fixed: Separate tree: When deleting the last directory of a subdir, it was removed from the tree, but the line from the dir above it remained (it should end at the dir above it) 16.06.06 Fixed: Shift+F6 on file, target exists, choose compare in overwrite dialog, then overwrite -> progress dialog isn't closed (reason: progress dialog handle was reused) 13.06.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Wrong text selected in edit mode if scrolled to the right 13.06.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Find next difference in edit mode stopped selection of block when both sides contained no data. Stop it only when both sides are identical again! 13.06.06 Fixed: Wrong button description with alwayscopyinbackground=2 -> changed to "Foreground" 13.06.06 Added: Commands - Search: Saved searches: Removed limit of 8 kBytes for all headers 13.06.06 Added: Files - Associate: If logged in as a restricted user, write changes to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes, because this key is mapped into HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT automatically! Allows restricted users to change associations for themselves only. 13.06.06 Added: Use WritePrivateProfileSection instead of own write function to write entire sections to ini file (function just discovered!) 12.06.06 Fixed: TC didn't start if logging enabled and last log line was longer than 259 characters 09.06.06 Added: Changed name of "Append" button to "Add" in configuration - button bar 07.06.06 Added: Support environment variables in list name for "FTP download from list" 07.06.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] AppendLnk=1 -> TC creates lnk file names in the form file.ext.lnk instead of file.lnk (Ctrl+Shift+F5) 07.06.06 Fixed: [Configuration] StartupScreen=0 was not read from redirected ini file 04.06.06 Fixed: Copy of CHM to TEMP not working if CHM in subdir of network drive 04.06.06 Fixed: Abort hanging upload after user-specified timeout time, but don't try to auto-resume, because some ftp servers rename the uploaded file during upload 04.06.06 Fixed: Configuration - Icons: Also draw surrounding of icon with user-configured background color 01.06.06 Fixed: Not working on XP: When displaying folders with read only, hidden or system attribute, show internal folder icon instead of the one from Windows if the folder doesn't have a special icon 01.06.06 Added: TEMP panel plugin: Ctrl+Left/Right arrow on a file opens the true directory of that file in the other panel, and places the cursor on it 01.06.06 Fixed: INI file entry to set external compare tool didn't support environment variables like %commander_path% 01.06.06 Fixed: When creating an archive, a fake error was logged for some archive types (e.g. RAR, packer plugins) 01.06.06 Fixed: Alt+Enter wasn't showing the raw FTP directory listing any more when turning off caching of ftp listings 01.06.06 Added: Show hourglass cursor during search in Lister 31.05.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a6 (alpha test version 6) 30.05.06 Added: Use Tab/Shift+Tab to jump through auto-complete entries in the command line, Ctrl+Space to keep an entry (in addition to cursor up/down and right) 30.05.06 Fixed: Creating shortcuts with Ctrl+Shift+F5 failed if AlwaysCopyInBackground=2 was set (TC7 only) 30.05.06 Added: Support File system plugins as command line parameters, e.g. totalcmd.exe "\\\Serial port" to open TC directly with the listed plugin 30.05.06 Added: New internal command cm_IntCompareFilesByContent to call the internal compare tool even when an external tool is defined 26.05.06 Added: When inplace-renaming a file, and a background transfer ends, TC no longer aborts inplace renaming, but refreshes the dir lists only AFTER the renaming ends 26.05.06 Added: Two new internal commands cm_LeftQuickInternalOnly and cm_RightQuickInternalOnly (quick view without plugins) 23.05.06 Fixed: Button bar: Moving a crosshair cursor over the button bar could leave multiple button highlight frames 23.05.06 Added: Compare by content: New experimental feature to skip the first x characters in a file (e.g. the date/time in a log file): wincmd.ini [Configuration] CompareSkipFirstL=x1 CompareSkipFirstR=x2 (left/right separately) 21.05.06 Added: Log file deletion: User can choose to keep e.g. only the 30 last log files 21.05.06 Added: Log file rotation: Allows to start a new log file either every day after midnight, or when the file reaches a certain predefined size 21.05.06 Added: Ctrl+C in new internal command choose dialog copies command name to clipboard, except when cursor is in filter edit box. 21.05.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: Allow user to remove files from rename list with DEL, e.g. when a file was selected by mistake before opening the multi-rename tool 21.05.06 Added: Support for environment variables in autocomplete, e.g. when user types %windir%\ 21.05.06 Fixed: Configuration - Misc - Redefine hotkeys: Don't show commands with parameters like APPENDTABS, they cannot be used in that function 19.05.06 Added: When displaying folders with read only, hidden or system attribute, show internal folder icon instead of the one from Windows if the folder doesn't have a special icon 19.05.06 Fixed: Directory creation history didn't work in ftp 19.05.06 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Icons: Show icon with correct background color (default window background), and scaled exactly as in the file list 19.05.06 Fixed: No file filter (*.wlx, *.wdx, *.wfx) when adding plugin manually 19.05.06 Fixed: Pressing "End" key in lister with a file consisting of only one line went to the second-last character only 19.05.06 Added: Unpack directly from an archive to a file system plugin (by unpacking the files to TEMP first, uploading them, then deleting them) 19.05.06 Added: Pack directly from file system plugin (by downloading the files to TEMP first, packing them, then deleting them) 19.05.06 Added: Compare by content now also works with temp panel plugin (file isn't downloaded, just compared in place) 19.05.06 Fixed: New lister icon was only available in 16x16, not 32x32 (e.g. for Alt+Tab) 19.05.06 Fixed: Apply button not enabled for new auto-complete options 19.05.06 Fixed: New correct message shown when creating multi-volume zip files (size required in kBytes) 17.05.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a5 (alpha test version 5) 17.05.06 Added: ini section [Configuration] can now also be redirected via RedirectSection= option. The options AlternateUserIni= and UseIniInProgramDir= will always be read from the non-redirected file, though 17.05.06 Added: Ctrl+N with HTTP URL: When local file already exists, allow to rename downloaded file in addition to overwrite, resume and abort 17.05.06 Fixed: With some installations, TC crashed when copying ended while TC wasn't in the foreground (XP only) 17.05.06 Fixed: Do not show wait dialog for files which are created temporarily with parameters like %L (button bar, start menu) 16.05.06 Fixed: Crash when setting attributes via content plugins which had a detect string 16.05.06 Fixed: Setting comment via Change Attributes sometimes saved it in files.bbs even when descript.ion was configured. Now this is only done if a file files.bbs already exists in that dir (but no descript.ion) 16.05.06 Fixed: XP, drive button bar set to size 11 and small icons=16 gave unwanted black lines when going with cursor over the icons 16.05.06 Added: Also draw separators between bottom buttons on XP when using the flat user interface 16.05.06 Fixed: History and Hotlist buttons were 1 pixel too high on XP when using the classic theme 16.05.06 Fixed: XP: Ctrl+Up on 0 byte file gave error sound, but didn't open new tab (Reason: ResolveLink returned true!} 16.05.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool had wrong icon when using external icon library 16.05.06 Added: Direct writing of entire sections to ini file: Support for Unicode ini file 16.05.06 Added: New internal command cm_VisXPThemeBackground to show/hide XP theme background 14.05.06 Fixed: Multi-volume ZIP packing no longer worked 14.05.06 Added: F7 "New Folder" now has its own history of last created folders 14.05.06 Fixed: Selection with Num"+": Not working correctly in branch view or search results when using content plugins (wrong path passed to plugin) 14.05.06 Added: Configuration - Button bar: When choosing a different icon library which has an .inc file with the same name, look for an icon for the currently chosen command 14.05.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] EditWaitTime=2 Time in seconds to wait after opening a file in zip to be sure that it was really opened. 0=off, -1=also off when Windows returns no handle for started program 14.05.06 Added: When opening a file inside a ZIP or from ftp with F4, Alt+F3 or ENTER, and the file is closed within 2 seconds, assume that it was loaded into a multiple document editor, and ask the user whether he wants to close the file or not 14.05.06 Fixed: Set configured dialog font to wait dialog which appears on ENTER in a ZIP file with multiple document editors 12.05.06 Added: Create multi-volume ZIP archives on harddisk, named .z01, .z02... .zip as used by other Zip packers 12.05.06 Fixed: Sorting header (tabstop header) too wide on XP when using folder tabs 12.05.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Tab could not reach the first (left-most) tab immediately after starting TC 12.05.06 Fixed: TC freezing when viewing multiple files together in zip (with F3) 12.05.06 Added: Renamed command cm_SrcQuickNoPlugins to cm_SrcQuickInternalOnly 12.05.06 Fixed: Various problems when switching from/to Windows classic theme 12.05.06 Fixed: When XP background was on while using classic theme, no background was drawn for drive info (free space) in drive buttonbar 12.05.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Offer to reconnect also when viewing, comparing or deleting files on FTP when connection was dropped by server 12.05.06 Fixed: Opening zip in zip no longer worked in RIGHT panel 12.05.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: Let user choose editor to edit names (default: notepad.exe) 12.05.06 Fixed: Directory hotlist: More than 199 items only working in configuration dialog not in add/remove current dir 12.05.06 Fixed: Internal English menu: Menu items to choose number of separate trees were no radio items, but used normal checkmarks 12.05.06 Fixed: Delay-loading of plugin icons in right separate tree not working, could even cause access violation if right file list shorter than right tree 10.05.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a4 (alpha test version 4) 10.05.06 Added: When opening a file from inside an archive or from an ftp connection/plugin, and no process handle was returned by Windows, TC now shows a wait dialog (which can be put in background) 10.05.06 Fixed: Folder name suggest on F7 not working with FTP 10.05.06 Fixed: Show error "directory already exists" on F7 if dir is already there (local dirs only) 10.05.06 Fixed: Update tree view position when disconnecting from file system plugin or ftp connection 10.05.06 Added: New internal command cm_ConfigSaveDirHistory to save the directory history in both panels to wincmd.ini 10.05.06 Added: Use SHGetFileInfo for drive hints (CD-ROM and removable disks only) to show drive info as in Explorer 09.05.06 Fixed: With one theme, the button bar separator was not shown (due to an error in the theme, it requires 1 pixel more than reported) 09.05.06 Added: Allow to show XP theme background in button bar even when using old style button borders (the theme background is controlled via Configuration - Layout) 09.05.06 Fixed: Drive bar still drawn incorrectly in some cases (XP theme) 09.05.06 Added: After deleting a directory, check whether it really has been deleted (via FindFirstFile), because some NAS devices return success although the dir wasn't really deleted! 09.05.06 Fixed: When deleting of folder junction fails, do not offer to delete all files in it, but allow user to skip it, skip all, or retry 07.05.06 Added: Support for creating ZIP files >4GB, individual unpacked files can be larger than 4GB too 07.05.06 Test : Button bar cache working OK with 2 color (black+white) icons 07.05.06 Added: Better scaling of icons between 16x16 and 32x32 (e.g. to 24x24): scale down 32x32 icons in mode "halftone" 07.05.06 Fixed: Do not translate configuration dialog when changing language and clicking on OK, just when clicking on Apply (since the dialog is closed anyway) 07.05.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Left/Right arrow not working when cursor on a file in a zip subdir 07.05.06 Modif: Never sort directories by extension - when sorting by extension and dirs are sorted like names, sort dirs by name 07.05.06 Fixed: Endless loop in overwrite dialog with very long paths 07.05.06 Fixed: Moved history and hotlist buttons 2 pixels to the left when directory tabs active, to avoid overlap with tab border 07.05.06 Fixed: Cursor down didn't open command selection dialog in Configuration - Misc (Hotkeys) 07.05.06 Fixed: Could not reconnect to ftp or ftps via directory history when using a firewall, and after closing+reopening Totalcmd 07.05.06 Fixed: Compare by contents: color section did not accept hex values 07.05.06 Added: During Ctrl+Tab, show tip window for new tab 07.05.06 Added: Ctrl+Tab to switch dir tabs: Don't switch the tab while holding down Ctrl: Only switch when releasing Ctrl! This way, unwanted tabs can be skipped, e.g. because they point to slow network drives. 03.05.06 Added: Support for creating ZIP files >2GB up to 4GB, individual unpacked files can be larger than 4GB 03.05.06 Fixed: When using a custom filter (Show - Custom) using a content plugin, no files were shown on ftp or in archives, because no plugins are supported there. Now TC just ignores the filter in this case, and shows all files. 03.05.06 Added: Optimized writing to ini files: All sections which contain lists of items (dir history, hotlist, command line history, tabs) are now written in one step (not using the standard WritePrivateProfileString, but directly with WriteFile). This was necessary because some virus scanners slowed down writing to inis a lot. 02.05.06 Added: FTP toolbar: New icon to show connection type: FTP, verified encrypted and unverified encrypted (SSL) 02.05.06 Fixed: FTP toolbar not themed 02.05.06 Fixed: Updir and Root dir not themed in drive bar when drive dropdown list not shown 30.04.06 Added: Change Attributes: Last modified date can now also be set via internal "tc" plugin - removed buttons from "From plugins" in the above date section 30.04.06 Added: Change Attributes: Button to load attributes from file under cursor 30.04.06 Added: Changed behaviour when Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click on main sort order column while there are additional sort orders: Ctrl: Reverse main sort order, Shift: First additional sort order becomes main sort order 30.04.06 Added: Alt+F10 tree: Use Ctrl+Cursor up/down to jump to previous/next match of search string 30.04.06 Added: Delayed load of plugin name icons (in Network Neighborhood) 30.04.06 Fixed: Switch from tree with all drives to full view no longer worked 30.04.06 Fixed: Quick view button state not changed on Ctrl+Q, only when using the menu or button itself 30.04.06 Fixed: cm_LeftQuickView and cm_RightQuickView are now also radio items, while cm_SrcQuickView cannot be a radio item (it can be down at the same time as cm_LeftLong, because it reflects the options of the target panel) 30.04.06 Fixed: Directory hotlist: New command selection button was in wrong location 30.04.06 Added: The internal English menu now also uses radio items for sorting, view mode, and file filters 30.04.06 Fixed: Renamed internal commands cm_ExchangeBoth etc. to cm_ExchangeSelBoth etc. 30.04.06 Added: Configuration - button bar: the "small icon" size may be up to 5 pixels larger than the size of the inner button (which is 5 pixels larger than the number given by the user) 28.04.06 Added: Also list internal commands with parameters in new command selection dialog 28.04.06 Fixed: When using tree with all drives, do NOT select any drive in the drive button bar, and don't show any in the drive dropdown list 28.04.06 Note : Due to a bug in Windows 9x/ME, [Shift]+[Num+] does the same as [Num+] when numlock is on. Both GetKeyState and GetAsyncKeyState return the wrong value. Even a WM_KEYUP,VK_SHIFT is sent, although shift is NOT released... 28.04.06 Fixed: Color settings initial color when clicking on >> was not correct for background color 2 if background color 1 was changed just before 28.04.06 Added: ENTER on .tab file calls APPENDTABS with this tab file, SHIFT+ENTER calls OPENTABS (only if .tab isn't associated with some other program) 28.04.06 Fixed: Some dialog box elements overlap using the new XP theme 28.04.06 Added: New internal commands cm_IconConfig, cm_RefreshConfig, cm_QuickSearchConfig 28.04.06 Fixed: cm_IgnoreConfig didn't open the right dialog page 28.04.06 Fixed: Logging - Operation status was incorrectly translated 28.04.06 Fixed: XP visual style background option not translated, although string present 28.04.06 Fixed: Some hotkey inconsistencies 28.04.06 Fixed: Corrected description of "Show icons for special folders" option: Option 1 is for files/dirs in the file system like the recycle bin, Option 2 for virtual folders like the desktop 28.04.06 Fixed: Configuration - Operation - Always go to the root of a drive when changing drives and other new options gave warning about system tray by mistake 28.04.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Enter no longer worked when the cursor was within the command line (due to auto-complete) 28.04.06 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Adding files via "+" button for upload to ftps secure server did not work 28.04.06 Fixed: Don't mirror the new command choose dialog when using right to left fonts 26.04.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a3 (alpha test version 3) 26.04.06 Added: Updated Help file with many of the new function descriptions 26.04.06 Added: Configuration of Start menu and directory hotlist now also uses the new internal command selection dialog 26.04.06 Added: Combobox in button bar change dialogs changed to Edit box. Cursor down now opens the internal command selection box. 26.04.06 Added: Made the main config dialog a bit wider (16 pixels) to give more space for translations 26.04.06 Added: By default, Total Commander now selects also directories by default with "+" or Ctrl+"+" 26.04.06 Added: New sections "Icons", "Refresh" and "Quick search" in main config dialog. Also modified the pages "Display" and "Operation". Help not yet updated. 25.04.06 Fixed: Button bar: TC was putting wrong double quotes around some parameters, e.g. %T%M %N -> "" around entire parameters 25.04.06 Fixed: Multi-Rename-Tool, >> button: New option "Edit names in ¬epad...". This is necessary because some users may have configured an unusable editor. For example, ChoiceEdit opens the listed files instead of the list file itself... 23.04.06 Added: The Ctrl+D menu now supports up to 998 items (if the limit of 64k per ini file section isn't reached before) 23.04.06 Fixed: Viewing files with F3 in search result from file system plugins returned focus to the main TC window by mistake 23.04.06 Added: Button bar: When a button doesn't have a tooltip defined, first use the command from the main menu, then the translated description, and finally (for english) the command name without the cm_ prefix 23.04.06 Fixed: New internal command select dialog: Show section headers for all sections with at least one item, hide for empty categories (e.g. when using a filter) 23.04.06 Fixed: The tree root didn't have a name (just a dot) 23.04.06 Added: Lister: F11 toggles full screen mode 23.04.06 Added: Logging: All commands and errors can now be translated 23.04.06 Added: Logging: Show all errors in clear text 21.04.06 Added: FTPS: Allow to verify certificate sent by server by putting a file named rootcert.pem in TC directory (must contain base64-encoded certificates) 21.04.06 Fixed: Lister: Pressing home or PageDown (with enabled cursor) sometimes placed the cursor on the second-last line when the file didn't end with a line break 20.04.06 Fixed: ZIP folders could appear on the desktop in tree view (XP only) 20.04.06 Added: Let user turn off themed background via Configuration - Layout 20.04.06 Added: Draw one contiguous themed background accross the main menu, button bar, and drive bars (if they are enabled) 19.04.06 Fixed: Ctrl+"+" in dir with no files but only folders turned off refresh of panel 19.04.06 Fixed: Separate tree line height not updated when changing icon size or font size 19.04.06 Fixed: Button bar, main menu: Don't show checkmark for "Reverse sort order" when "Unsorted" is checked 18.04.06 Fixed: Lister: Add file to be re-uploaded to normal delete list, so when TC was busy, the file will be re-uploaded only when TC has finished its current operation 18.04.06 Fixed: Alt+Arrows in separate tree made cursor vanish -> put on normal file panel 18.04.06 Added: If "Select only files" is checked, "*" reverses the selection of just files, while Shift+"*" reverses it for both files+folders 18.04.06 Added: 3 new internal commands: cm_ExchangeFiles, cm_ExchangeFolders, cm_ExchangeBoth : Inverts selection for files, folders, or both 18.04.06 Added: Shift+'-' unselects just specific files 18.04.06 Added: Ctrl+Shift+'-' unselects just all files 18.04.06 Fixed: Separate tree dividers didn't have the same width when folder tabs were turned off 18.04.06 Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+Arrow didn't update separate tree 18.04.06 Fixed: Press Ctrl+Arrow while in separate tree puts cursor back in normal list 18.04.06 Fixed: When showing two trees in normal windows, multiple folders could be selected as current folder by mistake 18.04.06 Fixed: Ensure that the separate tree separator always remains accessible 18.04.06 Added: New internal commands cm_ClearAllCfg and cm_ClearSelCfg: Unselect directories only if configured to select/unselect dirs in configuration - operation 17.04.06 Fixed: Center FTP connection dialog over TC window instead of within the main window 17.04.06 Added: New internal command cm_SrcQuickNoPlugins opens quick view panel, but doesn't use any lister plugins 17.04.06 Added: Button bar: Allow user to specify size of icons smaller than button separately from button size (default: 16 pixel) 17.04.06 Fixed: Toggle Quickview and then change view mode resulted in an empty file panel 17.04.06 Fixed: cm_LeftQuickview and cm_RightQuickview now toggle quick view (they just activated it until now) 17.04.06 Added: Button states for the following internal commands: cm_srcquickview, cm_srcsorttab1..99, cm_trgsorttab1..99, cm_leftsorttab1..99, cm_rightsorttab1..99, cm_VerticalPanels, cm_GotoDriveA..Z, cm_FtpHiddenFiles, cm_FocusLeft, cm_FocusRight, cm_FocusCmdLine 17.04.06 Fixed: Button bar: Button state for branch view wasn't updated when switching to other drive while in branch view 17.04.06 Fixed: Button bar: Button state for sorting (e.g. by name, size) not updated when sorting via tabstop header 17.04.06 Fixed: Title of attributes dialog was no longer translated 17.04.06 Added: Increased possible number of internal commands (from totalcmd.inc) to 1500 16.04.06 Fixed: Calling winhelp.exe directly makes help window modal -> use ShellExecuteEx instead of WinExec 16.04.06 Fixed: Access violation or endless loop if last icon in buttonbar couldn't be extracted 16.04.06 Added: New internal command cm_IgnoreConfig to open ignore list configuration 16.04.06 Fixed: Configuration - Color: Click on ">>" button didn't preset the correct color if the color was set to "default" 16.04.06 Fixed: Wrong background color was used in Configuration - Font for sample icon 14.04.06 Added: Scrollbars added to ignore list edit box 14.04.06 Added: Button bar, drive bar: Use "checked" state instead of "down" state for buttons which are always down, except when the "checked" state looks identical to the "normal" state (some themes have this bug) 14.04.06 Fixed: Use single gradient theme across both drive button bars 13.04.06 Fixed: '?' parameter in button bar parameters: Dialog box wasn't working properly (no ENTER, ESC or TAB). Reason: Problem in buttonbar (mouse capture) 13.04.06 Fixed: Autocomplete stopped working, Windows seems to dislike when ACO_AUTOSUGGEST, ACO_AUTOAPPEND and ACO_USETAB are set together 13.04.06 Fixed: Config dialog, Logging: Click on >> button enabled apply button even if the user didn't choose a different log file name 13.04.06 Added: New command choose dialog: Double click on command chooses it and closes the dialog 13.04.06 Fixed: New command choose dialog: Command chosen from this dialog wasn't shown in button bar config dialog 13.04.06 Fixed: cm_ToggleSeparateTree1 now switches directly to 1 tree mode even if 2 trees are currently shown (same change also for cm_ToggleSeparateTree2) 13.04.06 Fixed: Wrong line spacing in separate tree when switching on BOTH separate trees together while right panel shows thumbnails 13.04.06 Fixed: When turning off separate tree view while using brief view, the "Attr" header could appear by mistake 13.04.06 Fixed: Various typos 13.04.06 Fixed: Configuration - button bar: 'XP Style' used wrong translation string 13.04.06 Fixed: Pressed state for active button left+right was wrong (button was only down when left/right window was active) 13.04.06 Fixed: No drag&drop possible while separate tree busy 12.04.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a2 (alpha test version 2) 12.04.06 Added: Support for environment variables in paths received via WM_COPYDATA from other programs 12.04.06 Added: Use XP theme for + and - icons in tree view 12.04.06 Added: Use XP theme for separator in button bar 11.04.06 Fixed: Make openssl support U3-compatible, look for the dlls in %U3_DEVICE_EXEC_PATH% 11.04.06 Fixed: Wrong icon in copy progress dialog when using an alternate icon library, the same also for background copying (untested, no icon on Win2000) 11.04.06 Added: New internal command select box added to button change dialogs, old selection method kept for comparison 11.04.06 Fixed: Missing icons on equal lines when small icon size in task bar isn't the default of 16x16 11.04.06 Added: Packer plugin interface: New function supports files > 2GB 11.04.06 Added: F3 with editing plugin: Support re-uploading of modified file (single file viewing only) 10.04.06 Added: Button bar: Show state of internal commands, like brief/full/tree view, branch view etc. as pressed buttons 09.04.06 Added: Create dir in packer plugins with F7 - uses normal PackFiles function with dir created in TEMP 09.04.06 Fixed: Renaming dir in file list didn't update separate tree 09.04.06 Added: New option in FTP connection details dialog allows to turn off the cache for ftp connections (ftp dir is re-read on each directory change) 08.04.06 Fixed: For VISTA: Installer: CreateProcess just fails when called as normal user -> Use ShellExecuteEx 07.04.06 Added: New internal commands: cm_GotoPreviousLocalDir and cm_GotoNextLocalDir: Go backwards/forwards in history, but skip ftp connections 07.04.06 Added: If "Select only files" is checked, "+" selects just files, while Shift+"+" selects both files+folders 07.04.06 Added: New internal commands: cm_SelectBoth, cm_SelectFiles, cm_SelectFolders, cm_ClearFolders, cm_ClearFiles to select/unselect just files, just folders, or both 07.04.06 Added: If "Select only files" is checked, Ctrl+"+" selects all files, while Ctrl+Shift+"+" selects both files+folders 07.04.06 Added: New internal commands: cm_selectallboth, cm_selectallfolders, cm_selectallfiles, cm_clearallfolders, cm_clearallfiles to select/unselect all for just files, just folders, or both 05.04.06 Fixed: cm_SelectCurrentPath: Don't show error "No files found" when no additional files are selected 05.04.06 Fixed: For now, do not try to update the tree on Win9x/ME on network shares when changing dirs in the file list, it doesn't work and hangs TC 05.04.06: Added: Allow user to turn on/off flush before closing files. wincmd.ini, FlushFile= (0: off, 1: when copying, 2: when unpacking) 05.04.06 Fixed: Tab order in search dialog (limit depth combobox) 04.04.06 Fixed: UTF8-HTML-file was shown with the first 3 characters cut off (TC was looking for the utf8 marker) 04.04.06 Fixed: Separate tree wasn't working on Windows 9x/ME, because function TryEnterCriticalSection is present, but doesn't work -> use a Mutex instead 04.04.06: Added: Synchronize dirs: Now allows to store also ftp connections. The connection must have been saved (Ctrl+F list) 04.04.06 Fixed: Drawing error when reducing name column to 0 width 04.04.06: Added: wincmd.ini AlwaysCopyInBackground=2 -> Always try to copy in background transfer manager with F5-ENTER. F5-F2 will copy normally then (button is changed) 04.04.06 Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+Arrow on 0 byte file in file system plugin tried to show this file like a directory in the other panel, instead of the directory itself 04.04.06 Fixed: Never show any custom colors per file type in separate trees 02.04.06: Added: XP: Support for themed background in drive bar (still experimental) 02.04.06: Added: XP: Support for themed background in button bar 02.04.06: Added: Completely changed way of storing the button bar icon cache: Now stored as list of hicons! 31.03.06 Fixed: Lister with cursor: Pressing "PageDown" repeatedly placed cursor on last character of the file. Now put on first character of last line instead. 31.03.06 Fixed: Lister with cursor: "Home" key not working when at file end when file doesn't end with line break 31.03.06 Added: New internal commands cm_SrcSortByColXY, cm_TrgSortByColXY, cm_LeftSortByColXY and cm_RightSortByColXY with XY from 1-99 to sort by currently shown column Nr. XY 31.03.06 Fixed: When selecting files with right mouse button, the file panel wasn't activated if the cursor was in the separate tree panel 31.03.06 Fixed: Lister color settings didn't accept hex values in wincmd.ini 31.03.06 Added: Ignore list configuration page to main config dialog 30.03.06 Fixed: ftps: Transfers were logged as ftp:// instead of ftps:// 30.03.06 Fixed: ftps: Reconnect via history wasn't working 30.03.06 Fixed: ftps: Reconnect via tab switching wasn't working 30.03.06 Fixed: When closing ftps connection and user is asked to store connection, store server with ftps:// prefix 30.03.06 Fixed: cd ftps://server wasn't working in button bar 29.03.06 Fixed: Configuration - Font: Was using LoadIcon instead of LoadImage, causing distorted 16x16 icon 29.03.06 Added: New dialog for choosing internal commands (cm_xyz) in Configuration - Misc - Redefine Shortcuts 29.03.06 Fixed: Don't convert icon file name to short DOS name when dropping EXE to button bar 29.03.06 Added: Content-plug-in API: Inform plugin about directory refresh 29.03.06 Added: New internal command cm_LogConfig to open log file page 28.03.06 Added: Double click on empty space beside the folder tab headers opens new tab 28.03.06 Fixed: Button bar wrapped to 2 lines when deleting a button 28.03.06 Fixed: External compare tool set via Comparetool= in wincmd.ini not loading the files if one of the file paths contained a space 28.03.06 Added: Compare by content, "Ignore frequent lines": TC will ignore lines which appear very often in the document, e.g. empty lines, "begin"/"end" statements in programming languages etc. 28.03.06 Added: Set environment variabe %COMMANDER_INI% to path+name of current default ini file 28.03.06 Added: Search - Feed in listbox: place cursor on file which was selected in the search results box 28.03.06 Fixed: Progress doesn't work when called in CloseArchive (wcx's). Call ProcessDataProc with value between -1 and -100 to set first progress bar, -1000 and -1100 for second bar 28.03.06 Fixed: TC uses wrong location for wincmd.ini and/or wcx_ftp.ini if only one of them was set in the registry under HKCU or HKLM. Now TC looks first in HKCU, and if it's missing looks in HKLM. If it's missing there too, TC looks in Windows dir. 28.03.06 Fixed: WatchDirs was causing log events in file operation log file 28.03.06 Fixed: cm_UserMenuX didn't work in Ctrl+D directory hotlist 28.03.06 Added: Tooltip for [*] button in synchronize dirs 28.03.06 Fixed: Button bar draw error if it would extend over more than 2 lines 28.03.06 Fixed: Strange display when double clicking on desktop in separate tree view while normal view also shows tree 28.03.06 Fixed: Strange display when choosing tree in both file panels 28.03.06 Fixed: Configuration - Operation: Click on - Save on exit: Directory history or Exact name match: Beginning/Ending didn't enable apply button 28.03.06 Fixed: Ctrl or Shift+Click on [..] / [\] button in drive bar instead of line with drive list didn't open parent/root dir in new tab 28.03.06 Added: AlternateUserIni= and RedirectSection= are now re-read when Total Commander closes, to ensure that the settings are stored to the new ini files (this isn't done during normal TC operation, though) 28.03.06 Fixed: RedirectSection=0 lost in some sections like [LeftHistory] when storing the history 28.03.06 Added: RedirectSection= now also supports environment strings 26.03.06 Fixed: Scroll wheel no longer working in compare by contents 26.03.06 Added: Increased number of characters in hint custom fields (Configuration - Display - "+") from 259 to 1023 characters 26.03.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: After loading new names from file, the rename options are disabled - re-enable them when clicking on reload results button 26.03.06 Fixed: Show separate tree during quick view would partially hide quick view 26.03.06 Fixed: Tabstops wrong when switching one separate tree on in vertical panel mode 26.03.06 Fixed: Name column was ignored as additional sort order (Ctrl+Click on sorting header) 26.03.06 Fixed: Ctrl+'+', Ctrl+'-', Alt+'+' and Alt+'-' all do the same as these hotkeys without modifiers when in separate tree 26.03.06 Fixed: AutoTreeChange=1 now also works in separate tree (except for virtual folders and drive roots) 26.03.06 Fixed: Separate tree: Cursor left (collapse tree) jumps to parent dir if current dir wasn't expanded, as in normal tree view 24.03.06 Fixed: When switching to separate tree when right pane was in thumbnails mode, the tree had the same line spacing as thumbnails mode 24.03.06 Fixed: Splitter width not updated in vertical view when toggling separate tree view on/off 24.03.06 Added: Autocomplete: Added auto-suggest (To do: make it configurable) 24.03.06 Added: cm_ToggleSeparateTree1 turns 1 separate tree view on/off, cm_ToggleSeparateTree2 the same for 2 tree views 24.03.06 Fixed: Access violation in Ctrl+Shift+F8 when separate tree had the focus 24.03.06 Fixed: Button bar was wrapped to second line one icon too late 24.03.06 Added: Allow user turn off XP-style button bar display 24.03.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Enter was no longer working (due to autocomplete) 24.03.06 Fixed: Color changes didn't directly affect separate tree view 23.03.06 Fixed: Cursor in lister: When scrolling through the document with hidden cursor and then showing the cursor, move cursor to visible part (to the end if it was lower, the beginning if above current position) 23.03.06 Added: Additional sort orders: Shift+Click now adds/removes additional sort order, while Ctrl+click continues to switch additional sort order direction 23.03.06 Fixed: Configuration-Options-Log file: Apply button wasn't enabled with checkboxes, >> button didn't work 23.03.06 Fixed: Line to split left and right panels was shown below the separate tree panels when resizing the windows 23.03.06 Added: Alternating background colors: In brief view, count odd/even lines from top of listbox (separately for each column), not from beginning of list 23.03.06 Added: Alternating background colors: Turn off in thumbs view 22.03.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a1 (alpha test version 1) 22.03.06 Added: Ctrl or Shift+Click on [..] / [\] button opens parent/root dir in new tab 22.03.06 Fixed: Lister: Support bitmap where bitmap bits don't follow directly after the headers (bug in Delphi 2 vcl) 19.03.06 Added: Experimental support for ftps transfers (ftp via ssl/tls). Also requires presence of openssl in tc dir. Use by specifying ftps://ftp.server.name:portnr 17.03.06 Added: https downloads with Ctrl+N: Requires presence of openssl dlls in tc dir (ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll) 17.03.06 Added: Search function: Allow to limit search depth to current dir or a certain number of levels 15.03.06 Added: Exclude user-defined files/dirs: Turn function on/off via wincmd.ini [Configuration] IgnoreListFileEnabled=1/0 15.03.06 Added: Exclude user-defined files/dirs: Support wildcards in names, e.g. *.bak *.~* or even c:\subdir\*.bak *.~* 15.03.06 Added: Exclude user-defined files/dirs: Allow to exclude names in all dirs (filename.ext), in a certain directory (c:\path\filename.ext) or a subdir on all drives (\path\filename.ext) 15.03.06 Added: Exclude user-defined files/dirs from displaying and all file operations: wincmd.ini [Configuration] IgnoreListFile=c:\path\ignorelist.txt 10.03.06 Fixed: When uploads fail, show "Error uploading file!" instead of "Error downloading file!" 10.03.06 Added: WatchDirs optimizations: Move name1->temp2, move temp1->name1 -> replace with Create temp2, Delete temp1, Change name1 (Typical sequence when saving a file in Word, keeps cursor on file) 08.03.06 Added: Help file modifications 07.03.06 Added: Log file system plugins (if option checked) 07.03.06 Fixed: When re-packing files from an archive without an extension, the suggested file name was archive..zip instead of archive.zip 07.03.06 Added: Protect log file function with global mutex 03.03.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: wincmd.ini [Configuration] MrtReplacePluginChars=0 turns off auto-replacement of invalid characters from plugin (e.g. ':' -> '.') -> user has to take care of it himself 03.03.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Fixed sort order in list of saved options 01.03.06 Added: FTP: Doubled size of buffer for text types for automatic mode (260->520 characters) 01.03.06 Fixed: Detect when a drive is SUBSTed, and avoid to overwrite a file with itself when copying from/to this substed drive 28.02.06 Added: wincmd.ini: In each section except for [Configuration], an entry RedirectSection= will instruct tc to redirect(or not) this section to other ini: Values: 0=no redirect, 1=redirect to AlternateUserIni=, redirect to that specific ini 28.02.06 Added: When using AlternateUserIni= option, don't redirect the following sections by default: Layout, Packer, Confirmation, Extensions, Shortcuts, PackerPlugins, FileSystemPlugins, ListerPlugins, ContentPlugins 28.02.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] AlternateUserIni= will redirect storing of user-changeable sections to an alternate name, except for section [Configuration]. Useful for companies where wincmd.ini is write-protected 26.02.06 Added: Option to change quick search matching mode: Exact match for start and ending of file name. If unchecked, TC prepends/appends * to typed name. 26.02.06 Added: Option to save directory history. Virtual folders can only be saved if there exists a unique string in the form ::{number} to represent them 26.02.06 Added: Background transfer manager: If the "Options" button was NOT used in F5 - F2, use copy flags as set in configuration-misc (e.g. don't ask when overwriting hidden files). Otherwise use options from "Options" button. 26.02.06 Added: 32-bit version of zip self-extracting module sfxhead.sfx, because Windows Vista no longer supports 16-bit programs 24.02.06 Added: Internal unzip, ungzip, unarj, unlzh: Call FlushFileBuffers before setting time stamp, should ensure that the timestamp doesn't change to current on exotic file systems (untested) 24.02.06 Added: Button bar/Start menu command: SYNCOPEN saved_sync_name opens Synchronize dialog with the saved dirs/options from saved_sync_name 24.02.06 Fixed: Sync: Don't allow to save ftp sync (it cannot be saved because an open ftp connection is needed) 22.02.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: New button >> to open context menu: Allows to load names from file, and to edit names in the default editor 22.02.06 Added: %COMMANDER_DRIVE% points to drive (e.g. C: without trailing backslash) from which Total Commander was started. For UNC paths, this contains \\Server\Share 22.02.06 Fixed: When moving panel separator with Shift+Drag to left border when maximized, drag it one pixel less to the left, otherwise it can no longer be moved 22.02.06 Added: Normal copy function: Call FlushFileBuffers before setting time stamp, should ensure that the timestamp doesn't change to current on exotic file systems (untested) 21.02.06 Added: New file list icons. Can use old icons via external icon library 21.02.06 Added: New drive icons designed by user StickyNomad. Can use old drive icons with OldDriveIcons=1 in wincmd.ini, section [Configuration] 21.02.06 Fixed: WatchDirs (any mode): Always try to keep cursor on current file (by searching for the file name and placing cursor on it!) 21.02.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Paste a few lines with Ctrl+V just in front of the LAST line -> the last line was lost 13.02.06 Added: Blocked various keys found in filesharing 13.02.06 Added: When adding packer plugins, limit length of extension to 15 (the maximum working with TC <=6.5x) 13.02.06 Added: Alt+F10 Tree: Support for wildcards * and ? just like in normal quick search 13.02.06 Added: SFV/MD5 check: Changed max. number of lines in listbox to 65'000 (NT/2000/XP only), speedup of Ctrl+C copy to clipboard 10.02.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Save directories and settings (optional) to wincmd.ini 10.02.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Load settings from wincmd.ini via a history button 08.02.06 Fixed: Drag&Drop and tree view: restore open icon of current dir when drag operation finishes 07.02.06 Added: Support ACE archives > 2GB 07.02.06 Fixed: When showing drive name in tab title, show # symbol for unconnected ftp connections 07.02.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, undo function: Do not store absolute path to target file if source and target are in the same directory (to save memory for huge rename operations) 07.02.06 Fixed: When using cm_switchlongnames while using the quick view panel, the cursor goes to the right file, but quick view shows [..] 07.02.06 Added: Include/Exclude certain directories in the current file list using the "Show" - "Custom" filter, e.g. *.* | *\ hides all dirs (for a file window used with tree view). Not working with "Define" button. 07.02.06 Added: F5 copy: When checking option to copy NTFS attributes, also copy auditing info if we can access it 05.02.06 Added: Quick search with search dialog: Continue to show inverse cursor if it was configured by the user 05.02.06 Fixed: Access violation when clicking on sorting header in sync dialog before starting any comparison (error was introduced in v7 beta) 05.02.06 Added: Increased maximum command line length to 2k on Win2000 and 8k on WinXP (max. supported by these operating systems) 05.02.06 Added: Sync: Remember option "by content" even when comparing with ftp where "by content" is disabled 05.02.06 Added: Suggest dir name under cursor as default name on F7 Mkdir, so the user can edit the name. 09.12.05 Added: Unpack of ppmd-compressed aes-encrypted ZIP archives (via AES plugin): also support multi-volume 07.12.05 Added: Unpacking of bzip2/ppmd-compressed multi-volume ZIP archives 06.12.05 Added: Unpacking of bzip2/ppmd-compressed encrypted ZIP archives via decryption hook 04.12.05 Added: Unpacking of ppmd-compressed ZIP archives, only one at a time (to do: decryption hook, disk change hook) 04.12.05 Added: Unpacking of bzip2-compressed ZIP archives (fully multi-threaded) 02.12.05 Added: "Show fully expanded tree" is again working in normal (not separate tree) panels, and will only show the tree for the current drive 30.11.05 Fixed: Improved FTP keep alive during transfer: Send fake command BLABLA to server so it will reply with "500 command not understood", to keep proxy connection alive (must be enabled via wcx_ftp.ini) 29.11.05 Added: Show overlay icons also in separate tree view 29.11.05 Added: Search for text in temp panel now searches directly in the linked file without downloading it to temp (same for F3 in search) 27.11.05 Fixed: Compare by content: Undo not working correctly at the end of a file if the two files had different line counts 27.11.05 Added: Support for UTF-8 encoding in lister's internal html viewer. It's auto-detected via or , but can be turned off 25.11.05 Added: 3 new overwrite options: "Overwrite all older and of the same age", "Copy all larger files (overwrite smaller)", "Copy all smaller files (overwrite larger)" 23.11.05 Added: Change attributes dialog now allows to set time with odd (non-even) seconds value, although TC cannot display them 22.11.05 Added: Auto switch to fs-plugin custom column view: Set reasonable sort order 22.11.05 Added: Auto switch to fs-plugin custom column view: let user turn it off via dialog box 20.11.05 Added: Change attributes: Also set attributes in content plugins 20.11.05 Added: Main config dialog: List custom columns for fs plugin instead of main when fs plugin shown 20.11.05 Added: Right click on column headers in fs plugins -> offer fs plugin custom views 20.11.05 Added: Extend [+] in configuration dialog to handle fs plugins plus the tc.internal values for size, date, time etc. 20.11.05 Added: Custom columns interface for file system plugins: Ask plugin for default custom columns view 16.11.05 Added: Custom columns interface for file system plugins. Currently it works only for displaying in file lists and multi-rename tool (for renaming in plugins) 15.11.05 Added: Temp panel plugin: Upload files directly to FTP! Note that temp panel plugins must be thread-safe! 15.11.05 Added: Temp panel plugin: Upload files directly to other plugin without going through TEMP directory 15.11.05 Added: Custom columns view, thumbnail view: Show custom columns also in temp panel plugin 11.11.05 Added: Content plugins: Allow to substitute a field by an internal field if the field is unavailable, e.g. for FTP views, use internal size field 11.11.05 Added: Custom columns view, thumbnail view: In the tc.attributes field, now also show FTP permissions and extended attributes like compressed 09.11.05 Added: Files - Change attributes: Content plugins can now be used as a source too! Example: Set file creation date from exif data (date when photo was taken) 08.11.05 Added: Files - Change attributes: Support for new content plugin function to modify content! 08.11.05 Added: FTP: new option: if no data received for x seconds (default: 30 seconds), TC will now abort the transfer and auto-resume 08.11.05 Added: Tabs: Option to always show the current drive letter in the tab 06.11.05 Added: Two new FS-Plugin functions to support links to files (virtual file panel) 06.11.05 Fixed: Separate tree views used the main window font instead of the separate file list font 06.11.05 Added: wincmd.ini [configuration] NewStyleProgress=1: use Win32-style progress bars in normal progress dialog (% value is shown to the right of the bar). Default=1 on >=WinXP, 0 otherwise 06.11.05 Fixed: Several problems with separate tree view 02.11.05 Added: XP: Buttons in the main program can now be switched between flat view and normal view, also the toolbar+drive bar 02.11.05 Added: Redesign of how the buttonbar works: Each icon is now drawn separately, to support the XP-style toolbar theme 01.11.05 Added: Ctrl+Enter now works also in separate tree view 01.11.05 Fixed: Still sorting problems in nethood in tree view 01.11.05 Fixed: ESC inserted a character in compare contents edit mode 30.10.05 Fixed: Creating text file with Shift+F4 could create it in a wrong folder (root) when using separate tree view 30.10.05 Added: Background transfer manager: Allow to re-sort items by drag&drop while pausing (except when using a download list file). The first item can only be moved if its transfer hasn't yet started 26.10.05 Fixed: Ctrl+F (Find text) in compare tool while in edit mode inserted a character 21.10.05 Fixed: Still duplicate items in tree when a server appeared AFTER showing the list of servers in the tree 19.10.05 Added: Two new lister options: "Fit only larger images to window" and "Center images" 19.10.05 Added: F4 Edit file in archive/on ftp: use alternate temp path "_tc_" if a temp file with this name already exists in "_tc", allows to edit 2 files of the same name simultaneously 19.10.05 Added: Compare by contents: User can now check/uncheck option "ignore repeated spaces" (enabled by default) to ignore differences like "a b" <-> "a b" 18.10.05 Added: New FTP option: Send keepalive also during a transfer. This will send just newline characters to the control connection to avoid that a firewall/gateway drops the connection. Set via wcx_ftp.ini, [General], keepalivetransfer=1, or individually per server (the latter not working in BTM) 16.10.05 Added: Combobox strings can be removed with Shift+Del now in: Command line, Search (for, in, text), Lister search, Multi-rename tool, FTP new connection, expand/reduce selection 16.10.05 Added: Find files: Browse button ">>" to browse for the start directory of the search 14.10.05 Added: Tree: not all icons shown for file system plugins 14.10.05 Added: Tree: Show dir in tree even if one of the parent directories cannot be reached due to NTFS permissions 14.10.05 Fixed: Tree: when expanding/collapsing tree near the bottom, TC jumps to other subdir (under cursor after collapsing) -> adjust mouse cursor position 14.10.05 Fixed: Tree: switch to network dir -> sometimes server appears multiple times 12.10.05 Added: Show/hide dirs also in tree panel when creating/deleting dirs 12.10.05 Fixed: Showing of subdirs in separate tree (in the background) protected by critical section 11.10.05 Fixed: Disable single click start on file panel if cursor was in tree panel 11.10.05 Added: Update separate tree panel in background thread (tree window is disabled during this time) 08.10.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: sort error when dir name contained a dot (error was introduced in 7.0 beta only) 05.10.05 Added: Drag&Drop to separate tree view 04.10.05 Fixed: Various problems with 3 window mode 02.10.05 Added: Two different tree view options: 1. Just one tree view for BOTH sides, but outside of the panels 2. One tree per panel, inside of the panels 30.09.05 Added: Synchronize dirs, right click menu: Delete on both sides <- useful because the selection is lost after deleting on one side 28.09.05 Added: Files - Change attributes: Take the date/time to set from content plugins, e.g. the time when a photo was made from the EXIF plugin 28.09.05 Added: reload image to context menu when showing thumbnails in file system plugins 27.09.05 Added: New function FsGetPreviewBitmap to file system plugins to extract thumbnails in file system plugins 25.09.05 Fixed: Compare by content: Undo not working when using "copy ->" and the other side consists of a single EMPTY line 25.09.05 Fixed: Sync: Changing sort order while comparing by content didn't set equal or unequal sign to the files which were just compared when re-sorting 25.09.05 Fixed: Optimized speed of initial comparing and re-sorting in synchronize dirs, show hourglass during re-sorting 23.09.05 Added: New internal commands cm_SelectCurrentPath and cm_UnselectCurrentPath: Select/Unselect all files in the same path as the file under the cursor, e.g. for branch view, search results, duplicate finder etc. 23.09.05 Added: New option wincmd.ini [configuration] CompareIgnoreRepeatedLines=0 -> compare by contents will no longer ignore lines which are repeated (e.g. begin/end). This can, however, cause problems with inserted functions in source code 21.09.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: Show error message if saving fails, and restore original file 21.09.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: If comparing file with name with .bak, save backup as .bk1 instead of .bak 21.09.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Several functions adapted to work with search orders other than by name 20.09.05 Added: Synchronize dirs: Sort inside of each directory by name, size, date/time, ascending+descending 18.09.05 Fixed: Lister: switch to other mode then back to text mode lost the text cursor 18.09.05 Added: Lister: Place text cursor behind found text when searching 18.09.05 Added: Menu items to copy names/details to clipboard added to the "Mark" menu 16.09.05 Added: Compare by contents: Backwards search behaviour as in lister: F3=continue search in last direction, Ctrl+F3 reverse direction, Shift+F3 search backwards and switch F3 to forward search 16.09.05 Added: Overwrite dialog: Option to rename the already existing target file instead of renaming the copied file 16.09.05 Fixed: Lister: Don't place cursor at line end between and 14.09.05 Added: Separate options dynamic (x.x k/M) and dynamic (x.x k/M/G) (with and without the display in Gigabytes) 14.09.05 Added: cm_SaveDetailsToFile now also works in comments view and thumbnails view 13.09.05 Fixed: Suggest *.txt instead of *.* for functions cm_SaveSelectionToFile and cm_SaveDetailsToFile 13.09.05 Added: New internal command cm_SaveDetailsToFile - Save all shown columns to file, depending on current display mode: also works with custom columns 13.09.05 Added: New internal command cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip - Copy all shown columns to the clipboard, depending on current display mode: also works with custom columns 13.09.05 Added: cm_CopyFpFileDetailsToClip - like cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip, but with full path to files 13.09.05 Added: cm_CopyNetFileDetailsToClip - like cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip, but with UNC (network) path to files 13.09.05 Added: New comment options: wincmd.ini [Configuration] olecomments= 0: only standard comments, 1: standard and ole comments, 2: only ole comments, 3: no comments at all 11.09.05 Added: Multi-rename tool: Support conditional text in content plugin variables, e.g. [="_v."tc.versionstring] 11.09.05 Added: "Show admin shares" now also shows hidden shares like Share$ - can be turned off in wincmd.ini, [Configuration] AllHiddenNetNames=0 07.09.05 Added: After modifying compared file from archive, compress it back into the archive 06.09.05 Added: Support for external compare via line in wincmd.ini, e.g.: Comparetool=C:\program files\winmerge\WinMerge.exe 04.09.05 Added: Windows NT/2000/XP: Use MoveFileEx to avoid that files are moved between partitions mounted to the same drive letter 04.09.05 Added: Edit in compare: When saving, the type of line end (Windows, Unix, Mac) is determined by the majority of line ends of the original file, e.g. if the original was Windows with a few Unix line ends, the saved file will be all Windows 04.09.05 Fixed: Edit in compare: Don't save last line end 02.09.05 Added: Sync: Re-added search in binary mode (using the old search function) 02.09.05 Added: Edit in compare: Search in edited Unicode text, allow to search over multiple lines 31.08.05 Added: Edit in compare: Search in edited text, allow to search over multiple lines 30.08.05 Added: Edit in compare: Support for unicode big endian 25.08.05 Added: Synchronize dirs: always list "*.*" as the first entry in the list 25.08.05 Added: ENTER in autocomplete only closes the autocomplete window and doesn't execute the command immediately 23.08.05 Added: Autocomplete for paths in command line, path field, and some dialog boxes like copy confirmation 21.08.05 Fixed: Problems with copy+paste in compare by contents 19.08.05 Added: Unicode editing in compare by contents 10.08.05 Added: New button in copy overwrite dialog "More Options >>" which allows to compare by content, or enable one of the auto-rename options 10.08.05 Added: ZIP packer: wincmd.ini [packer] zipansinames=1 causes TC to use Ansi (Windows) instead of OEM (DOS) characters for names in zip. Note that some unpackers cannot handle archives with accents in this case 09.08.05 Fixed: Compare by content: tabs all had a width of 0 (problem with new line editor) 03.08.05 Added: Compare by content: Copy partially selected lines to the clipboard 03.08.05 Added: Compare by content: Position text cursor with mouse, select text 02.08.05 Added: Compare by content: Text cursor in compare windows 31.07.05 Added: Re-synchronize compare by content, e.g. to compare different paragraphs than the internal compare tool has compared 29.07.05 Added: Pressing F5 again after F5-copy selects the file name only/name+ext (F6 also works, e.g. for F6 - F6) 29.07.05 Added: Lister: Menu item for F2 "Reload file" (the function already worked in older versions with F2 and Ctrl+R) 29.07.05 Added: Hotkey F6 to turn cursor in lister on/off 27.07.05 Added: Select text in lister with caret, supports Shift+ Left/Right/Up/Down/PgUp/PgDn/Home/End 26.07.05 Added: Caret in lister 26.07.05 Added: Save/restore additional sort orders in wincmd.ini 24.07.05 Added: Sorting by additional columns with Ctrl+Click on header. Special cases: Clear all if Ctrl+Click on primary sort column. Reverse order if Ctrl+Click on secondary sort column 22.07.05 Added: Configuration - Colors: alternating lines can now have different background colors, e.g. white and light-gray 22.07.05 Added: Branch view: When sorting by name, if two files have the same name and extension, sort them by directory name 20.07.05 Added: separate tree panel: Support for right click context menu and Alt+Enter (properties) 19.07.05 Added: Splitter to change width of separate tree panel/file panel 19.07.05 Added: Horizontal scrollbar to separate tree panel 19.07.05 Added: Switch to separate tree with Shift+Tab 19.07.05 Added: Switch on/off separate tree with Ctrl+Shift+F8 13.07.05 Added: Separate tree panel per side 13.07.05 Fixed: Right click menu in tree was no longer working 12.07.05 Added: Show all drives in tree, not only current drive 05.07.05 Added: In "letters only" quick search mode, pressing up or down will clear the quick search buffer, useful when making a typo 05.07.05 Added: Changed read buffer for "compare by content" from 32kByte to 1 MByte to increase compare speed when both files are on the same drive 05.07.05 Added: New internal command cm_RenameSingleFile to rename file under cursor even if other files are selected (selection can be restored with "/" numeric key) IMPORTANT NOTE: Total Commander 7.0, 6.54(a), 6.55(a) and 6.56 were developped in parallel. Therefore many modification dates listed above come before the release of TC 6.54(a), 6.55(a) and 6.56. 01.01.07 Release Total Commander 6.56 final 01.01.07 Fixed: USB stick detection from TC7 ported to TC 6.56 01.01.07 Fixed: Re-reading of Network Neighborhood on Vista could cause access violations 01.01.07 Fixed: Overlay icons not shown for font scalings other than 96 dpi (only seems to affect Vista) 30.12.06 Release Total Commander 6.56 beta 1 29.12.06 Fixed: Re-packing files from a subdirectory of a RAR archive with external unrar to another archive could corrupt the temp dir and delete the wrong files 24.12.06 Fixed: Support TortoiseSVN overlay icons also on Vista 20.12.06 Added: Include newer unrar.dll because old dll doesn't seem to handle some new rar files 24.11.06 Fixed: Some regular expressions could cause a stack overflow (infinite recursion because nothing is found) -> limit recursion depth to 2000 19.11.06 Fixed: Unpack from RAR may fail with read error for RAR files >2GB 08.11.06 Fixed: FTP client: Show *** in log file for account password (ACCT command) 13.09.06 Fixed: Unpack each archive to separate subdir not working properly if no target path was given at all 23.10.06 Release Total Commander 6.55a final 23.10.06 Fixed: To unpack self-extracting archives created with TC6.55 on Windows XP, right click on them, choose properties and turn on Windows 2000 compatibility mode 19.10.06 Fixed: After installing Microsoft security update KB923191, self-extracting ZIP archives no longer start -> updated sfxhead.sfx 26.07.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 final 26.07.06 Fixed: Installer didn't correctly detect Windows Vista 26.07.06 Fixed: Revert to c:\totalcmd as default install directory (can of course be changed manually) 18.07.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 public beta 3 18.07.06 Fixed: Unpacking multiple archives with external unpacker to separate subdirs unpacked to wrong subdir if target contained spaces 18.07.06 Fixed: %commander_ini% wasn't containing the full path when the wincmd.ini was located in the windows directory 18.07.06 Fixed: Change drive while in search result switched from custom columns or thumbnail view to full view 18.07.06 Fixed: Access violation when trying to search for a unicode string longer than 150 characters. Note that only the first 127 characters can be found 18.07.06 Fixed: When saving or deleting a search in "Find files", reload the color filters (which may be based on such searches). The list is refreshed when the dialog is closed (except when noreread set for this drive) 16.07.06 Fixed: Custom columns view: If both "Adjust tabs to windows width" and "Horizontal scrollbar" were checked, the scrollbar width wasn't adjusted when resizing 16.07.06 Fixed: Empty file list with the following procedure: Search, feed to listbox, Ctrl+Shift+T, Ctrl+R, Ctrl+Tab (duplicate search result in new inactive tab) 16.07.06 Fixed: Use same function to copy date/time from archive as for normal copying (set again afterwards if first fails) 16.07.06 Fixed: Copy - move to background: Only beep if the minimum time set in configuration - misc has been reached 11.07.06 Fixed: Find Files: When deleting a saved search, the plugin options were not deleted (was already fixed earlier in TC7) 09.07.06 Fixed: Catch error caused by HTTP proxy returning invalid reply in the form "HTTP/1.1 HTTP 404 Not Found" instead of "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found" 09.07.06 Fixed: cm_ToggleLockDcaCurrentTab not working correctly (locking works, unlocking not) 09.07.06 Fixed: Installer hanging on Windows NT4 (because variable %ProgramFiles% does not exist) 07.07.06 Fixed: UC2 packer: Properties of file (Alt+Enter) showing invalid file size 05.07.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 public beta 2 30.06.06 Added: Windows Vista: Use IsUserAnAdmin to determine whether the user has full admin rights or not, show "username^" if user has full admin rights 30.06.06 Fixed: Avoid flickering of buttons when button is pressed but cursor outside of the button 29.06.06 Fixed: Sometimes the wrong help page was opened in Configuration - Options (e.g. on FTP page if cursor on one of the dialog box items) 28.06.06 Added: XP: Show buttons in synchronize dirs with new disabled and disabled down states during comparison 27.06.06 Fixed: U3 installer: remove read only attribute from wincmd.ini and wcx_ftp.ini when copied to USB stick, so options can be written 27.06.06 Fixed: Configure custom columns: Wrong width saved for name column when auto-adjusting to window width in vertical arrangement 25.06.06 Fixed: 100% CPU caused by self-extracting installer 25.06.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Q didn't work with plugins on updir item '..' in the root and all directories just below the root. The name is still passed as c:\path\..\ so the plugin can distinguish between the path under the cursor, and the current path 21.06.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 public beta 1 21.06.06 Added: totalcmd.exe.manifest file, because Totalcmd didn't use the XP look in some cases (internal manifest resource was ignored) 20.06.06 Fixed: Load selection from file: The file wasn't closed if it had a size of 0 19.06.06 Added: Installer: show error if selected target directory cannot be created, and let user choose a different location 18.06.06 Fixed: When starting up, make test whether default.bar is writable without actually writing to the file (just open with write rights) 14.06.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 beta 2 14.06.06 Added: Installer: Set default location of ini files to %APPDATA%\GHISLER on NT/2000/XP if the Windows directory is not writable (for non-admin accounts) 13.06.06 Added: Look for wincmd.key also in the path of the wincmd.ini 13.06.06 Fixed: Directory hotlist, Start menu: Don't allow user to enter title with only spaces in it (cannot be saved to ini). Enter a dash - for a separator! 13.06.06 Fixed: Lister: wrong text selected in binary and hex mode when cursor to the right of all text 13.06.06 Added: Drag&drop to button bar, copy+paste via right click: Show error if bar file is not writable 13.06.06 Added: *.bar [options] redirect=0 turns off the new redirect bar option (TC behaves as it did before version 6.55). redirect=1 forces redirect even if bar file would be writable 13.06.06 Added: If no button bar location is specified in the wincmd.ini, assume default.bar the program dir. If this file is not writable, copy it to the ini file dir and use it from there, so the user can change it 12.06.06 Added: When TC starts, make sure that the specified directory for the ini files wincmd.ini and wcx_ftp.ini really exists, otherwise create it 11.06.06 Added: Installer: Set default location of ini files to %APPDATA%\GHISLER on Windows Vista if there was no user-defined location set 11.06.06 Fixed: Made inplace rename box (Shift+F6) two pixels wider in brief mode so the longest name does fit in on Windows XP too 07.06.06 Fixed: Could not modify ZIP archives on removable disks >2GB (e.g. huge USB sticks) 07.06.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Up arrow resulted in an empty tab when cursor on a file in a zip subdir 07.06.06 Fixed: Holding down Alt+Shift+F6 (test archive) with AlwaysUnpackInBackground option set could still cause an access violation -> catch it 06.06.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 beta 1 04.06.06 Fixed: When copying files with the normal copy functions, the file date wasn't copied in some cases (when copying to a network with Norton Antivirus running in the background) 01.06.06 Fixed: When closing TC with a file system plugin in the left panel showing a progress bar (e.g. temp panel), the right panel isn't refreshed on restart 01.06.06 Fixed: 2 row button bar: When moving mouse cursor 1 pixel behind last button in first row, the first button in the second row showed a hint and reacted to clicks 01.06.06 Fixed: Language files (*.lng) could not be larger than 64k (TC 6.55 16 bit: cut off file at 64k-16 bytes) 31.05.06 Added: Opening CHM help file does not work when started from a network -> copy from net to TEMP before opening it, delete when done 29.05.06 Added: Call CHM help file instead of HLP if present in the same dir with same name 26.05.06 Fixed: Configuration - Options - ZIP packer: The temp dir now also supports environment variables like %temp% or %commander_path% 26.05.06 Fixed: XP: Crash when http connection gets redirected and the path is longer than 259 characters (probably not system-critical, the string overlap is only a few bytes) 26.05.06 Fixed: Ctrl+N HTTP download not working when IPv6 enabled and no port number given in URL 26.05.06 Fixed: Hard links to directories (reparse points) were always shown with special icons even if they were disabled in the configuration 26.05.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Don't try to open/unpack/download updir item [..] 21.05.06 Fixed: Delete to Recycle bin was called twice when it failed due to a sharing violation 21.05.06 Fixed: The following dialogs were not centered on the Totalcmd window: Main config dialog, ftp connection details, connection progress, check CRC progress, Packer/FS/LS/Content plugin config dialog 19.05.06 Fixed: Start menu was displayed even with RestrictInterface=1 when switching from non-English to English language 17.05.06 Fixed: The already running instance of TC wasn't restored when minimized to tray and only 1 instance allowed when starting TC again 10.05.06 Fixed: Using watchdirs sometimes produced duplicate file names (reason: Windows reported the file with a different upper-/lowercase than it exists on disk) 10.05.06 Fixed: Holding down Alt+Shift+F6 (test archive) with AlwaysUnpackInBackground option set could cause access violation -> only allow to open next dialog after 500 ms delay 07.05.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Up arrow resulted in an empty tab when cursor on a directory in a zip subdir 03.05.06 Fixed: Unpacking of archive >4GB not always working (when file starts beyond the 4 GB limit) 03.05.06 Fixed: Quickview was not refreshed when switching to a different tab with the mouse 25.04.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: ESC has to be hold down for at least 100ms to avoid that comparison is stopped when pressing ESC in compare by contents window 25.04.06 Fixed: XP only: Alt+Tab from TC while displaying quick search caused a focus loss 25.04.06 Fixed: Switching between two tabs with tree views produced empty listings 24.04.06 Fixed: With RestrictInterface=1, choosing the built-in English language could cause an access violation 23.04.06 Fixed: Search in plugins: when using "regex", the exception created by an invalid search string like "[" is not caught 23.04.06 Fixed: Shift+Click after changing tab selected wrong file range 16.04.06 Fixed: Always end descript.ion file with 09.04.06 Fixed: Branch view Ctrl+B: Update status line with file under cursor (instead of showing just [..]) 08.04.06 Fixed: For VISTA: Icon extract functions fail when surrounded by double quotes "". 08.04.06 Fixed: For VISTA: Call MessageLoop regularly during re-reading Alt+F10 tree 05.04.06 Fixed: SFX module: As with internal unpacking, remove relative paths in the form ..\ or ...\ (any number of dots >=2) 31.03.06 Fixed: Windows VISTA beta 2 bug: WinHelp command no longer working -> call winhelp.exe manually. For testing, this code is also enabled on WinXP. 22.03.06 Fixed: FTP upload via background transfer manager: When getting overwrite confirmation dialog, clicking "abort" aborted only current file, but then continued with other files in list 21.03.06 Fixed: Lister: Selection with mouse could select negative offsets when selecting to the left of the text 21.03.06 Fixed: Stack overflow when trying to delete very long dirs of certain length 14.03.06 Fixed: Self-extracting ZIP archive can now also overwrite read-only files (user will be asked for each file) 14.03.06 Fixed: CTRL+F3 in synchronize dirs was not always working (it was disabled when right clicking on a file available only on one side) 07.03.06 Fixed: Search function: When using option "Search only selected dirs" and [..] was selected, TC searched also in the parent dir -> auto-uncheck [..] 06.03.06 Fixed: ListNotificationReceived was broken: WM_COMMAND was only called during loading of plugin 03.03.06 Fixed: When unpacking, remove relative paths in the form ..\ or ...\ (any number of dots >=2) -> this would place the file in the parent dir, which is a potential security risk 03.03.06 Fixed: Lister: Printing selection printed junk in the first line if the selection was made beyond the beginning of the file 01.03.06 Fixed: Right click -> New submenu: look in "All Users\Templates" if template not found in "\Template" 26.02.06 Fixed: Files - Unpack all not working with files named e.g. test..zip when "Unpack each archive to separate subdir" was checked 22.02.06 Fixed: When using "Show only selected files" in thumbnails view while thumbs were still being extracted, the wrong thumbs could be shown -> clear thumbs extraction queue 21.02.06 Fixed: With WatchDirs=5, files could disappear from the list when editing them in some editors 10.02.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: "Close" button now changed to "Abort" during comparison (function re-inserted into 6.x line after the release of TC 6.54a) 10.02.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: react to windows messages also during normal compare, not only during compare by content -> can abort with mouse, or switch to other program and back 16.02.06 Release Total Commander 6.54a final 16.02.06 Fixed: Disable cm_switchlongnames also when background transfer manager paused and containing files in queue 16.02.06 Release Total Commander 6.54a beta 2 16.02.06 Fixed: Disable cm_switchlongnames while background transfer manager or background copy active 15.02.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Unicode names were only sorted correctly when they had identical alternate DOS names 15.02.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Allow to continue without UNDO when getting an out of memory error (> about 70'000 files) 14.02.06 Release Total Commander 6.54a beta 1 14.02.06 Fixed: Auto-installer (pluginst.inf): Ask before overwriting key, language and program dir installations 14.02.06 Fixed: Avoid crash when trying to unpack invalid .lzh archives 05.02.06 Fixed: RAR SFX headers were only supported when smaller than 128kBytes (themed headers can be larger) 05.02.06 Fixed: Packer plugin interface crashed with extensions longer than 15 characters 05.02.06 Fixed: F2 (reload file) in lister was no longer working 02.02.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 final 01.02.06 Fixed: Ctrl+C in lister still copied a space too much in some cases 01.02.06 Fixed: Wrong cursor movement in WatchDirs=5 mode 31.01.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 public beta 4 (PB4) 31.01.06 Fixed: Search for name without wildcards surrounded by double quotes (e.g. "John Doe") found nothing. 29.01.06 Fixed: Try to keep focus after copy progress dialog closes when using WindowBlinds with "glass skin" effect. 27.01.06 Fixed: Install of new plugins - existing plugin subdir not found when using environment variables in plugin base dir 27.01.06 Fixed: Ctrl+C in lister sometimes copied one character too much when selecting from the beginning of the file 27.01.06 Fixed: Auto-enable folder thumbnails also on Windows XP Service Pack 1 if WMF patch has been installed 25.01.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 public beta 3 (PB3) 24.01.06 Fixed: Warning that there is not enough space on target drive was not always working on Windows XP 24.01.06 Fixed: Packer plugins: When re-adding a file edited with F4 to an archive, the flag PK_PACK_SAVE_PATHS was not set by mistake for files in subdirs 22.01.06 Fixed: Installer: Changed INI file location was not saved if user used "Back" button and went through ini location page again without changing anything 20.01.06 Fixed: Give more space to plugin auto-install dialog boxes 20.01.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: If *.* was missing in the wildcards list, but the list contained an item starting with *.*, then Windows chose this item automatically -> add *.* manually to list 18.01.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 public beta 2 (PB2) 18.01.06 Fixed: Ctrl+D menu - sometimes the checkbox "also save target dir" was checked 18.01.06 Fixed: Win9x/ME - thumbnails not shown unless the option WmfAllowed was set manually to 1 or 3 in wincmd.ini 18.01.06 Fixed: When switching from search results view to other views like network, plugins etc, the tab title wasn't updated 18.01.06 Fixed: Explicitly set focus to active listbox when hiding splash screen and quick search dialog to avoid focus loss caused by some WindowBlinds themes 18.01.06 Fixed: File comments not copied in multi-rename tool when using 'reload results' button 17.01.06 Fixed: Watchdirs: Directories would not appear when created while using a custom filter like *.txt 16.01.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Sorting error when name or subdir started with double byte character (e.g. Chinese) only 15.01.06 Fixed: Footer is not updated at once when sending files to background transfer manager with F5 - F2 12.01.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 public beta 1 (PB1) 12.01.06 Fixed: Files with date before 1980 are now shown as 1.1.1980 (only NTFS supports dates before 1980, but TC uses the FAT date internally which is limited to dates >=1980) 10.01.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 beta 4 08.01.06 Added: Set MODE Z compression ratio (0..9) for uploads in wcx_ftp.ini [General] zlibratiobin=3 or zlibratiotxt=3 (separately for binary and text). 08.01.06 Fixed: FTP upload to a server supporting MODE Z fails with "error decompressing data stream" when uploading via a Cisco PIX 7.0.4 firewall (the pix doesn't support compression rate 1) -> use default rate of 3 now 08.01.06 Fixed: No thumbnails shown for folders on XP (they were disabled because they can contain WMF files) -> re-enable if patched gdi32.dll found 06.01.06 Fixed: Access violation when invoking cm_DirectoryHotlist via AutoIt without setting the lparam parameter to 0 (only when history+hotlist buttons disabled) 05.01.06 Fixed: In WatchDirs mode, files could disappear from the list by mistake 04.01.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 beta 3 03.01.06 Fixed: Problem with hanging download if ftp server went offline in the meantime 03.01.06 Fixed: Various small errors in English and German help files 03.01.06 Fixed: Irfanview/Xnview not closed after it was loaded in the background for displaying of images or thumbnails (only when new extract method used) 03.01.06 Fixed: Directories were shown under wrong parent in Alt+F10 tree view when SortUpper=3 was used -> fallback to SortUpper=2 for tree 03.01.06 Fixed: Upload in background: Rename doesn't work when a file with the same name was detected 03.01.06 Fixed: Changed function called when displaying WMF or EMF files, seems to cause no more crashes 01.01.06 Fixed: Sometimes thumbnail extra fields could be shown in custom columns view with very long names in archives 01.01.06 Fixed: Could not decode SQX (binhex-coded) file when run length compression was used already in the header 30.12.05 Fixed: Don't show WMF (windows meta file) and EMF (enhanced meta file) images in Lister and thumbnails view, because of buffer overflow bug in Windows DLL. Once your system is patched, you can re-enable them: wincmd.ini [Configuration] WmfAllowed=3 (1=files, 2=folder thumbnails) 30.12.05 Fixed: Again duplicate hotkey in internal English "Net" menu 25.12.05 Fixed: Switching from custom columns view to thumbnail view and back -> horizontal scrollbar was lost 25.12.05 Fixed: Incorrect tooltip for button bar button command cm_LeftThumbs when menu contained only cm_SrcThumbs 23.12.05 Fixed: When aborting move or delete function in plugins, don't call FsRemoveDir for parent directories 23.12.05 Fixed: Directory hotlist (Ctrl+D) was not case-insensitive for non-English characters like accents or cyrillic 20.12.05 Release Total Commander 6.54 beta 2 20.12.05 Fixed: U3 version: Fixed editing of menu files 20.12.05 Added: TC will now also look for language-specific help files named wcmd_xyz.hlp in the language subdir (mainly implemented for the U3 version) 19.12.05 Fixed: When started from U3 USB stick, handle installation and switching of languages correctly 19.12.05 Fixed: When started from U3 USB stick, hide configuration to change custom sounds (they would be stored in the registry) 18.12.05 Added: Two new installation types for pluginst.inf: prg will install to the TC program dir, key to the registration key dir (e.g. for easy U3 installation) 18.12.05 Fixed: Support Euro sign in HTML viewer as &8364; € and € - will not work correctly with Cyrillic, Chinese, or Japanese encodings 18.12.05 Fixed: Parallel port connection: Don't show date for '..' items and drive letters 18.12.05 Fixed: Use of cm_SwitchLongNames loses cursor position -> position cursor on correct file even when sort order changes 16.12.05 Fixed: Using one of the WatchDirs options didn't consider a directory filter like "*.txt *.doc", so when files with other types were created, they would also appear in the list 16.12.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Deleting files via right click menu no longer removed them from the list 16.12.05 Fixed: Locking/unlocking tabs can cause wrap around of tab header. Adjust panel height to this wrap around 16.12.05 Fixed: F3 and other hotkeys no longer working in file panel when quick view active (should only be the case in quick view panel itself) 14.12.05 Release Total Commander 6.54 beta 1 14.12.05 Fixed: 2 Total Commander instances, left mouse selection mode. Drag&Drop files/dirs with right mouse button between the two, create link -> links with wrong names created (.lnk extension missing) 14.12.05 Fixed: Explicitly set focus to current file list before closing the quick search dialog, to fix a bug in WindowBlinds 5 14.12.05 Fixed: When viewing single files with F3 or Alt+F3 and the local file already exists, use new naming scheme file.txt -> file.000.txt instead of just file.000 (e.g. for lister plugins) 11.12.05 Added: U3 support: Internal functions to ensure that TC shuts down in all cases when removing an U3 USB stick 09.12.05 Fixed: Included new unacev2.dll (security bugfix) 09.12.05 Fixed: Don't save selection within a tab when switching away from a locked tab with dir changes allowed (except when in the base dir of that tab) 30.11.05 Fixed: FTP: replace special chars ;:@&=+"#%<> by %hexcode, because some HTTP proxies (Squid!) dislike these characters in URLs 30.11.05 Fixed: FTP: trying to download very long name can cause access violation 29.11.05 Fixed: Some colors incorrect when using white on black text 25.11.05 Fixed: By mistake, all content plugins without a detect string were loaded with totalcmd! <- solution: save empty detect string to ini too! 23.11.05 Fixed: Some right to left dialogs (Hebrew, Arabic) were not shown correctly, e.g. search in plugins 22.11.05 Fixed: When adding files to a packer plugin archive with different extension than registered, TC didn't ask for overwrite. Changed plugin interface version to 2.11 to reflect this change. 22.11.05 Fixed: Status path shown incorrectly in custom columns view with LongInStatus=1 13.11.05 Added: For admins: Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ghisler\Total Commander\configuration, add allowed (type string) and/or RestrictInterface (type DWORD) to restrict user options. The value will be combined with the value in the ini file (the more restricted wins) 30.10.05 Added: Synchronize dirs with FTP: User can now turn on/off date/time with MDTM command, and define whether the time is sent as local time or UTC (universal time) 30.10.05 Added: Multi-rename tool: Replace characters (returned by plugins) which are not allowed in file names by underscores or dots 30.10.05 Added: Command line: auto-replace forward slashes by backslashes in "cd" command, e.g. cd c:/windows/system -> cd c:\windows\system 25.10.05 Added: Worked on U3 installer 21.10.05 Fixed: Ctrl+Q quick view panel: With some lister plugins like hpg_ed, F3 invoked both find next (desired) and the lister (not desired) 18.10.05 Fixed: FTP sync: additional check for ESC during upload+download 18.10.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Increased the default widths of the size columns a bit (user request) 18.10.05 Fixed: Search in plugins: Go to file not working if the file name or path contained a forward slash 16.10.05 Fixed: Background transfer manager: speed limit not working when copying multiple subdirs 16.10.05 Fixed: Background transfer manager: aborting copy function not always working 11.10.05 Fixed: Disallow the creation of directories ending with spaces, e.g. "a / \ " 11.10.05 Added: Allow to delete directories and files which end with one or more spaces! 09.10.05 Fixed: Memory error in compare tool with some big files 28.09.05 Fixed: When using Letters with search dialog as quick search mode in archives with Ctrl+Q, then going to an image file can cause an access violation (because the quick search dialog is hidden by the unpack dialog) 27.09.05 Fixed: In double byte languages like Chinese, characters in zip/rar with second char '|' were shown incorrectly (because '|' is normally illegal in file names) 27.09.05 Fixed: Make FTP client work with FTP servers which return a forward slash after a directory name 27.09.05 Fixed: When browsing virtual folders, try to get the name in various ways (first for parsing, then in folder, then normal) 27.09.05 Fixed: F3 on mp3 file marked "Text" instead of "Image/Multimedia" in lister's menu 23.09.05 Fixed: Unzip: If zip file contains invalid (0) date/time, don't set it on extraction 21.09.05 Fixed: Lister: Wrong text copied in first line (unicode mode and utf8 mode) 18.09.05 Fixed: Wrong display under the following condition: Vertical arrangement, two drive button bars, then switching color depth (e.g. 16 bit -> true color) 18.09.05 Fixed: Custom columns view: "list index out of bounds" error if both sides only show name+ext, and the column width is adjusted by mouse 18.09.05 Fixed: Dual screen mode: Double click on word in Lister only selected the word on screen with positive coordinates 18.09.05 Fixed: Win9x only: Renaming not working in mode singleclickstart=1 if the mouse was moved over the file list during renaming 16.09.05 Fixed: Clicking on panel title while quick view was active did not activate the RTF viewer or a plugin inside of the quick view panel 16.09.05 Fixed: On Ctrl+U, do not set swapped tab title to locked tabs 13.09.05 Added: Command line parameters for uninstaller tcuninst.exe for silent uninstall: /r repair, /0../7 uninstall. Sum of: 1=desktop icon, 2=context menu entries, 4=all settings files 25.08.05 Fixed: Button bar : no icon shown if path contained a comma 23.08.05 Added: Optimize unzip: open archive once at the beginning and keep open (necessary because of a bug in Windows XP SP2, where CloseFile over a network takes up to 2 seconds!) 10.08.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Copy direction problem when synching between dir+zip in asymmetric mode and unchecked files 09.08.05 Fixed: Tree functions and creation of dirs failed if Alt+F10 tree contains paths longer than 259 characters 29.07.05 Added: On Ctrl+PageDown, TC now searches the first 512 kbytes for a valid archive header. Reason: The RAR unpacker will support themes which can contain a big uncompressed background bitmap in the unpacker... 06.07.05 Fixed: Copy speed limit wasn't enforced when opening the background transfer manually and adding files for copying AFTER checking the speed limit option 06.07.05 Fixed: Clicking on "*" button in the inactive panel added/removed the wrong directory (from the active side!) 06.07.05 Fixed: Internal unzip: forget password after operation 06.07.05 Fixed: Built-in English menu: In the "Mark" menu, two menu items had the same hotkey 06.07.05 Fixed: Changed behaviour of FTP server define dialog: Alt+Shift+Enter during a connection will keep currently used server type. OK will apply the new settings, Cancel will revert to standard type. 05.07.05 Fixed: Button bar: If parameter starts with '?' and contains one of the list parameters like %L, the temporary list wasn't deleted if the user clicked 'cancel' 05.07.05 Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+U (Swap all tabs) not working properly when a tab with "locked but dir changes allowed" was an active tab, and this tab was showing something else than the locked root dir 05.07.05 Fixed: Tab with "locked but dir changes allowed" was lost (deleted) when it was showing a search result while closing the program (only if the tab was inactive) 05.07.05 Fixed: Switch between tabs with comment view and tree view not working correctly 05.07.05 Fixed: Switch from search result view to tree view didn't change tab title from "Search result" to e.g. "c:" 05.07.05 Fixed: Don't switch from search result to full view when choosing Show-Full while showing comments in search result 31.05.05 Release Total Commander 6.53 31.05.05 Fixed: Unicode search not working on Windows 9x/ME 31.05.05 Fixed: Corrections to help file and keyboard.txt 31.05.05 Fixed: Delete temp dir when re-packing archive to packer plugin archive (only if the archiver deleted the files in it) 29.05.05 Fixed: Win9x only: some media files not playing with F3 when name longer than 97 characters (bug in media player window) 27.05.05 Fixed: Watchdirs=32 option: Free space in other panel was not updated if showing same disk, but other directory 25.05.05 Release Total Commander 6.53 RC 1 25.05.05 Fixed: Executing command like "notepad.exe" on the command line (including the double quotes) passed invalid parameters to the launched program 25.05.05 Added: Two new WatchDirs options: 16: Update footer (total file sizes), 32: Update header (free disk space). May slow down operation, so enable only if really necessary. 25.05.05 Fixed: Content plugins: Support field of type FullText also before other variables (TC reports plugin interface version 1.5 or later) 25.05.05 Fixed: Alt+F9 unpack: When using external unrar, setting option "unpack to separate dirs" and leaving path field empty, the files may be unpacked to the target instead of the source path 25.05.05 Fixed: Increased limit of packer plugins (extension list can now take 1 kbyte instead of 512 bytes) 24.05.05 Fixed: Trying to access a server with cd \\server in the command line where the server has no guest account causes connect dialog. Clicking on cancel shows again connect dialog when trying to open subdir 24.05.05 Added: Increased width of dropdown box in synchronize dirs - wildcards 24.05.05 Fixed: Two folders aaaa and aaaaa. Rename aaaaa to a Russian 4 character name with English language settings -> it was moved to aaaa 24.05.05 Fixed: Could not inplace rename a directory to a Unicode name (e.g. Russian on English Windows) containing spaces 24.05.05 Fixed: If a hotkey like F2 is mapped to cm_renameonly, pressing this hotkey multiple times will select name part/name+ext of the file in alternating way 22.05.05 Fixed: Brief view: made inplace rename window 4 pixels wider to fit in entire name (except if edit box would exceed list window width) 19.05.05 Release Total Commander 6.53 beta 1 19.05.05 Fixed: Plugin detect string was cut at 259 chars when adding OTHER plugin 18.05.05 Fixed: F3 view remote ftp file twice was sometimes not working (download OK, but file not found) 18.05.05 Fixed: If WatchDirs is enabled and a file appears above the current item during inplace rename, the wrong file may be renamed 18.05.05 Fixed: temp dirs created under %temp%\_tc were no longer removed after deleting the file itself 18.05.05 Added: New command line parameters /P=L and /P=R to set the active file panel (left or right panel) 18.05.05 Fixed: Don't set attributes to 0 when creating new directory (it's no longer necessary on Win32, and causes problems with Samba) 18.05.05 Fixed: When using the color scheme "high contrast black", the lister search dialog options were also black on black 18.05.05 Fixed: When using the color scheme "high contrast black", print preview showed text black on black and sometimes printed white on white -> explicitly set font color to color_windowtext for preview, and black (0) for printing 18.05.05 Fixed: FTP to IBM MVS Mainframe: Switching between tabs was not working due to error in path/url handling 18.05.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Duplicate name warning when comparing Unicode names which have the same name pattern (same length, English and spaces in same places) 17.05.05 Fixed: Watchdirs: When a file was added above the current position while outside of TC, the selection became wrong if restoring it with '/' after switching back to TC 17.05.05 Fixed: Watchdirs: When a file was added above the current position, the current file index changed 16.05.05 Fixed: Tab order in search - plugins wasn't top to bottom 16.05.05 Fixed: FTP resume upload: Some FTP servers seem to return wrong (downloaded in text mode) file size on SIZE command -> call TYPE I before calling SIZE 15.05.05 Fixed: Command line: Executing an URL like http://www.ghisler.com/index.htm didn't work if the default verb for .htm wasn't 'open'. Same fix also in button bar and start menu 15.05.05 Fixed: Shift+F6 (inplace rename) directly at program start -> longer file name was shown displaced 15.05.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Function "Set local date to remote" was no longer available 10.05.05 Fixed: Could not correctly switch between connections to the same FTP server with different dirs on two tabs 10.05.05 Fixed: Unpack and Execute on NT4 with file containing a space causes file not found error 10.05.05 Fixed: Drag&Drop: "drop forbidden" cursor circle not visible on black ground - added white border 10.05.05 Fixed: Gzip archive with invalid extra field length could cause access violation (read beyond buffer length, no security risk since read only) 10.05.05 Fixed: Self-extracting RAR-Archive containing ARJ archive with compression rate 0 -> TC opened the inner ARJ instead of the outer RAR archive 10.05.05 Fixed: Lister: Trying to view AVI file with access denied error shows lister window over TC and does not repaint it 09.05.05 Fixed: Apply button not enabled when checking the "USB stick" option 09.05.05 Fixed: Compare between ftp and Samba network-attached drive in sync not working (reason: Samba case-sensitive) 09.05.05 Fixed: Compare between ftp and local file in sync not working if ftp on the left side 09.05.05 Fixed: Could no longer open compare by contents dialog if only one file or no files were selected 09.05.05 Fixed: Mime-decoding created invalid output if the name of the file contained =? encoding and used base64 as the encoding method 30.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 30.04.05 Fixed: Could not view 2 identically named files on remote ftp with external viewer 29.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Release Candidate 2 29.04.05 Fixed: Search in content plugins not working if type of value different from type of variable, e.g. floating instead of integer. Now integer and floating values are interchangeable 29.04.05 Fixed: Right click on current path - New - xyz file: In addition to Documents and settings, look in Windows\ShellNew for template files (some Microsoft programs seem to use this location) 29.04.05 Fixed: Netware version: Ctrl+Shift+F5 dialog: Remove netware copy options, they are irrelevant for creating shortcuts 29.04.05 Fixed: Create CRC checksums: files were created in the target instead of the source when specifying no target path and the last directory change was on the target side 27.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Release Candidate 1 24.04.05 Fixed: Default string in delayed/on demand fields not shown in first custom column 21.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 3 21.04.05 Fixed: Pack multiple files to zip:"*.*.zip" deleted the first character of each name (correct syntax would have been zip:*.*.zip without the double quotes anyway) 21.04.05 Fixed: Command line command del /q /s *.tmp deleted all files. Reason: TC tries to insert current path to avoid that the wrong dir is deleted if there is a .pif file for command.com with a default dir 21.04.05 Fixed: Right-aligned custom columns not shown correctly on some systems (because of addition of TABs) 21.04.05 Added: Korean is now included as a default language due to the increased number of registrations from Korea 17.04.05 Fixed: Changing sort order while in tree view changed the sort order for full and brief view without changing the sort indicator arrows 17.04.05 Added: cm_SwitchWatchDirs command to turn off (and back on) watching of directory changes with the wincmd.ini option WatchDirs= 17.04.05 Fixed: Don't show hidden/system files with WatchDirs option when the display of hidden/system files is disabled in the configuration 16.04.05 Fixed: Sometimes there was an access violation when closing TC while in a rapidly changing dir with WatchDirs enabled 16.04.05 Fixed: With Watchdirs option 8 added, Watchdirs sometimes stopped working until the next dir change 13.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 2 13.04.05 Added: Support gzip archives >4GB, both creation and extraction 13.04.05 Added: When restarting Total Commander, and the current path is replaced (e.g. via the command line), then add the previous path to the history 12.04.05 Fixed: Memory leak in Netware function to copy trustees (Netware version only) 12.04.05 Fixed: Removed code which sets directory attributes to 0 after creation - this is already done automatically by all 32-bit operating systems! 11.04.05 Added: New wincmd.ini section: WatchDirsExclude= (defaults to empty string): set drives which should be excluded from WatchDirs directory monitoring 11.04.05 Added: New wincmd.ini section: noreread2= (which defaults to the content of noreread=): set drives which should not be remembered when restarting TC. Until now, this was part of noreread= See example in help. 11.04.05 Fixed: Tabs in content plugin strings should now be shown correctly in custom columns view 11.04.05 Fixed: Turn off watchdirs between copy dialog and progress dialog to avoid error that directory contents have changed 11.04.05 Fixed: Lister now shows "access denied" instead of "file not found" if there is a sharing violation accessing a file (e.g. it's opened in a different program) 10.04.05 Fixed: Reset directory checksum after receiving a directory change notification - will cause TC to always reread the directory on F2 or when switching back to it 10.04.05 Fixed: USB stick copy option turned off - not saved permanently 08.04.05 Fixed: Don't count dir content of target of a junction when deleting the junction 08.04.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Sync with ftp could cause access violation if path longer than 259 characters 08.04.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: return to root not working when syncing with ftp root 08.04.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Compare two files by content didn't work with files in ftp subdirs 07.04.05 Fixed: TC uses 100% CPU when WatchDirs option enabled, and trying to access dir which cannot be monitored, e.g. a Win9x share 06.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 1 06.04.05 Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration], WatchDirs= determines operation of automatic dir updates: 1: turn option on, 2: detect changes to size, date, attributes, 4: put newly added files at the END, 8: don't react to updates while TC isn't in the foreground 06.04.05 Fixed: WinXP: Playing a CD with F3 didn't stop when closing lister 06.04.05 Fixed: Could no longer access "tar" archives after associating extension "ar" with any packer plugin ("tar" was interpreted as "tar.ar") 06.04.05 Fixed: 16-bit version: Invalid time stamp written to .tar files 05.04.05 Added: Watch changes of directories, and update them immediately on changes (using ReadDirectoryChangesW function). Requires Windows NT, 2000 or XP 03.04.05 Added: Support for BSD-style MD5 checksum files, e.g. MD5 (./subdir/somefile.ext) = e573fe599272957b234dba19e41237a1 03.04.05 Fixed: Lister: When playing multimedia via built-in media player plugin, allow to use hotkeys like pageup/pagedown/home/end even if the scrollbar doesn't have the focus 01.04.05 Fixed: Custom columns view with horizontal scollbar: When using a rectangle as cursor, don't draw right line unless scrolled to the end of the row (otherwise drawing artifacts will result) 01.04.05 Fixed: ftp ctrl+left or right tries to open directory with two consecutive slashes, e.g. /subdir//subdirundercursor 30.03.05 Added: Experimental IPv6 http support (both proxy-ftp and http downloads). 30.03.05 Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also copies thumbnails with files (if enabled in configuration - thumbnails) 30.03.05 Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also allows to copy NTFS permissions (checkbox in copy dialog) 30.03.05 Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also removes the "read only" attribute when copying from CD 30.03.05 Fixed: Access violation trying to download a file from FTP via HTTP when the local path became longer than 259 characters 30.03.05 Fixed: Browsing of network paths not working correctly when double clicking on "share x on server y" in nethood 30.03.05 Added: Experimental IPv6 ftp support. To use it, add to wcx_ftp.ini section [General], PreferIPv6=1 if you want to prefer IPv6 for servers which support both IPv4 and IPv6, or PreferIPv6=0 to prefer IPv4 (default=-1: IPv6 off) 22.03.05 Fixed: Alt+F1 Alt+F7 opened search window with only the height of the title bar if the window was maximized 22.03.05 Added: Compare by content (in main window) now also works with FTP 22.03.05 Added: Synchronize dirs: Compare by content of single files (double click on file pair) now also works with FTP and file system plugins 22.03.05 Added: Synchronize dirs: When creating dirs during copying, also copy dir time stamp (if configured), NTFS permissions, and Netware trustees (Netware version only). The dir timestamp is NOT copied (NTFS changes it when copying files to the dir). 20.03.05 Fixed: Unicode search for whole words not working properly in lister and search 20.03.05 Fixed: Unicode case-insensitive search not working properly for encodings other than latin-1 (English, German etc.) 20.03.05 Fixed: Lister: Selecting text in Unicode mode in the first line of a file selected displaced by 1 character 18.03.05 Fixed: FTP templates dialog: switch back to "Courier New" when loading the dialog even if the user has changed the default dialog font. Otherwise it's quite impossible to create detect strings. 18.03.05 Fixed: FTP over HTTP: First item in list not always shown if 
 formatting was used without a 
 or 
 in front of it
18.03.05   Fixed: FTP not always working correctly if the user name had the form user@host
18.03.05   Added: Multi-rename tool: Two new rename strings [N2--5] means the second character until the fifth-last. [N-5-] means the 5fth-last until the end of the name
16.03.05   Fixed: Better caching of item idlists on network shares should speed up browsing network paths
16.03.05   Fixed: Drawing of XP themed speed buttons and bit buttons (e.g. in Compare by contents): Erase background before drawing button, draw highlight of bit buttons
16.03.05   Fixed: Compare by contents: Removed WS_BORDER style, looks ugly (on WinXP only)
16.03.05   Fixed: Compare by contents: moved listboxes down 2 pixels to avoid overlapping of checkboxes under XP
16.03.05   Fixed: XP listbox bug: In synchronize dirs, clicking or double clicking below last listbox item affected the last item in the list
15.03.05   Fixed: Multi-rename tool: access violation after renaming when sorting by extension needed
15.03.05   Fixed: Unpacking single archive containing " -" with option "unpack to separate subdirs" didn't work correctly (" -" was interpreted as command line parameter)
13.03.05   Added: Auto-detect USB sticks and use compatibility mode to copy to them (can be disabled in configuration - copy/delete). Reason: USB sticks have no write cache on WinXP.
13.03.05   Fixed: Some TC functions not working properly if the TEMP variable pointed to the root of a drive WITHOUT a trailing backslash, e.g. TEMP=f:
11.03.05   Added: Decoding MIME-encoded files: Accept file names in the form =?ISO-8859-1?Q?filename.ext?= (see RFC2047)
11.03.05   Added: Ftp over http proxy: upload entire dir trees, also to non-existing subdirs (proxy needs to support uploading of files to not yet existing subdirs)
11.03.05   Fixed: Lister html viewer: show &lsquo and &rsquo as normal single quote characters: '
11.03.05   Fixed: On WinXP, CopyFileEx (compatibility mode) couldn't copy encrypted files if the destination couldn't be encrypted
09.03.05   Fixed: Slow access to network admin shares like \\server\d$ because TC tried to get attributes/time stamp of \\server\d$ directory itself, which caused Windows to access \\server\d instead 8without the $)
08.03.05   Added: If ZIP encryption dll is installed, also allow to encrypt with external RAR, ACE, ARJ, ZIP
08.03.05   Added: Quick search: Letters only with no search dialog now also supports the * wildcard
08.03.05   Fixed: Top file list at wrong position with the following settings: vertical arrangement, always show dir tabs, drive bar, not drive dropdown list
03.03.05   Fixed: Regular expression search in text: $ or \b at end of search string sometimes matched strings in the middle of a file, when the match was at the end of the search buffer
01.03.05   Fixed: Speed limit for FTP and HTTP not working properly for high bit rates
01.03.05   Fixed: Could not switch through custom column views with cm_SrcNextCustomView etc. if the view had no additional columns defined
01.03.05   Added: Middle click on drive button in drive button bar opens drive in new tab
27.02.05   Added: Lister and Compare by Content now display tab characters correctly in Unicode mode (only on Windows NT/2000/XP, function is missing on Win9x)
27.02.05   Added: Path above file lists: Accept also forward slashes, e.g. //server/share (auto-convert to backslashes)
25.02.05   Added: Synchronize dirs now also supports unicode names (normal files only, no archives, ftp or plugins)
25.02.05   Fixed: Synchronize dirs with zip-subdirs: using the wildcards selection box in the middle didn't find files by name (e.g. a*.*) when in subdirs, by extension worked fine
24.02.05   Fixed: Unpacking of files >2GB and <4GB from ZIP archives (>4GB already worked)
24.02.05   Added: Unpacking of ZIP archives >4GB
23.02.05   Fixed: Custom columns: tc.comment field wasn't refreshed if shown in the same column as a delayed field like shelldetails.comment
23.02.05   Fixed: F3 on file when path not accessible -> wait cursor shown
23.02.05   Added: Plugin columns with string content now also use the sort method defined via SortUpper= in wincmd.ini
23.02.05   Fixed: EXE icons initially didn't show up if share_nt.exe wasn't found
23.02.05   Added: Calculate occupied space (also before copying) now also supports Unicode file names+dirs, as long as they have a valid alternate DOS name
23.02.05   Added: Change attributes now also works with Unicode file names+dirs, as long as they have a valid alternate DOS name
23.02.05   Fixed: Alt+F1 while quick view is open on the desktop -> drive dropdown list opens and quickly closes again
23.02.05   Fixed: FTP: CDUP command on command line didn't refresh the current dir and directory listing
23.02.05   Fixed: CRC check: support file names starting with a space, or multiple spaces
23.02.05   Added: wcx_ftp.ini, [General], GetModeFromLocalFile=1 : The name of the local file determines the transfer mode (binary, text) in automatic mode (normally: the name of the remote file)
23.02.05   Fixed: Multi-Rename-Tool: "Load results" button didn't take content plugins into account
23.02.05   Added: New function ContentPluginUnloading in content plugin interface
23.02.05   Fixed: Content plugin returning different type on extraction than when loading -> crash in search function. Solution: Ignore such values in search (TC reports content plugin interface version >=1.3)
23.02.05   Fixed: Duplicate hotkey Alt+P in multi-rename tool
23.02.05   Fixed: Search - feed to listbox - lock tab - double click on directory -> search result was lost
23.02.05   Added: Drag&Drop to external programs now also works when using Alt+Tab instead of moving the cursor out of the program window
23.02.05   Fixed: Some functions didn't function correctly if the TEMP environment variable contained / instead of \, e.g. c:/temp instead of c:\temp
23.02.05   Fixed: Viewing files with Alt+F3 no longer working after "feed to listbox"
23.02.05   Fixed: Custom columns appeared to be sorted by non-existing column when sorting by the last column and then deleting that column
22.02.05   Fixed: Double click on configuration in custom columns dialog -> after closing the dialog, drag&drop of items was active
22.02.05   Fixed: LOAD-SAVE panel in FIND FILES not always refreshed correctly (when saving with name which is part of another existing name)
22.02.05   Fixed: Changed quick search cursor color back to what it was in TC 6.50, because the cursor became almost invisible with some configurations
22.02.05   Tested:Shell overlay icons definitely do NOT work on WinNT4 even with IE6, IShellIconOverlay interface is NOT available
22.02.05   Fixed: Synchronize dirs of 2 archives, deleting file via right click menu sometimes deleted file from the wrong archive

02.02.05 Release Total Commander 6.51 Final
02.02.05   Fixed: Windows XP: underlined characters and focus lines were not shown in dialogs, except when entering them with the keyboard. Solution: call to WM_CHANGEUISTATE
02.02.05   Fixed: Custom columns configuration dialog: Set minimum width, so the checkboxes and buttons at the bottom can no longer overlap each other
02.02.05   Fixed: Alt+F3 on file in archive stored with absolute path "\filename" passed wrong name with two \\ to external viewer
02.02.05   Fixed: FTP over HTTP didn't recognize 
 tag (horizontal line)
01.02.05   Fixed: Help file: replaced Helv font by Arial
01.02.05   Fixed: Switching from vertical arrangement to side by side panel view with two lines of tab headers in comment view showed wrongly sized listbox
01.02.05   Fixed: Compare by contents: Search function didn't search beyond the end of the shorter file
01.02.05   Fixed: Wrong number of selected files shown after changing attributes if nothing changed in the current dir
01.02.05   Fixed: Don't show any error when clicking on "Start" in "Compact thumbnail database" when no database exists yet
01.02.05   Fixed: Switching to TC via a hotkey of TC's desktop icon no longer worked (except when minimizing to the system tray)

30.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.51 Beta 1
30.01.05   Fixed: Switching between two ftp connections 0: and 1: both pointing to the root of the SAME server didn't update the tab header
28.01.05   Fixed: Hourglass cursor sometimes remained on panel when switching from normal tab to search results tab
28.01.05   Fixed: Access violation unpacking AES-encrypted ZIP archive if AES plugin installed under different extension than .AES
28.01.05   Fixed: Duplicating search results tab with Ctrl+T no longer worked
26.01.05   Fixed: F7 create directory: Couldn't create directory with Chinese characters where the second byte had the same code as "|" used to create multiple dirs in one step. Same problem in MRT Search+Replace
26.01.05   Fixed: Synchronize dirs between subdir in archive other than zip and normal dir didn't correctly take that archive subdir into account
26.01.05   Fixed: tc.size and tc.writedate columns in custom columns view will now be sorted (and show sorting headers) also via shortcuts Ctrl+F6 and Ctrl+F5
26.01.05   Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+Shift+F1 twice from custom view will switch to thumbnails view and back to the previous custom view, same for Ctrl+Shift+F2
26.01.05   Fixed: Auto-install plugins remembered wrong base path "plugins\w" instead of just "plugins"
26.01.05   Fixed: Shift+F7 also searched backwards instead of forwards (only Shift+F3 should have done that)
26.01.05   Added: Custom columns view: Show  instead of size if dir size isn't counted
26.01.05   Fixed: Text thumbnails: use DEFAULT_FONT instead of ANSI_FONT to use default language settings
26.01.05   Fixed: Multi-rename-tool: Didn't remember spaces at the beginning/end of the string
25.01.05   Fixed: FTP: When connection is lost and a reconnect is needed, MODE Z isn't re-activated but TC still assumes that it is active -> empty dir lists
25.01.05   Fixed: pluginbasedir wasn't described in the help
25.01.05   Fixed: Rename field width wrong under custom columns view
25.01.05   Fixed: Deleted some unsupported internal commands from 16bit inc file
25.01.05   Fixed: Changed error message shown when a plugin with the same name is already installed in a different dir
25.01.05   Fixed: After "disk full" message, copying was aborted - now the user can continue with the next file by clicking "Skip"
25.01.05   Fixed: Resume copying in background transfer manager was not working after clicking on the close button
25.01.05   Fixed: Print dialog: using right mouse button to change borders caused unwanted results
25.01.05   Fixed: Synchronize dirs, FTP downloads: Allow to continue sync even when there is a transfer error (user will be asked)
25.01.05   Fixed: Trying to download a file which is locked on the server while MODE Z is enabled hangs TC (only with Filezilla server, not with other servers)
25.01.05   Fixed: When switching back from custom columns view with only 2 columns (name+ext) in both windows to full view on the left, the header titles were not restored
25.01.05   Fixed: When changing the header width in one window, change it in the other window too ONLY if both show the same view (full view or same custom fields)
21.01.05   Fixed: When moving the re-packing of archives (e.g. zip->rar) to background, the rest of the files wasn't repacked
21.01.05   Fixed: Checking of md5sum.txt worked, but md5sum (without extension) wasn't recognized
21.01.05   Fixed: Search max. 5 seconds for other installed plugins when auto-installing (to avoid that an entire drive is searched)
21.01.05   Fixed: Dotted frame around current quick search item had strange colors (and not the normal inverse color) with some color settings
21.01.05   Fixed: Unwanted beep when connecting to FTP server supporting MODE Z compression

17.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 Final
17.01.05   Fixed: Configuration dialog: Show (Language) in addition to the translated term meaning language
17.01.05   Fixed: Configuration dialog: changing both custom fields in thumbnails view and language left the custom field names in the old language
17.01.05   Fixed: Deleting or sorting custom column views didn't update the main menu
16.01.05   Fixed: tcuninst.exe didn't consider UseIniInProgramDir option in wincmd.ini
16.01.05   Fixed: Bug in WinXP listbox control: lparam of lb_setcaretindex is ignored (items are always scrolled completely into view) -> move mouse cursor as a workaround
16.01.05   Fixed: Left mouse selection mode: Right clicking on partially visible thumbnail still caused unwanted scrolling

14.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 RC2
14.01.05   Fixed: Rename/lock tab dialog: disallow to check both lock options simultaneously
14.01.05   Fixed: Error "function not implemented" when deleting last custom columns view, while both panels show that view
14.01.05   Fixed: Use cabinet.dll coming with Windows (if available) instead of cabrk.dll (made from cabinet sdk)
12.01.05   Fixed: 'Save position' with 100% width of right panel caused left listbox to be lost if the menu bar has more than 1 line
12.01.05   Fixed: Right clicking on partially visible thumbnail caused unwanted scrolling
12.01.05   Fixed: Support for CurVer redirection key in registry e.g. Acrobat.Reader\CurVer pointing to Acrobat.Reader.7 <- only on Win2k, XP and ME (and newer)

11.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 RC1
11.01.05   Fixed: When user entered environment variable like %commander_path% in auto-install plugins, the env var wasn't resolved
09.01.05   Fixed: Shift+click on current path to go up one or more dirs: place cursor on dir from which we were coming
09.01.05   Fixed: Delayed custom fields lost when changing sort order while custom fields are still being retrieved
07.01.05   Fixed: Sort order in ft_datetime fields wasn't always correct
07.01.05   Fixed: ZIP packer: Overwriting of a file starting with a dual byte character not working, the file ended up twice in the zip
07.01.05   Fixed: Changedir to path in the form ::{idlist} not working in button bar if current dir was already a virtual folder
07.01.05   Fixed: When overwriting a file >2 GB, the remaining space wasn't correctly checked - TC gave a disk space warning even if size of newfile-size of oldfile >= free space
07.01.05   Fixed: Search dialog: "Plugins" header lost if not translated
07.01.05   Fixed: Using stored search with search in plugins always used AND and never OR to combine the rules
07.01.05   Fixed: Changed date from 2004 to 2005 in help, nag screen, about box
07.01.05   Fixed: Switch back to sorting by name when switching from custom columns view to thumbnails view
06.01.05   Fixed: Problem with non-appearing icons and/or custom fields on the right panel only
05.01.05   Added: Removed duplicate checking when mass-adding thumbnails to preloading
05.01.05   Added: Abort preloading of thumbnails with ESC with Preloadthumbnails=1 and Preloadthumbnails=2 (especially for big branch views)

04.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 12
04.01.05   Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration] ThumbnailMemoryLimit=  sets number of thumbnails per panel cached in memory (default: 200 in Win9x, 500 on NT/2000/XP, minimum: 100)
04.01.05   Fixed: Sometimes when entering a dir while in thumbnails mode, one thumbnail wasn't shown
04.01.05   Fixed: Packing problem: Last character of Chinese names cut off in half when packing to .GZ or other packers which can hold only 1 file
04.01.05   Fixed: WinXP: Custom Column configurations dialog list out of bounds error when dragging items
04.01.05   Fixed: Opening drive dropdown combo, then clicking on folder tab header changed order of tab headers
02.01.05   Added: Search dialog: moved 'Plugins' page in front of 'Load/Save' page. Note to translators: Do NOT change the order of these strings!
02.01.05   Fixed: Comments from subdirs not deleted when moving a directory to a different drive
31.12.04   Fixed: Compare by contents, Unicode: Last character of last line missing if line wasn't ended with a newline character
31.12.04   Fixed: Compare by contents: newline at end was not always detected correctly
31.12.04   Added: More preloadthumbnails options: 0: no preload, 1: preload, but not in branch view, 2: preload all, 3: preload next 2 lines beyond last file
31.12.04   Added: Calls to Irfanview/Xnview now protected by their own critical section separate from icon load section
31.12.04   Fixed: New Irfanview extraction method: Avoid deadlocks by using a callback window belonging to the calling thread
31.12.04   Added: Internal content plugin: in addition to tc. the old form (int). is again allowed (for people using the leaked beta version)
31.12.04   Added: ignore redefinition of LEFT+RIGHT (cursor keys without any shift keys) in thumbnails view
29.12.04   Added: Thumbnail database: wincmd.ini, [Configuration], ThumbnailPrealloc= sets number of bytes to pre-allocate for thumbnails database to avoid fragmentation (default: 100'000)
29.12.04   Added: Protect thumbnail database via a Mutex global object to avoid problems when a user tries to compact the database in one program and shows thumbnails in another
29.12.04   Fixed: Do not load two or more content plugins with the same name
29.12.04   Added: Explanation of CompareIgnoreRepSpace to help file
29.12.04   Fixed: Multi-rename tool couldn't show file sizes >2 GB in the list (didn't affect rename function)
29.12.04   Fixed: FTP download from list: Don't ask for target dir if there are Header: or Firewall: lines and all other lines contain a target path
29.12.04   Fixed: Changing from one virtual folder to another via command line parameters didn't work
28.12.04   Added: Update quick view panel also when quick search dialog is up
28.12.04   Fixed: Access violation when trying to open item in control panel
28.12.04   Fixed: Several problems with thumbnail loading
24.12.04   Fixed: File list sometimes empty when switching from tree view to normal view (when tree view was empty)
24.12.04   Fixed: Icon display problem corrected

22.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 11
22.12.04   Fixed: XP: No thumbnails for folders with PreloadThumbnails=0 (the default)
22.12.04   Fixed: Changing custom fields below thumbnails didn't update view when database disabled
22.12.04   Fixed: When deleting the last custom columns view, TC now switches to full view
22.12.04   Fixed: NT4: List index out of bounds when deleting last custom columns view and clicking apply
21.12.04   Added: Custom columns view: call to contentstopgetvalue also when switching to a different view
21.12.04   Fixed: Don't show an error when pressing Ctrl+C on [..] with no files selected. Reason: Some translation programs send Ctrl+C on double clicks
21.12.04   Fixed: Decoding of base64 multipart files not working when other parts didn't contain encoding (e.g. base64)
19.12.04   Added: Changed last access and creation date to new ft_datetime format
19.12.04   Added: Changed name of Total Commander's internal content plugin from (int) to tc, e.g. tc.size
19.12.04   Added: New internal command cm_FocusCmdLine puts focus on command line
17.12.04   Fixed: Shift+Up/Down while in the command line caused strange file selection changes
17.12.04   Fixed: Better handling of CRC file creation in search - feed to listbox: Store full paths to files when creating one crc file, or store the files in the same dir as the files (one crc per file)
17.12.04   Added: New search direction option for lister: Shift+F3 now always searches backwards, and resets search direction for F3 to forward (Ctrl+F3 still switches between forward+backward search)
17.12.04   Fixed: Don't try to load tree view in file system plugins
17.12.04   Added: More default date/time formats (D-M-Y)
17.12.04   Fixed: Sometimes the thumbnail for 1 file wasn't shown after copying
15.12.04   Fixed: Alt+Enter on archive inside archive showed open packer icon
15.12.04   Added: Quick search in thumbnails view: Draw dotted line around entire item, not just the name
15.12.04   Added: Show checkmark for left and right branch view commands
15.12.04   Added: Command to configure current custom columns view: cm_CustomColumnDlg
14.12.04   Fixed: When the %TEMP% variable points to a junction, using %L as parameter would delete the junction when closing the called app
14.12.04   Added: When dragging file to a tab with locked but dir changes allowed, offer to copy to the locked root instead of the current dir
14.12.04   Added: 16-bit version: all cm_vis... commands now also supported, e.g. cm_visHistHotButtons to show/hide history+hotlist buttons
14.12.04   Fixed: Background transfer manager wasn't using custom icon (when using the iconlib= option in wincmd.ini)
14.12.04   Fixed: Typing cd .  in command line after search results was leading to strange results
14.12.04   Fixed: Ctrl+Z edit comment didn't show & character in names
12.12.04   Added: When adding a new column in custom columns configuration, default to right aligned for all numeric fields
12.12.04   Added: New internal command cm_ToggleLockDcaCurrentTab same as cm_ToggleLockCurrentTab but with directory changes allowed
12.12.04   Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+U not correctly working with "locked but directory changes allowed"
12.12.04   Added: Don't show plugin install dialog when entering plugin archive with Ctrl+PageDown instead of Enter
10.12.04   Fixed: Double click behind last item (of not full row) in thumbnails view still launched the last item.

09.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 10a
09.12.04   Fixed: Crash when starting with option iconsinthread=0
09.12.04   Fixed: Image loading via Irfanview stopped working with some newer Irfaview versions

08.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 10
08.12.04   Added: New content plugin function to define the default sort order, e.g. ascending for name/extension, descending for size+date/time
07.12.04   Added: New content plugin field type ft_datetime (combined date+time)
07.12.04   Added: Clear file lists before switching to new tab, to avoid sorting of the old list by the new sort order (slow)
07.12.04   Added: totalcmd.inc: Moved section FileOperations in front of section Configuration (necessary so cm_Edit is found before cm_EditConfig!)
07.12.04   Added: Win9x/ME: Show error "Too many files" with lists longer than 32700 files, the maximum supported by standard listbox controls
07.12.04   Fixed: 16-bit version: Show error "Too many files" with lists longer than 16380 files, the maximum supported by 16-bit tcollection
07.12.04   Fixed: Multiline files.bbs comments: Remove leading spaces and | from additional lines when editing and displaying hints
07.12.04   Added: Windows NT/2000/XP: Copy file lists to clipboard as Unicode text (cm_copynamestoclip etc.)
07.12.04   Fixed: Changed MD5 checksum format to Unix standard: MD5 checksum, one space, an asterisk "*" indicating binary check, then the file name
07.12.04   Added: Search dialog: Move "encrypted" checkbox to location of "compressed" on Win9x
05.12.04   Fixed: Could not unpack while in thumbnails view
05.12.04   Fixed: Name+Ext. columns weren't initially translated when TC started with custom columns view
05.12.04   Fixed: Move current thumbnail into view when resizing panel or maximizing Total Commander
05.12.04   Added: Correctly truncate file extension also in Show - Brief with BriefViewWidthLimit= set
05.12.04   Added: Custom columns view: cut off name only at end of ext column when there is no extension
03.12.04   Added: Thumbnails view: Show extension always attached to name (not right-aligned) if thumbnail width <72 pixels
03.12.04   Fixed: Tabstops lost in custom columns configuration list
03.12.04   Fixed: restrictinterface=4 blocked only the context menu, not cm_buttonconfig
03.12.04   Added: Search by content plugins: translated operators can now have a length of max. 48 characters
03.12.04   Fixed: Switching away from a custom columns view tab and back reverted sort order to "by name"
03.12.04   Fixed: Resorting custom columns view to "unsorted" mode made on demand extra fields disappear!
03.12.04   Fixed: Better centering of icons in thumbnails view

01.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 9
01.12.04   Fixed: Using backslash in search function (content plugins) not correctly saved
01.12.04   Added: 16-bit version (without the thumbnail+custom view features, they require options not available on Win16)
30.11.04   Fixed: Icons in Nethood sometimes not shown
30.11.04   Fixed: FTP over HTTP: File sizes >2 GB not always working
30.11.04   Fixed: FTP over HTTP not working if the proxy was sending a login banner larger than 8 kBytes (now: up to 16 k possible)
30.11.04   Fixed: Close TC 6.5 with custom columns mode sorted by one of the columns, start older TC version -> crash. Solution: Save custom sort orders in separate variables
30.11.04   Fixed: Custom columns view: Sorting by (int).size or (int).date not working in FTP, plugins and Nethood
30.11.04   Fixed: Thumbnail view: Ignore invalid thumbnails returned by the Explorer method
30.11.04   Fixed: Thumbnail view: Don't send notification for thumbnails without an image
29.11.04   Fixed: (again, see 19.11.) Clicking behind LAST column in thumbnail view selected first item on the next line
29.11.04   Fixed: Disabled Ctrl+PageDown on files in plugins or ftp, it could hang the program for a while
29.11.04   Fixed: Don't create quick search dialog when typing letters during drag&drop, could lead to freezing of TC
29.11.04   Fixed: Maximized custom-columns dialog was shown at the wrong position
29.11.04   Fixed: Custom columns view: vertical position thumb wasn't updated when changing sort order
29.11.04   Fixed: Update header position in custom columns view also when scrolling horizontally with an Intellimouse (untested)
28.11.04   Fixed: LongInStatus=1 not updating status line when switching to thumbnails view
28.11.04   Fixed: Don't count dir size on  in custom columns mode if (int).size isn't shown
28.11.04   Fixed: Scroll back to 0 horizontal position when switching between custom column views
28.11.04   Added: Larger width of dropdown comboboxes in search - plugins
28.11.04   Fixed: Custom columns view: Revert to sort by name when switching between custom column views
28.11.04   Fixed: Sorting with on demand or delayed custom columns not always working
28.11.04   Fixed: Wrong icon shown for junctions in thumbnail view

24.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 8
24.11.04   Added: More options for UseIniInProgramDir: Add 2 for wcx_ftp.ini also in TC dir, add 4 to override registry settings
24.11.04   Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration] UseIniInProgramDir=1 causes TC to use wincmd.ini in program dir (must be written in that ini!)
24.11.04   Added: Content plugins now support on demand retrieval of fields (fields may not be mixed with delayed fields in same section)
24.11.04   Fixed: Button bar edit misbehaviour on Win9x only (click on icon sometimes selects wrong item)
23.11.04   Added: Show big icons (32x32) in thumbnails view, also added Win2k 32x32 folder icons
23.11.04   Added: FTP: New firewall/proxy type: HTTP CONNECT (tunnels ftp through a HTTP proxy like SQUID).
23.11.04   Fixed: Thumbnails mode: Thumbnail extraction stopped when changing sort order
23.11.04   Fixed: Thumbnails mode: LongInStatus=1 not updating status line when using left/right cursor keys
23.11.04   Fixed: Thumbnails mode: Thumbnails are now horizontally centered within their cell
23.11.04   Fixed: Thumbnails mode: current item frame now around the entire item including the thumbnail
23.11.04   Added: wincmd.ini [Colors] ThumbnailFrame= sets color of frame around thumbnails. -1=default, -2=invisible, or RGB value red+256*green+65536*blue
21.11.04   Added: Translation of bytes, kBytes and and MBytes in Search dialog (second page)
21.11.04   Added: New default hotkey for custom columns mode list: Shift+F1
21.11.04   Fixed: Wrong icon displayed in zip files for file types like .bmp with icons per file
21.11.04   Fixed: No extension shown in Search - feed to listbox when using a custom view
19.11.04   Fixed: Clicking behind LAST column in thumbnail view selected first item on the next line
19.11.04   Fixed: Wrong report for equal/unequal files in the status line of sync dirs
19.11.04   Fixed: Some corrections to totalcmd.inc
19.11.04   Fixed: Internal content plugin: dosname: Show uppercase long name when no short name is returned by FindFirstFile()
19.11.04   Fixed: Custom columns configuration list: show spaces instead of \n
19.11.04   Fixed: Return results from slow content plugins not ignored when changing dirs
19.11.04   Added: Changed order of thumbnail extraction options to order used by Total Commander
19.11.04   Added: New item in tabstop header right click menu: "Configure this custom columns view" 
19.11.04   Fixed: Apply button not enabled when changing horizontal scrollbar or auto-adjust options in custom columns dialog
19.11.04   Added: New internal field "offline" for files with offline attribute

17.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 7
17.11.04   Fixed: Custom columns view: Invalid date/time shown for virtual file items
17.11.04   Fixed: Custom columns view: Resorting by columns requested custom fields for ".." updir item by mistake
17.11.04   Added: Show warning to plugin writers and translators when a custom field contains an invalid character .=:"|[] which are used for special purposes
17.11.04   Fixed: Custom columns configuration: Views with no additional columns were not shown in the list
17.11.04   Added: Support for environment variables in local dir of configured ftp server connection
17.11.04   Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] BriefViewWidthLimit= sets width limit (in pixels) for a column in brief view
17.11.04   Fixed: Packer problem with latest rar version 3.4x packing subdirs twice
16.11.04   Added: New internal content value 'directory'
16.11.04   Added: Custom view modes support two new options: horizontal scrollbar on/off, auto-adjust name field width to window width
14.11.04   Fixed: Big fonts mode: Horizontal scrollbar was shown in custom columns dialog
16.11.04   Added: Show XP-style thin frames for thumbnails instead of 3d frames
16.11.04   Added: Refresh comment also in extra fields view when editing it with Ctrl+Z
16.11.04   Added: F2/Ctrl+R will now also cause a reload of all custom fields
16.11.04   Added: Win32-style hints can now also contain custom fields from content plugins
14.11.04   Added: wincmd.ini PreloadThumbnails=1 pre-load thumbnails when entering a dir (not only when scrolling to the file)
14.11.04   Added: Thumbnail extraction queue: Extract those thumbnails first which are in the currently visible part of the list
14.11.04   Fixed: Stop wild flickering when changing width of panel with thumbnails (sometimes even causing a crash)
14.11.04   Added: New internal field (int).path
14.11.04   Added: New internal commands to cycle through custom views:  cm_srcnextcustomview, cm_srcprevcustomview, cm_trgnextcustomview, cm_trgprevcustomview, cm_leftnextcustomview, cm_leftprevcustomview, cm_rightnextcustomview, cm_rightprevcustomview
14.11.04   Fixed: Ctrl-F5 and Ctrl-F6 in custom columns view didn't sort in descending order by default
14.11.04   Fixed: Some search parameters were no longer saved

12.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 6
12.11.04   Fixed: Quick search with search dialog, click on file -> dotted frame around last match not removed
12.11.04   Fixed: Field (int).VersionString was broken
12.11.04   Added: Custom columns dialog: Only show up/down column sorting scroller when a line is active
12.11.04   Added: Listbox for custom columns: Edit configuration with double click
12.11.04   Added: Changed title of listbox for custom columns to Custom column configurations (sort with drag&drop):
12.11.04   Fixed: Search files dialog: When saving a search, don't save plugins if the option "Search plugins" is NOT checked
12.11.04   Added: Save screen position of custom columns configuration dialog
12.11.04   Fixed: Custom columns dialog header wasn't translated
11.11.04   Fixed: Thumbnails via Irfanview/Xnview stopped working correctly

10.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 5
10.11.04   Fixed: Switching directly from custom columns view to thumbnails view showed wrong sorting headers
10.11.04   Fixed: DetectString for WDX plugin didn't work with checks by content, e.g. [0]="M" & [1]="Z". However, this is really not recommended, because it cannot be postponed and will slow down file display a lot.
10.11.04   Added: Alt+Shift+F3 now also works in search function
10.11.04   Added: Auto-install plugins: Support 2 cases: all plugins in their own dir below the plugin base dir, and all plugins in subdirs below plugin type subdir
10.11.04   Added: Auto-install plugins: If a plugin with the same name is already installed, TC will suggest its directory for the installation
10.11.04   Added: Internal plugin (int).dosname field containing the 8.3 form of the file name used by dos
10.11.04   Added: VersionInOverwrite=0 turns off display of file version information in overwrite dialog
09.11.04   Added: Allow to check md5 checksums from files named md5sum.txt
09.11.04   Added: Support for content plugins in spread/shrink selection
09.11.04   Added: WinXP: Configuration - Misc - Sounds: Try to open second page of sounds panel
09.11.04   Added: New configuration dialog for custom columns view
07.11.04   Added: New internal command cm_visHistHotButtons to switch history+hotlist button on/off
07.11.04   Fixed: Option "remove thumbnails for inaccessible disks" had no effect for USB disks
07.11.04   Fixed: Colors by content plugins were no longer shown
07.11.04   Fixed: Crash when closing all duplicate tabs via right click menu causes tab header to disappear
07.11.04   Fixed: Tab header right click menu wasn't translated
05.11.04   Added: Support for environment variables in parameters /L= and /R=
05.11.04   Fixed: Custom columns not working with translated strings if they contained conditional text in "", e.g. [=(int).taille" k"]
05.11.04   Fixed: Disallow \n string in custom columns view (it's used to separate fields)
05.11.04   Fixed: Unpacking Cab file to a Windows 2000 share (UNC path) creates truncated files, due to a bug in Windows (SetFileAttributes truncates open file!)
05.11.04   Added: Try to remove background color borders from Explorer thumbnails
05.11.04   Fixed: Sometimes Explorer returned thumbnails larger than requested (e.g. always the Explorer standard of 128x128)
05.11.04   Added: Call to GdiFlush in Icon thread to ensure that all images are fully drawn

03.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 4
03.11.04   Added: Custom columns: Always show size field (and other fields of type int64) with thousands separators as configured in control panel
03.11.04   Fixed: Plugin detect strings were sometimes truncated in the configuration dialog, now strings up to 2000 characters should work
03.11.04   Added: Limit the number of loaded thumbnail images per side to 500 (Win9x: 200) in very large dirs to keep resource+memory usage low
03.11.04   Fixed: Find files - Plugins page: Help didn't work
03.11.04   Fixed: Thumbnails view: Ctrl+Home/End now places cursor on first/last item
03.11.04   Fixed: Thumbnails view: Shift+cursor up/down now selects all files between the current item and the previously current item
03.11.04   Added: Some more strings can now be translated: RegEx, LS Plugins, Lister Plugins
02.11.04   Added: Don't save custom columns having only name+extension columns and no name
02.11.04   Added: TC now supports a maximum of 29 custom view modes, only the configured modes with a name are listed in the menu!
02.11.04   Added: cm_LeftDirBranch and cm_RightDirBranch activates branch view in left/right panel
02.11.04   Fixed: No custom fields and no EXE icons shown for files with Unicode names
02.11.04   Fixed: Always scroll viewed file name into view when activating quick view (Ctrl+Q)
02.11.04   Fixed: Removed some more calls to content plugins which cannot work (e.g. for ftp in multi-rename tool, or archives in search)
02.11.04   Fixed: Could not sort by [=(int).size] field
02.11.04   Fixed: Re-display thumbnails when switching between two thumbnail database locations (e.g. with different thumbnail sizes)
02.11.04   Added: "Configure custom columns" to sorting header right click menu also on inactive panel
02.11.04   Added: "Comments view" and "Thumbnails view" to sorting header right click menu
31.10.04   Fixed: Auto-install plugins: wrong base dir saved if proposed install path contained a backslash
31.10.04   Fixed: Color filters not working properly after feed search results to panel when using content plugins
31.10.04   Fixed: switching directly from custom columns to thumbnails view shows distorted text
31.10.04   Fixed: cm_ReloadSelThumbs selected current file if nothing was selected
31.10.04   Fixed: Some problems with locked tabs containing search results
31.10.04   Added: wincmd.ini [Lister] IviewAdditionalTypes=*.xyz *.abc   will pass files matching these filters to Irfanview/Xnview (note that these programs may not be able to handle them)
31.10.04   Fixed: Thumbnails view: Fields by file type not shown when slow-loading (in background)
31.10.04   Fixed: Thumbnails view: Fields by file type configuration didn't work correctly
31.10.04   Fixed: Long delay when trying to switch from a virtual folder to a path starting with an invalid environment variable
31.10.04   Added: Custom columns view: Left/right keys switch to command line if there is no horizontal scrollbar
31.10.04   Added: The following internal content plugin fields now also work in archives, ftp etc: size, writedate, writetime, attributes, attributestr
31.10.04   Fixed: Compact thumbnails database: USB sticks were treated like CDs, but they have a separate menu option
31.10.04   Fixed: Show smaller vertical scroller in compare by contents listbox with better resolution on large screens
31.10.04   Fixed: Custom columns configuration: '+' buttons were 'translated'  when changing language
31.10.04   Fixed: Memory leak in overlay icon extract function
29.10.04   Added: Made the option to show custom fields below thumbnails independent from the default custom field, so it's now possible to have no default custom field, but per file type custom fields.
29.10.04   Fixed: Win9x: Compact thumbnail database + delete thumbnails for no longer existing files deleted all thumbnails
29.10.04   Added: Don't drop search results when switching between full, custom columns and thumbnail views (selecting long view in long view will revert to normal file list as in previous versions)
29.10.04   Added: wincmd.ini: Added new option AlwaysUnpackInBackground=, moves unpacker dialog to background automatically: 1 only unzip, 2 also external, 3 show external minimized
29.10.04   Added: Synchronize dirs: Ctrl+F3 to compare left and right
29.10.04   Fixed: Alt+F10 tree not shown correctly when in thumbnails view
29.10.04   Fixed: Thumbnails view: Rightmost thumbnail column could be partly hidden below right scrollbar
29.10.04   Fixed: [(int) Plugin] size.Mbytes no longer showed size in Megabytes
29.10.04   Fixed: Content plugins were also called for FTP, packers, file system plugins and virtual folders, where they cannot work but cause slowdowns
29.10.04   Fixed: No ole drag&drop (e.g. from other windows) when starting up in thumbnail view
29.10.04   Fixed: When unchecking "locked with dir changes allowed", the tab wasn't really unlocked
29.10.04   Fixed: TC sometimes crashed when switching from/to tab "locked with dir changes allowed" containing a virtual folder

27.10.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 3
27.10.04   Fixed: OLE drag&drop (right mouse button) no longer working after switching to thumbnail view
27.10.04   Added: Internal command cm_GoToLockedDir: Go to the base dir of locked tab (locked with directory changes allowed)
27.10.04   Fixed: [install plugin] Confirm overwrites modified the file name (the dialog was re-used from a different function)
27.10.04   Fixed: Files with unknown size in virtual folders got wrong color filters color
27.10.04   Fixed: When pressing Ctrl+Q during thumbnail view and the quick view panel has different width, the thumbnail could have scrolled out of view
27.10.04   Added: wincmd.ini, LockedGoToDriveRoot=1: Clicking the "\" button or pressing Ctrl+\ goes to drive root instead of locked tab root
27.10.04   Added: Custom columns view: The first unit name is now not shown as empty but as ""
27.10.04   Added: Custom columns view: The total of all fields can now be 1023 characters (before: 259 characters)
27.10.04   Added: Thumbnails view will now no longer expect images of the full size (96x96), but max. with this size. Smaller images will be centered. Reason: The border will have TCs background color!
26.10.04   Added: Allow to "lock-with dir change" also virtual folders, if they can be represented in the form ::{idlist}::{idlist} ...
26.10.04   Fixed: Virtual folders on Tabs were no longer remembered
26.10.04   Fixed: When packing file with spaces to same dir and switching to one archive per file, the initial " was forgotten
26.10.04   Added: Sort named filters in copy dialog by name (those with a > in front)
26.10.04   Added: When switching from/to branch view with Ctrl+B, keep the cursor on the file currently under the cursor
26.10.04   Added: Save thumbnail size also in wincmd.ini for the case when the database is deleted by accident
26.10.04   Added: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F5 (when assigned manually to cm_packfiles) opens pack dialog for moving to archive in same dir
26.10.04   Fixed: Sorting by custom fields not working correctly in branch view (slow field wasn't pre-fetched)
26.10.04   Added: Support for zip-nt 2.3 for packing
26.10.04   Fixed: Internal content plugin: field versionnr was sometimes returning invalid values
26.10.04   Added: Synchronize dirs: Show small dotted rectangle around selected copy filters (reason: on WinXP it's often hard to distinguish pressed and non-pressed buttons)
26.10.04   Added: Content plugin variables can now contain conditional text which is only displayed if the variable exists, e.g. [="text1"plugin.variable.unit:4-7"text2"]
26.10.04   Fixed: cm_CompareDirs didn't select a file when a directory with identical name existed in the other panel
26.10.04   Added: New internal command cm_CompareDirsWithSubdirs: Like cm_CompareDirs, but also mark subdirs not present in other dir
26.10.04   Added: Changed default location for thumbnail database on non-win9x systems to %$LOCAL_APPDATA%\GHISLER (reverts to %APPDATA% if local appdata doesn't exist)
26.10.04   Added: wincmd.ini: Added new option AlwaysPackInBackground=, moves packer dialog to background automatically: 1 only zip, 2 also external, 3 show external minimized
26.10.04   Fixed: There was a critical stop sound when pressing ESC in inplace rename when the edit field was empty
26.10.04   Fixed: Custom view: Selection not cleared when changing dirs
26.10.04   Fixed: The first char was cut off when using "Create separate archives, one per selected file/dir" and packing to the same dir
26.10.04   Fixed: Win98SE - Compact thumbnail database caused crash when selecting to delete no longer existing files (cause: missing Unicode function)
24.10.04   Added: "Size" field in custom columns mode can now show the size of directories when counting with spacebar or alt+shift+enter
24.10.04   Added: Custom columns: For size field, added options bkM and bkM2 to show in bytes/kbytes/Mbytes mode (2: with 1 fractional digit)
24.10.04   Fixed: Limit thumbnail dimensions to multiples of 8, otherwise some Explorer extensions seem to crash when extracting plugins!
24.10.04   Fixed: Setting a custom column width of 0 causes access violation
24.10.04   Fixed: Search results (feed to listbox) now also work with custom columns view
24.10.04   Added: QuickSearchExactMatch=1 in wincmd.ini matches exact string in quick search (except for first dot), e.g. typing win.i matches win.ini but not wincmd.ini
24.10.04   Fixed: System information: Detect Intel Itanium (if the operating system supports it)
24.10.04   Fixed: Win98: long delay when entering root dir when color filter defined for internal content plugin - comments
22.10.04   Added: Synchronize dirs: Show more details in footer
22.10.04   Fixed: Search: When selecting a previous regex search from history, regex was checked, but not unchecked when selecting normal item. Fix only possible when history list dropped down.
22.10.04   Added: New internal command cm_ListInternalOnly calls lister without plugins or multimedia, same as Alt+Shift+F3
22.10.04   Added: Always show tip windows (when enabled) in thumbnail view with search results
22.10.04   Added: When displaying search result in thumbnail view (after feed to listbox), show only the file names, without the full path
22.10.04   Fixed: Custom columns view: After switching to a different dir while fields were still being loaded could send field contents to wrong file
22.10.04   Added: Plugin auto-installation now also supports translated plugin descriptions, just append 3 character language string xyz from wcmd_xyz.lng file. Example: descriptiondeu=
22.10.04   Added: AutoInstallPlugins=0 in wincmd.ini turns off automatic installation dialog for plugins
20.10.04   Added: Use Shift+Cursor keys to activate command line in thumbnails view
20.10.04   Fixed: (again) When using separate Left/Right menus, the checkmarks for thumbnail+custom columns view weren't always correct
20.10.04   Added: Copy function: After clicking Abort, it's now possible still to continue the copy operation
20.10.04   Added: Toggling comment view or thumbnails view will remember brief view (will switch back to brief view if it was previously active)
20.10.04   Fixed: Avoid delay when trying to switch to file system plugin via button bar button or directory menu
20.10.04   Added: InplaceRenamePath=2: Disable inplace rename of path, but enable quick directory changes with single click (no shift needed)
20.10.04   Added: New pseudo-environment variable $COMMON_PICTURES

19.10.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 2
19.10.04   Added: Overlay icons are now off by default, because some testers complained about slow file listings
19.10.04   Fixed: cm_ChangeStartMenu causing access violation if start menu was disabled via RestrictInterface=1
19.10.04   Fixed: Horizontal scrollbar disappeared after icon or font size change
19.10.04   Added: Custom colors now also supports content plugins (warning, this can slow down directory listings)
19.10.04   Added: Custom fields: use 'y' for 2 digit year, 'Y' for 4 digit year
19.10.04   Added: New right click menu item "Re-load selected thumbnails", internal command cm_ReloadSelThumbs
19.10.04   Fixed: Option "EXE/LNK not on net" wasn't correctly detected in UNC search results
19.10.04   Added: When the option "EXE/LNK not on net" is checked, then overlay icons will not be retrieved on network drives either
19.10.04   Added: Revert to stored root already when switching away from locked tab with dir changes allowed (affects drag&drop to that tab)
19.10.04   Fixed: Set font size in configuration - plugins to 8 for explanations to avoid that they are cut off
19.10.04   Fixed: Gray+ now works in background transfer manager even if no control has focus
19.10.04   Fixed: Custom columns: zero floating point values showed as 0.0000000000E0000 instead of 0
19.10.04   Added: New pseudo-environment variables $MYPICTURES,$LOCAL_APPDATA,$COMMON_APPDATA,$COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY,$COMMON_DOCUMENTS,$COMMON_PROGRAMS,$COMMON_STARTMENU,$COMMON_STARTUP
19.10.04   Fixed: Sometimes access violation when trying to sort columns in custom columns configuration
19.10.04   Fixed: Custom columns search page was sometimes opened without any edit box line (not correctly saved)
18.10.04   Fixed: When MD5 creation was remembered, the wrong extension .sfv was used
18.10.04   Fixed: Don't check directory tab contents at every program start (TC was checking whether an archive was open)
17.10.04   Fixed: Problem switching to locked tab containing either thumbnail view or custom columns
17.10.04   Fixed: Keep selection and current item when switching to/from thumbnail view
17.10.04   Fixed: When using separate Left/Right menus, the checkmarks for thumbnail+custom columns view weren't always correct
17.10.04   Fixed: Drag&Drop on archive or dir in thumbnail view copied the files to  the wrong location
17.10.04   Added: On slow drives, when pressing ENTER on ZIP files, show open package icon earlier, before checking that it is really an archive (better feedback)
14.10.04   Fixed: Thumbnails view not working for BMP etc. if Explorer method disabled or unavailable
14.10.04   Fixed: Custom fields not on same base line as name+ext!
14.10.04   Fixed: Problem with Tab in search dialog
14.10.04   Fixed: Use DIBs instead of DDBs for thumbnails, should avoid problems with black thumbnails
14.10.04   Fixed: Custom columns+thumbnails view: Specified field units (e.g. kbytes) were not always working
14.10.04   Fixed: Win9x: F6 or Shift+F6 during rename didn't select the correct name part for multi-dot file names
14.10.04   Fixed: Plugin installation: a string wasn't translated yet
14.10.04   Added: Custom column mode: append extension to name if this is set in full view too!
14.10.04   Fixed: Custom column mode: Extension wasn't correctly truncated (too short)
14.10.04   Fixed: Thumbnail database configuration: >> button pointed to file selection dialog instead of tree dialog
14.10.04   Added: Thumbnail database can now be disabled by specifying empty dir (the thumbnail size will then be stored in wincmd.ini)
14.10.04   Fixed: Thumbnail database location change became effective only after restarting TC
14.10.04   Added: Ctrl+Shift+F1 hotkey for thumbnail view
14.10.04   Fixed: Disable overlay icon checkbox if option unavailable (it only works on Windows ME/2000/XP)
14.10.04   Added: Synchonize: When 2 files with same name but different case are found, then show them both in the error dialog
14.10.04   Added: Changed attribute character for encrypted files to 'e', compressed to 'c'
13.10.04   Fixed: Unchecking "Show custom fields below thumbnais" wasn't working
13.10.04   Fixed: Apply button not shown when deleting last column in custom view
13.10.04   Added: Commands for thumbnail view and custom view modes to totalcmd.inc
12.10.04   Fixed: Thumbnail view couldn't be activated with internal English language
12.10.04   Fixed: MODE Z wasn't activated because tcunzlib.dll wasn't loaded automatically

12.10.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 1
12.10.04   Fixed: Color filters were not working correctly with files or dirs >4 GB (when comparing by size)
12.10.04   Added: New command cm_switchOverlayIcons to switch overlay icons on and off
06.10.04   Added: Right click menu to tab headers to select between brief, full, and custom columns mode, and to configure custom columns
06.10.04   Added: When selecting a previously unused custom columns mode, TC will now open the configuration dialog to define the columns
06.10.04   Fixed: Custom columns mode wasn't markted in the menu after switching to it
05.10.04   Added: Increased max. button count per button bar to 299
05.10.04   Fixed: Crash when trying to edit button bar with more than 199 buttons
03.10.04   Added: FTP: Option to only use ports from limited range for PORT connections, useful when behind a NAT firewall.
03.10.04   Added: Moved zlib unpacking (for thumbnails and MODE Z) to separate DLL tcunzlib.dll, so wcmzip32.dll from previous version can be kept
24.09.04   Added: Configuration - Display: Show overlay icons allows to show/hide the little overlay icons shown for links, shares, etc.
22.09.04   Added: Search in plugins: restore last used plugin search when switching to plugins page of the search dialog
21.09.04   Added: Content plugins: Support for detect strings (only call plugin for those files for which it was written, e.g. the id3 plugin only for mp3 files)
21.09.04   Added: Remember special display modes (thumbnails, comments, custom columns) when closing TC
21.09.04   Added: Remember special display modes (thumbnails, comments, custom columns) separately per tab
21.09.04   Fixed: Problem with thumbnail database packing (image dimensions were lost)
19.09.04   Added: Delete thumbs database in uninstall function when choosing to delete settings files
17.09.04   Fixed: Thumbnail view: Avoid that the empty space after the last item could get focus
17.09.04   Fixed: gray+ no longer working in background transfer manager
15.09.04   Added: Synchronize dirs: Also allow to set copy direction of equal files (via right click menu only!), e.g. for copying them to a different location
15.09.04   Fixed: Search window: Tab key allowed to switch to search results list even if it was invisible
10.09.04   Added: Subdir filters now also work when copying (only files of this type). Syntax: Include: somedir1\ somedir2\ Exclude: *.* | somedir1\ somedir2\
10.09.04   Fixed: Multi-rename file with comment -> comment preserved. Choose "undo" -> comment was lost!
10.09.04   Fixed: Brief view: if extension is very long, and displayed in second or later column, it may overlap with next column
08.09.04   Added: Hints for cut file names in custom view
07.09.04   Added: Store image dimensions in thumbnail database, not in wincmd.ini
07.09.04   Added: Custom column modes 1-9 can be given names
07.09.04   Added: Custom column mode: Column widths of name+ext column can be changed individually per mode
07.09.04   Added: Custom column mode: Store width in dialog units, added up/down selector
01.09.04   Fixed: When copying files in background (F5-F2), no additional NTFS streams were copied
01.09.04   Fixed: Access violation when entering a zip file name longer than 255 characters in Files - Pack
01.09.04   Fixed: Append to read only file failed -> TC asked to overwrite, and then overwrote the file instead of appending
01.09.04   Added: Shift+Click on a part of the current path switches up to that dir
31.08.04   Added: Configuration of multiple (up to 9) custom views
22.08.04   Added: Sorting by custom fields (in custom field view only). Note: This can be slow because the field by which we sort has to be loaded for ALL items before a single item can be shown
17.08.04   Added: Copy/Delete thumbs now in background thread
11.08.04   Added: Compacting thumbs database now works
11.08.04   Added: New configuration page for configuring all plugin types
08.08.04   Added: Improved thumb database: Re-use space freed when deleting images (store free blocks in free list tcthumbs.frl), combine subsequent free blocks to one, split reused block if remaining space >1/2 of inserted image size
04.08.04   Added: Content plugins: New flag to ContentGetValue which asks to delay info extraction if it is slow. The info will then retrieved in a background thread
04.08.04   Added: New Internal commands cm_GotoDriveA..cm_GotoDriveZ to switch to one of these drives (same as "cd c:\", but also works for hotkeys)
04.08.04   Added: Two new internal commands cm_GotoNextDrive and cm_GotoPreviousDrive to switch to next/previous available drive
04.08.04   Added: New pseudo environment variables supported, pointing to locations of virtual folders: %$APPDATA%, %$DESKTOP%, %$PERSONAL% (My Documents), %$PROGRAMS%, %$STARTMENU%, %$FONTS%, %$STARTUP% (use lowercase to access env vars with these names)
03.08.04   Added: F5 - F2 now transfers in background also for FTP uploads+downloads (without affecting the checkbox)
01.08.04   Fixed: When deleting first tab while cursor on another tab, the current tab is moved
01.08.04   Added: New function "Close duplicate tabs" in tab header right click menu
30.07.04   Fixed: Inplace rename not working in thumbs view
27.07.04   Added: CRC-checksum: remember whether md5 is checked or not
27.07.04   Added: MD5-checksum: use lowercase characters for MD5
20.07.04   Fixed: OLE documents support only names up to 31 chars <- problem with thumbs database. Fix: Split long names into parts of 30 chars starting with '?' as indicator
16.07.04   Added: New internal command cm_GoToFirstFile places cursor on first file (not dir) in list
13.07.04   Added: Added: time modifiers for am/pm: A=hour in am/pm format, P=am/pm string, p=a/p string. Example: [=filesys.writetime.A-M-SP] pastes e.g. 11-30-05am
13.07.04   Added: Multi-rename tool: Added date modifiers for plugins in multi-rename tools, e.g. [=filesys.writedate.Y-M-D] pastes time in format year-month-day. Uppercase letters mean fixed with (2004-06-02), lowercase means variable width (2004-6-2)
13.07.04   Added: Multi-rename tool: Added time modifiers for plugins in multi-rename tools, e.g. [=filesys.writetime.H-M-S] pastes time in format hours-minutes-seconds. Uppercase letters mean fixed with (05-03-01), lowercase means variable width (5-3-1)
07.07.04   Added: Content plugins in multi-rename tool. Format: [=pluginname.fieldname.unit] or  [=pluginname.fieldname.unit:4-7] for partial string
07.07.04   Added: First implementation of content plugins
07.07.04   Added: Option to resize lister plugin configuration dialog (and fs plugin dlg too), size not remembered
06.07.04   Added: Support for the new AES plugin supporting WinZIP 9 decryption
06.07.04   Added: Show number of selected / total dirs in footer, configurable via Configuration - Tabstops - "Show directory count in footer"
06.07.04   Added: When leaving branch view mode with Ctrl+B and the cursor stands on a file in a subdir, go to that subdir instead of the branch view root (use F2 or Ctrl+R to go to branch view root)
06.07.04   Added: Create multiple dirs (with F7) with syntax  dir1|dir2|dir3  or  c:\dir1|c:\dir2|c:\dir3  or a mix of both
06.07.04   Added: Pressing F6 (or Shift+F6) in the inplace rename field will select just the name/the name+ext
06.07.04   Added: When dropping data from Outlook Express (or other OLE2 sources), allow to rename if the name already exists (not only overwrite+skip)
30.06.04   Added: New lister plugin function ListGetPreviewBitmap() which is used by thumbnail view
30.06.04   Added: SortUpper=3 uses StrCmpLogicalW on Windows XP, works like SortUpper=2 on other operating systems
30.06.04   Added: Multi-rename tool: Search+Replace now has a history list stored in wincmd.ini sections RenameSearchFind and RenameSearchReplace
30.06.04   Added: Multi-rename tool: Resize Search+Replace box to use all available space
30.06.04   Added: Multi-rename tool: Button to reload rename results for next rename step. Hotkey: F5
30.06.04   Added: Multi-rename tool: Multiple search+replace (not with regex). Example: Remove all German umlauts. Search for: ä|ö|ü|ß Replace with: ae|oe|ue|ss
30.06.04   Added: New internal commands cm_srcactivatetab1..10 activates tab 1-10 in source panel, similar for target. Not in totalcmd.inc: 5201-5299 left tabs, 5301-5399 right tabs
30.06.04   Added: Some more shortcuts to synchronize dirs, see right click menu. Shortcuts not listed there: Ctrl+A select all, Ctrl+F seelct all in current dir
30.06.04   Added: File lists: show  instead of  for junctions (dir links)
29.06.04   Added: Two new switches: /T opens passed dirs in new tabs, /S interprets the passed dirs as source/target instead of left/right (for usage with the /O switch)
29.06.04   Added: New type of locked tab: still allows to change dirs, but reverts to tab-root when clicking "\" or switching to other tab and back
24.06.04   Fixed: Tree view: don't jump x dirs up when creating new dir
24.06.04   Fixed: Lister crashed when using 2 monitors with secondary larger than primary, and lister maximized on secondary
22.06.04   Fixed: Synchronize dirs speed display faulty
19.06.04   Added: Thumbnail viewer
19.06.04   Added: Moved icon overlay extraction to background
18.06.04   Fixed: cm_LoadSelectionFromClip not restoring names with spaces
15.06.04   Added: Support for MODE Z also for FxP, except if source+target are the same server (then MODE Z would be slower)
15.06.04   Added: Support for MODE Z compressed uploading/downloading (using zlib compression 'on the fly')
14.06.04   Fixed: No progress bar when downloading files >4GB via HTTP (Ctrl+N)
14.06.04   Added: Clear timer after pause of copying
06.06.04   Added: Show current speed also when copying in synchronize dirs function
06.06.04   Fixed: Radio buttons problem with tabs
06.06.04   Added: treefilelocation__server_share= sets location of treeinfo file only for drive \\server\share
06.06.04   Added: treefilelocationE= sets location of treeinfo file only for drive E (note: only works if treefilelocation= is set too)
06.06.04   Added: treefilelocation= supports variables %D% =current drive, %R%= root path, %L% =volume label <- must be uppercase, otherwise TC will look for environment variables with this name!
06.06.04   Added: Define different location of files treeinfo.wc via wincmd.ini, treefilelocation=c:\somedir\treeinfo%D%.wc
06.06.04   Added: NTFS-packed files are shown with a 'p' in the attributes column, NTFS-encrypted files with a 'c'.
06.06.04   Added: Search for encrypted files added (finds both NTFS-encrypted files and encrypted files inside of archives), can also be used for coloring
06.06.04   Added: Automatic installation of languages when archive contains file pluginst.inf (same method as for plugins)
04.06.04   Added: Don't check for sharing flags if icon overlays enabled (they will handle that)
01.06.04   Added: Support for icon overlays, can be turned off in wincmd.ini under [Configuration] iconoverlays=0
01.06.04   Added: Shift+button click in search on 'go to file' or 'feed to listbox' opens dir in new tab
01.06.04   Added: Alt+Shift+F3 loads lister without any multimedia additions (images, plugins etc), e.g. to view a picture as binary
01.06.04   Added: Automatic installation of plugins when archive contains file pluginst.inf (see bz2 plugin for sample inf)
31.05.04   Added: Reset speed measurement timers to 0 when pausing
31.05.04   Fixed: The current speed wasn't always shown when copying
31.05.04   Fixed: Shift+Click selected wrong files in dir with more than 65535 files (problem of lb_selitemrange)
05.05.04   Fixed: Internal Unzip CRC-check (Alt+Shift+F9) reported error when a ZIP contained dirs stored with compression method 8 (deflated) instead of 0 (stored)

16.04.04 Release Total Commander 6.03a Final
14.04.04 Release Total Commander 6.03 Final
03.03.04 Release Total Commander 6.02 Final
03.12.03 Release Total Commander 6.01 Final

New in Total Commander 6.0 final (17.11.03):
[Tabs]
- File panel Tab support
- Drop dirs/archives on empty space in tab header adds new tabs with them
- Drop dirs/files on tab header copies files to the directory represented by this tab
- Tab right click menu added
- Ctrl+Click on tab closes this tab
- Internal command cm_visDirTabs to turn folder tabs on and off
- Remember the Desktop, Network Neighborhood and other virtual folders when closing, both the current dir and other tabs!
- Drop tab on target path adds this tab in the target window even if no tab header is shown yet
- cm_ToggleLockCurrentTab: Turn on/off tab locking (e.g. for button bar, hotkey)
- Ctrl+Cursor up opens dir under cursor in new tab
- Ctrl+Shift+Cursor up opens dir under cursor in new tab in OTHER window
- Ctrl+Shift+T opens new tab without activating it
- Ctrl+Shift+W closes all open tabs
- Ctrl+T opens new tab, Ctrl+M starts multi-rename tool, Ctrl+Shift+M changes FTP transfer mode
- cm_OpenDirInNewTab internal message to open dir under cursor in new tab
- Shift+Enter or Ctrl+Enter in History opens this dir in a new tab
- Ctrl+Shift+U Swaps not only the active panels, but all tabs
- appendtabs tabfile.tab  in button bar appends tabs from tabfile.tab to current tabs
- opentabs tabfile.tab  in button bar replaces current tabs with tabs from tabfile.tab

[FTP]
- FTP resume all for uploads and downloads
- When an FTP server or file system plugin reports illegal chars in a name, TC converts them to underscores on download
- Synchronize dirs now uses inofficial MDTM command to set remote file date. This command isn't supported by all servers.
- FTP: Parameter %p in Buttonbar now pastes full FTP URL including user name. %P still pastes just the path on the server without the server name
- Ctrl+D menu now supports changing paths on ftp servers: the path must contain a forward slash as a distinction. Only in source dir possible.
- Punycode accented domain encoding for http and ftp
- FTP client: skip known trojan ports in ftp client to avoid problems with firewalls

[Regular expressions]
- Regular expression searches in lister, search function (Alt+F7), file contents (match one line at a time only, max 4k/line)
- Support for regular expressions in select/unselect files: string must be preceded by a '<', e.g. <^[A-Za-z \.]*
- Regular expressions support in multi-rename tool, using RegExpr.pas, Copyright (c) 1999-00 by Andrey V. Sorokin  - http://anso.da.ru
- Support for regular expressions and stored searches in copy and move operations

[Plugins]
- Changed the way how multimedia plugins are detected: To override the internal handling (or Irfanview), it's now sufficient that MULTIMEDIA appears as ANY node in the detect string
- Alt+Enter on file system plugins now opens the plugin's properties (if the plugin supports it)
- Lister plugin interface version 1.3: Allow to replace internal Multimedia viewers

[Unicode]
- Show Unicode file names in file lists
- Copying and moving of files with Unicode names on Windows NT/2000/XP, also with subdirs!
- Rename Unicode file names in place
- Show tip windows with Unicode names
- Show warning message the first time the user enters a dir with file names from a different codepage (can be disabled)
- If the user hasn't chosen a default font, use "Microsoft Sans Serif" instead of "MS Sans Serif" on Win2k/XP, because it supports Unicode
- Support for Unicode UTF16 in "Compare by contents". If Unicode marker present, this also supports big endian format

[Synchronize dirs]
- Show file sizes >4GB in synchronize dirs (correct sizes were used for calculation, but not displayed)
- Also show compare by contents progress within a file (e.g. when comparing few very big files)
- Synchronize dirs, asymmetric mode: Option to delete all empty dirs in right window (not available in zip or ftp)
- Sync now also works with archives other than ZIP! Everything except for compare by contents is supported
- Compare by content now also works with two ZIP files
- Dialog can now be closed with ESCAPE as long as the user doesn't change the copy direction of any files!

[Multi-rename tool]
- When clicking on [N#-#], user can select letters interactively in currently selected file name
- [G] placeholder inserts grandparent directory name

[New ini options]
- wincmd.ini, [Configuration] ShowInstanceNr=0 turns off numbered commander title bar
- Search in archives recognized by content: Needs to set SearchInFiles= in Wincmd.ini to extensions of this packer
- wincmd.ini, [Configuration] SortUpper=2   uses mixed lexical and numerical sorting, e.g. file10.txt comes AFTER file1.txt
- wincmd.ini, [Configuration] CompareIgnoreRepSpace=0 turns off ignoring of repeated spaces in compare tool

[Packers]
- It's now possible to add files to a subdir of a RAR archive
- Option to pack with ACE now also works with WinACE packer
- Unpacking of files >4GB from ZIP archives up to 4GB in size using the pkware 64bit extra field
- Unpacking of ZIP files created with the Deflate64(TM) method (Deflate64 is a trademark of Pkware Inc.)
- Preserve ZIP archive main comment when adding or removing files
- Wait for external packers in the background (no wait window will be shown)

[User interface]
- Buttons for directory hotlist and directory history
- Show parent dir also in root of drive
- Show free and total disk space in "My Computer" for fixed disks (may not work on all operating systems)
- Shift+Mouse wheel activates history (go back/forward)
- New internal command cm_ShowQuickSearch shows window for searching a file name in the current dir
- Changed page selection in configuration dialog from tabbed notebook to fixed tree+notebook (Mozilla style)
- cm_ShowHint shows tooltip for current file in active file list (and places mouse cursor on it)
- CMF_EXTENDEDVERBS added to context menu call when shift is pressed -> adds "open with" menu item!
- Possibility to change drive icons
- Button bar: Support for 48x48 and 64x64 icons for very high resolution displays, better scaling of sizes between 16 and 32
- Show in title when there is more than one instance of TC, e.g. [2] Total Commander
- Configure colors of compare by contents and lister via the main config dialog
- Show NTFS junctions with a link icon
- Option "Show old 8.3 names lowercase" no longer the default on NT/2000/XP systems
- Lister: Show %done when searching

[File operations]
- Speed limit when copying files (only in background transfer manager)
- F2 Background button in F5 Copy dialog, will add the selected files to the last opened background transfer manager
- In F5 copy dialog, "Options" button: New option to rename copied file or target file when target exists. Names are filename(2).ext, filename(3).ext etc.
- 3 new internal commands: cm_copySamepanel, cm_copyOtherpanel, cm_createShortcuts: Same as cm_copy, but not reacting to Shift and Alt keys!
- More detailed statistics in SFV/MD5 check function
- Drop files on F8-Delete button while right mouse button pressed has same effect as Shift+Drop (bypass recycle bin if it is activated)

[Other additions]
- TC 6.0 now also accepts tcmdkey.zip containing wincmd.key instead of wincmd.key. The key must be stored (no compression) in the file.
- cm_SaveSelection saves current selection internally (automatically done before each file operation)
- Internal command cm_LoadSelectionFromClip to load selection from clipboard (counterpart to cm_CopyNamesToClip)
- Internal commands cm_SaveSelectionToFile, cm_LoadSelectionFromFile to save/load current selection (names of all selected files)
- In Right click menu - new document, look in CSIDL_COMMON_TEMPLATES folder if not found in CSIDL_TEMPLATES folder
- Set environment variable COMMANDER_PATH to location of Total Commander's EXE file (e.g. for loading plugins)

New in Total Commander 5.51 Final (18.02.03):
- FS-Plugins: Copy/Move files between 2 plugins
- FS-Plugins: Support for Multi-Rename tool
- FS-Plugins: Synchronize dirs supported
- FS-Plugins: Search files added
- FS-Plugins: Wildcards support (*.txt) for displaying files
- Lister-Plugin interface officially documented
- Show the first files being deleted in the delete confirmation dialog
- cm_usermenu1..cm_usermenu10 to invoke the first 10 commands in the start menu (e.g. for hotkeys).
- cm_xxx commands now also work in directory hotlist (Ctrl+D)
- New search option to include/exclude specific dirs, e.g. | _vti*\ excludes all dirs starting with "_vti" (search, sync, branch view)
- cm_CopyNetNamesToClip copies file names with UNC path to clipboard
- Single click on active file window title allows to change / copy /paste the current dir
- wincmd.ini [Configuration] copystreams=0 turns off copying of NTFS streams

04.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.50 Silent update (a)

New in Total Commander 5.50 Final (29.10.02):
- Name changed to "Total Commander" - see our homepage for the reasons
- Change size display of total/marked files in footer below file lists (bytes, k or dynamic)
- Copy additional NTFS streams when copying files.
- Copy file comments with the files with F5 (optional, needs to be enabled first)
- Create CRC checksums: Function can now also create and check MD5 checksums
- Drag a link from Internet Explorer to Total Commander (holding down Shift) to open the URL dialog to download the linked file
- File system plugin interface to access external devices or other partitions
- In Copy dialog, "Options" button which allows to set "Overwrite all", "Skip all" etc. before copying
- Lister: In 'Fit to window' mode, resize the video window to the lister window
- Lister: RTF-Viewer (can be disabled)
- Multi-rename tool: Load/Save settings, for often used changes
- Multi-rename tool, search+replace: Support for wildcards * and ?
- Open partially downloaded ZIP files, even during the download
- Option: Always open new FTP connections in the left or right file panel instead of the active file panel
- Show file comments in file lists and as tooltips
- Show name of logged-on user in the title bar if the program was started with RunAs
- The HTML viewer in Lister supports some more tags

New in Wincmd 5.11 Final (16.09.02):
- Many small corrections and additions

New in Wincmd 5.10 Final (28.08.02):
- Unpack RAR 3 archives
- Support for OTP-MD4 -MD5 and -SHA1-authentication for FTP
- Decoder for Yenc-encoded files (Files - decode files)
- Many small corrections and additions

New in Wincmd 5.0 Silent update (26.02.02):
- Many small corrections and additions

New in Version 5.0 Final (21.01.02):
- Support for Windows XP themes on XP
- "Commands" menu split into "Commands" and "Net"
- FTP: support for more than 2 definition strings when defining a new server type
- FTP+HTTP: Auto-Resume download if download-connection lost
- FTP: SOCKS4+SOCKS5 Proxy support (active+passive mode!), SOCKS5 without encryption
- Multi-Rename-Tool: Placeholder [P] puts name of parent dir into file name
- Internal command cm_SyncChangeDir makes Commander change to the directory of the same name also in the other window
- Find files: Start search inside an archive
- FTP: Option to send keepalive messages (e.g. NOOP) to the server in user-defined intervals (for max. 1 hour of inactivity)
- Support for packing of TAR/GZ/TGZ archives. Make sure to choose the correct target OS (Linux or SunOS).
- Direct packing of TAR.Plugin archives, requires re-download of the plugin (e.g. BZIP2)
- Compare by contents: Search for text in both files simultaneously, found text will be underlined
- Compare by contents: Button to show the two windows above each other, e.g. for wide texts
- Right click menu in Lister: added "Copy all URLs" command in HTML-Viewer mode
- Pack: Option to create a separate archive for each selected file/dir. If no target dir is given, the packed file will be placed in the same dir as the original file.
- "Branch view" now added to "commands" menu
- Create CRC-Checksum files in SFV format
- FTP+HTTP in background: Set speed limit for up- and downloads
- Pause button for background operations: FTP, HTTP, copy, pack, unpack
- FTP download from list: detect if list file was modified, and add new items to current download
- Download list can now also copy+move files. Syntax:   copy:sourcename -> targetname   or   move:sourcename -> targetname
- Background transfer manager can now also be started separately without a list file

New in Version 4.54 (16.07.01):
- Compare by content: Switch between binary and text mode.
- Lister: Support word wrap in UTF8 mode

New in Version 4.53 (31.05.01):
- Display of UTF8 (special 1-6 byte Unicode format) in Lister
- Support for ACE 2.0 archives
- Support for files > 2 GB in Lister and split/combine functions
- Directory print with subdirs: Print only files of certain types, e.g. *.txt *.doc
- Change date/time of folders also on Windows NT/2000 (admins only due to restricted rights)
- FTP: Resume upload (binary files only). WARNING: With some versions of the server WarFTPd, the resume seems to work, but the uploaded file is unusable!
- Directory hotlist can now contain up to 200 entries
- The location of Wincmd.ini and Wcx_ftp.ini can now be set in the registry (32-bit version only):
\SOFTWARE\Ghisler\Windows Commander, new text values IniFileName and FtpIniName.
This key may be created under HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
The command line parameters /i= and /f= still take precedence over the registry values.
- Special larger block sizes when copying very large files can increase the copying speed of these large files quite a bit.
This function is only meant for advanced users, and needs to be enabled through wincmd.ini (CopyBlockSize etc).

New in Version 4.52 (15.01.01):
- Display of Unicode and HTML (as plain text) in Lister
- Search for Unicode and Hex in the search function
- Print function to print directory lists, trees and compare results in 'Synchronize dirs'.
- Display of all files in the current dir and all subdirs with Ctrl+B
- File windows above each other instead of side by side
- Display of the file size in kbytes or dynamic depending on the actual size
- Multi-rename tool: Enhanced counter settings using definition strings [Cxxx]
- Submenu 'New' in the right click context menu allows to create new (empty) files

New in Version 4.51 (18.07.00):
- Bugfix of 4.50

New in Version 4.50 (30.6.00):
- Multi-rename tool: Allows to rename multiple files in one step (Hotkey: Ctrl+T)
- Batch rename function with Shift+F6 to quickly rename multiple files one by one
- Rename files and subdirs inside a ZIP archive (Shift+F6)
- Parallel port transfer function (direct cable connection), works between Win95/98/NT/2000/3.1 and DOS!
- FTP: Definition of custom host types, using a definition string
- FTP: Retry to connect multiple times also for non-anonymous connections
- FTP: Support for multiple proxies (separately for FTP and HTTP connections)
- FTP: Workaround to bug in some FTP servers: Upload of subdirs failed
- Resolve lnk files on the desktop or in the Network Neighborhood
- Unpack self-extracting files created by WinACE and WinRAR (open with Ctrl+PgDn)
- "Unpack all and execute" in packer properties allows to try out a program or run an installer from inside an archive
- Define custom colors for different file types, e.g. all directories, all zip files etc.
- Search for text also inside CAB files
- Copying to 'write only' directories (Windows NT, network)
- Uninstaller: Automatic removal of the program through the Control Panel
Several new commands and parameters for Button bar / Start menu:
- cm_List now allows to open a file. The file name must be given directly behind CM_LIST, and not in the parameters field!
  Example: cm_list c:\windows\wincmd.ini always opens the file wincmd.ini in lister.
- cm_ShowFileUser: Show which remote user has opened a local file (through a shared directory)
- cm_EditPersmissionInfo: Show permissions dialog on Windows NT (NTFS file system)
- cm_EditAuditInfo: Show file auditing dialog (NTFS)
- cm_EditOwnerInfo: Show "Take ownership" dialog (NTFS)
- cm_ShowOnlySelected: Hide all files/dirs which aren't selected when this function is used
- cm_OpenRecycled: Open 'recycle bin'
- New parameters %L, %l, %F, %f, %D, %d create a list file in the TEMP directory with the names of the selected files and directories.

New in Version 4.02 (16.12.99):
- Unzip, delete and HTTP downloads (Ctrl+N) in background.
- Synchronize dirs now also supports directory from/to ftp synchronization! Concerning the date/time synchronizing problems with ftp, please read the section important note on the page Synchronize dirs.
- Tray icon right click menu (context menu).
- Direct upload of files from inside an archive to an FTP server.
- Better parsing of FTP file lists downloaded via a HTTP proxy.
- User-defined keyboard shortcuts.
- Split "Equal/Unequal" button into two buttons in synchronize function
- Change date/time of directories (Win95/98 only)
- FTP server to server transfers (FXP): Always sends PORT command to left server, PASV to right server. This allows for file transfers between a public server and one in a private address room, or behind a firewall. The private server must be in the left window.
- Find files: Only search in selected files and folders

New in Version 4.01 (27.07.99):
- This version was mainly a bugfix release
- HTTP downloads enhanced (now supports passwords, and special sites which require 'host:' line)
- Settings what to do when second ftp connection opened in same window: wcx_ftp.ini, [General] AutoDisconnect  =1 disconnect previous  =2 keep previous  =0 ask user

New in Version 4.00 (17.06.99):
General:
- Directory synchronize: Compare two dirs with subdirs, or 1 dir and 1 archive
- Compare files by content
- Allow to abort binary compare in 'synchronize' with ESC
- Copy/move in the background - 32 bit only
- wincmd.ini, [configuration], AlwaysCopyInBackground=1 always copies in background
- Connect to UNC path (\\server\path) in background (separate thread), allow to abort after 3 seconds
- Dialog box Change Attributes, button to set current date&time
- wincmd.ini, [configuration], activeright=1 activates right file listbox at start
- Support for virtual folders through button bar. Use commands: cm_OpenDesktop, cm_OpenDrives, cm_OpenControls, cm_OpenFonts, cm_OpenNetwork, cm_OpenPrinters
- Copy and Move files from and to virtual folders
- Copy to nul, prn, lptx and comx now supported
- Rename or append when copying and target exists
- Files - Split now also accepts fractions of a number, like 0.5 MB
- Use NTFS time compare method (2 seconds difference considered as same) in 'Compare directories' and 'Synchronize dirs'
User interface:
- 2 drive button bars, one per file window (configurable)
- 256 color folder icons, and support for external icon library (icl): wincmd.ini, [configuration], iconlib=dllname.dll  (sample DLL on www.ghisler.com)
- User-defined drive names (for drive list+button bar). Example: wincmd.ini, [DriveHints], E=ZIP drive
- File window tabstops (column width) are now saved separately by resolution, and adjust to the right (configurable)
- Save current position and maximized state separately for search, compare and synchronize dialogs
- Show special folder icons for system folders, e.g. the Recycle Bin
- Extended selection (Num+ and CTRL+F12) now supports almost all options as the 'search' function
- The / key on numeric keypad restores file selection as it was before the last file operation
Packer:
- Multi-threading of zip function (pack in background) - 32 bit only
- Packer/unpacker plugins to add external archiver DLLs
- Copy files directly from ZIP to ZIP
- Rename while unpacking (internally) and target exists
- Support for ARJ SFX 2.62
- LZH files with comment field (starting with -com-) now supported
- Configuration - Save settings saves current file display settings and directories even if auto-save turned off
FTP Client:
- FTP resume download even if multiple files selected
- FTP Connection dialog allows to specify commands executed after connecting, separated by a ";"
- FTP connect dialog, "duplicate entry" added - allows to create new connection from an existing one
- CTRL+M allows to select FTP transfer mode (text, binary, auto) with keyboard
- Warn if binary file is downloaded or uploaded in text mode (to turn off: modify wcx_ftp.ini, section [General], WarnWrongMode=0)
- Support for some more ftp server types (OS9 etc.)
- HTTP proxy for FTP connections
- Transparent FTP proxy: Send firewalluser, firewallpass, user, pass
Search function:
- Search for/select files which do NOT match certain wildcards. Use | to separate, e.g. w*.*|*.bak finds all files starting with w, without extension .bak
- Search for all files NOT containing a certain string
- Duplicate file finder can find files with same name, size, contents or any combination of the 3
Lister:
- Bitmap viewer, more formats through IrfanView plugin (see addons page on www.ghisler.com)
- Lister can now play sound and video (configurable)
- Printing in lister (Text+Graphics)
- Select all in lister: CTRL+A selects whole file
- Search for Hexadecimal strings, even mixed. Example: "PK"0102 will find 504B0102
- Lister now wraps at word boundaries (may be disabled: wincmd.ini, [lister], WordWrap=0)

New in Version 3.53 (8.11.98):
- Did extensive Year 2000 (Y2k) tests. Results: no internal date problems, only one interface prob to FTP
- Possible Y2k problem with FTP servers showing a 2 digit year only. Rule: date<80 ->20xx, date>=80 -> 19xx
- bugfixes

New in Version 3.52 (11.08.1998):
- cd \\Servername in command line (32 bit)
- Added: ACE packer/unpacker support
- unrar.dll and unace.dll internal unpackers for RAR and ACE (32 bit)
- bugfixes

Release Version 3.51 (07.05.1998):
- wcx_ftp.ini, [general], LogFile=Path\Log.txt writes FTP log to specified file
- Support for creating RAR SFX files
- Support for files > 2 GB (display, copy, rename, move, delete; NOT: ZIP, FTP, Lister)
- CTRL+P copies current path to command line
- FTP: Preserve file dates when downloading (selectable)
- FTP: Convert file names to lowercase when uploaded (selectable)
- FTP: Change Unix attributes (permissions) dialog for FTP sites (uses 'SITE chmod', which isn't supported by all sites)
- Bugfixes

New in Version 3.50 (18.3.1998):
- FTP client
- flat look
- Network Neighborhood
- IntelliMouse wheel support
- Directory history list (alt+cursor down)
- Go back, go forward (alt+cursor left / alt+cursor right)
- Create self extracting ZIP archive
- Expandable tree as in Explorer
- UUE/MIME/XXE-encode and decode, Binhex-decode
- Split/Combine files
- Start menu now supports shortcut keys (Ctrl+Alt+F1-F12)
- More command line switches (see help)
- ALT+GrayPlus selects all files with the same extension

New in Version 3.02 (14.4.1997):
- Cut/Copy/Paste of button bar buttons
- Deletion method used by explorer can be used also in Wincmd [Configuration] Win95Delete=1
- CTRL+Q on archive shows contained file_id.diz, readme*, or *.txt (in this order)
- Support for archives in archives
- CTRL+PgDn to open archives in archives
- TAR and GZ packers
- New commands cm_Switch83Names, cm_SwitchDirSort, cm_SwitchHidSys, cm_SwitchLongNames to button bar commands

New in Version 3.01 (31.12.1996):
- Bugfixes

New in Version 3.00 (15.12.1996):
- 32-bit version available
- drag&drop from and to explorer (32-bit version only)
- enhanced search function
- quick view panel (CTRL+Q)
- drive bar to select different drives
- button bar wraps around to 2 lines when larger than available width
- new multi-page configuration dialog
- Function to test selected archives for errors 
- A header now allows to sort the files by name, extension, size, and date
- All parts of the user interface (except the file list) can be turned off in the configuration
- The file window separator can now be moved