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)
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: Synchronise 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 sting 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 <CR><LF>
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: When re-packing files from an archive without an extension, the suggested file name was archive..zip instead of archive.zip (by mistake, this wasn't added to TC655beta1)
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: Detect when a drive is SUBSTed, and avoid to overwrite a file with itself when copying from/to this substed drive (by mistake, this wasn't added to TC655beta1)
01.03.06 Fixed: Right click -> New submenu: look in "All Users\Templates" if template not found in "<username>\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: Self-extracting RAR archive not correctly detected if unpacking header too large (e.g. when using themes)
05.02.06 Fixed: Packer plugin interface crashed with extensions longer than 15 characters (they should still be avoided for compatibility reasons)
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 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with FTP: use UTC for MDTM command
30.10.05 Added: Multi-rename tool: Replace characters (returned by plugins) which are not allowed in file names by underscores or dots
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 <PRE> formatting was used without a <br> or <p> 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 <hr /> 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 <DIR> 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
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 <anso@mail.ru> - 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 starter 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
- 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)
- 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
