Download Total Commander 8.50 Beta 13

A new beta release of Total Commander version 8.50 has appeared, the thirteenth already. This program can be used as a replacement for Windows Explorer. Splitting the image in half makes it easy to copy files, but the program can do much more. There are various ways to modify files, there is a built-in ftp client and a multirename tool, and there is support for a large number of compression formats. Furthermore, the functionality can be plugins be expanded. Since version 8.00 there are separate downloads for 32bit and 64bit environments.

New in version 8.50 is, among other things, that when copying, moving or deleting folders or files, all items that do not cause problems are handled first and that the user is only asked at the end for the items that cause problems. Furthermore, there is support for touch scenes and screens with a high resolution, and the search takes place in a separate process, so that the main screen remains available. The following changes and improvements have also been made in this version:

Added:

• Compare by content: Removed compare limit of 16350 characters per line (comparison inside a line still limited to 4096 characters) (32/64)
• Quicker loading of thumbnails from thumbs cache by keeping thumbs file open while thumbs are loaded in the background (32/64)
• More code to avoid hanging when network is down, eg while settings dialog is up, or user refreshes current dir (32/64)
• Search function, search for file contents: Do not unpack files much faster (32/64)

Fixed:

• Missing hotkeys (underlined characters) in some dialogs (32/64)
• If opening of RAR file fails with EOPEN or EREAD, try again after one second because it may be locked by external RAR (32/64)
• Configuration – Options – Colors – Define colors by file type – OK -> also refresh colors in search results (32/64)
• Synchronize dirs with FTP, minimize while reading FTP dirs -> progress dialog remained visible (32)
• Synchronize dirs with FTP, minimize while reading FTP dirs, restore when done -> sync window was closed (64)
• Drag&drop to external programs not working when starting drag from file tooltip (covering the file name) (64)
• Thumbnails extracted via new method IThumbnailProvider (Vista or newer) were not cached (32/64)
• Define color filter using saved search, then later change that filter to search for duplicates -> crash (32/64)
• Search in archives: Make sure the archive name is shown in the status line before asking for the archive password (32/64)
• Function “Verify after copy” removed due to unresolved errors (32/64)
• Added more code to avoid hanging when network is down or other PC turned off (32/64)

The most important additions of beta 1 can be found here. A list of additions and corrections, also for previous versions, can be found in the history file. As usual, the update is free for all registered users.