Download Total Commander 9.50 beta 2

Total Commander version 9.50 is under development and the second beta release has now been released. This program can be used as a replacement for Windows Explorer. Because the image is split in two, it is 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 with plugins be expanded.

New in version 9.50 includes support for a dark mode, the folder history only shows folders where edits have been made and there is now a margin of four lines when scrolling through large folders. The most important changes that we find in version 9.50 are listed below for you:

User interface:

• Dark mode, starting with Windows 10 1809 (Fall 2018), inofficially also with older Windows versions (ForceDarkModeOptions = 1)
• Increased directory history length to 200 (configurable via HistoryLenStored)
• History: Only show directories in which the user performed some operation (configurable). Alt + Shift + Down arrow shows full history
• Drive dropdown list, drive buttonbar: Show “eject” overlay over drive icon for removable drives
• When scrolling through file lists with the keyboard, keep a margin of 4 lines above / below the current position (configurable)
• Directory panels: Show for hard links / soft links to files instead of 0 size
• Ctrl + Q quick view: Show contents of link target instead of lnk file content
• Configuration – Options – Display: New option “Append ” to show folders as Folder instead of [Folder]
• Internal associations: Optional: Add extra verbs from ALL matching filters, default “open” only from the first match
• Show “New” submenu also in context menu for [..] entry, to create new file in current directory
• Windows 10, context menu: Menu item “Share” didn’t do anything -> handle it internally
• Quick search dialog: Clear search with Ctrl + Y
• Right click on directory tab -> “Recently closed tabs”
• Show location of Total Commander EXE file in about box

File operations:

• Archives: Choose codepage when unpacking files, eg to unpack names with cyrillic characters. Show [Auto] or chosen encoding in tab header.
• OneDrive folder: Handle folders appearing as file system links
• F5 copy dialog: Support directory hotlist (Ctrl + D)
• Create CRC checksums: New options to use Unix format, and to always use UTF-8

FTP / File system plugins:

• Transfer from FTP server to FTP server with F5: Option to copy via local PC
• Transfer from / to FTP / FS plugins: Support copy filters like the local file copy function, eg * .txt | excludeddir
• FTP, upload / download with F5 – F2 in background: Support client certificate
• RestrictInterface = 6144: Disallow all plugins, or 4096: Only allow plugins with a valid digital signature

Multi-rename tool:

• New placeholder [c] = number of files in list
• New placeholder [S] = file size

Alt + F10 tree:

• Option to use ‘Everything’ to load the tree
• Combobox to change drive, open with Alt + F1 or Alt + F2

Search:

• Search with ‘Everything’: Show percent of the search results transferred to Total Commander
• Improved search in Office xml files (eg .docx, .ods etc): find accented characters
• Automatically check ‘Everything’ option when using prefix ev: or ed: in search field
• Option to search in search results only
• View previous search results

Lister (F3):

• Define which view method and plugin should be used when opened, separately by file type, eg all jpg files with internal image viewer
• Press ‘8’ to show preview as the Explorer (uses IPreviewHandler or IThumbnailProvider if the former isn’t available)
• Support printing of JPG / PNG / GIF in Lister with internal image viewer

Compare by content:

• Set color for underlined search results

Synchronize dirs:

• Use Ctrl + PageUp / PageDown to jump to next / previous directory

Internal commands:

• New internal commands with parameters: LOADSELECTION, SAVESELECTION, SAVEDETAILS plus ANSI / Unicode versions
• cm_ModernShare allows to use the new Windows 10 “Share” context menu item directly
• cm_ChangeArchiveEncoding to open the archive encoding popup menu
• cm_MoveTabLeft and cm_MoveTabRight to manually move current tab