Download Total Commander 9.00a release candidate 3

The third release candidate of Total Commander version 9.00a has been released. 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. The program is small and does not need to be installed to use it, so it is easy to use it anywhere.

In version 9, which is still a free update for existing users after all years, we find a few cosmetic changes. For example, system icons are now used instead of the internal ones and a new menu bar has been placed between the two file screens. In addition, a large number of small improvements have been made. According to Christian Ghisler, the release candidate is stable enough for everyday use, but still has some minor creases that need to be ironed out. Furthermore, this version also contains an update check and newer dlls for extracting archives. Version 9.00a should fix some minor bugs that came to light after the release of version 9.00.

Added:

• Content plugins: “size” field now supports 4 additional types: bkMGT, bkMGT2, bkMG3, bkMGT3: T is with Terabytes, 3 is 2 digits after the decimal point (and at least 1 before it) (32/64)
• The replacement of the Photos app with Windows Image Viewer can now be disabled in Files – Associate With…, the option is only shown for affected extensions like jpg (32/64)
• wincmd.ini, UseEverythingInstance option now supports environment variables (32/64)

Fixed:

• Multi-rename tool retried with 10000 different target names if the source file was locked by another app, slowing down the rename function (32/64)
• Lister, search function: Allow to search for OEM-specific characters like the line drawing characters in OEM/DOS mode (32/64)
• Internal associations could not longer be defined for *.url files (32/64)
• Configuration – button bar: Upper preview window (entire bar) didn’t show icon if the icon file name was given in double quotes (32/64)
• Content plugin field selection dialog: Right click on plugin field – “Copy to clipboard” was not working (32/64)
• Brief view: Extension could switch from aligned to attached to file name when making window smaller (32/64)
• Quick search filter was lost when deleting files from archive (32/64)
• Faster loading of directories (especially on network shares) with option “Overlay icons” enabled, by moving the name parsing to the background thread (32/64)
• Lister: could not copy OEM text to clipboard in binary and hex mode, it was copied as ANSI text (32/64)
• Hex search in Lister not always working with OEM font set, and “Respect case” not checked (32/64)
• Search with ‘Everything’: Detect versions older than 1.3 and warn user that version 1.3 or newer is needed (32/64)
• Dialog box for choosing the default icon library: Automatically check second radio button (lower icon lib) when user chooses library from dropdown combobox (32/64)
• Dialog box “Drive not found” was using a very small font size on high DPI devices (32/64)
• Trying to drag files from Windows\Fonts to other program made TC unresponsive to mouse clicks; the actual drag problem cannot be fixed because Fonts stores the files for a virtual folder (64)
• Do not remember position of separator between the two file panels when closing separate quick view window (32/64)
• Classic theme: Multi-rename tool buttons “+” and “#” did not show cyrillic characters, just ???? (64)
• FTP connection on tab: When drive letters are shown on the tab, change # to connection number when the connection on that tab is established (32/64)
• FTP connection on locked tab (with dir changes allowed) not working: Couldn’t switch to that tab with mouse click, click on “\” didn’t go to locked dir, restarting TC with that tab in foreground changed title. Note: after restarting, click on tab title to reconnect (32/64)