Download Total Commander 11.00 beta 2

The second beta release of the file management program Total Commander version 11.00 has been released. This program can be used as a replacement for Windows Explorer and because the screen is split in two, it is easy to copy files. However, the program can do much more. There are various ways to modify files, a built-in FTP client and a multirename tool, and support for a large number of compression formats. Furthermore, the functionality can be done with plugins be expanded. The complete changelog for the 11.00 series is up this page to view. The most important changes we find in version 11 are listed below:

What’s new in beta 2:

• Hotkeys defined via Configuration – Options – Misc now support commands with parameters
• Use internal commands in internal associations, .eg ***CM_LIST %1
• Ukrainian language included, Ukrainian installer

General:

• Show searchable list of all open tabs with Ctrl+Shift+A (as in the Chrome browser) or right clicking on the rightmost edge of the tab headers
• Ignore list now supports entries for file system plugins and FTP servers (separate syntax)
• Search with “Everything”: Support search in indexed subfolders
• Show full path with all parents in nested virtual folders, eg when accessing a phone
• Show free and total space of Android devices in the base folder
• Follow link files (*.lnk) pointing to directories relative to the current location, eg %WinDir%\explorer.exe ..\..\content
• Inform other Total Commander instances on the same PC when the user changes the “Start” menu or button bars
• In place rename, command line: Stop on Ctrl+Left/Right at extra non-alphanumeric characters
• Standalone Lister, search, compare and synchronize dirs can be started maximized and minimized

File operations:

• High speed packing and unpacking of ZIP and GZ files with modified libdeflate library
• F5 copy: New overwrite mode “Rename older target files, skip newer”
• F5 copy, ftp/plugin transfers: Show transfer speed of the entire copy operation in the second progress bar when available
• File system plugins and FTP: Show new option “Finish copying the current file” when aborting copying
• Unpack ZIP files with ZSTD (by Facebook) compression
• Unpack .zst (ZSTD) and .br (BROTLI) files

Directory history:

• New style directory history list which is no longer based on a Windows menu
• Quick search and quick filter support
• Quick search in whole path by starting search strings with an asterisk
• Right click context menu support with many options like opening the directory in the other panel or a new tab
• Context menu, option to copy path to clipboard
• Context menu, option to remove entries from history
• Context menu, option to show all items when history thinning is enabled
• Keep track of most frequently used directories and show them in the directory history in addition to the history entries
• Keep list of frequently used directories synchronized between multiple Total Commander instances on the same PC

Lister:

• Hex mode: highlighting in both text and hex representation of file content
• Copy the selection to the clipboard as hexadecimal characters, with Ctrl+Shift+C or via the right-click menu

Internal commands:

• CM_COPY, CM_RENMOV, CM_CREATESHORTCUT support parameters to set dialog box options
• New tab commands: cm_RenameTab, cm_SetTabOption*, cm_SetAllTabsOption*, cm_OpenNewTabOther, cm_OpenNewTabBgOther
• New quick search commands: cm_QuickSearch, cm_QuickSearch 1, cm_QuickFilter
• New drive commands: cm_DriveContextMenu, cm_OpenDriveByIndex
• New command line commands: cm_ShowCmdLineHistory, cm_AddFileNameToCmdline, cm_AddPathAndFileNameToCmdline
• New internal command OPENBARMENU opens the passed .bar file as a dropdown menu

Command line parameters in button bar/start menu:

• New parameter %y (lowercase) keeps other parameters and skips only list file parameters if the list is empty
• New parameter %a (lowercase) includes all selected files from both panels in list parameters like %L
• New parameter %|envvar| inserts environment variable envvar, eg %|windir| or %|$DESKTOP|