Software Update: Total Commander 9.00 Beta 8

The eighth beta release of Total Commander version 9.0 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.

In version 9 we find, among other things, 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. This seventh beta release mainly contains bug fixesthe most important improvements made in version 9 are listed below for you.

User interface:

• View modes, can be switched manually via menu “Show”, or automatically by rules
• Show icons on folder tabs depending on the displayed folder
• Vertical button bar (can be disabled via Configuration – Options – Layout)
• Rubber band selection mode when using left mouse button selection, disable via settings
• Show up to 3 external devices without drive letter (eg Android or Windows Phone) in Alt+F1/F2 drive dropdown list
• Background transfer manager (F5-F2): Show second progress bar with overall progress if available
• Themed text cursor, enable/disable in Configuration – Options – Colors
• Use system drive and folder icons (dynamically loaded) instead of internal
• Dimmed icons for hidden files/folders
• Show small green arrow as overlay icon when a folder is open, eg in tree or when opening very large folder
• Click on tab header with “locked but directory changed allowed” returns to base directory of that tab
• Better support for high resolution screens
• Set scaling of dialog boxes (OverrideDPI) via main settings – fonts
• Option to show sizes with 1k=1000bytes instead of 1k=1024bytes
• Option to show numbers in TBytes, with 1 or 2 decimal digits

File operations:

• Unicode support for descript.ion files
• Inplace rename: Use up/down arrow to jump to previous/next file (configurable)
• F5 Copy/F6 Move: Show combobox with all open tabs and all subdirectories in the target panel (Shift: Source panel)
• F5 copy: Skip empty dirs by appending |**\ to line “only files of this type”
• Create and verify additional checksum types: SHA224, SHA384, SHA3_224, SHA3_256, SHA3_384, SHA3_512
• Delete files directly (not to recycle bin): In case of errors, ask at the end of the entire operation
• Delete files directly: Also offer “Skip all” when a file is missing
• Re-use threads for delete, loading hints and ID lists
• Disable overwrite confirmation in sync: wincmd.ini [Confirmation] SyncConfirmOverwrite=0

FTPS, HTTPS:

• Support TLS 1.1 and 1.2 with new openssl dlls
• Use Windows certificate stores “ROOT” and “CA” to verify purchased server certificates

packer:

• ZIP unpacker: Support new compression method XZ (method 95) with updated tcmdlzma.dll and tclzma64.dll
• Support invalid ZIP archives with no CRC in the local header and behind the zip file, eg created by owncloud
• Support invalid ZIP archives with UTF-8-encoded names but missing UTF-8 flag (created by Dropbox)

Search function:

• Use “Everything” tool for much faster search on NTFS drives, also on network shares if possible
• Search with content plugins for text on main search page
• Regular expressions supported in more types: Unicode UTF-8+UTF-16, Office XML
• New option “Older than” working just like “Not older than”
• Standalone search: Allow to search in search results (after feed to listbox) and selected files

Compare by content:

• Show only differences, with additional lines above/below the differences, including editing
• Edit mode: triple click now selects entire line

Multi rename tool:

• New buttons to insert other fields
• Improved range selection dialog
• If there are duplicate names, or names that already exist, offer to auto-rename to “name (2).ext”, “name (3).ext” etc.

Lister:

• Ctrl+Shift+Q: Opens Quick View in separate Lister window, updates contents when going to other file
• View files of type RTF, BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, ICO, HTML with internal viewers also in read-protected folders (via DuplicateHandle)
• Use larger buffer sizes to handle longer blocks of text without line breaks

Other operations:

• Double click/ENTER: Follow .url files pointing to directories within Total Commander. Disable via wincmd.ini
• Manual update check via menu Help – Check for updates now, using DNS lookup
• Automatic update check (experimental): wincmd.ini [Configuration] AutoUpdateCheck= (1: all updates, or 2: no beta versions)
• Ctrl+B in search result = Go to directory of file under cursor
• Read virtual folders like the Network Neighborhood asynchronously (faster initial response) and in a background thread
• Directory history: Remember name under cursor and position in list when entering a subdir via double click/Enter
• Content plugins: new content field chooser dialog instead of menu. Also show field preview for file/dir under cursor
• Synchronize dirs: Compare with multi-part ZIP, supports compare by content and view
• Buttonbar, Start Menu: New Parameter %C1..%C9, %c1..%c9

Internal commands:

• to focus specific panels, including tree: cm_FocusSrc, cm_FocusTrg, cm_FocusLeftTree etc.
• to select/unselect one or more files: cm_Select, cm_Unselect, cm_Reverse
• to open lister: cm_ListOnly, cm_ListMulti, cm_ListInternalMulti, cm_SeparateQuickView, cm_SeparateQuickInternalOnly
• to save tabs to a specified file: SAVETABS, SAVETABSL, SAVETABSR, SAVETABS2, SAVETABS2L, SAVETABS2R
• cm_wait, accepting wait time in milliseconds, eg cm_wait 1000. Can be combined, eg em_cmd1,cm_wait 1000,em_cmd2