30.04.05 Fixed: Could not view 2 identically named files on remote ftp with external viewer
29.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Release Candidate 2
29.04.05 Fixed: Search in content plugins not working if type of value different from type of variable, e.g. floating instead of integer. Now integer and floating values are interchangeable
29.04.05 Fixed: Right click on current path - New - xyz file: In addition to Documents and settings, look in Windows\ShellNew for template files (some Microsoft programs seem to use this location)
29.04.05 Fixed: Netware version: Ctrl+Shift+F5 dialog: Remove netware copy options, they are irrelevant for creating shortcuts
29.04.05 Fixed: Create CRC checksums: files were created in the target instead of the source when specifying no target path and the last directory change was on the target side
27.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Release Candidate 1
24.04.05 Fixed: Default string in delayed/on demand fields not shown in first custom column
21.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 3
21.04.05 Fixed: Pack multiple files to zip:"*.*.zip" deleted the first character of each name (correct syntax would have been zip:*.*.zip without the double quotes anyway)
21.04.05 Fixed: Command line command del /q /s *.tmp deleted all files. Reason: TC tries to insert current path to avoid that the wrong dir is deleted if there is a .pif file for command.com with a default dir
21.04.05 Fixed: Right-aligned custom columns not shown correctly on some systems (because of addition of TABs)
21.04.05 Added: Korean is now included as a default language due to the increased number of registrations from Korea
17.04.05 Fixed: Changing sort order while in tree view changed the sort order for full and brief view without changing the sort indicator arrows
17.04.05 Added: cm_SwitchWatchDirs command to turn off (and back on) watching of directory changes with the wincmd.ini option WatchDirs=
17.04.05 Fixed: Don't show hidden/system files with WatchDirs option when the display of hidden/systerm files is disabled in the configuration
16.04.05 Fixed: Sometimes there was an access violation when closing TC while in a rapidly changing dir with WatchDirs enabled
16.04.05 Fixed: With Watchdirs option 8 added, Watchdirs sometimes stopped working until the next dir change
13.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 2
13.04.05 Added: Support gzip archives >4GB, both creation and extraction
13.04.05 Added: When restarting Total Commander, and the current path is replaced (e.g. via the command line), then add the previous path to the history
12.04.05 Fixed: Memory leak in Netware function to copy trustees (Netware version only)
12.04.05 Fixed: Removed code which sets directory attributes to 0 after creation - this is already done automatically by all 32-bit operating systems!
11.04.05 Added: New wincmd.ini section: WatchDirsExclude= (defaults to empty string): set drives which should be excluded from WatchDirs directory monitoring
11.04.05 Added: New wincmd.ini section: noreread2= (which defaults to the content of noreread=): set drives which should not be remembered when restarting TC. Until now, this was part of noreread= See example in help.
11.04.05 Fixed: Tabs in content plugin strings should now be shown correctly in custom columns view
11.04.05 Fixed: Turn off watchdirs between copy dialog and progress dialog to avoid error that directory contents have changed
11.04.05 Fixed: Lister now shows "access denied" instead of "file not found" if there is a sharing violation accessing a file (e.g. it's opened in a different program)
10.04.05 Fixed: Reset directory checksum after receiving a directory change notification - will cause TC to always reread the directory on F2 or when switching back to it
10.04.05 Fixed: USB stick copy option turned off - not saved permanently
08.04.05 Fixed: Don't count dir content of target of a junction when deleting the junction
08.04.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Sync with ftp could cause access violation if path longer than 259 characters
08.04.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: return to root not working when syncing with ftp root
08.04.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Compare two files by content didn't work with files in ftp subdirs
07.04.05 Fixed: TC uses 100% CPU when WatchDirs option enabled, and trying to access dir which cannot be monitored, e.g. a Win9x share
06.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 1
06.04.05 Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration], WatchDirs= determines operation of automatic dir updates: 1: turn option on, 2: detect changes to size, date, attributes, 4: put newly added files at the END, 8: don't react to updates while TC isn't in the foreground
06.04.05 Fixed: WinXP: Playing a CD with F3 didn't stop when closing lister
06.04.05 Fixed: Could no longer access "tar" archives after associating extension "ar" with any packer plugin ("tar" was interpreted as "tar.ar")
06.04.05 Fixed: 16-bit version: Invalid time stamp written to .tar files
05.04.05 Added: Watch changes of directories, and update them immediately on changes (using ReadDirectoryChangesW function). Requires Windows NT, 2000 or XP
03.04.05 Added: Support for BSD-style MD5 checksum files, e.g. MD5 (./subdir/somefile.ext) = e573fe599272957b234dba19e41237a1
03.04.05 Fixed: Lister: When playing multimedia via built-in media player plugin, allow to use hotkeys like pageup/pagedown/home/end even if the scrollbar doesn't have the focus
01.04.05 Fixed: Custom columns view with horizontal scollbar: When using a rectangle as cursor, don't draw right line unless scrolled to the end of the row (otherwise drawing artifacts will result)
01.04.05 Fixed: ftp ctrl+left or right tries to open directory with two consecutive slashes, e.g. /subdir//subdirundercursor
30.03.05 Added: Experimental IPv6 http support (both proxy-ftp and http downloads).
30.03.05 Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also copies thumbnails with files (if enabled in configuration - thumbnails)
30.03.05 Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also allows to copy NTFS permissions (checkbox in copy dialog)
30.03.05 Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also removes the "read only" attribute when copying from CD
30.03.05 Fixed: Access violation trying to download a file from FTP via HTTP when the local path became longer than 259 characters
30.03.05 Fixed: Browsing of network paths not working correctly when double clicking on "share x on server y" in nethood
30.03.05 Added: Experimental IPv6 ftp support. To use it, add to wcx_ftp.ini section [General], PreferIPv6=1 if you want to prefer IPv6 for servers which support both IPv4 and IPv6, or PreferIPv6=0 to prefer IPv4 (default=-1: IPv6 off)
22.03.05 Fixed: Alt+F1 Alt+F7 opened search window with only the height of the title bar if the window was maximized
22.03.05 Added: Compare by content (in main window) now also works with FTP
22.03.05 Added: Synchronize dirs: Compare by content of single files (double click on file pair) now also works with FTP and file system plugins
22.03.05 Added: Synchronize dirs: When creating dirs during copying, also copy dir time stamp (if configured), NTFS permissions, and Netware trustees (Netware version only). The dir timestamp is NOT copied (NTFS changes it when copying files to the dir).
20.03.05 Fixed: Unicode search for whole words not working properly in lister and search
20.03.05 Fixed: Unicode case-insensitive search not working properly for encodings other than latin-1 (English, German etc.)
20.03.05 Fixed: Lister: Selecting text in Unicode mode in the first line of a file selected displaced by 1 character
18.03.05 Fixed: FTP templates dialog: switch back to "Courier New" when loading the dialog even if the user has changed the default dialog font. Otherwise it's quite impossible to create detect strings.
18.03.05 Fixed: FTP over HTTP: First item in list not always shown if <PRE> formatting was used without a <br> or <p> in front of it
18.03.05 Fixed: FTP not always working correctly if the user name had the form user@host
18.03.05 Added: Multi-rename tool: Two new rename strings [N2--5] means the second character until the fifth-last. [N-5-] means the 5fth-last until the end of the name
16.03.05 Fixed: Better caching of item idlists on network shares should speed up browsing network paths
16.03.05 Fixed: Drawing of XP themed speed buttons and bit buttons (e.g. in Compare by contents): Erase background before drawing button, draw highlight of bit buttons
16.03.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: Removed WS_BORDER style, looks ugly (on WinXP only)
16.03.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: moved listboxes down 2 pixels to avoid overlapping of checkboxes under XP
16.03.05 Fixed: XP listbox bug: In sychronize dirs, clicking or double clicking below last listbox item affected the last item in the list
15.03.05 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: access violation after renaming when soring by extension needed
15.03.05 Fixed: Unpacking single archive containing " -" with option "unpack to separate subdirs" didn't work correctly (" -" was interpreted as command line parameter)
13.03.05 Added: Auto-detect USB sticks and use compatibility mode to copy to them (can be disabled in configuration - copy/delete). Reason: USB sticks have no write cache on WinXP.
13.03.05 Fixed: Some TC functions not working properly if the TEMP variable pointed to the root of a drive WITHOUT a trailing backslash, e.g. TEMP=f:
11.03.05 Added: Decoding MIME-encoded files: Accept file names in the form =?ISO-8859-1?Q?filename.ext?= (see RFC2047)
11.03.05 Added: Ftp over http proxy: upload entire dir trees, also to non-existing subdirs (proxy needs to support uploading of files to not yet existing subdirs)
11.03.05 Fixed: Lister html viewer: show &lsquo and &rsquo as normal single quote characters: '
11.03.05 Fixed: On WinXP, CopyFileEx (compatibility mode) couldn't copy encrypted files if the destination couldn't be encrypted
09.03.05 Fixed: Slow access to network admin shares like \\server\d$ because TC tried to get attributes/time stamp of \\server\d$ directory itself, which caused Windows to access \\server\d instead 8without the $)
08.03.05 Added: If ZIP encryption dll is installed, also allow to encrypt with external RAR, ACE, ARJ, ZIP
08.03.05 Added: Quick search: Letters only with no search dialog now also supports the * wildcard
08.03.05 Fixed: Top file list at wrong position with the following settings: vertical arrangement, always show dir tabs, drive bar, not drive dropdown list
03.03.05 Fixed: Regular expression search in text: $ or \b at end of search string sometimes matched strings in the middle of a file, when the match was at the end of the search buffer
01.03.05 Fixed: Speed limit for FTP and HTTP not working properly for high bit rates
01.03.05 Fixed: Could not switch through custom column views with cm_SrcNextCustomView etc. if the view had no additional columns defined
01.03.05 Added: Middle click on drive button in drive button bar opens drive in new tab
27.02.05 Added: Lister and Compare by Content now display tab characters correctly in Unicode mode (only on Windows NT/2000/XP, function is missing on Win9x)
27.02.05 Added: Path above file lists: Accept also forward slashes, e.g. //server/share (auto-convert to backslashes)
25.02.05 Added: Synchronize dirs now also supports unicode names (normal files only, no archives, ftp or plugins)
25.02.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with zip-subdirs: using the wildcards selection box in the middle didn't find files by name (e.g. a*.*) when in subdirs, by extension worked fine
24.02.05 Fixed: Unpacking of files >2GB and <4GB from ZIP archives (>4GB already worked)
24.02.05 Added: Unpacking of ZIP archives >4GB
23.02.05 Fixed: Custom columns: tc.comment field wasn't refreshed if shown in the same column as a delayed field like shelldetails.comment
23.02.05 Fixed: F3 on file when path not accessible -> wait cursor shown
23.02.05 Added: Plugin columns with string content now also use the sort method defined via SortUpper= in wincmd.ini
23.02.05 Fixed: EXE icons initially didn't show up if share_nt.exe wasn't found
23.02.05 Added: Calculate occupied space (also before copying) now also supports Unicode file names+dirs, as long as they have a valid alternate DOS name
23.02.05 Added: Change attributes now also works with Unicode file names+dirs, as long as they have a valid alternate DOS name
23.02.05 Fixed: Alt+F1 while quick view is open on the desktop -> drive dropdown list opens and quickly closes again
23.02.05 Fixed: FTP: CDUP command on command line didn't refresh the current dir and directory listing
23.02.05 Fixed: CRC check: support file names starting with a space, or multiple spaces
23.02.05 Added: wcx_ftp.ini, [General], GetModeFromLocalFile=1 : The name of the local file determines the transfer mode (binary, text) in automatic mode (normally: the name of the remote file)
23.02.05 Fixed: Multi-Rename-Tool: "Load results" button didn't take content plugins into account
23.02.05 Added: New function ContentPluginUnloading in content plugin interface
23.02.05 Fixed: Content plugin returning different type on extraction than when loading -> crash in search function. Solution: Ignore such values in search (TC reports content plugin interface version >=1.3)
23.02.05 Fixed: Duplicate hotkey Alt+P in multi-rename tool
23.02.05 Fixed: Search - feed to listbox - lock tab - double click on directory -> search result was lost
23.02.05 Added: Drag&Drop to external programs now also works when using Alt+Tab instead of moving the cursor out of the program window
23.02.05 Fixed: Some functions didn't function correctly if the TEMP environment variable contained / instead of \, e.g. c:/temp instead of c:\temp
23.02.05 Fixed: Viewing files with Alt+F3 no longer working after "feed to listbox"
23.02.05 Fixed: Custom columns appeared to be sorted by non-existing column when sorting by the last column and then deleting that column
22.02.05 Fixed: Double click on configuration in custom columns dialog -> after closing the dialog, drag&drop of items was active
22.02.05 Fixed: LOAD-SAVE panel in FIND FILES not always refreshed correctly (when saving with name which is part of another existing name)
22.02.05 Fixed: Changed quick search cursor color back to what it was in TC 6.50, because the cursor became almost invisible with some configurations
22.02.05 Tested:Shell overlay icons definitely do NOT work on WinNT4 even with IE6, IShellIconOverlay interface is NOT available
22.02.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs of 2 archives, deleting file via right click menu sometimes deleted file from the wrong archive
02.02.05 Release Total Commander 6.51 Final
02.02.05 Fixed: Windows XP: underlined characters and focus lines were not shown in dialogs, except when entering them with the keyboard. Solution: call to WM_CHANGEUISTATE
02.02.05 Fixed: Custom columns configuration dialog: Set minimum width, so the checkboxes and buttons at the bottom can no longer overlap each other
02.02.05 Fixed: Alt+F3 on file in archive stored with absolute path "\filename" passed wrong name with two \\ to external viewer
02.02.05 Fixed: FTP over HTTP didn't recognize <hr /> tag (horizonal line)
01.02.05 Fixed: Help file: replaced Helv font by Arial
01.02.05 Fixed: Switching from vertical arrangement to side by side panel view with two lines of tab headers in comment view showed wrongly sized listbox
01.02.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: Search function didn't search beyond the end of the shorter file
01.02.05 Fixed: Wrong number of selected files shown after changing attributes if nothing changed in the current dir
01.02.05 Fixed: Don't show any error when clicking on "Start" in "Compact thumbnail database" when no database exists yet
01.02.05 Fixed: Switching to TC via a hotkey of TC's desktop icon no longer worked (except when minimizing to the system tray)
30.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.51 Beta 1
30.01.05 Fixed: Switching between two ftp connections 0: and 1: both pointing to the root of the SAME server didn't update the tab header
28.01.05 Fixed: Hourglass cursor sometimes remained on panel when switching from normal tab to search results tab
28.01.05 Fixed: Access violation unpacking AES-encrypted ZIP archive if AES plugin installed under different extension than .AES
28.01.05 Fixed: Duplicating search results tab with Ctrl+T no longer worked
26.01.05 Fixed: F7 create directory: Couldn't create directory with Chinese characters where the second byte had the same code as "|" used to create multiple dirs in one step. Same problem in MRT Search+Replace
26.01.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs between subdir in archive other than zip and normal dir didn't correctly take that archive subdir into account
26.01.05 Fixed: tc.size and tc.writedate columns in custom columns view will now be sorted (and show sorting headers) also via shortcuts Ctrl+F6 and Ctrl+F5
26.01.05 Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+Shift+F1 twice from custom view will switch to thumbnails view and back to the previous custom view, same for Ctrl+Shift+F2
26.01.05 Fixed: Auto-install plugins remembered wrong base path "plugins\w" instead of just "plugins"
26.01.05 Fixed: Shift+F7 also searched backwards instead of forwards (only Shift+F3 should have done that)
26.01.05 Added: Custom columns view: Show <DIR> instead of size if dir size isn't counted
26.01.05 Fixed: Text thumbnails: use DEFAULT_FONT instead of ANSI_FONT to use default language settings
26.01.05 Fixed: Multi-rename-tool: Didn't remember spaces at the beginning/end of the string
25.01.05 Fixed: FTP: When connection is lost and a reconnect is needed, MODE Z isn't re-activated but TC still assumes that it is active -> empty dir lists
25.01.05 Fixed: pluginbasedir wasn't described in the help
25.01.05 Fixed: Rename field width wrong under custom columns view
25.01.05 Fixed: Deleted some unsupported internal commands from 16bit inc file
25.01.05 Fixed: Changed error message shown when a plugin with the same name is already installed in a different dir
25.01.05 Fixed: After "disk full" message, copying was aborted - now the user can continue with the next file by clicking "Skip"
25.01.05 Fixed: Resume copying in background transfer manager was not working after clicking on the close button
25.01.05 Fixed: Print dialog: using right mouse button to change borders caused unwanted results
25.01.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, FTP downloads: Allow to continue sync even when there is a transfer error (user will be asked)
25.01.05 Fixed: Trying to download a file which is locked on the server while MODE Z is enabled hangs TC (only with Filezilla server, not with other servers)
25.01.05 Fixed: When switching back from custom columns view with only 2 columns (name+ext) in both windows to full view on the left, the header titles were not restored
25.01.05 Fixed: When changing the header width in one window, change it in the other window too ONLY if both show the same view (full view or same custom fields)
21.01.05 Fixed: When moving the re-packing of archives (e.g. zip->rar) to background, the rest of the files wasn't repacked
21.01.05 Fixed: Checking of md5sum.txt worked, but md5sum (without extension) wasn't recognized
21.01.05 Fixed: Search max. 5 seconds for other installed plugins when auto-installing (to avoid that an entire drive is searched)
21.01.05 Fixed: Dotted frame arround current quick search item had strange colors (and not the normal inverse color) with some color settings
21.01.05 Fixed: Unwanted beep when connecting to FTP server supporting MODE Z compression
17.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 Final
17.01.05 Fixed: Configuration dialog: Show (Language) in addition to the translated term meaning language
17.01.05 Fixed: Configuration dialog: changing both custom fields in thumbnails view and language left the custom field names in the old language
17.01.05 Fixed: Deleting or sorting custom column views didn't update the main menu
16.01.05 Fixed: tcuninst.exe didn't consider UseIniInProgramDir option in wincmd.ini
16.01.05 Fixed: Bug in WinXP listbox control: lparam of lb_setcaretindex is ignored (items are always scrolled completely into view) -> move mouse cursor as a workaround
16.01.05 Fixed: Left mouse selection mode: Right clicking on partially visible thumbnail still caused unwanted scrolling
14.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 RC2
14.01.05 Fixed: Rename/lock tab dialog: disallow to check both lock options simultaneously
14.01.05 Fixed: Error "function not implemented" when deleting last custom columns view, while both panels show that view
14.01.05 Fixed: Use cabinet.dll coming with Windows (if available) instead of cabrk.dll (made from cabinet sdk)
12.01.05 Fixed: 'Save position' with 100% width of right panel caused left listbox to be lost if the menu bar has more than 1 line
12.01.05 Fixed: Right clicking on partially visible thumbnail caused unwanted scrolling
12.01.05 Fixed: Support for CurVer redirection key in registry e.g. Acrobat.Reader\CurVer pointing to Acrobat.Reader.7 <- only on Win2k, XP and ME (and newer)
11.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 RC1
11.01.05 Fixed: When user entered environment variable like %commander_path% in auto-install plugins, the env var wasn't resolved
09.01.05 Fixed: Shift+click on current path to go up one or more dirs: place cursor on dir from which we were coming
09.01.05 Fixed: Delayed custom fields lost when changing sort order while custom fields are still being retrieved
07.01.05 Fixed: Sort order in ft_datetime fields wasn't always correct
07.01.05 Fixed: ZIP packer: Overwriting of a file starting with a dual byte character not working, the file ended up twice in the zip
07.01.05 Fixed: Changedir to path in the form ::{idlist} not working in button bar if current dir was already a virtual folder
07.01.05 Fixed: When overwriting a file >2 GB, the remaining space wasn't correctly checked - TC gave a disk space warning even if size of newfile-size of oldfile >= free space
07.01.05 Fixed: Search dialog: "Plugins" header lost if not translated
07.01.05 Fixed: Using stored search with search in plugins always used AND and never OR to combine the rules
07.01.05 Fixed: Changed date from 2004 to 2005 in help, nag screen, about box
07.01.05 Fixed: Switch back to sorting by name when switching from custom columns view to thumbnails view
06.01.05 Fixed: Problem with non-appearing icons and/or custom fields on the right panel only
05.01.05 Added: Removed duplicate checking when mass-adding thumbnails to preloading
05.01.05 Added: Abort preloading of thumbnails with ESC with Preloadthumbnails=1 and Preloadthumbnails=2 (especially for big branch views)
04.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 12
04.01.05 Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration] ThumbnailMemoryLimit= sets number of thumbnails per panel cached in memory (default: 200 in Win9x, 500 on NT/2000/XP, minimum: 100)
04.01.05 Fixed: Sometimes when entering a dir while in thumbnails mode, one thumbnail wasn't shown
04.01.05 Fixed: Packing problem: Last character of Chinese names cut off in half when packing to .GZ or other packers which can hold only 1 file
04.01.05 Fixed: WinXP: Custom Column configurations dialog list out of bounds error when dragging items
04.01.05 Fixed: Opening drive dropdown combo, then clicking on folder tab header changed order of tab headers
02.01.05 Added: Search dialog: moved 'Plugins' page in front of 'Load/Save' page. Note to translators: Do NOT change the order of these strings!
02.01.05 Fixed: Comments from subdirs not deleted when moving a directory to a different drive
31.12.04 Fixed: Compare by contents, Unicode: Last character of last line missing if line wasn't ended with a newline character
31.12.04 Fixed: Compare by contents: newline at end was not always detected correctly
31.12.04 Added: More preloadthumbnails options: 0: no preload, 1: preload, but not in branch view, 2: preload all, 3: preload next 2 lines beyond last file
31.12.04 Added: Calls to Irfanview/Xnview now protected by their own critical section separate from icon load section
31.12.04 Fixed: New Irfanview extraction method: Avoid deadlocks by using a callback window belonging to the calling thread
31.12.04 Added: Internal content plugin: in addition to tc. the old form (int). is again allowed (for people using the leaked beta version)
31.12.04 Added: ignore redefinition of LEFT+RIGHT (cursor keys without any shift keys) in thumbnails view
29.12.04 Added: Thumbnail database: wincmd.ini, [Configuration], ThumbnailPrealloc= sets number of bytes to pre-allocate for thumbnails database to avoid fragmentation (default: 100'000)
29.12.04 Added: Protect thumbnail database via a Mutex global object to avoid problems when a user tries to compact the database in one program and shows thumbnails in another
29.12.04 Fixed: Do not load two or more content plugins with the same name
29.12.04 Added: Explanation of CompareIgnoreRepSpace to help file
29.12.04 Fixed: Multi-rename tool couldn't show file sizes >2 GB in the list (didn't affect rename function)
29.12.04 Fixed: FTP download from list: Don't ask for target dir if there are Header: or Firewall: lines and all other lines contain a target path
29.12.04 Fixed: Changing from one virtual folder to another via command line parameters didn't work
28.12.04 Added: Update quick view panel also when quick search dialog is up
28.12.04 Fixed: Access violation when trying to open item in control panel
28.12.04 Fixed: Several problems with thumbnail loading
24.12.04 Fixed: File list sometimes empty when switching from tree view to normal view (when tree view was empty)
24.12.04 Fixed: Icon display problem corrected
22.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 11
22.12.04 Fixed: XP: No thumbnails for folders with PreloadThumbnails=0 (the default)
22.12.04 Fixed: When deleting the last custom columns view, TC now switches to full view
22.12.04 Fixed: NT4: List index out of bounds when deleting last custom columns view and clicking apply
21.12.04 Added: Custom columns view: call to contentstopgetvalue also when switching to a different view
21.12.04 Fixed: Don't show an error when pressing Ctrl+C on [..] with no files selected. Reason: Some translation programs send Ctrl+C on double clicks
21.12.04 Fixed: Decoding of base64 multipart files not working when other parts didn't contain encoding (e.g. base64)
19.12.04 Added: Changed last access and creation date to new ft_datetime format
19.12.04 Added: Changed name of Total Commander's internal content plugin from (int) to tc, e.g. tc.size
19.12.04 Added: New internal command cm_FocusCmdLine puts focus on command line
17.12.04 Fixed: Shift+Up/Down while in the command line caused strange file selection changes
17.12.04 Fixed: Better handling of CRC file creation in search - feed to listbox: Store full paths to files when creating one crc file, or store the files in the same dir as the files (one crc per file)
17.12.04 Added: New search direction option for lister: Shift+F3 now always searches backwards, and resets search direction for F3 to forward (Ctrl+F3 still switches between forward+backward search)
17.12.04 Fixed: Don't try to load tree view in file system plugins
17.12.04 Added: More default date/time formats (D-M-Y)
17.12.04 Fixed: Sometimes the thumbnail for 1 file wasn't shown after copying
15.12.04 Fixed: Alt+Enter on archive inside archive showed open packer icon
15.12.04 Added: Quick search in thumbnails view: Draw dotted line around entire item, not just the name
15.12.04 Added: Show checkmark for left and right branch view commands
15.12.04 Added: Command to configure current custom columns view: cm_CustomColumnDlg
14.12.04 Fixed: When the %TEMP% variable points to a junction, using %L as parameter would delete the junction when closing the called app
14.12.04 Added: When dragging file to a tab with locked but dir changes allowed, offer to copy to the locked root instead of the current dir
14.12.04 Added: 16-bit version: all cm_vis... commands now also supported, e.g. cm_visHistHotButtons to show/hide history+hotlist buttons
14.12.04 Fixed: Background transfer manager wasn't using custom icon (when using the iconlib= option in wincmd.ini)
14.12.04 Fixed: Typing cd . in command line after search results was leading to strange results
14.12.04 Fixed: Ctrl+Z edit comment didn't show & character in names
12.12.04 Added: When adding a new column in custom columns configuration, default to right aligned for all numeric fields
12.12.04 Added: New internal command cm_ToggleLockDcaCurrentTab same as cm_ToggleLockCurrentTab but with directory changes allowed
12.12.04 Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+U not correctly working with "locked but directory changes allowed"
12.12.04 Added: Don't show plugin install dialog when entering plugin archive with Ctrl+PageDown instead of Enter
10.12.04 Fixed: Double click behind last item (of not full row) in thumbnails view still launched the last item.
09.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 10a
09.12.04 Fixed: Crash when starting with option iconsinthread=0
09.12.04 Fixed: Image loading via Irfanview stopped working with some newer Irfaview versions
08.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 10
08.12.04 Added: New content plugin function to define the default sort order, e.g. ascending for name/extension, descending for size+date/time
07.12.04 Added: New content plugin field type ft_datetime (combined date+time)
07.12.04 Added: Clear file lists before switching to new tab, to avoid sorting of the old list by the new sort order (slow)
07.12.04 Added: totalcmd.inc: Moved section FileOperations in front of section Configuration (necessary so cm_Edit is found before cm_EditConfig!)
07.12.04 Added: Win9x/ME: Show error "Too many files" with lists longer than 32700 files, the maximum supported by standard listbox controls
07.12.04 Fixed: 16-bit version: Show error "Too many files" with lists longer than 16380 files, the maximum supported by 16-bit tcollection
07.12.04 Fixed: Multiline files.bbs comments: Remove leading spaces and | from additional lines when editing and displaying hints
07.12.04 Added: Windows NT/2000/XP: Copy file lists to clipboard as Unicode text (cm_copynamestoclip etc.)
07.12.04 Fixed: Changed MD5 checksum format to Unix standard: MD5 checksum, one space, an asterisk "*" indicating binary check, then the file name
07.12.04 Added: Search dialog: Move "encrypted" checkbox to location of "compressed" on Win9x
05.12.04 Fixed: Could not unpack while in thumbnails view
05.12.04 Fixed: Name+Ext. columns weren't initially translated when TC started with custom columns view
05.12.04 Fixed: Move current thumbnail into view when resizing panel or maximizing Total Commander
05.12.04 Added: Correctly truncate file extension also in Show - Brief with BriefViewWidthLimit= set
05.12.04 Added: Custom columns view: cut off name only at end of ext column when there is no extension
03.12.04 Added: Thumbnails view: Show extension always attached to name (not right-aligned) if thumbnail width <72 pixels
03.12.04 Fixed: Tabstops lost in custom columns configuration list
03.12.04 Fixed: restrictinterface=4 blocked only the context menu, not cm_buttonconfig
03.12.04 Added: Search by content plugins: translated operators can now have a length of max. 48 characters
03.12.04 Fixed: Switching away from a custom columns view tab and back reverted sort order to "by name"
03.12.04 Fixed: Resorting custom columns view to "unsorted" mode made on demand extra fields disappear!
03.12.04 Fixed: Better centering of icons in thumbnails view
01.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 9
01.12.04 Fixed: Using backslash in search function (content plugins) not correctly saved
01.12.04 Added: 16-bit version (without the thumbnail+custom view features, they require options not available on Win16)
30.11.04 Fixed: Icons in Nethood sometimes not shown
30.11.04 Fixed: FTP over HTTP: File sizes >2 GB not always working
30.11.04 Fixed: FTP over HTTP not working if the proxy was sending a login banner larger than 8 kBytes (now: up to 16 k possible)
30.11.04 Fixed: Close TC 6.5 with custom columns mode sorted by one of the columns, start older TC version -> crash. Solution: Save custom sort orders in separate variables
30.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: Sorting by (int).size or (int).date not working in FTP, plugins and Nethood
30.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnail view: Ignore invalid thumbnails returned by the Explorer method
30.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnail view: Don't send notification for thumbnails without an image
29.11.04 Fixed: (again, see 19.11.) Clicking behind LAST column in thumbnail view selected first item on the next line
29.11.04 Fixed: Disabled Ctrl+PageDown on files in plugins or ftp, it could hang the program for a while
29.11.04 Fixed: Don't create quick search dialog when typing letters during drag&drop, could lead to freezing of TC
29.11.04 Fixed: Maximized custom-columns dialog was shown at the wrong position
29.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: vertical position thumb wasn't updated when changing sort order
29.11.04 Fixed: Update header position in custom columns view also when scrolling horizontally with an Intellimouse (untested)
28.11.04 Fixed: LongInStatus=1 not updating status line when switching to thumbnails view
28.11.04 Fixed: Don't count dir size on <spacebar> in custom columns mode if (int).size isn't shown
28.11.04 Fixed: Scroll back to 0 horizontal position when switching between custom column views
28.11.04 Added: Larger width of dropdown comboboxes in search - plugins
28.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: Revert to sort by name when switching between custom column views
28.11.04 Fixed: Sorting with on demand or delayed custom columns not always working
28.11.04 Fixed: Wrong icon shown for junctions in thumbnail view
24.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 8
24.11.04 Added: More options for UseIniInProgramDir: Add 2 for wcx_ftp.ini also in TC dir, add 4 to override registry settings
24.11.04 Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration] UseIniInProgramDir=1 causes TC to use wincmd.ini in program dir (must be written in that ini!)
24.11.04 Added: Content plugins now support on demand retrieval of fields (fields may not be mixed with delayed fields in same section)
24.11.04 Fixed: Button bar edit misbehaviour on Win9x only (click on icon sometimes selects wrong item)
23.11.04 Added: Show big icons (32x32) in thumbnails view, also added Win2k 32x32 folder icons
23.11.04 Added: FTP: New firewall/proxy type: HTTP CONNECT (tunnels ftp through a HTTP proxy like SQUID).
23.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails mode: Thumbnail extraction stopped when changing sort order
23.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails mode: LongInStatus=1 not updating status line when using left/right cursor keys
23.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails mode: Thumbnails are now horizontally centered within their cell
23.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails mode: current item frame now around the entire item including the thumbnail
23.11.04 Added: wincmd.ini [Colors] ThumbnailFrame= sets color of frame around thumbnails. -1=default, -2=invisible, or RGB value red+256*green+65536*blue
21.11.04 Added: Translation of bytes, kBytes and and MBytes in Search dialog (second page)
21.11.04 Added: New default hotkey for custom columns mode list: Shift+F1
21.11.04 Fixed: Wrong icon displayed in zip files for file types like .bmp with icons per file
21.11.04 Fixed: No extension shown in Search - feed to listbox when using a custom view
19.11.04 Fixed: Clicking behind LAST column in thumbnail view selected first item on the next line
19.11.04 Fixed: Wrong report for equal/unequal files in the status line of sync dirs
19.11.04 Fixed: Some corrections to totalcmd.inc
19.11.04 Fixed: Internal content plugin: dosname: Show uppercase long name when no short name is returned by FindFirstFile()
19.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns configuration list: show spaces instead of \n
19.11.04 Fixed: Return results from slow content plugins not ignored when changing dirs
19.11.04 Added: Changed order of thumbnail extraction options to order used by Total Commander
19.11.04 Added: New item in tabstop header right click menu: "Configure this custom columns view"
19.11.04 Fixed: Apply button not enabled when changing horizontal scrollbar or auto-adjust options in custom columns dialog
19.11.04 Added: New internal field "offline" for files with offline attribute
17.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: Resorting by columns requested custom fields for ".." updir item by mistake
17.11.04 Added: Show warning to plugin writers and translators when a custom field contains an invalid character .=:"|[] which are used for special purposes
17.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns configuration: Views with no additional columns were not shown in the list
17.11.04 Added: Support for environment variables in local dir of configured ftp server connection
17.11.04 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] BriefViewWidthLimit= sets width limit (in pixels) for a column in brief view
17.11.04 Fixed: Packer problem with latest rar version 3.4x packing subdirs twice
16.11.04 Added: New internal content value 'directory'
16.11.04 Added: Custom view modes support two new options: horizontal scrollbar on/off, auto-adjust name field width to window width
14.11.04 Fixed: Big fonts mode: Horizontal scrollbar was shown in custom columns dialog
16.11.04 Added: Show XP-style thin frames for thumbnails instead of 3d frames
16.11.04 Added: Refresh comment also in extra fields view when editing it with Ctrl+Z
16.11.04 Added: F2/Ctrl+R will now also cause a reload of all custom fields
16.11.04 Added: Win32-style hints can now also contain custom fields from content plugins
14.11.04 Added: wincmd.ini PreloadThumbnails=1 pre-load thumbnails when entering a dir (not only when scrolling to the file)
14.11.04 Added: Thumbnail extraction queue: Extract those thumbnails first which are in the currently visible part of the list
14.11.04 Fixed: Stop wild flickering when changing width of panel with thumbnails (sometimes even causing a crash)
14.11.04 Added: New internal field (int).path
14.11.04 Added: New internal commands to cycle through custom views: cm_srcnextcustomview, cm_srcprevcustomview, cm_trgnextcustomview, cm_trgprevcustomview, cm_leftnextcustomview, cm_leftprevcustomview, cm_rightnextcustomview, cm_rightprevcustomview
14.11.04 Fixed: Ctrl-F5 and Ctrl-F6 in custom columns view didn't sort in descending order by default
14.11.04 Fixed: Some search parameters were no longer saved
12.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 6
12.11.04 Fixed: Quick search with search dialog, click on file -> dotted frame around last match not removed
12.11.04 Fixed: Field (int).VersionString was broken
12.11.04 Added: Custom columns dialog: Only show up/down column sorting scroller when a line is active
12.11.04 Added: Listbox for custom columns: Edit configuration with double click
12.11.04 Added: Changed title of listbox for custom columns to Custom column configurations (sort with drag&drop):
12.11.04 Fixed: Search files dialog: When saving a search, don't save plugins if the option "Search plugins" is NOT checked
12.11.04 Added: Save screen position of custom columns configuration dialog
11.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails via Irfanview/Xnview stopped working correctly
10.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 5
10.11.04 Fixed: Switching directly from custom columns view to thumbnails view showed wrong sorting headers
10.11.04 Fixed: DetectString for WDX plugin didn't work with checks by content, e.g. [0]="M" & [1]="Z". However, this is really not recommended, because it cannot be postponed and will slow down file display a lot.
10.11.04 Added: Alt+Shift+F3 now also works in search function
10.11.04 Added: Auto-install plugins: Support 2 cases: all plugins in their own dir below the plugin base dir, and all plugins in subdirs below plugin type subdir
10.11.04 Added: Auto-install plugins: If a plugin with the same name is already installed, TC will suggest its directory for the installation
10.11.04 Added: Internal plugin (int).dosname field containing the 8.3 form of the file name used by dos
10.11.04 Added: VersionInOverwrite=0 turns off display of file version information in overwrite dialog
09.11.04 Added: Allow to check md5 checksums from files named md5sum.txt
09.11.04 Added: Support for content plugins in spread/shrink selection
09.11.04 Added: WinXP: Configuration - Misc - Sounds: Try to open second page of sounds panel
09.11.04 Added: New configuration dialog for custom columns view
07.11.04 Added: New internal command cm_visHistHotButtons to switch history+hotlist button on/off
07.11.04 Fixed: Option "remove thumbnails for inaccessible disks" had no effect for USB disks
07.11.04 Fixed: Colors by content plugins were no longer shown
07.11.04 Fixed: Crash when closing all duplicate tabs via right click menu causes tab header to disappear
07.11.04 Fixed: Tab header right click menu wasn't translated
05.11.04 Added: Support for environment variables in parameters /L= and /R=
05.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns not working with translated strings if they contained conditional text in "", e.g. [=(int).taille" k"]
05.11.04 Fixed: Disallow \n string in custom columns view (it's used to separate fields)
05.11.04 Fixed: Unpacking Cab file to a Windows 2000 share (UNC path) creates truncated files, due to a bug in Windows (SetFileAttributes truncates open file!)
05.11.04 Added: Try to remove background color borders from Explorer thumbnails
05.11.04 Fixed: Sometimes Explorer returned thumbnails larger than requested (e.g. always the Explorer standard of 128x128)
05.11.04 Added: Call to GdiFlush in Icon thread to ensure that all images are fully drawn
03.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 4
03.11.04 Added: Custom columns: Always show size field (and other fields of type int64) with thousands separators as configured in control panel
03.11.04 Fixed: Plugin detect strings were sometimes truncated in the configuration dialog, now strings up to 2000 characters should work
03.11.04 Added: Limit the number of loaded thumbnail images per side to 500 (Win9x: 200) in very large dirs to keep resource+memory usage low
03.11.04 Fixed: Find files - Plugins page: Help didn't work
03.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Ctrl+Home/End now places cursor on first/last item
03.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Shift+cursor up/down now selects all files between the current item and the previously current item
03.11.04 Added: Some more strings can now be translated: RegEx, LS Plugins, Lister Plugins
02.11.04 Added: Don't save custom columns having only name+extension columns and no name
02.11.04 Added: TC now supports a maximum of 29 custom view modes, only the configured modes with a name are listed in the menu!
02.11.04 Added: cm_LeftDirBranch and cm_RightDirBranch activates branch view in left/right panel
02.11.04 Fixed: No custom fields and no EXE icons shown for files with Unicode names
02.11.04 Fixed: Always scroll viewed file name into view when activating quick view (Ctrl+Q)
02.11.04 Fixed: Removed some more calls to content plugins which cannot work (e.g. for ftp in multi-rename tool, or archives in search)
02.11.04 Fixed: Could not sort by [=(int).size] field
02.11.04 Fixed: Re-display thumbnails when switching between two thumbnail database locations (e.g. with different thumbnail sizes)
02.11.04 Added: "Configure custom columns" to sorting header right click menu also on inactive panel
02.11.04 Added: "Comments view" and "Thumbnails view" to sorting header right click menu
31.10.04 Fixed: Auto-install plugins: wrong base dir saved if proposed install path contained a backslash
31.10.04 Fixed: Color filters not working properly after feed search results to panel when using content plugins
31.10.04 Fixed: switching directly from custom columns to thumbnails view shows distorted text
31.10.04 Fixed: cm_ReloadSelThumbs selected current file if nothing was selected
31.10.04 Fixed: Some problems with locked tabs containing search results
31.10.04 Added: wincmd.ini [Lister] IviewAdditionalTypes=*.xyz *.abc will pass files matching these filters to Irfanview/Xnview (note that these programs may not be able to handle them)
31.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Fields by file type not shown when slow-loading (in background)
31.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Fields by file type configuration didn't work correctly
31.10.04 Fixed: Long delay when trying to switch from a virtual folder to a path starting with an invalid environment variable
31.10.04 Added: Custom columns view: Left/right keys switch to command line if there is no horizontal scrollbar
31.10.04 Added: The following internal content plugin fields now also work in archives, ftp etc: size, writedate, writetime, attributes, attributestr
31.10.04 Fixed: Compact thumbnails database: USB sticks were treated like CDs, but they have a separate menu option
31.10.04 Fixed: Show smaller vertical scroller in compare by contents listbox with better resolution on large screens
31.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns configuration: '+' buttons were 'translated' when changing language
31.10.04 Fixed: Memory leak in overlay icon extract function
29.10.04 Added: Made the option to show custom fields below thumbnails independent from the default custom field, so it's now possible to have no default custom field, but per file type custom fields.
29.10.04 Fixed: Win9x: Compact thumbnail database + delete thumbnails for no longer existing files deleted all thumbnails
29.10.04 Added: Don't drop search results when switching between full, custom columns and thumbnail views (selecting long view in long view will revert to normal file list as in previous versions)
29.10.04 Added: wincmd.ini: Added new option AlwaysUnpackInBackground=, moves unpacker dialog to background automatically: 1 only unzip, 2 also external, 3 show external minimized
29.10.04 Added: Synchronize dirs: Ctrl+F3 to compare left and right
29.10.04 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree not shown correctly when in thumbnails view
29.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Rightmost thumbnail column could be partly hidden below right scrollbar
29.10.04 Fixed: [(int) Plugin] size.Mbytes no longer showed size in Megabytes
29.10.04 Fixed: Content plugins were also called for FTP, packers, file system plugins and virtual folders, where they cannot work but cause slowdowns
29.10.04 Fixed: No ole drag&drop (e.g. from other windows) when starting up in thumbnail view
29.10.04 Fixed: When unchecking "locked with dir changes allowed", the tab wasn't really unlocked
29.10.04 Fixed: TC sometimes crashed when switching from/to tab "locked with dir changes allowed" containing a virtual folder
27.10.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 3
27.10.04 Fixed: OLE drag&drop (right mouse button) no longer working after switching to thumbnail view
27.10.04 Added: Internal command cm_GoToLockedDir: Go to the base dir of locked tab (locked with directory changes allowed)
27.10.04 Fixed: [install plugin] Confirm overwrites modified the file name (the dialog was re-used from a different function)
27.10.04 Fixed: Files with unknown size in virtual folders got wrong color filters color
27.10.04 Fixed: When pressing Ctrl+Q during thumbnail view and the quick view panel has different width, the thumbnail could have scrolled out of view
27.10.04 Added: wincmd.ini, LockedGoToDriveRoot=1: Clicking the "\" button or pressing Ctrl+\ goes to drive root instead of locked tab root
27.10.04 Added: Custom columns view: The first unit name is now not shown as empty but as "<default>"
27.10.04 Added: Custom columns view: The total of all fields can now be 1023 characters (before: 259 characters)
27.10.04 Added: Thumbnails view will now no longer expect images of the full size (96x96), but max. with this size. Smaller images will be centered. Reason: The border will have TCs background color!
26.10.04 Added: Allow to "lock-with dir change" also virtual folders, if they can be represented in the form ::{idlist}::{idlist} ...
26.10.04 Fixed: Virtual folders on Tabs were no longer remembered
26.10.04 Fixed: When packing file with spaces to same dir and switching to one archive per file, the initial " was forgotten
26.10.04 Added: Sort named filters in copy dialog by name (those with a > in front)
26.10.04 Added: When switching from/to branch view with Ctrl+B, keep the cursor on the file currently under the cursor
26.10.04 Added: Save thumbnail size also in wincmd.ini for the case when the database is deleted by accident
26.10.04 Added: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F5 (when assigned manually to cm_packfiles) opens pack dialog for moving to archive in same dir
26.10.04 Fixed: Sorting by custom fields not working correctly in branch view (slow field wasn't pre-fetched)
26.10.04 Added: Support for zip-nt 2.3 for packing
26.10.04 Fixed: Internal content plugin: field versionnr was sometimes returning invalid values
26.10.04 Added: Synchronize dirs: Show small dotted rectangle around selected copy filters (reason: on WinXP it's often hard to distinguish pressed and non-pressed buttons)
26.10.04 Added: Content plugin variables can now contain conditional text which is only displayed if the variable exists, e.g. [="text1"plugin.variable.unit:4-7"text2"]
26.10.04 Fixed: cm_CompareDirs didn't select a file when a directory with identical name existed in the other panel
26.10.04 Added: New internal command cm_CompareDirsWithSubdirs: Like cm_CompareDirs, but also mark subdirs not present in other dir
26.10.04 Added: Changed default location for thumbnail database on non-win9x systems to %$LOCAL_APPDATA%\GHISLER (reverts to %APPDATA% if local appdata doesn't exist)
26.10.04 Added: wincmd.ini: Added new option AlwaysPackInBackground=, moves packer dialog to background automatically: 1 only zip, 2 also external, 3 show external minimized
26.10.04 Fixed: There was a critical stop sound when pressing ESC in inplace rename when the edit field was empty
26.10.04 Fixed: Custom view: Selection not cleared when changing dirs
26.10.04 Fixed: The first char was cut off when using "Create separate archives, one per selected file/dir" and packing to the same dir
26.10.04 Fixed: Win98SE - Compact thumbnail database caused crash when selecting to delete no longer existing files (cause: missing Unicode function)
24.10.04 Added: "Size" field in custom columns mode can now show the size of directories when counting with spacebar or alt+shift+enter
24.10.04 Added: Custom columns: For size field, added options bkM and bkM2 to show in bytes/kbytes/Mbytes mode (2: with 1 fractional digit)
24.10.04 Fixed: Limit thumbnail dimensions to multiples of 8, otherwise some Explorer extensions seem to crash when extracting plugins!
24.10.04 Fixed: Setting a custom column width of 0 causes access violation
24.10.04 Fixed: Search results (feed to listbox) now also work with custom columns view
24.10.04 Added: QuickSearchExactMatch=1 in wincmd.ini matches exact string in quick search (except for first dot), e.g. typing win.i matches win.ini but not wincmd.ini
24.10.04 Fixed: System information: Detect Intel Itanium (if the operating system supports it)
24.10.04 Fixed: Win98: long delay when entering root dir when color filter defined for internal content plugin - comments
22.10.04 Added: Synchronize dirs: Show more details in footer
22.10.04 Fixed: Search: When selecting a previous regex search from history, regex was checked, but not unchecked when selecting normal item. Fix only possible when history list dropped down.
22.10.04 Added: New internal command cm_ListInternalOnly calls lister without plugins or multimedia, same as Alt+Shift+F3
22.10.04 Added: Always show tip windows (when enabled) in thumbnail view with search results
22.10.04 Added: When displaying search result in thumbnail view (after feed to listbox), show only the file names, without the full path
22.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: After switching to a different dir while fields were still being loaded could send field contents to wrong file
22.10.04 Added: Plugin auto-installation now also supports translated plugin descriptions, just append 3 character language string xyz from wcmd_xyz.lng file. Example: descriptiondeu=<description in German>
22.10.04 Added: AutoInstallPlugins=0 in wincmd.ini turns off automatic installation dialog for plugins
20.10.04 Added: Use Shift+Cursor keys to activate command line in thumbnails view
20.10.04 Fixed: (again) When using separate Left/Right menus, the checkmarks for thumbnail+custom columns view weren't always correct
20.10.04 Added: Copy function: After clicking Abort, it's now possible still to continue the copy operation
20.10.04 Added: Toggling comment view or thumbnails view will remember brief view (will switch back to brief view if it was previously active)
20.10.04 Fixed: Avoid delay when trying to switch to file system plugin via button bar button or directory menu
20.10.04 Added: InplaceRenamePath=2: Disable inplace rename of path, but enable quick directory changes with single click (no shift needed)
20.10.04 Added: New pseudo-environment variable $COMMON_PICTURES
19.10.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 2
19.10.04 Added: Overlay icons are now off by default, because some testers complained about slow file listings
19.10.04 Fixed: cm_ChangeStartMenu causing access violation if start menu was disabled via RestrictInterface=1
19.10.04 Fixed: Horizontal scrollbar disappeared after icon or font size change
19.10.04 Added: Custom colors now also supports content plugins (warning, this can slow down directory listings)
19.10.04 Added: Custom fields: use 'y' for 2 digit year, 'Y' for 4 digit year
19.10.04 Added: New right click menu item "Re-load selected thumbnails", internal command cm_ReloadSelThumbs
19.10.04 Fixed: Option "EXE/LNK not on net" wasn't correctly detected in UNC search results
19.10.04 Added: When the option "EXE/LNK not on net" is checked, then overlay icons will not be retrieved on network drives either
19.10.04 Added: Revert to stored root already when switching away from locked tab with dir changes allowed (affects drag&drop to that tab)
19.10.04 Fixed: Set font size in configuration - plugins to 8 for explanations to avoid that they are cut off
19.10.04 Fixed: Gray+ now works in background transfer manager even if no control has focus
19.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns: zero floating point values showed as 0.0000000000E0000 instead of 0
19.10.04 Added: New pseudo-environment variables $MYPICTURES,$LOCAL_APPDATA,$COMMON_APPDATA,$COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY,$COMMON_DOCUMENTS,$COMMON_PROGRAMS,$COMMON_STARTMENU,$COMMON_STARTUP
19.10.04 Fixed: Sometimes access violation when trying to sort columns in custom columns configuration
19.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns search page was sometimes opened without any edit box line (not correctly saved)
18.10.04 Fixed: When MD5 creation was remembered, the wrong extension .sfv was used
18.10.04 Fixed: Don't check directory tab contents at every program start (TC was checking whether an archive was open)
17.10.04 Fixed: Problem switching to locked tab containing either thumbnail view or custom columns
17.10.04 Fixed: Keep selection and current item when switching to/from thumbnail view
17.10.04 Fixed: When using separate Left/Right menus, the checkmarks for thumbnail+custom columns view weren't always correct
17.10.04 Fixed: Drag&Drop on archive or dir in thumbnail view copied the files to the wrong location
17.10.04 Added: On slow drives, when pressing ENTER on ZIP files, show open package icon earlier, before checking that it is really an archive (better feedback)
14.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view not working for BMP etc. if Explorer method disabled or unavailable
14.10.04 Fixed: Custom fields not on same base line as name+ext!
14.10.04 Fixed: Problem with Tab in search dialog
14.10.04 Fixed: Use DIBs instead of DDBs for thumbnails, should avoid problems with black thumbnails
14.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns+thumbnails view: Specified field units (e.g. kbytes) were not always working
14.10.04 Fixed: Win9x: F6 or Shift+F6 during rename didn't select the correct name part for multi-dot file names
14.10.04 Fixed: Plugin installation: a string wasn't translated yet
14.10.04 Added: Custom column mode: append extension to name if this is set in full view too!
14.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnail database configuration: >> button pointed to file selection dialog instead of tree dialog
14.10.04 Added: Thumbnail database can now be disabled by specifying empty dir (the thumbnail size will then be stored in wincmd.ini)
14.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnail database location change became effective only after restarting TC
14.10.04 Added: Ctrl+Shift+F1 hotkey for thumbnail view
14.10.04 Fixed: Disable overlay icon checkbox if option unavailable (it only works on Windows ME/2000/XP)
14.10.04 Added: Synchonize: When 2 files with same name but different case are found, then show them both in the error dialog
14.10.04 Added: Changed attribute character for encrypted files to 'e', compressed to 'c'
13.10.04 Fixed: Unchecking "Show custom fields below thumbnais" wasn't working
13.10.04 Fixed: Apply button not shown when deleting last column in custom view
13.10.04 Added: Commands for thumbnail view and custom view modes to totalcmd.inc
12.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnail view couldn't be activated with internal English language
12.10.04 Fixed: MODE Z wasn't activated because tcunzlib.dll wasn't loaded automatically
12.10.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 1
12.10.04 Fixed: Color filters were not working correctly with files or dirs >4 GB (when comparing by size)
12.10.04 Added: New command cm_switchOverlayIcons to switch overlay icons on and off
06.10.04 Added: Right click menu to tab headers to select between brief, full, and custom columns mode, and to configure custom columns
06.10.04 Added: When selecting a previously unused custom columns mode, TC will now open the configuration dialog to define the columns
06.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns mode wasn't markted in the menu after switching to it
05.10.04 Added: Increased max. button count per button bar to 299
05.10.04 Fixed: Crash when trying to edit button bar with more than 199 buttons
03.10.04 Added: FTP: Option to only use ports from limited range for PORT connections, useful when behind a NAT firewall.
03.10.04 Added: Moved zlib unpacking (for thumbnails and MODE Z) to separate DLL tcunzlib.dll, so wcmzip32.dll from previous version can be kept
24.09.04 Added: Configuration - Display: Show overlay icons allows to show/hide the little overlay icons shown for links, shares, etc.
22.09.04 Added: Search in plugins: restore last used plugin search when switching to plugins page of the search dialog
21.09.04 Added: Content plugins: Support for detect strings (only call plugin for those files for which it was written, e.g. the id3 plugin only for mp3 files)
21.09.04 Added: Remember special display modes (thumbnails, comments, custom columns) when closing TC
21.09.04 Added: Remember special display modes (thumbnails, comments, custom columns) separately per tab
21.09.04 Fixed: Problem with thumbnail database packing (image dimensions were lost)
19.09.04 Added: Delete thumbs database in uninstall function when choosing to delete settings files
17.09.04 Fixed: Thumbnail view: Avoid that the empty space after the last item could get focus
17.09.04 Fixed: gray+ no longer working in background transfer manager
15.09.04 Added: Synchronize dirs: Also allow to set copy direction of equal files (via right click menu only!), e.g. for copying them to a different location
15.09.04 Fixed: Search window: Tab key allowed to switch to search results list even if it was invisible
10.09.04 Added: Subdir filters now also work when copying (only files of this type). Syntax: Include: somedir1\ somedir2\ Exclude: *.* | somedir1\ somedir2\
10.09.04 Fixed: Multi-rename file with comment -> comment preserved. Choose "undo" -> comment was lost!
10.09.04 Fixed: Brief view: if extension is very long, and displayed in second or later column, it may overlap with next column
08.09.04 Added: Hints for cut file names in custom view
07.09.04 Added: Store image dimensions in thumbnail database, not in wincmd.ini
07.09.04 Added: Custom column modes 1-9 can be given names
07.09.04 Added: Custom column mode: Column widths of name+ext column can be changed individually per mode
07.09.04 Added: Custom column mode: Store width in dialog units, added up/down selector
01.09.04 Fixed: When copying files in background (F5-F2), no additional NTFS streams were copied
01.09.04 Fixed: Access violation when entering a zip file name longer than 255 characters in Files - Pack
01.09.04 Fixed: Append to read only file failed -> TC asked to overwrite, and then overwrote the file instead of appending
01.09.04 Added: Shift+Click on a part of the current path switches up to that dir
31.08.04 Added: Configuration of multiple (up to 9) custom views
22.08.04 Added: Sorting by custom fields (in custom field view only). Note: This can be slow because the field by which we sort has to be loaded for ALL items before a single item can be shown
17.08.04 Added: Copy/Delete thumbs now in background thread
11.08.04 Added: Compacting thumbs database now works
11.08.04 Added: New configuration page for configuring all plugin types
08.08.04 Added: Improved thumb database: Re-use space freed when deleting images (store free blocks in free list tcthumbs.frl), combine subsequent free blocks to one, split reused block if remaining space >1/2 of inserted image size
04.08.04 Added: Content plugins: New flag to ContentGetValue which asks to delay info extraction if it is slow. The info will then retrieved in a background thread
04.08.04 Added: New Internal commands cm_GotoDriveA..cm_GotoDriveZ to switch to one of these drives (same as "cd c:\", but also works for hotkeys)
04.08.04 Added: Two new internal commands cm_GotoNextDrive and cm_GotoPreviousDrive to switch to next/previous available drive
04.08.04 Added: New pseudo environment variables supported, pointing to locations of virtual folders: %$APPDATA%, %$DESKTOP%, %$PERSONAL% (My Documents), %$PROGRAMS%, %$STARTMENU%, %$FONTS%, %$STARTUP% (use lowercase to access env vars with these names)
03.08.04 Added: F5 - F2 now transfers in background also for FTP uploads+downloads (without affecting the checkbox)
01.08.04 Fixed: When deleting first tab while cursor on another tab, the current tab is moved
01.08.04 Added: New function "Close duplicate tabs" in tab header right click menu
30.07.04 Fixed: Inplace rename not working in thumbs view
27.07.04 Added: CRC-checksum: remember whether md5 is checked or not
27.07.04 Added: MD5-checksum: use lowercase characters for MD5
20.07.04 Fixed: OLE documents support only names up to 31 chars <- problem with thumbs database. Fix: Split long names into parts of 30 chars starting with '?' as indicator
16.07.04 Added: New internal command cm_GoToFirstFile places cursor on first file (not dir) in list
13.07.04 Added: Added: time modifiers for am/pm: A=hour in am/pm format, P=am/pm string, p=a/p string. Example: [=filesys.writetime.A-M-SP] pastes e.g. 11-30-05am
13.07.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Added date modifiers for plugins in multi-rename tools, e.g. [=filesys.writedate.Y-M-D] pastes time in format year-month-day. Uppercase letters mean fixed with (2004-06-02), lowercase means variable width (2004-6-2)
13.07.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Added time modifiers for plugins in multi-rename tools, e.g. [=filesys.writetime.H-M-S] pastes time in format hours-minutes-seconds. Uppercase letters mean fixed with (05-03-01), lowercase means variable width (5-3-1)
07.07.04 Added: Content plugins in multi-rename tool. Format: [=pluginname.fieldname.unit] or [=pluginname.fieldname.unit:4-7] for partial string
07.07.04 Added: First implementation of content plugins
07.07.04 Added: Option to resize lister plugin configuration dialog (and fs plugin dlg too), size not remembered
06.07.04 Added: Support for the new AES plugin supporting WinZIP 9 decryption
06.07.04 Added: Show number of selected / total dirs in footer, configurable via Configuration - Tabstops - "Show directory count in footer"
06.07.04 Added: When leaving branch view mode with Ctrl+B and the cursor stands on a file in a subdir, go to that subdir instead of the branch view root (use F2 or Ctrl+R to go to branch view root)
06.07.04 Added: Create multiple dirs (with F7) with syntax dir1|dir2|dir3 or c:\dir1|c:\dir2|c:\dir3 or a mix of both
06.07.04 Added: Pressing F6 (or Shift+F6) in the inplace rename field will select just the name/the name+ext
06.07.04 Added: When dropping data from Outlook Express (or other OLE2 sources), allow to rename if the name already exists (not only overwrite+skip)
30.06.04 Added: New lister plugin function ListGetPreviewBitmap() which is used by thumbnail view
30.06.04 Added: SortUpper=3 uses StrCmpLogicalW on Windows XP, works like SortUpper=2 on other operating systems
30.06.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Search+Replace now has a history list stored in wincmd.ini sections RenameSearchFind and RenameSearchReplace
30.06.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Resize Search+Replace box to use all available space
30.06.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Button to reload rename results for next rename step. Hotkey: F5
30.06.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Multiple search+replace (not with regex). Example: Remove all German umlauts. Search for: Σ|÷|ⁿ|▀ Replace with: ae|oe|ue|ss
30.06.04 Added: New internal commands cm_srcactivatetab1..10 activates tab 1-10 in source panel, similar for target. Not in totalcmd.inc: 5201-5299 left tabs, 5301-5399 right tabs
30.06.04 Added: Some more shortcuts to synchronize dirs, see right click menu. Shortcuts not listed there: Ctrl+A select all, Ctrl+F seelct all in current dir
30.06.04 Added: File lists: show <LNK> instead of <DIR> for junctions (dir links)
29.06.04 Added: Two new switches: /T opens passed dirs in new tabs, /S interprets the passed dirs as source/target instead of left/right (for usage with the /O switch)
29.06.04 Added: New type of locked tab: still allows to change dirs, but reverts to tab-root when clicking "\" or switching to other tab and back
24.06.04 Fixed: Tree view: don't jump x dirs up when creating new dir
24.06.04 Fixed: Lister crashed when using 2 monitors with secondary larger than primary, and lister maximized on secondary
19.06.04 Added: Moved icon overlay extraction to background
18.06.04 Fixed: cm_LoadSelectionFromClip not restoring names with spaces
15.06.04 Added: Support for MODE Z also for FxP, except if source+target are the same server (then MODE Z would be slower)
15.06.04 Added: Support for MODE Z compressed uploading/downloading (using zlib compression 'on the fly')
14.06.04 Fixed: No progress bar when downloading files >4GB via HTTP (Ctrl+N)
14.06.04 Added: Clear timer after pause of copying
06.06.04 Added: Show current speed also when copying in synchronize dirs function
06.06.04 Fixed: Radio buttons problem with tabs
06.06.04 Added: treefilelocation__server_share= sets location of treeinfo file only for drive \\server\share
06.06.04 Added: treefilelocationE= sets location of treeinfo file only for drive E (note: only works if treefilelocation= is set too)
06.06.04 Added: treefilelocation= supports variables %D% =current drive, %R%= root path, %L% =volume label <- must be uppercase, otherwise TC will look for environment variables with this name!
06.06.04 Added: Define different location of files treeinfo.wc via wincmd.ini, treefilelocation=c:\somedir\treeinfo%D%.wc
06.06.04 Added: NTFS-packed files are shown with a 'p' in the attributes column, NTFS-encrypted files with a 'c'.
06.06.04 Added: Search for encrypted files added (finds both NTFS-encrypted files and encrypted files inside of archives), can also be used for coloring
06.06.04 Added: Automatic installation of languages when archive contains file pluginst.inf (same method as for plugins)
04.06.04 Added: Don't check for sharing flags if icon overlays enabled (they will handle that)
01.06.04 Added: Support for icon overlays, can be turned off in wincmd.ini under [Configuration] iconoverlays=0
01.06.04 Added: Shift+button click in search on 'go to file' or 'feed to listbox' opens dir in new tab
01.06.04 Added: Alt+Shift+F3 loads lister without any multimedia additions (images, plugins etc), e.g. to view a picture as binary
01.06.04 Added: Automatic installation of plugins when archive contains file pluginst.inf (see bz2 plugin for sample inf)
31.05.04 Added: Reset speed measurement timers to 0 when pausing
31.05.04 Fixed: The current speed wasn't always shown when copying
31.05.04 Fixed: Shift+Click selected wrong files in dir with more than 65535 files (problem of lb_selitemrange)
05.05.04 Fixed: Internal Unzip CRC-check (Alt+Shift+F9) reported error when a ZIP contained dirs stored with compression method 8 (deflated) instead of 0 (stored)
16.04.04 Release Total Commander 6.03a Final
14.04.04 Release Total Commander 6.03 Final
03.03.04 Release Total Commander 6.02 Final
03.12.03 Release Total Commander 6.01 Final
New in Total Commander 6.0 final (17.11.03):
[Tabs]
- File panel Tab support
- Drop dirs/archives on empty space in tab header adds new tabs with them
- Drop dirs/files on tab header copies files to the directory represented by this tab
- Tab right click menu added
- Ctrl+Click on tab closes this tab
- Internal command cm_visDirTabs to turn folder tabs on and off
- Remember the Desktop, Network Neighborhood and other virtual folders when closing, both the current dir and other tabs!
- Drop tab on target path adds this tab in the target window even if no tab header is shown yet
- cm_ToggleLockCurrentTab: Turn on/off tab locking (e.g. for button bar, hotkey)
- Ctrl+Cursor up opens dir under cursor in new tab
- Ctrl+Shift+Cursor up opens dir under cursor in new tab in OTHER window
- Ctrl+Shift+T opens new tab without activating it
- Ctrl+Shift+W closes all open tabs
- Ctrl+T opens new tab, Ctrl+M starts multi-rename tool, Ctrl+Shift+M changes FTP transfer mode
- cm_OpenDirInNewTab internal message to open dir under cursor in new tab
- Shift+Enter or Ctrl+Enter in History opens this dir in a new tab
- Ctrl+Shift+U Swaps not only the active panels, but all tabs
- appendtabs tabfile.tab in button bar appends tabs from tabfile.tab to current tabs
- opentabs tabfile.tab in button bar replaces current tabs with tabs from tabfile.tab
[FTP]
- FTP resume all for uploads and downloads
- When an FTP server or file system plugin reports illegal chars in a name, TC converts them to underscores on download
- Synchronize dirs now uses inofficial MDTM command to set remote file date. This command isn't supported by all servers.
- FTP: Parameter %p in Buttonbar now pastes full FTP URL uncluding user name. %P still pastes just the path on the server without the server name
- Ctrl+D menu now supports changing paths on ftp servers: the path must contain a forward slash as a distinction. Only in source dir possible.
- Punycode accented domain encoding for http and ftp
- FTP client: skip known troyan ports in ftp client to avoid problems with firewalls
[Regular expressions]
- Regular expression searches in lister, search function (Alt+F7), file contents (match one line at a time only, max 4k/line)
- Support for regular expressions in select/unselect files: string must be preceded by a '<', e.g. <^[A-Za-z \.]*
- Regular expressions support in multi-rename tool, using RegExpr.pas, Copyright (c) 1999-00 by Andrey V. Sorokin <anso@mail.ru> - http://anso.da.ru
- Support for regular expressions and stored searches in copy and move operations
[Plugins]
- Changed the way how multimedia plugins are detected: To override the internal handling (or Irfanview), it's now sufficient that MULTIMEDIA appears as ANY node in the detect string
- Alt+Enter on file system plugins now opens the plugin's properties (if the plugin supports it)
- Lister plugin interface version 1.3: Allow to replace internal Multimedia viewers
[Unicode]
- Show Unicode file names in file lists
- Copying and moving of files with Unicode names on Windows NT/2000/XP, also with subdirs!
- Rename Unicode file names in place
- Show tip windows with Unicode names
- Show warning message the first time the user enters a dir with file names from a different codepage (can be disabled)
- If the user hasn't chosen a default font, use "Microsoft Sans Serif" instead of "MS Sans Serif" on Win2k/XP, because it supports Unicode
- Support for Unicode UTF16 in "Compare by contents". If Unicode marker present, this also supports big endian format
[Synchronize dirs]
- Show file sizes >4GB in synchronize dirs (correct sizes were used for calculation, but not displayed)
- Also show compare by contents progress within a file (e.g. when comparing few very big files)
- Synchronize dirs, asymmetric mode: Option to delete all empty dirs in right window (not available in zip or ftp)
- Sync now also works with archives other than ZIP! Everything except for compare by contents is supported
- Compare by content now also works with two ZIP files
- Dialog can now be closed with ESCAPE as long as the user doesn't change the copy direction of any files!
[Multi-rename tool]
- When clicking on [N#-#], user can select letters interactively in currently selected file name
- [G] placeholder inserts grandparent directory name
[New ini options]
- wincmd.ini, [Configuration] ShowInstanceNr=0 turns off numbered commander title bar
- Search in archives recognized by content: Needs to set SearchInFiles= in Wincmd.ini to extensions of this packer
- wincmd.ini, [Configuration] SortUpper=2 uses mixed lexical and numerical sorting, e.g. file10.txt comes AFTER file1.txt
- wincmd.ini, [Configuration] CompareIgnoreRepSpace=0 turns off ignoring of repeated spaces in compare tool
[Packers]
- It's now possible to add files to a subdir of a RAR archive
- Option to pack with ACE now also works with WinACE packer
- Unpacking of files >4GB from ZIP archives up to 4GB in size using the pkware 64bit extra field
- Unpacking of ZIP files created with the Deflate64(TM) method (Deflate64 is a trademark of Pkware Inc.)
- Preserve ZIP archive main comment when adding or removing files
- Wait for external packers in the background (no wait window will be shown)
[User interface]
- Buttons for directory hotlist and directory history
- Show parent dir also in root of drive
- Show free and total disk space in "My Computer" for fixed disks (may not work on all operating systems)
- Shift+Mouse wheel activates history (go back/forward)
- New internal command cm_ShowQuickSearch shows window for searching a file name in the current dir
- Changed page selection in configuration dialog from tabbed notebook to fixed tree+notebook (Mozilla style)
- cm_ShowHint shows tooltip for current file in active file list (and places mouse cursor on it)
- CMF_EXTENDEDVERBS added to context menu call when shift is pressed -> adds "open with" menu item!
- Possibility to change drive icons
- Button bar: Support for 48x48 and 64x64 icons for very high resolution displays, better scaling of sizes between 16 and 32
- Show in title when there is more than one instance of TC, e.g. [2] Total Commander
- Configure colors of compare by contents and lister via the main config dialog
- Show NTFS junctions with a link icon
- Option "Show old 8.3 names lowercase" no longer the default on NT/2000/XP systems
- Lister: Show %done when searching
[File operations]
- Speed limit when copying files (only in background transfer manager)
- F2 Background button in F5 Copy dialog, will add the selected files to the last opened background transfer manager
- In F5 copy dialog, "Options" button: New option to rename copied file or target file when target exists. Names are filename(2).ext, filename(3).ext etc.
- 3 new internal commands: cm_copySamepanel, cm_copyOtherpanel, cm_createShortcuts: Same as cm_copy, but not reacting to Shift and Alt keys!
- More detailed statistics in SFV/MD5 check function
- Drop files on F8-Delete button while right mouse button pressed has same effect as Shift+Drop (bypass recycle bin if it is activated)
[Other additions]
- TC 6.0 now also accepts tcmdkey.zip containing wincmd.key instead of wincmd.key. The key must be stored (no compression) in the file.
- cm_SaveSelection saves current selection internally (automatically done before each file operation)
- Internal command cm_LoadSelectionFromClip to load selection from clipboard (counterpart to cm_CopyNamesToClip)
- Internal commands cm_SaveSelectionToFile, cm_LoadSelectionFromFile to save/load current selection (names of all selected files)
- In Right click menu - new document, look in CSIDL_COMMON_TEMPLATES folder if not found in CSIDL_TEMPLATES folder
- Set environment variable COMMANDER_PATH to location of Total Commander's EXE file (e.g. for loading plugins)
New in Total Commander 5.51 Final (18.02.03):
- FS-Plugins: Copy/Move files between 2 plugins
- FS-Plugins: Support for Multi-Rename tool
- FS-Plugins: Synchronize dirs supported
- FS-Plugins: Search files added
- FS-Plugins: Wildcards support (*.txt) for displaying files
- Lister-Plugin interface officially documented
- Show the first files being deleted in the delete confirmation dialog
- cm_usermenu1..cm_usermenu10 to invoke the first 10 commands in the starter menu (e.g. for hotkeys).
- cm_xxx commands now also work in directory hotlist (Ctrl+D)
- New search option to include/exclude specific dirs, e.g. | _vti*\ excludes all dirs starting with "_vti" (search, sync, branch view)
- cm_CopyNetNamesToClip copies file names with UNC path to clipboard
- Single click on active file window title allows to change / copy /paste the current dir
- wincmd.ini [Configuration] copystreams=0 turns off copying of NTFS streams
04.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.50 Silent update (a)
New in Total Commander 5.50 Final (29.10.02):
- Name changed to "Total Commander" - see our homepage for the reasons
- Change size display of total/marked files in footer below file lists (bytes, k or dynamic)
- Copy additional NTFS streams when copying files.
- Copy file comments with the files with F5 (optional, needs to be enabled first)
- Create CRC checksums: Function can now also create and check MD5 checksums
- Drag a link from Internet Explorer to Total Commander (holding down Shift) to open the URL dialog to download the linked file
- File system plugin interface to access external devices or other partitions
- In Copy dialog, "Options" button which allows to set "Overwrite all", "Skip all" etc. before copying
- Lister: In 'Fit to window' mode, resize the video window to the lister window
- Lister: RTF-Viewer (can be disabled)
- Multi-rename tool: Load/Save settings, for often used changes
- Multi-rename tool, search+replace: Support for wildcards * and ?
- Open partially downloaded ZIP files, even during the download
- Option: Always open new FTP connections in the left or right file panel instead of the active file panel
- Show file comments in file lists and as tooltips
- Show name of logged-on user in the title bar if the program was started with RunAs
- The HTML viewer in Lister supports some more tags
New in Wincmd 5.11 Final (16.09.02):
- Many small corrections and additions
New in Wincmd 5.10 Final (28.08.02):
- Unpack RAR 3 archives
- Support for OTP-MD4 -MD5 and -SHA1-authentication for FTP
- Decoder for Yenc-encoded files (Files - decode files)
- Many small corrections and additions
New in Wincmd 5.0 Silent update (26.02.02):
- Many small corrections and additions
New in Version 5.0 Final (21.01.02):
- Support for Windows XP themes on XP
- "Commands" menu split into "Commands" and "Net"
- FTP: support for more than 2 definition strings when defining a new server type
- FTP+HTTP: Auto-Resume download if download-connection lost
- FTP: SOCKS4+SOCKS5 Proxy support (active+passive mode!), SOCKS5 without encryption
- Multi-Rename-Tool: Placeholder [P] puts name of parent dir into file name
- Internal command cm_SyncChangeDir makes Commander change to the directory of the same name also in the other window
- Find files: Start search inside an archive
- FTP: Option to send keepalive messages (e.g. NOOP) to the server in user-defined intervals (for max. 1 hour of inactivity)
- Support for packing of TAR/GZ/TGZ archives. Make sure to choose the correct target OS (Linux or SunOS).
- Direct packing of TAR.Plugin archives, requires re-download of the plugin (e.g. BZIP2)
- Compare by contents: Search for text in both files simultaneously, found text will be underlined
- Compare by contents: Button to show the two windows above each other, e.g. for wide texts
- Right click menu in Lister: added "Copy all URLs" command in HTML-Viewer mode
- Pack: Option to create a separate archive for each selected file/dir. If no target dir is given, the packed file will be placed in the same dir as the original file.
- "Branch view" now added to "commands" menu
- Create CRC-Checksum files in SFV format
- FTP+HTTP in background: Set speed limit for up- and downloads
- FTP download from list: detect if list file was modified, and add new items to current download
- Download list can now also copy+move files. Syntax: copy:sourcename -> targetname or move:sourcename -> targetname
- Background transfer manager can now also be started separately without a list file
New in Version 4.54 (16.07.01):
- Compare by content: Switch between binary and text mode.
- Lister: Support word wrap in UTF8 mode
New in Version 4.53 (31.05.01):
- Display of UTF8 (special 1-6 byte Unicode format) in Lister
- Support for ACE 2.0 archives
- Support for files > 2 GB in Lister and split/combine functions
- Directory print with subdirs: Print only files of certain types, e.g. *.txt *.doc
- Change date/time of folders also on Windows NT/2000 (admins only due to restricted rights)
- FTP: Resume upload (binary files only). WARNING: With some versions of the server WarFTPd, the resume seems to work, but the uploaded file is unusable!
- Directory hotlist can now contain up to 200 entries
- The location of Wincmd.ini and Wcx_ftp.ini can now be set in the registry (32-bit version only):
\SOFTWARE\Ghisler\Windows Commander, new text values IniFileName and FtpIniName.
This key may be created under HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
The command line parameters /i= and /f= still take precedence over the registry values.
- Special larger block sizes when copying very large files can increase the copying speed of these large files quite a bit.
This function is only meant for advanced users, and needs to be enabled through wincmd.ini (CopyBlockSize etc).
New in Version 4.52 (15.01.01):
- Display of Unicode and HTML (as plain text) in Lister
- Search for Unicode and Hex in the search function
- Print function to print directory lists, trees and compare results in 'Synchronize dirs'.
- Display of all files in the current dir and all subdirs with Ctrl+B
- File windows above each other instead of side by side
- Display of the file size in kbytes or dynamic depending on the actual size
- Multi-rename tool: Enhanced counter settings using definition strings [Cxxx]
- Submenu 'New' in the right click context menu allows to create new (empty) files
New in Version 4.51 (18.07.00):
- Bugfix of 4.50
New in Version 4.50 (30.6.00):
- Multi-rename tool: Allows to rename multiple files in one step (Hotkey: Ctrl+T)
- Batch rename function with Shift+F6 to quickly rename multiple files one by one
- Rename files and subdirs inside a ZIP archive (Shift+F6)
- Parallel port transfer function (direct cable connection), works between Win95/98/NT/2000/3.1 and DOS!
- FTP: Definition of custom host types, using a definition string
- FTP: Retry to connect multiple times also for non-anonymous connections
- FTP: Support for multiple proxies (separately for FTP and HTTP connections)
- FTP: Workaround to bug in some FTP servers: Upload of subdirs failed
- Resolve lnk files on the desktop or in the Network Neighborhood
- Unpack self-extracting files created by WinACE and WinRAR (open with Ctrl+PgDn)
- "Unpack all and execute" in packer properties allows to try out a program or run an installer from inside an archive
- Define custom colors for different file types, e.g. all directories, all zip files etc.
- Search for text also inside CAB files
- Copying to 'write only' directories (Windows NT, network)
- Uninstaller: Automatic removal of the program through the Control Panel
Several new commands and parameters for Button bar / Start menu:
- cm_List now allows to open a file. The file name must be given directly behind CM_LIST, and not in the parameters field!
Example: cm_list c:\windows\wincmd.ini always opens the file wincmd.ini in lister.
- cm_ShowFileUser: Show which remote user has opened a local file (through a shared directory)
- cm_EditPersmissionInfo: Show permissions dialog on Windows NT (NTFS file system)
- cm_EditAuditInfo: Show file auditing dialog (NTFS)
- cm_EditOwnerInfo: Show "Take ownership" dialog (NTFS)
- cm_ShowOnlySelected: Hide all files/dirs which aren't selected when this function is used
- cm_OpenRecycled: Open 'recycle bin'
- New parameters %L, %l, %F, %f, %D, %d create a list file in the TEMP directory with the names of the selected files and directories.
New in Version 4.02 (16.12.99):
- Unzip, delete and HTTP downloads (Ctrl+N) in background.
- Synchronize dirs now also supports directory from/to ftp synchronization! Concerning the date/time synchronizing problems with ftp, please read the section important note on the page Synchronize dirs.
- Tray icon right click menu (context menu).
- Direct upload of files from inside an archive to an FTP server.
- Better parsing of FTP file lists downloaded via a HTTP proxy.
- User-defined keyboard shortcuts.
- Split "Equal/Unequal" button into two buttons in sychronize function
- Change date/time of directories (Win95/98 only)
- FTP server to server transfers (FXP): Always sends PORT command to left server, PASV to right server. This allows for file transfers between a public server and one in a private address room, or behind a firewall. The private server must be in the left window.
- Find files: Only search in selected files and folders
New in Version 4.01 (27.07.99):
- This version was mainly a bugfix release
- HTTP downloads enhanced (now supports passwords, and special sites which require 'host:' line)
- Settings what to do when second ftp connection opened in same window: wcx_ftp.ini, [General] AutoDisconnect =1 disconnect previous =2 keep previous =0 ask user
New in Version 4.00 (17.06.99):
General:
- Directory synchronize: Compare two dirs with subdirs, or 1 dir and 1 archive
- Compare files by content
- Allow to abort binary compare in 'synchronize' with ESC
- Copy/move in the background - 32 bit only
- wincmd.ini, [configuration], AlwaysCopyInBackground=1 always copies in background
- Connect to UNC path (\\server\path) in background (separate thread), allow to abort after 3 seconds
- Dialog box Change Attributes, button to set current date&time
- wincmd.ini, [configuration], activeright=1 activates right file listbox at start
- Support for virtual folders through button bar. Use commands: cm_OpenDesktop, cm_OpenDrives, cm_OpenControls, cm_OpenFonts, cm_OpenNetwork, cm_OpenPrinters
- Copy and Move files from and to virtual folders
- Copy to nul, prn, lptx and comx now supported
- Rename or append when copying and target exists
- Files - Split now also accepts fractions of a number, like 0.5 MB
- Use NTFS time compare method (2 seconds difference considered as same) in 'Compare directories' and 'Synchroinize dirs'
User interface:
- 2 drive button bars, one per file window (configurable)
- 256 color folder icons, and support for external icon library (icl): wincmd.ini, [configuration], iconlib=dllname.dll (sample DLL on www.ghisler.com)
- Search for/select files which do NOT match certain wildcards. Use | to separate, e.g. w*.*|*.bak finds all files starting with w, without extension .bak
- Search for all files NOT containing a certain string
- Duplicate file finder can find files with same name, size, contents or any combination of the 3
Lister:
- Bitmap viewer, more formats through IrfanView plugin (see addons page on www.ghisler.com)
- Lister can now play sound and video (configurable)
- Printing in lister (Text+Graphics)
- Select all in lister: CTRL+A selects whole file
- Search for Hexadecimal strings, even mixed. Example: "PK"0102 will find 504B0102
- Lister now wraps at word boundaries (may be disabled: wincmd.ini, [lister], WordWrap=0)
New in Version 3.53 (8.11.98):
- Did extensive Year 2000 (Y2k) tests. Results: no internal date problems, only one interface prob to FTP
- Possible Y2k problem with FTP servers showing a 2 digit year only. Rule: date<80 ->20xx, date>=80 -> 19xx
- bugfixes
New in Version 3.52 (11.08.1998):
- cd \\Servername in command line (32 bit)
- Added: ACE packer/unpacker support
- unrar.dll and unace.dll internal unpackers for RAR and ACE (32 bit)
- bugfixes
Release Version 3.51 (07.05.1998):
- wcx_ftp.ini, [general], LogFile=Path\Log.txt writes FTP log to specified file
- Support for creating RAR SFX files
- Support for files > 2 GB (display, copy, rename, move, delete; NOT: ZIP, FTP, Lister)
- CTRL+P copies current path to command line
- FTP: Preserve file dates when downloading (selectable)
- FTP: Convert file names to lowercase when uploaded (selectable)
- FTP: Change Unix attributes (permissions) dialog for FTP sites (uses 'SITE chmod', which isn't supported by all sites)
- Bugfixes
New in Version 3.50 (18.3.1998):
- FTP client
- flat look
- Network Neighborhood
- IntelliMouse wheel support
- Directory history list (alt+cursor down)
- Go back, go forward (alt+cursor left / alt+cursor right)
- Create self extracting ZIP archive
- Expandable tree as in Explorer
- UUE/MIME/XXE-encode and decode, Binhex-decode
- Split/Combine files
- Start menu now supports shortcut keys (Ctrl+Alt+F1-F12)
- More command line switches (see help)
- ALT+GrayPlus selects all files with the same extension
New in Version 3.02 (14.4.1997):
- Cut/Copy/Paste of button bar buttons
- Deletion method used by explorer can be used also in Wincmd [Configuration] Win95Delete=1
- CTRL+Q on archive shows contained file_id.diz, readme*, or *.txt (in this order)
- Support for archives in archives
- CTRL+PgDn to open archives in archives
- TAR and GZ packers
- New commands cm_Switch83Names, cm_SwitchDirSort, cm_SwitchHidSys, cm_SwitchLongNames to button bar commands
New in Version 3.01 (31.12.1996):
- Bugfixes
New in Version 3.00 (15.12.1996):
- 32-bit version available
- drag&drop from and to explorer (32-bit version only)
- enhanced search function
- quick view panel (CTRL+Q)
- drive bar to select different drives
- button bar wraps around to 2 lines when larger than available width
- new multi-page configuration dialog
- Function to test selected archives for errors
- A header now allows to sort the files by name, extension, size, and date
- All parts of the user interface (except the file list) can be turned off in the configuration
