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User interface

The user interface is divided into the following elements:

• The title bar, showing the number of selected and total files/folders.
• The current path of the folder currently shown
• One or two file panels (configurable) showing the list of files/folders
• In virtual panel mode, two buttons at the edge of the screen:
  - Arrow button to swap panels
  - Equal sign button to set the same folder in the other panel as in the active panel
• The top item in the list allows to go to the parent, root or reload the current directory
• A button bar (toolbar) which contains buttons for some internal commands, but also allows to add external programs.
• The main menu, which is shown when pressing the menu button.

Selecting files/folders

There are several ways to select files and folders in Total Commander:

1. Tap on the icons
2. Use the select button in the lower left corner
3. a. Long tap on icon to show selection menu
   b. Choose "Select files"
   c. Scroll to last item you want to select
   d. Tap on its ICON to select the entire range

File operations

You can perform the following file operations with Total Commander/Android:

Main menu

The main menu contains the following commands:

Directory history

Shows the last visited directories.

Just tap on a directory to go there.

Bookmarks

Allows to save often used directories.

Just tap on a saved directory to go there.

To add a directory, don't come here via home screen! Instead, go to the directory first, then add it via main menu.

Search (Find files)

Allows to search for specific files:

Search for:
File name to search for, also partial names and wildcards *,? allowed

Containing text:
Search for text in files

Case sensitive:
Consider upper/lowercase

Unicode:
Search for text in Unicode files

Not older than:
Search only files younger than a certain time

Size:
Restrict results by size

Exit

Closes Total Commander for Android

New folder

Allows to create a new subfolder in the current directory.

Configuration

Allows to change Total Commander settings.

• About/Version Information: Shows about box
• Help / Licenses: Shows this help
• Language: Choose the language of the user interface independent from Android
• Date/time format: Choose the timestamp format for the file lists and properties
• Show hidden files/folders: Show files/folders where the name starts with a dot
• Hide files (ignore): Hide files depending on their name, either system-wide (only name given), or in specific folders only
• Fonts and colors: Choose font, foreground and background color for file lists. You can also increase the minimum line height if you have troubles to tap on files
• Sounds/Music: Configure sounds for background operations (message box and operation complete), and the context menu for the music player
• Internal associations: Define file associations bypassing the Android file associations
• Thumbnails: Turn thumbnails for jpg/gif/png/bmp files on/off. Choose to use a cache or not, clear the cache
• Full screen (no title): Turn off the title bar within TC
• Hide notification bar: Turn off the system's notification bar (android 2.3 or older)
• List window arrangement: Show two lists side by side, or two virtual panels. Show one or two button bars
• Side scroll: In the mode with just one visible file panel, you can use a wipe gesture to swap the two panels when this option is checked. Otherwise only the arrow button can be used
• Exit via BACK button: Determines whether the BACK button is used for going to the parent directory or for closing the program
• Root functions everywhere: Use root functions to read directory lists wherever possible

Copy/Move

To copy or move files, select them by tapping on their icons, or with the select button, then tap on the Copy/Move button.

In the copy dialog, you can now type a target directory. The default is the directory of the target panel.

To copy the file(s), click Copy, or to move them, click Move, or send them via Bluetooth or Wifi.

If the source window shows the contents of a ZIP or other archive file, the selected files are unpacked.

If the target window shows the contents of a ZIP file, the selected files are packed into that zip file.

If the source window lists the contents of a plugin, the selected files will be downloaded.

If the target window lists the contents of a plugin, the selected files will be uploaded.

Rename

Allows to rename a single file in place: Hold down the finger/pen on a file until the context menu appears, then tap on "Rename".

Multi-Rename Tool

Allows to rename all selected files with powerful rename options:
- Create a numbered file list
- Convert to upper-/lowercase via placeholders, e.g. [U]1276[L]
- Replace a string in the name with a different string
- Add current date/time to file name
- Keep only certain characters of the file name

The results are shown immediately in the result box below the rename options, before the files are renamed.

Field descriptions

Name mask
With this field, you can create a definition for a new file name. The button [] allows to insert place holders for the previous name, parts of the name, a counter, or file date/time. The + button opens a list of older masks. Place holders are always in brackets [ ], while all other letters (without brackets) will be placed in the new name without a change.

See below for a description of all available placeholders!

Files can also be moved to other directories by specifying directory separators "/" (slashes) in the name. Directories which do not exist yet will be created automatically.

Ext.
Definition string for extension. In principle, all placeholders can be added to either of the two definition boxes. The rename tool will create a rename string like this: Fields in name mask + "." + Fields in extension mask. The reason why the two fields are separated is to prevent the accidental removal of file extensions, which would remove the association of files with a certain program.

Search for & Replace with
The string entered in the field 'Search for' is replaced by the string in 'Replace with'. The text in 'search for' is NOT case sensitive! Both fields support the placeholders (wildcards) * and ?. A * stands for any number of characters, a ? for exactly one character.
This function is applied AFTER the rename mask!
You can search+replace multiple strings in one step! The strings need to be separated by the vertical line (Button to the right of the field).

Example: Replace Umlauts+Accents:
Search for: ä|ö|ü|é|è|ê|à
Replace with: ae|oe|ue|e|e|e|a

Checkboxes:
^ Respect upper-/lowercase. Can be used to replace uppercase characters with other characters than lowercase.
1x Only replace the first occurrence of the search string if it appears multiple times in the file name
[E] Also replace the search text within the extension.
RegEx Use regular expressions.
Subst. Substitution: The entire file name will be replaced by the characters entered in the "Replace" field. If this option isn't checked, only the found expression will be replaced. You can work with subexpressions, e.g. $1 first expression in (), $2 second expression etc.

[...] Button
Opens a menu with the following options:
<Undo last operation>
     Tries to undo the rename operation in reverse order (last renamed file first). This also works AFTER closing the Multi-Rename-Tool! Just re-open it with any file(s).
<Default>
     Sets the default settings (no changes to the names)
<Save as...>
     Allows to save the current settings
<Delete>
     Deletes the last selected entry from the list
Entry names
     Loads settings saved earlier

<File list>
     Shows a list of all files being renamed. The modified names are shown below the original names. All changes to the above fields are immediately shown in this column, but the files are not actually renamed until the Start! button is pressed. If the rename mask contains an error, the string <Error!> is shown.

Individual items can be moved up/down with drag&drop of the icons. This is useful for changing the file order for the counter function.

START!
     Starts to rename files. There will be a warning message if there are name conflicts.

Back button
     Closes the dialog box without any further actions.

Here is a description of all available placeholders. IMPORTANT: Upper/lowercase is relevant!

1276 old file name, WITHOUT extension

[N1] The first character of the original name

[N2-5] Characters 2 to 5 from the old name (totals to 4 characters). Double byte characters (e.g. Chinese, Japanese) are counted as 1 character! The first letter is accessed with '1'.

[N2,5] 5 characters starting at character 2

[N2-] All characters starting at character 2

[N02-9] Characters 2-9, fill from left with zeroes if name shorter than requested (8 in this example): "abc" -> "000000bc"

[N 2-9] Characters 2-9, fill from left with spaces if name shorter than requested (8 in this example): "abc" -> "      bc"

[N-8,5] 5 characters starting at the 8-last character (counted from the end of the name)

[N-8-5] Characters from the 8th-last to the 5th-last character

[N2--5] Characters from the 2nd to the 5th-last character

[N-5-] Characters from the 5th-last character to the end of the name

[A] Old file name, WITH extension (All characters of the name), without the path

[2-5] Characters 2-5 from the name INCLUDING path and extension (other numbers as in 1276 definition)

[P] Paste name of the parent directory, e.g. when renaming /directory/file.txt -> pastes "directory".
     Also working: [P2-5], [P2,5], [P-8,5], [P-8-5] and [P2-], see description of 1276 above.

[G] Grandparent directory (usage: see [P]).

[E] Extension

[E1-2] Characters 1-2 from the extension (same ranges as in 1276 definition)

[C] Paste counter, as defined in Define counter field

[C10+5:3] Paste counter, define counter settings directly. In this example, start at 10, step by 5, use 3 digits width.
     Partial definitions like [C10] or [C+5] or [C:3] are also accepted.

[C+1/100]New: Fractional number: Paste counter, but increase it only every n files (in this example: every 100 files).
     Can be used to move a specific number of files to a subdirectory,e.g. [C+1/100]/1276

[Caa+1] Paste counter, define counter settings directly. In this example, start at aa, step 1 letter, use 2 digits (defined by 'aa' width)

[C:a] Paste counter, determine digits width automatically, depending on the number of files. Combinations like [C10+10:a] are also allowed.

[S] Paste file size, in bytes

[T1] After this position, use last modification date/time from renamed file for all date/time fields (default).
     Note: These are just switches! Use them with the other time placeholders, e.g. [T1][YMD] [hms]

[T2] After this position, use current date/time (when rename dialog was opened)

[T3] After this position, use current date/time (when rename options were last changed)

[d] Paste date as defined in current country settings. / is replaced by a dash

[Y] Paste year in 4 digit form

[y] Paste year in 2 digit form

[M] Paste month, always 2 digit

[D] Paste day, always 2 digit

[t] Paste time, as defined in current country settings. : is replaced by a dot.

[h] Paste hours, always in 24 hour 2 digit format (0-23)

[H] Paste hours, always in 12 hour 2 digit format (1-12)

[i] am/pm indicator in English, e.g. for time format 10.30pm. Use [i1] for just a or p, e.g. 10.30p.

[m] Paste minutes, always in 2 digit format

[s] Paste seconds, always in 2 digit format

[u] Convert all composite characters (e.g. separate a and ^) to precomposed characters (â). Must be the first placeholder in the command.

[U] All characters after this position in uppercase

[L] All characters after this position in lowercase

[F] First letter of each word uppercase after this position, all others lowercase

[f] Like [F], but using rules for English in titles (certain words like a, in, the, ... lowercase)

[n] All characters after this position again as in original name (upper/lowercase unchanged)

[%x%] Inserts environment variable "x". Also supports parts, e.g. [%x%1-5]

[[] Insert square bracket: open

[]] Insert square bracket: close (cannot be combined with other commands inside the square bracket!)

Edit

Hold down the finger/pen on a file until the context menu appears, then tap on "Edit file". This loads the file under the cursor into the default file editor, or shows a list of available editors.

Internal editor help

Delete

With the X button you can delete the selected files.

Important note: The files will NOT be moved to some kind of Recycle bin, they will be deleted immediately!

Pack with ZIP

Allows to pack the selected files and/or subdirectories with the built-in ZIP packer.

ZIP files created this way are fully ZIP-compatible and can be unzipped on the PC or also on the device. To unzip, open the file with ENTER (or tap) and then copy the files to any directory you want.

Unpack files from an archive file

To unpack files from an archive file, open the archive with a tap, then select the files which you want to unpack and press the Copy button.

Total Commander can unpack the following file types:
zip, rar, 7z, tar, gz, z, bz2, arj, lzh, iso, img, cab
It uses the free open source 7zip library. The source code is available via Licenses page.

Properties

Shows the properties of the selected file(s) and allows to change the date/time.
For folders, the occupied disk space is shown.

Reload dir

Reloads the current directory to reflect any changes made in other programs.

Send via Bluetooth

Allows to send the selected files via Bluetooth (OBEX standard protocol).

The OBEX standard is used by devices like PocketPCs, Palm(TM), and many mobile phones.

Send via Wifi

Allows to send the selected files via Wifi by creating a local WebDAV server. Needs the Wifi plugin.

The server URL will also be shown as a QR code. As a target, it's possible to use the Wifi plugin on other Android devices, or any QR-Code reader together with a Web browser.

Select/unselect files

Allows to select or unselect files of specific types, e.g. all html files by using the wildcards *.htm *.html .

Type the wildcards you want or select previously used wildcards from the dropdown list, and click on "select" or "unselect". The files will be selected in addition to the already selected files!

Context menus

Context menus are invoked by holding down the finger/pen for about 1 second. They exist for the files in the file list, and for some buttons in the button bar:

The local file menu contains the commands Rename, Properties, Copy/Move to clipboard, Paste here.

For audio and video files, there are additional menu items for the internal player.

All user-defined buttons also have context menus to change or delete them

Keyboard shortcuts

On devices with a keyboard, or when using a Bluetooth keyboard, Total Commander supports the following keyboard shortcuts:

Button bar

The button bar contains some predefined buttons, like Copy and Delete, and also allows to add your own buttons by tapping on the "add" button (the last one behind all user buttons). The button will always be added at the end of the button bar, but just before the "add" button.

Description of the buttons:

To modify a user-defined button, tap on it for more than 1 second. This will open the context menu, which allows to change or delete the button.

See Dialog box - change button

Button change dialog

This dialog allows to change the settings of a button.

Fields:

• Function type: Choose what the button should do:
  • Change directory: Go to directory inside of Total Commander
  • Internal command: Start command inside of Total Commander
  • Launch app: Starts other program, usually without parameters
  • View file with app: Uses the VIEW option to launch a program, pass first selected file to it
  • Send to app: Uses the SEND option to launch a program, pass first selected file to it
  • Send shell command: Send command to the operating system. Command must be either sh or su (for rooted devices), or Comment:sh / Comment:su, parameter the actual command(s). A ? as the first character of the parameters opens a dialog to change the shell command. A * as the first character (or behind the ?) shows the results in a dialog box, and allows to copy them to the clipboard.
• Command: Tap on the >> button to select an appropriate command for the chosen function type
• Parameters: Parameter(s) passed to the program. See below for a list of supported parameters
• Icon: Icon to be shown in the button bar

Available parameters:

(Multiple lines allowed, one parameter per line!)
file:/path/name
Send file name as URL
url:http://www.server.com/
Send any URL to app
stream:/path/name
Send name as STREAM extra field
type:text/plain
Set explicit MIME type
extra:NAME:data
Set extra field of name android.intent.extra.NAME with value data
extra0:NAME:data
Set extra field of name NAME with value data
extra2:NAME:data
Extra field requiring string list
action:action name
Set explicit action, e.g. action:android.intent.action.MAIN
category:category name
Set explicit category, e.g. category:android.intent.category.LAUNCHER
list:
Send the list of selected files as URL list via putParcelableArrayListExtra.
Automatically sets MIME type to type common to all files, e.g. audio/mp3, audio/*, */*
Also changes ACTION_SEND to ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE
list:NAME
Like list:, but sets name used by putParcelableArrayListExtra.

Special parameters:
%% single percent sign
%P current path name (with trailing slash)
%N name of first selected file
%T current path in other panel
%M name of first selected file in other panel
%C content://url of first selected file
%S All selected file names without path, surrounded with "" if they contain spaces, e.g. name.txt "second name.txt"
%P%S Like %S, but with full path, e.g. /storage/emulated/0/name.txt
   Note: Surround with ' to always add single quotes, " for double quotes

Example: Send a mail with attachment to 2 recipients:
Function type: Send to app
Command: >> GMail
Parameters:
stream:%P%N
extra2:EMAIL:x@y.com
extra2:EMAIL:z@y.com
extra:SUBJECT:File for you
extra:TEXT:Here is the file %N

Internal editor

The internal editor allows to edit small files in ANSI and Unicode format.

Main menu:

• Save: Save current file
• Save as: Save with different name
• Close: Close editor without saving
• Settings: Choose font, colors, and word wrap
• Find: Find text
• Find next: Continue search

Note: Copy/Paste can be performed via the context menu

TC Media Player

The internal media player allows to play audio and video files supported by Android itself, using the built-in MediaPlayer control.
It can stream music and video from the Internet and from (updated) plugins.

Main menu:

• Add files: Switches to TC and enables a special mode to add files with a single tap to the queue
• Load playlist: Loads playlist in pls, m3u, m3u8 or xspf format
• Save playlist: Save playlist in m3u or m3u8 (Unicode) format
• Exit: Close player

Description of the buttons:

Plugins

Plugins can be accessed via the home screen.

Passwords for connections can be stored with the built-in password manager. You set a master password which protects the passwords with AES256 encryption. To change the master password, try to connect as usual. In the master password dialog, enter the old password, then click on the button CHANGE MASTER PASSWORD.

The following plugins are currently available:

Installed Apps Plugin

The Installed Apps plugin lists all the installed third party applications

You can perform the following operations on them:

• Uninstall by selecting some apps and tapping on the delete button
• View application settings by tapping on an app
• Backup apps to SD-Card with the Copy button
• Add apps from SD-Card with the Copy button

FTP Plugin

The ftp plugin allows to make connections to ftp servers.

Tap on <New connection> to create a new connection. Then enter a connection name.
You can now specify server name and port, user, password, remote directory, commands to send on connect (separate multiple commands by a ;), server type, firewall, passive mode and file name encoding.

Connection:
Tap on a connection to connect. After connecting, the packer icon will change to a connection icon. Use this icon to change the transfer mode (binary, text or automatic), and to disconnect. Only a single connection is supported at the same time per panel.

Server type:
If your server isn't detected, you can define a server type in Total Commander for Windows and import it into the Android version. To do this, open your wcx_ftp.ini, and look for a section like this:
[Unix1]
Template1=pppppppppp !S* TTT DDDDDDDD n*

Save this to a file called (in this example) Unix1.ini, transfer it to the SD-Card of your Android device, and then use the option "load detect string".

Firewall:
This opens another dialog for the configuration of your firewall. All firewall types of the desktop Total Commander are supported, except for the HTTP type. Leave the user name and password fields empty if your firewall doesn't support them. The first type is the most common, so try this first.

LAN plugin

The LAN plugin allows to access often accessed servers in the LAN (local area network) via smb (Windows file sharing).

1. Tap on <new server>
2. Enter a name for the list, e.g. Server1
3. Enter the server name in the network

To be able to connect, you need a real LAN connection to your network (e.g. via WLAN).

SFTP plugin

The SFTP plugin allows to connect to SFTP servers (file transfers over SSH). For FTPS (FTP over SSL) you need to use the FTP plugin.

Cloud plugins

The following plugins for cloud services are currently available:

• Drive (Google Drive): Uses the Google account stored on the device
• Dropbox
• OneDrive (Windows Live): Access to the Microsoft cloud

WebDAV plugin

Connect to WebDAV servers, e.g. by GMX, OwnCloud or CPanel servers (port 2078).

WiFi (WLAN) plugin

Allows to send files and URLs between two Android devices, or from one Android device to any PC, tablet or smartphone with a web browser.

Send: Select some files, tap on and then on "via WiFi".

Receive: Tap on "WiFi Transfer" in the Home folder. Then scan the QR code, or enter the URL manually.

USB-stick plugin

Access to USB sticks via USB on the go on devices which normally don't allow the access, like the Nexus 7 and 10.

Problems+Troubleshooting

Here are some known problems and possible solutions:

Q: Total Commander for Android fails to access some network shares.
A: Try to use the numeric IP address instead of the server name

Q: Total Commander for Android fails to send a file via Bluetooth on my custom ROM.
A: Some custom ROMs (e.g. Villarom 12.0.0 on HTC Hero) do not implement Bluetooth correctly. Try with a different Bluetooth program like Blueobex whether this is the case. Please contact us if other Bluetooth tools work but Total Commander doesn't.

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Total Commander 9.51 final is available now!
Download Total Commander 9.51 now (Free update/Demo version)

This update corrects errors found after the release of Total Commander 9.50.Complete list of changes.

New functions in Total Commander 9.50:

The update to 9.50 adds a lot of new functions, see below. It also corrects many errors.Complete list of changes.

User interface:

• Dark mode, starting with Windows XP, full support with Windows 10 1809 (Fall 2018), inofficially also with older Windows versions (ForceDarkModeOptions=1)
• Mouse cursor now jumps to default button if this is enabled in Control Panel under "Mouse"
• Show up to 3 connected USB devices without drive letter (e.g. phones, tablets) also in drive buttonbar
• Increased directory history length to 200 (configurable via HistoryLenStored)
• History: Only show directories in which the user performed some operation (configurable). Alt+Shift+Down arrow shows full history
• Drive dropdown list, drive buttonbar: Show "eject" overlay over drive icon for removable drives
• When scrolling through file lists with the keyboard, keep a margin of 4 lines above/below the current position (configurable)
• Directory panels: Show <LINK> for hard links/soft links to files instead of 0 size
• Ctrl+Q quick view: Show contents of link target instead of lnk file content
• Configuration - Options - Display: New option "Append \" to show folders as Folder\ instead of [Folder]
• Internal associations: Optional: Add extra verbs from ALL matching filters, default "open" only from the first match
• Show "New" submenu also in context menu for [..] entry, to create new file in current directory
• Windows 10, context menu: Menu item "Share" didn't do anything -> handle it internally
• Quick search dialog: Clear search with Ctrl+Y
• Right click on directory tab -> "Recently closed tabs"
• Show location of Total Commander EXE file in about box

File operations:

• Archives: Choose codepage when unpacking files, e.g. to unpack names with cyrillic characters. Show [Auto] or chosen encoding in tab header.
• OneDrive folder: Handle folders appearing as file system links
• F5 copy dialog: Support directory hotlist (Ctrl+D)
• Create CRC checksums: New options to use Unix format, and to always use UTF-8
• Support substrings from environment variables, e.g. %variable:~2,3%

FTP / File system plugins:

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

Multi-rename tool:

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

Alt+F10 tree:

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

Search:

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

Lister (F3):

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

Compare by content:

• Set color for underlined search results

Synchronize dirs:

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

Internal commands:

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

The update is still free for all registered users (also of Windows Commander) - simply install the new demo version over the existing full version.

Total Commander 9.22 final available!

This version mainly patches a security hole in unacev2.dll used for unpacking ACE archives.

Note: Only the 32-bit version is affected by the security hole. If you want to continue to use an older version of Total Commander 32-bit, you can either delete the unacev2.dll, or install the patched version.

Total Commander 9.21a final available!

This update fixes a few problems found after the release of Total Commander 9.21.Complete list of changes.

Total Commander 9.21 final available!

This update fixes a few problems found after the release of Total Commander 9.20.Complete list of changes.

New functions in Total Commander 9.21:

• Lister: Allow to set maximum line length for text when not using word wrap (via wincmd.ini)
• Configure via wcx_ftp.ini whether the current directory should switch back to a re-uploaded file after editing/saving a remote file

Total Commander 9.20 final available!

The update to 9.20 fixes a few problems found after the release of Total Commander 9.12.Complete list of changes.

Important note for users of release candidate 2 (RC2):If you cannot install the final version over RC2, you will have to reboot your PC to remove RC2 from memory, due to a bug in RC2.

New functions in Total Commander 9.20:

User interface:

• When using multiple monitors, the position and size can be stored separately for each screen (switch with Win+Shift+Cursor left/right)
• Button bar: Button size and small icon size can now be set separately for each screen scale (dpi)
• Icon from internal association takes precedence over internal packer icon (e.g. for *.rar)
• wincmd.ini [Configuration] IgnoreDirErrors=1 allows to switch to inaccessible or non-existent directories, shows <Read error!> in file list instead

File operations:

• Shift+F7 creates directory in target panel
• Button bar, command line: support shell GUIDs, e.g. to go to Explorer's recent dirs, use
  cd ::{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99}
• Files - change attributes: Button to load attributes from file under cursor in target panel

FTP:

• Support for client certificates for ftps (ftp over ssl/tls) from Windows certificate store. Only works with schannel library on Vista or newer, not openssl
• Set the FTPS mode via prefix: ftpes:// = explicit (MODE TLS), ftpis:// = impicit (encrypted from the start)

Compare by content:

Multi-rename tool:

• New placeholder [f] for "First of each word uppercase (English in Titles)". Certain words like "a", "an" and "the" are converted to lowercase

Total Commander 9.12 final available!

This update fixes a few problems found after the release of Total Commander 9.10.Complete list of changes.

Total Commander 9.10 final available!

There are many new functions and bugfixes, see the list below.

New functions in Total Commander 9.10:

User interface:

• Support for multiple screens with different densities (DPI) per screen on Windows 10 (requires latest release version, "Creators Update", or newer).
• Support for Windows 10 fall Creators Update, mainly OneDrive online only file support
• Set font quality (e.g. force antialiasing on/off)
• Support new pseudo environment variables from values described here - just leave out the FOLDERID_ prefix, e.g. %$AccountPictures%

File operations:

• "New folder" (F7) can now use the same placeholders as the multi-rename tool (e.g. date+time), and create multiple directories in one step using a counter
• "New text file" (Shift+F4) now supports the same placeholders as the multi-rename tool
• "New text file" (Shift+F4) now also works in archives, on FTP servers, and with file system plugins
• Option to use latest "Everything" tool in Alt+Shift+Enter/Spacebar free space calculations
• Internal 7zip unpacker: Support background unpacking

Lister:

• Support touch screen scrolling+text selection
• Support Unicode names when loading images via Irfanview (needs new Unicode version of Irfanview)

Compare by content:

• Set width in binary mode to 8, 16, 24 or 32 bytes

Multi-rename tool:

• New placeholders for inserting current date+time

IMPORTANT-IMPORTANT-IMPORTANT:
We are no longer sending new version notifications by e-mail because they were often deleted by spam filters.
Please use the new manual or automatic update check function, see description here.

Total Commander 9.0/9.0a is available now!

There are many new functions and bugfixes, see the list below.
Note: Many new features like folder/drive icons from Explorer, dimmed hidden files, vertical button bar etc. can be disabled via settings dialog. Complete list of changes.

New functions in Total Commander 9:

User interface:

• Use icons for folders and drives from Explorer, can be switched to old icons via main settings - icons
• New button bar icons (optional, can be chosen during first start or via right click )
• Vertical button bar (can be disabled via main settings - Layout)
• Extra space between lines in file list (configurable via main settings - Icons)
• Windows 10: Use Windows Photo Viewer instead of Photo app (disable with wincmd.ini [Configuration] ReplacePhotoApp=0)
• View modes, can be switched manually via menu "Show", or automatically by rules
• Show icons on folder tabs depending on the displayed folder
• Rubber band selection mode when using left mouse button selection, disable via settings
• Show up to 3 external devices without drive letter (e.g. 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
• Dimmed icons for hidden files/folders (configurable via main settings - Icons)
• Show small green arrow as overlay icon when a folder is open, e.g. 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
• Default font is now "Segoe UI regular" for new installations
• 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
• Create checksums separately in each directory
• Speed up hash check of MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 by using Microsoft Crypto API functions
• 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 (optional) or Windows sChannel library
• Use Windows certificate stores "ROOT" and "CA" to verify purchased server certificates
• Always verify certificates now, even when wincmd.pem is missing, since we use the root certs from Internet Explorer now
• Self-signed certs can be trusted with a checkbox in the certificate dialog

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, e.g. 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 like parent [P]
• 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.
• Undo now supports multiple undo steps (Undo multiple rename operations).

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 (TXT record)
• Automatic update check, can be enabled in manual update check function
• 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, e.g. cm_wait 1000. Can be combined, e.g. em_cmd1,cm_wait 1000,em_cmd2
• cm_100percent accepts parameter 1..100 to set specific position of divider
• Send WM_USER+50 to TC to get various numerical values like index of current file, first file, control window handles etc. (see history.txt)

Installer (of the demo version):

• The Installer now accepts the following options: /AHLMGDUK
  A=Auto install,
  H=Run hidden,
  L=Language number,
  M=Multi-language,
  G=Create group,
  D=Create desktop icon,
  U=Update if target exists,
  K=installs wincmd.key file located in same directory as the installer.
  All options accept parameters 1 or 0, e.g. G0 or G1. L accepts language Nr. from install.inf, e.g. L18=Romanian
• Note: All options MUST be passed as a single parameter after a single slash, not as separate parameters

Download version 9.51 of Total Commander
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We no longer supply an MD5 checksum. Instead, please press Alt+Enter on the downloaded installer to verify that it has a valid digital signature from Ghisler Software GmbH!

Update instructions for registered users

Using Total Commander on an Apple Mac?

• You can use a Windows emulator like Vmware fusion, Parallels or Crossover for Mac to use Total Commander on an Apple Mac computer.

• Or try Commander One - Free File Manager for Mac OS X with PRO Pack of additional features for advanced file management. Aimed to be an alternative of Total Commander for Mac users.

• Or CRAX Commander, which makes it easier for true fans of TC to migrate from Windows to Mac. CRAX Commander makes possible browsing archives as folders, connecting to FTP / SFTP, multi-renaming files, navigating in app using TC shortcuts and much more.

• DCommander for Mac OS X is another great alternative for Mac Users. It includes everything you would expect from an advanced dual-pane file manager, including FTP, SCP, archive browser, synchronization and more, all with minimal memory usage and multi-language support.

• Nimble Commander for Mac OS X is a 2 panel file manager especially for power users:
  - External Tools integration support: Quickly open any application with a variety of parameters based on the current focus/selection/path, etc.
  - External Editors can be used with any virtual file system, and changed files will be uploaded back.

New: Total Commander for Android and Windows Phone/Mobile/CE!

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