Version history for Total Commander

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Changes for v9.22 - v9.22a

• 29.03.19 Fixed: Difficult to reproduce crash in F7 new folder inside ZIP archives (timing problem with removing progress dialog) (32/64)
• 27.03.19 Fixed: F7 new folder: Invalid name created when user specifies path in zip incorrectly with starting and/or trailing slash, e.g. /dir1/dir2/dir3/ (32/64)
• 27.03.19 Fixed: F7 new folder: ensure that the dialog isn't displayed outside of the current screen (32/64)
• 26.03.19 Fixed: Alt+F5 pack: Invalid name created when user specifies path in zip incorrectly with trailing forward slash, e.g. c:\test\test.zip/dir1/dir2/ (32/64)
• 26.03.19 Fixed: Viewing LZMA-compressed files in ZIP sometimes failed with an unpack error (64)
• 25.03.19 Fixed: Ctrl+Q, click on active tab header of current tab above the quick view panel -> Tab no longer switched sides (32/64)
• 25.03.19 Fixed: Duplicating a tab which was locked with directory changes allowed could leave it with an empty name if it caused an additional line of tabs to appear (32/64)
• 21.03.19 Fixed: Couldn't open 7z archives with Unicode characters from different codepage (e.g. Chinese on English Windows) (64)
• 21.03.19 Fixed: Leaving branch view inside archive with Ctrl+B no longer went to the directory of the file under the cursor (32/64)
• 19.03.19 Fixed: Internal associations: **ext only worked for packer plugins, not for internal unpackers like **zip. Now also supports **internal_zip to override external packers (32/64)
• 19.03.19 Fixed: Opening xlsx files associated with Office 365 app (Windows 10) failed, they opened as ZIP files instead (32/64)
• 19.03.19 Fixed: In the following dialogs, ENTER confirmed the dialog also on other buttons like Cancel: password input, pack/unpack, other general input dialogs (64)
• 17.03.19 Fixed: Packing/unpacking with ace32.exe 2.6 didn't work - it expects ";" as delimiter in list file instead of line break (32/64)
• 17.03.19 Fixed: Do not try to unpack archives with ":" in them after the second character in them with F5 using external unpackers (32/64)
• 17.03.19 Fixed: Do not try to unpack ace archives with absolute paths or ..\ in them with external ace32.exe or winace.exe via Alt+F9 (32/64)
• 17.03.19 Fixed: Width of drive dropdown combobox (Alt+F1/Alt+F2) wrong when using screens with different DPI (32/64)
• 17.03.19 Fixed: Icons in file lists displayed incorrectly when moving main window to a screen with different DPI (64)

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Changes for v9.21a - v9.22

• 12.03.19 Fixed: Copy hidden or system file with older default method (standard unchecked) -> no overwrite warning for hidden/system files for which the normal overwrite dialog was shown (32/64)
• 12.03.19 Fixed: Overwrite read only confirmation dialog may be shown in the middle of copying instead of at the end (32/64)
• 11.03.19 Fixed: Overwrite read only file while warning for read only was disabled but for hidden/system enabled -> still read only warning when using the expanded overwrite dialog (32/64)
• 11.03.19 Fixed: Thumbnail cache: Don't try to save uncompressed thumbnails when saving compressed fails (32/64)
• 10.03.19 Fixed: Copy hidden or system file with standard method (CopyFileEx) -> no overwrite warning, except when it also had the read only attribute. Can be overridden with OverwriteHidSysNotReadonly=1 (32/64)
• 08.03.19 Fixed: Possible crash in compiler library when window handle becomes invalid in main window message handler (64)
• 06.03.19 Release Total Commander 9.22 release candidate 2 (32/64)
• 06.03.19 Fixed: Copy in background: wait up to 5 seconds while mouse button is currently down, e.g. for drag&drop, then cancel operation with ESC to avoid lockup (32/64)
• 05.03.19 Fixed: Improved patch of unacev2.dll, also handling absolute paths (c:\ or \) in addition to relative ..\ (32)
• 03.03.19 Fixed: Lister: Press '4' while already using a single plugin, then '1' would not turn off that plugin (64)
• 03.03.19 Fixed: Lister: Hide percent when using internal media player (32/64)
• 27.02.19 Release Total Commander 9.22 release candidate 1 (32/64)
• 27.02.19 Fixed: String "Search result:" in drive label field wasn't updated when changing language (the fix also updates the current tab, but not other tabs) (32/64)
• 27.02.19 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Do not warn if local dir contains 2 identical names with different case, e.g. a.txt and A.txt. However, sync functions are limited in this case (32/64)
• 27.02.19 Fixed: Ctrl+D, add directory to subfolder containing nested subfolders -> it wasn't added at the end of the subfolder, but before the first nested subfolder (32/64)
• 26.02.19 Fixed: Accessing tab with inaccessible network path can cause a hang when using IgnoreDirErrors=1 (32/64)
• 26.02.19 Fixed: After uploading zip file to virtual path (e.g. Android device), it could sometimes be opened internally by mistake (32/64)
• 26.02.19 Added: Included latest unrar dll 5.70.0 from www.rarlab.com (32/64)
• 22.02.19 Fixed: Handle directory traversal bug in unacev2.dll, affecting only the "unpack all" (Alt+F9) function (32)
• 17.02.19 Fixed: Shift+F4 dialog: Buttons "Tree" and "Cancel" were incorrect when using Cyrillic translation on English locale (32)
• 01.02.19 Fixed: Search: Detection of infinite loops in hard links/junctions/reparse points didn't always work (32/64)
• 23.01.19 Fixed: Couldn't drag directory from separate tree to empty space in tab header to add it (32/64)
• 21.01.19 Added: Always look in registry for key if no wincmd.key file is found in the supported locations (32/64)
• 21.01.19 Fixed: ZIP packer: ???? were shown instead of the name when packing to Unicode extra field, and verifying any Unicode mode (32/64)
• 14.01.19 Fixed: Directory history with shift+mouse wheel not working (64)
• 14.01.19 Fixed: Lister (F3), internal media player: Window size too small when viewing a lot of mp3 files, so the menu is broken into 2 lines (64)
• 14.01.19 Fixed: Lister (F3) was ticking the wrong codepage in the "Encoding" menu when opened (64)
• 14.01.19 Fixed: Folder tabs: when not using multiple lines for tabs, drag & drop of a tab to the opposite panel would add it to the source panel if it had hidden (scrolled) tabs under that position (32/64)
• 14.01.19 Fixed: Ignore X64Menu option on 32-bit Windows (32)
• 14.01.19 Fixed: When using X64Menu=1 in 64-bit version, the dialog in context menu - X32 - Configure was very small (64)
• 12.11.18 Fixed: ZIP packer: An incompressible file slightly smaller than 4GB, resulting in a compressed file >4GB appeared with a size of -1 in the created ZIP (but could still be unpacked) (32/64)
• 11.11.18 Fixed: Re-upload to FTP after editing now also works when the FTP connection is not displayed in one of the two panels, but still active (32/64)
• 11.11.18 Fixed: Compare by content, 2 files on the same FTP server but different user names -> edited file could be re-uploaded to the wrong server (32/64)
• 04.11.18 Fixed: Select all, switch between full and brief view mode: Entire list was scrolled slowly (64)
• 04.11.18 Fixed: FTP Upload/Download: Selection wasn't cleared when adding files to already opened background transfer manager with F5 - F2 (32/64)
• 04.11.18 Fixed: Header-encrypted RAR: Open archive, minimize+restore TC, try to unpack file, enter wrong password (remember password checked) -> user isn't asked again for the correct password (32/64)
• 30.10.18 Fixed: Dual screen, TC on the right screen: Search in separate process, maximize, minimize, restore -> search window had 0*0 pixel size (32/64)
• 01.10.18 Fixed: FTP error "Command in progress" in special case: Synchronize dirs, compare local dir with ftp, compare by content, edit remote file, save file, close compare tool, re-upload (32/64)
• 01.10.18 Fixed: Function to check file system links (junctions, reparse points) for infinite loops didn't handle relative paths created e.g. via "mklink /D MyDirLink ..\MyDir" while in directory "C:\MyDir" (32/64)
• 25.09.18 Fixed: Button bar: cd *.ext (to set custom filter) didn't support Unicode when using separate Left/Right menus (32/64)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: [f] option didn't work for manually entered text, only for placeholders like [N] -> [f] is now applied for the entire text until the end or the next upper-/lowercase placeholder (32/64)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Click on locked tab (directory changes not allowed) showed message about new tab when using TabEnterDirChange=2, but only if it was already the active tab (32)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Click on locked tab (directory changes not allowed) showed message about new tab when using TabEnterDirChange=2 (64)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Crash when starting external sync tool with /S=S parameter when PreventScrollbarCrash=1 was set (the default on Windows 8.1) (64)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Search function: when going through list of old searches with up/down keys while the combobox was closed, the "RegEx" checkmark was only set, not removed (32/64)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Search function: when going through list of old searches with up/down keys, the index reverted to the first item when a search with regular expression was encountered (64)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Open archive with alternate packer via right click menu (internal association: **ext), then press Ctrl+B -> the default packer was now used (32/64)
• 23.09.18 Fixed: Crash viewing ICO files containing multiple PNG images (the problem seems to be re-using the TLazReaderPNG) (64)
• 23.09.18 Fixed: Search in archives by size wouldn't reliably find files >=2GBytes (32/64)
• 23.09.18 Fixed: Crash unpacking xz-packed zipx archives (because the necessary functions were missing from newer TCMDLZMA.DLL / TCLZMA64.DLL files) (32/64)

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Changes for v9.21a - v9.22 RC 1

• 27.02.19 Fixed: String "Search result:" in drive label field wasn't updated when changing language (the fix also updates the current tab, but not other tabs) (32/64)
• 27.02.19 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Do not warn if local dir contains 2 identical names with different case, e.g. a.txt and A.txt. However, sync functions are limited in this case (32/64)
• 27.02.19 Fixed: Ctrl+D, add directory to subfolder containing nested subfolders -> it wasn't added at the end of the subfolder, but before the first nested subfolder (32/64)
• 26.02.19 Fixed: Accessing tab with inaccessible network path can cause a hang when using IgnoreDirErrors=1 (32/64)
• 26.02.19 Fixed: After uploading zip file to virtual path (e.g. Android device), it could sometimes be opened internally by mistake (32/64)
• 26.02.19 Added: Included latest unrar dll 5.70.0 from www.rarlab.com (32/64)
• 22.02.19 Fixed: Handle directory traversal bug in unacev2.dll, affecting only the "unpack all" (Alt+F9) function (32)
• 17.02.19 Fixed: Shift+F4 dialog: Buttons "Tree" and "Cancel" were incorrect when using Cyrillic translation on English locale (32)
• 01.02.19 Fixed: Search: Detection of infinite loops in hard links/junctions/reparse points didn't always work (32/64)
• 23.01.19 Fixed: Couldn't drag directory from separate tree to empty space in tab header to add it (32/64)
• 21.01.19 Added: Always look in registry for key if no wincmd.key file is found in the supported locations (32/64)
• 21.01.19 Fixed: ZIP packer: ???? were shown instead of the name when packing to Unicode extra field, and verifying any Unicode mode (32/64)
• 14.01.19 Fixed: Directory history with shift+mouse wheel not working (64)
• 14.01.19 Fixed: Lister (F3), internal media player: Window size too small when viewing a lot of mp3 files, so the menu is broken into 2 lines (64)
• 14.01.19 Fixed: Lister (F3) was ticking the wrong codepage in the "Encoding" menu when opened (64)
• 14.01.19 Fixed: Folder tabs: when not using multiple lines for tabs, drag & drop of a tab to the opposite panel would add it to the source panel if it had hidden (scrolled) tabs under that position (32/64)
• 14.01.19 Fixed: Ignore X64Menu option on 32-bit Windows (32)
• 14.01.19 Fixed: When using X64Menu=1 in 64-bit version, the dialog in context menu - X32 - Configure was very small (64)
• 12.11.18 Fixed: ZIP packer: An incompressible file slightly smaller than 4GB, resulting in a compressed file >4GB appeared with a size of -1 in the created ZIP (but could still be unpacked) (32/64)
• 11.11.18 Fixed: Re-upload to FTP after editing now also works when the FTP connection is not displayed in one of the two panels, but still active (32/64)
• 11.11.18 Fixed: Compare by content, 2 files on the same FTP server but different user names -> edited file could be re-uploaded to the wrong server (32/64)
• 04.11.18 Fixed: Select all, switch between full and brief view mode: Entire list was scrolled slowly (64)
• 04.11.18 Fixed: FTP Upload/Download: Selection wasn't cleared when adding files to already opened background transfer manager with F5 - F2 (32/64)
• 04.11.18 Fixed: Header-encrypted RAR: Open archive, minimize+restore TC, try to unpack file, enter wrong password (remember password checked) -> user isn't asked again for the correct password (32/64)
• 30.10.18 Fixed: Dual screen, TC on the right screen: Search in separate process, maximize, minimize, restore -> search window had 0*0 pixel size (32/64)
• 01.10.18 Fixed: FTP error "Command in progress" in special case: Synchronize dirs, compare local dir with ftp, compare by content, edit remote file, save file, close compare tool, re-upload (32/64)
• 01.10.18 Fixed: Function to check file system links (junctions, reparse points) for infinite loops didn't handle relative paths created e.g. via "mklink /D MyDirLink ..\MyDir" while in directory "C:\MyDir" (32/64)
• 25.09.18 Fixed: Button bar: cd *.ext (to set custom filter) didn't support Unicode when using separate Left/Right menus (32/64)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: [f] option didn't work for manually entered text, only for placeholders like [N] -> [f] is now applied for the entire text until the end or the next upper-/lowercase placeholder (32/64)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Click on locked tab (directory changes not allowed) showed message about new tab when using TabEnterDirChange=2, but only if it was already the active tab (32)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Click on locked tab (directory changes not allowed) showed message about new tab when using TabEnterDirChange=2 (64)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Crash when starting external sync tool with /S=S parameter when PreventScrollbarCrash=1 was set (the default on Windows 8.1) (64)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Search function: when going through list of old searches with up/down keys while the combobox was closed, the "RegEx" checkmark was only set, not removed (32/64)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Search function: when going through list of old searches with up/down keys, the index reverted to the first item when a search with regular expression was encountered (64)
• 24.09.18 Fixed: Open archive with alternate packer via right click menu (internal association: **ext), then press Ctrl+B -> the default packer was now used (32/64)
• 23.09.18 Fixed: Crash viewing ICO files containing multiple PNG images (the problem seems to be re-using the TLazReaderPNG) (64)
• 23.09.18 Fixed: Search in archives by size wouldn't reliably find files >=2GBytes (32/64)
• 23.09.18 Fixed: Crash unpacking xz-packed zipx archives (because the necessary functions were missing from newer TCMDLZMA.DLL / TCLZMA64.DLL files) (32/64)

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Changes for v9.21 - v9.21a

• 18.08.18 Fixed: Compare by content: Disable button "Show only differences" during comparison, otherwise clicking it in the wrong moment could cause a crash (32/64)
• 16.08.18 Fixed: Ctrl+E and ESC (only with auto-complete+auto-append disabled) no longer worked in command line (32/64)
• 16.08.18 Fixed: Icons in menus: Selected items could no longer be shown as pressed buttons instead of checkmarks after saving icon options once (32/64)
• 15.08.18 Fixed: Crash when passing path to zip file to TC (e.g. from external Everything.exe), mostly on 64-bit (32/64)

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Changes for v9.20 RC 2 - v9.20 RC 3

• 27.06.18 Fixed: Skip internal associations in virtual folders where we can't get a local path for the file, e.g. a phone connected via MTP (32/64)
• 26.06.18 Fixed: DrivesShowUpcase=0 was ignored in %t parameter, always used uppercase drive letter (32/64)
• 25.06.18 Fixed: Prevent crash when reloading list of shared folders (e.g. to show shared overlay) (32/64)
• 24.06.18 Fixed: Lister crash on Windows 8.1 64-bit only, happened after opening Lister multiple times (solution: keep hidden Lister open in the background) (64)
• 22.06.18 Fixed: Moving separator between main panels wrong when showing two separate tree panels (32/64)
• 20.06.18 Fixed: Directory handle leaking in watchdir thread, preventing the ejection of USB sticks, and sometimes the closing of the program (32/64)

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Changes for v9.12 - v9.20 beta 3

• 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
• 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 in file list instead
• Button bar: Button size and small icon size can now be set separately for each screen scale (dpi)
• FTP client: 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

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Changes for v9.20 beta 1 - v9.20 beta 2

• 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
• 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 in file list instead
• Button bar: Button size and small icon size can now be set separately for each screen scale (dpi)
• FTP client: 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

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Changes for v9.12 - v9.20 beta 1

• 03.05.18 Fixed: F7 new folder: Placeholder <[d] inserted the date from the file timestamp instead of the current date as documented. Use <[T1][d] to insert the file date (32/64)
• 02.05.18 Fixed: Crash on program start when entering very long command line (e.g. 1000 characters) in TC "Start" menu (32/64)
• 02.05.18 Fixed: Verify checksums: Detect UTF-8-encoded checksum file even without byte order marker (32/64)
• 02.05.18 Fixed: Use GetTickCount64 on Windows Vista or newer to show system up time >49 days (32/64)
• 02.05.18 Fixed: Improved system info dialog: Show CPU details from registry, Windows 10 ProductId, Windows type (Home, Professional, Ultimate etc), get SystemBiosVersion if SystemBiosDate is missing (32/64)
• 01.05.18 Fixed: Drag tab to other panel with no tabs -> tab was added also for current directory of that panel, but without icon (32/64)
• 30.04.18 Fixed: FTP client: Automatically use sChannel (even with OpenSSL present) on Vista or newer when using a client certificate (32/64)
• 30.04.18 Added: FTP client: 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 (32/64)
• 29.04.18 Fixed: Create CRC checksums, SFV format: The "beta" character in beta versions wasn't stored correctly in UTF-8-encoded sfv files (32/64)
• 27.04.18 Fixed: File system links (junctions, reparse points): Do not draw 2 link overlays (internal and from Windows itself), it results in a double border on Windows 10 (32/64)
• 27.04.18 Fixed: Removed flickering caused by functions added to handle switching from/to high contrast mode (32/64)
• 24.04.18 Fixed: Button bar, start menu: parameter %O was appended with limit of 1023 characters, so it could be cut if the command line was longer (32/64)
• 23.04.18 Added: If we cannot access a directory when TC starts, show even if IgnoreDirErrors=1 isn't set (32/64)
• 23.04.18 Added: Changing to directory via history or by switching tab -> ask for admin rights if we get error 5 (access denied), e.g. for C:\Windows\System32\config (32/64)
• 22.04.18 Added: Button bar: Button size and small icon size can now be set separately for each screen scale (dpi), e.g. for 4k screen and full hd screen (32/64)
• 20.04.18 Fixed: Windows 10, switch from/to high contrast mode -> text and background colors of various buttons were wrong (32/64)
• 20.04.18 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] AutoRenameMode=3: Determines how files are auto-renamed when copying or in multi-rename tool. Sum of: 1: append number (x) separated by space, 2: start number at (2), not (1) (32/64)
• 20.04.18 Fixed: Crash when viewing file with cudalister plugin, modifying the file, and closing lister without saving (32)
• 16.04.18 Added: Button bar, start menu: Add quotes around name inserted with %p%n too if it contains spaces or '&' character (32/64)
• 16.04.18 Added: When searching in virtual folder \\Desktop (Alt+F7 or Alt+Shift+F7), search both in user directory and common directory (32/64)
• 16.04.18 Added: Trying to create a subdirectory in non-existent directory with F7 or via command line (md dir) will now create the missing parent directory too (32/64)
• 16.04.18 Added: Double click on entry in unreadable directories lets TC retry to read the directory (32/64)
• 15.04.18 Fixed: Some content plugins could crash the plugin picker dialog (e.g. click on [=? Plugin] in multi-rename tool) when the user closed the dialog while the plugin sample value was still being loaded (32/64)
• 15.04.18 Fixed: Configuration - Button bar: in rare cases, the wrong icon was still shown after closing/re-opening the dialog (bug in LoadIconWithScaleDown function) (32/64)
• 13.04.18 Fixed: cd c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\ caused unnecessary elevation prompt (32/64)
• 13.04.18 Fixed: Copying to t:\ fails if it's substed drive for dirs with write access for which SetCurrentDirectory didn't work, like c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\ on Windows 10 (32/64)
• 13.04.18 Fixed: Ctrl+R in c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\ caused unneccessary elevation prompt (32/64)
• 13.04.18 Fixed: Button bar, paste button from clipboard: Remove all trailing spaces, they are often added when copying button bar data from a Web browser (32/64)
• 10.04.18 Fixed: Lister: Couldn't find Cyrillic text under special conditions: language for non-Unicode programs=Russian, encoding=Ansi (0), default font was changed (32/64)
• 10.04.18 Fixed: Internal 7zip unpacker: password dialog for encrypted file names was sometimes not modal (user could still go back to TC) (32/64)
• 09.04.18 Fixed: Separate search dialog: only use second file name as list file name (selected files) if the name ends with .tmp (32/64)
• 09.04.18 Fixed: Couldn't copy to certain directories with F5-F2, e.g. to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\, because SetCurrentDirectory failed (32/64)
• 09.04.18 Fixed: Starting a search in certain directories failed with error "Search path not found!", e.g. in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\, because SetCurrentDirectory failed (32/64)
• 04.04.18 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] IgnoreDirErrors=1 allows to switch to inaccessible or non-existent directories, shows in file list instead (32/64)
• 04.04.18 Added: New button bar parameter %Y anywhere in the parameter list: Allow empty lists when nothing is selected for parameters %S, %R, %L, %l, %F, %f, %D, %d, %WL, %WF, %UL and %UF (32/64)
• 03.04.18 Fixed: Standalone search via Alt+Shift+F7: Use real path for virtual folders, e.g. "Desktop" -> C:\Users\\Desktop, show error if not available (32/64)
• 03.04.18 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with compare by content: Show "?" and not "unequal" when there is a read error in the middle of a file (32/64)
• 03.04.18 Fixed: Delete to recycle bin: Always divide the reported numbers by 2, since the reported estimates are mostly twice the number of files deleted (32/64)
• 26.03.18 Fixed: Switch between two directories with exactly the same content, e.g. a directory and a junction/reparse point to the same directory -> view modes were not updated (32/64)
• 26.03.18 Fixed: Drag URL from Chrome or Firefox to Total Commander: Disallow drop to file system plugin (32/64)
• 26.03.18 Fixed: Copying files, background transfer manager: Speed limit didn't work any more for the second file and below (32/64)
• 26.03.18 Fixed: Copying files, option "Auto-rename target": The renaming of the existing target files to e.g. "file (2).ext" wasn't logged (32/64)
• 26.03.18 Fixed: Copying files: reset speed calculations when overwrite confirmation dialog is shown (32/64)
• 25.03.18 Added: Icon from internal association takes precedence over internal packer icon (e.g. for *.rar) (32/64)
• 25.03.18 Fixed: "x32" submenu in file right click context menu (only displayed with X64menu=1 in [Configuration]): menu item "Configure..." not working (64)
• 25.03.18 Fixed: Compare by content, binary mode: Problems with files >2GB: no progress bar within compare results to count differences, sometimes crashes, no "show only selected" (64)
• 25.03.18 Fixed: Button bar button: Parameters %P, %p, %N, %n, %T, %t, %M, %m wrong in archive branch view: The name parameters need to contain the relative path (32/64)
• 24.03.18 Fixed: Button bar button: Parameters %L, %l, %F, %f, %D, %d, %WL, %WF, %UL, %UF didn't put local paths in list for file system plugins like virtual panel (32/64)
• 24.03.18 Fixed: Button bar button: Parameters %C1, %C2, %c1, %c2 etc. didn't work with file system plugins returning local path like virtual panel (32/64)
• 23.03.18 Fixed: Button bar button: Parameters %c1, %c2, %n, %m were not using 8.3 names any more (32/64)
• 23.03.18 Fixed: Command line parameters: Always treat file with extension .tab as a directory tab file, even when a packer plugin claims the extension for itself (32/64)
• 23.03.18 Fixed: FTP: no second progress bar was shown when uploading subdirectories (32/64)
• 23.03.18 Fixed: FTP, edit two text files (with F4) from two different directories, save both within 1-2 seconds -> re-upload errors (32/64)
• 21.03.18 Fixed: cm_GotoNextDrive, cm_GotoPreviousDrive: skip drives with no media when HideRemovableNoMedia!=0 (32/64)
• 20.03.18 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with FTP server: Download, "Resume all" didn't work (it re-downloaded from the start), "Resume" worked (32/64)
• 20.03.18 Fixed: Non-Unicode SunOS-compatible TAR archives (long name stored within same header): Long paths were cut at 155 characters (32/64)
• 20.03.18 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Ctrl+F3 (compare left and right) tried to compare empty directory only present on one side (32/64)
• 20.03.18 Added: Files - change attributes: Button to load attributes from file under cursor in target panel, labeled LEFT or RIGHT (hotkey: Alt+2) (32/64)
• 20.03.18 Fixed: Delete file from ZIP subdir -> file list wasn't refreshed if the subdir wasn't by itself stored in the zip, just the file with relative name (32/64)
• 15.03.18 Fixed: Do not beep in compare by content when copying a line which wasn't selected between the panels (Alt+Left or Alt+Right), only when copying from the inactive to the active panel (32/64)
• 14.03.18 Fixed: GZip unpacker: Couldn't unpack GZ file with very large extra field >8kBytes (32/64)
• 14.03.18 Fixed: GZip unpacker: Only first stream of multi-stream gz file was unpacked when it had the same CRC as the last stream (32/64)
• 14.03.18 Fixed: File system plugins with custom icons: icons were not refreshed when changing icon size in configuration and just entering the plugin root (32/64)
• 13.03.18 Fixed: Files - Change attributes - Add - Comment - ">>" (Edit comment) -> the buttons were not visible (64)
• 13.03.18 Added: Command line parameters: Support switching to virtual folders via GUID, e.g. for drive list, use /L=::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} (32/64)
• 13.03.18 Added: Command line: support switching to virtual folders via GUID, e.g. for drive list, use cd ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D} (32/64)
• 13.03.18 Added: Button bar: support shell GUIDs, e.g. to go to Explorer's recent dirs, use cd ::{22877a6d-37a1-461a-91b0-dbda5aaebc99} (32/64)
• 13.03.18 Fixed: Files - Pack files: Dropdown list of packer plugins only showed up to 8 plugins without scrolling, increased to 30 (64)
• 13.03.18 Fixed: Configuration - Button bar: Couldn't delete exe/dll files used for icons in the bar after closing the dialog (they still stay locked while the dialog is up) (32/64)
• 13.03.18 Fixed: Files - Split files: Last used size wasn't remembered as default. Now saved in wincmd.ini [Configuration] SplitBytesPerFile (32/64)
• 12.03.18 Fixed: Compare by content: Clear last search result (underlined text) when changing the text or re-comparing from current line (32/64)
• 12.03.18 Fixed: View mode with custom columns view: Additional sort orders defined in the view mode were not applied (32/64)
• 12.03.18 Fixed: View modes, auto switch mode: "Must match" option didn't work with FTP paths, e.g. *\public_html* matches folder named "\public_html" and all subfolders. Must use backslashes in pattern (32/64)
• 12.03.18 Fixed: Files - Encode files: Options were not remembered when closing Total Commander. Store in wincmd.ini [Configuration] EncodeMethod=0..2 and EncodeLinesPerFile (32/64)
• 12.03.18 Fixed: Trying to close locked tab with middle mouse click (wheel) or ctrl+left click -> show tab title in confirmation dialog (32/64)
• 12.03.18 Fixed: Ctrl+Click on inactive tab now closes the tab without switching to it first (32/64)
• 12.03.18 Fixed: Button bar: When shown as dropdown menu, items without an icon are not displayed as pressed (e.g. sort by name button when list sorted by name) (32/64)
• 12.03.18 Fixed: Crash when switching to different tab with mouse when using Windows 10 exploits protections (due to handle values > 4GB) (64)
• 11.03.18 Fixed: No drive icons from Explorer were shown when using Windows 10 exploits protections (due to handle values > 4GB) (64)
• 11.03.18 Fixed: Copying in foreground, then clicking on background button crashed when using Windows 10 exploits protections (due to handle values > 4GB) (64)
• 09.03.18 Fixed: Background transfer manager crashed when using Windows 10 exploits protections (due to handle values > 4GB) (64)
• 27.02.18 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, internal compare plugin (compare as text) may hang with 2 files of different size, multiple of 32kBytes (32/64)
• 10.12.17 Fixed: Configuration - button bar: icons were sometimes wrong (32/64)
• 04.12.17 Added: Show warning in log when upload to Micrsoft IIS FTP server via TLSv1.2 fails. Search for KB2888853 for a hotfix (32/64)

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Changes for v9.10 - v9.11 RC 1

• This update fixes a few problems found after the release of Total Commander 9.10

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Changes for v9.10 RC 2 - v9.10 RC 3

• 18.10.17 Fixed: Windows 10 Creators Update and Fall Creators Update: when changing scaling (e.g. 100%->150%) in Windows, limit window size to current screen user area (32/64)
• 18.10.17 Fixed: Abort sorting manually by custom column with ESC if it hangs for more than 2 seconds (32/64)
• 17.10.17 Fixed: The option QuickSearchAllowNoMatch=1 didn't work in the 64-bit version (64)
• 17.10.17 Fixed: Dialog boxes wouldn't correctly restore their position on Windows 10 Creators Update after the user changed the scaling of the primary screen (without logging out and back in) (32/64)

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Changes for v9.10 RC 1 - v9.10 RC 2

• 16.10.17 Fixed: Disable per screen scaling on Windows 10 if the user changed the scaling of the primary screen, resulting in faulty scaling until the user logged out and back in (32/64)
• 16.10.17 Fixed: Go back in history: When a path isn't accessible and the user doesn't pick a different drive, remaining in the same directory, then swap the current and previous path in the history (32/64)
• 16.10.17 Fixed: Increased maximum stack size from 512k to 640k due to a stack exhaustion error (0xC00000FD) one user had (32)
• 15.10.17 Fixed: F5 - F2 or add files to queue: Use message above WM_USER to send names to the dialog instead of WM_COMMAND (32/64)
• 13.10.17 Fixed: Button bar: couldn't set icon size smaller than 16x16 any longer (32/64)
• 13.10.17 Fixed: Go back in history: When a network path isn't accessible and the user picks a different drive, replace the network path with that drive in the history (32/64)
• 13.10.17 Fixed: Go back in history: When using a (separate) tree, update it with the real directory if we couldn't go to the dir in the history (32/64)
• 13.10.17 Fixed: Lister: Couldn't load images via Irfanview when started as a standalone program with /S=L parameter (64)
• 13.10.17 Fixed: Lister: Window size could change when switching between files with 'n' and 'p' keys (64)
• 13.10.17 Fixed: Lister: No horizontal scrollbar for images larger than the window (64)
• 12.10.17 Fixed: History and hotlist buttons were sometimes (partially or fully) hidden after switching button bars with different lines (64)
• 12.10.17 Fixed: Hints for history and hotlist were interchanged after recent fix regarding hint font size (64)
• 12.10.17 Fixed: Option autocompletetab>0 not working in 64-bit version only (64)
• 12.10.17 Fixed: Auto-complete no longer worked in Shift+F4 (32/64)
• 12.10.17 Fixed: Ctrl+Left/Right arrows no longer stopped at dots in names in F7 or Shift+F4 (32/64)
• 12.10.17 Fixed: Search with 'Everything': Escape the character '!' at the start of the search string with double quotes instead of a backslash, e.g. !test.txt -> "!"test.txt, otherwise the text will not be found in the middle of a name (32/64)

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Changes for v9.10 beta 2 - v9.10 RC 1

• 09.10.17 Fixed: Tab height was still changing in classic theme when creating first tab on both sides with multi-line tabs disabled (32/64)
• 09.10.17 Fixed: Crash when showing wait to close dialog, fixed by creating dialog without its own class, and setting icon manually (32/64)
• 09.10.17 Fixed: F4, Shift+F4, Enter in archive -> wait to close dialog wasn't shown any more even with EditWaitTime>0 (32/64)
• 09.10.17 Fixed: Go back in history: Restore history position if reconnecting to ftp server fails (32/64)
• 08.10.17 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Color: Adjust height of color comboboxes also when moving dialog between screens of different dpi (32/64)
• 08.10.17 Fixed: Dialog boxes like search were no longer scaled after using some internal commands like OPENLANGUAGEFILE (64)
• 08.10.17 Fixed: Crash trying to unpack file from 7z or rar file to path longer than 259 characters - problem with wrapping long names in dialog box (32/64)
• 08.10.17 Fixed: SystemTimeToTzSpecificLocalTime crashes on Windows XP for times beyond the year 2559 -> Limit displayed time to 2559 (32/64)
• 08.10.17 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, button [E#-#]: Placeholder was added to the name instead of the extension field when using option "Use [first,last]" (32/64)
• 08.10.17 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, button [E#-#]: Nothing was added when choosing option "Measure last character from the end". Same problem with [P#-#] and others from the dropdown list (32/64)
• 08.10.17 Fixed: Search with 'Everything': Escape the character '!' at the start of the search string, e.g. !test.txt -> \!test.txt, otherwise nothing will be found because '!' means 'not' (32/64)
• 08.10.17 Fixed: FTP: Templates can now be given either as ANSI (current system encoding) or UTF-8 for UTF-8 servers (32/64)
• 06.10.17 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Color: Comboboxes not high enough on high DPI screens (32)
• 06.10.17 Fixed: FTP: Templates didn't work with UTF-8 encoding if the month name contained an accent (32/64)
• 06.10.17 Fixed: Internal associations: Quick toggle on/off by clicking on initial * character -> also toggle multiple extensions, e.g. *.c *.cpp <-> -.c -.cpp (32/64)
• 06.10.17 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Tabstop: After clicking on "Default", the "Ext" column was too narrow when using non-standard size format for file lists (32/64)
• 06.10.17 Fixed: Set size of the directory history and hotlist button icons depending on the main window font size, not the dialog box scaling (32/64)

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Changes for v9.10 beta 1 - v9.10 beta 2

• 27.09.17 Fixed: Couldn't delete an NTFS link in a protected directory like "Program files" pointing to a file if the target file was deleted (32/64)
• 27.09.17 Fixed: Compare by content: "Save as" dialog had wrong size on secondary screen with different DPI (32)
• 27.09.17 Fixed: Main configuration dialog: Fixed problems with font sizes when moving dialog box between different dpi screens (32/64)
• 27.09.17 Fixed: Lister (F3) could start with wrong font size on Windows 10 Creators Update when its position wasn't saved by the user yet (64)
• 27.09.17 Fixed: Lister (F3) could start with tiny window on Windows 10 Creators Update when its position wasn't saved by the user yet (32)
• 27.09.17 Fixed: Search for office xml in archives could sometimes cause a crash, depending on the searched office file contents (32/64)
• 27.09.17 Fixed: Search for office xml in archives -> zip file containing .docx/.xlsx/etc. files would remain opened/locked after the search ended (32/64)
• 27.09.17 Fixed: Ctrl+Right/Left arrow no longer jumped to file under the cursor in the target window (32/64)
• 27.09.17 Fixed: F7 and Shift+F4: Allow to create numbered folders/files also in specified path, e.g. <1-5>c:\dir\test[C] or <1-5>[%temp%]\test[C] (32/64)
• 27.09.17 Added: Environment variable placeholders: Append backslash to paste only last part of path, other char to replace \ with, e.g. [%TEMP%\] -> temp, [%TEMP%_] -> c_temp
• 26.09.17 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Icons on directional buttons and checkboxes between the two sides were not scaled on higher dpi screens (32/64)
• 26.09.17 Fixed: Updated the frequently asked questions (FAQ) in the help file (32/64)
• 25.09.17 Fixed: Only use user-defined font for groupbox top position calculation on secondary screen with different dpi than main screen (64)
• 25.09.17 Fixed: Limit width of custom message dialog (e.g. when showing disk full error) to 2/3 of the current screen width - break longer lines in the middle at spaces or backslashes (32/64)
• 25.09.17 Fixed: Search with ev: prefix (Everything unfiltered search): ignore the current directory even when a backslash is present, e.g. "ev:tv/ artist" to find files containing "artist" in dirs ending with "tv" (32/64)
• 25.09.17 Fixed: Unpack 7zip file with internal 7zip unpacker (no 7zip plugin installed) via menu or Alt+F9 -> no "Background" button was shown (32/64)
• 24.09.17 Fixed: Decode MIME-Encoded files: Still problems with nested boundaries in MIME files (32/64)
• 24.09.17 Fixed: Standalone Synchronize dirs (started via /S=S parameter): tab headers were not themed (64)
• 24.09.17 Fixed: Copying subdirs from OneDrive not working with IgnoreLinks option set on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (32/64)
• 24.09.17 Fixed: Deleting non-empty subdirs from OneDrive not working on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (32/64)
• 24.09.17 Added: Help for F7 and Shift+F4: Examples for placeholders, especially for multi-item creation like <1-10>[C:2] (32/64)
• 22.09.17 Added: Support environment variables in multi-rename tool, F7 and Shift+F4: [%USERNAME%] or [%USERNAME%1-5] (32/64)
• 22.09.17 Fixed: Position and size of standalone compare dialog wasn't saved on exit (64)
• 22.09.17 Fixed: Position and size of standalone search/sync/compare dialog was wrong on high DPI screens (32)
• 22.09.17 Fixed: Font in hint window (tooltip) for files and buttons too small on Windows 10 Creators Update, on main screen only (64)
• 22.09.17 Fixed: Main settings dialog: Line height in list on the left (list of settings pages) not correct after changing DPI (32)
• 22.09.17 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Fonts: DPI value wasn't stored correctly any more on Windows versions older than Windows 10 Creators Update (32/64)
• 21.09.17 Fixed: "Compare by content": Label "bytes" was badly aligned with combobox (it's not possible to align it 100% correctly for all fonts) (64)
• 21.09.17 Fixed: "Compare by content": Label "bytes" was not translated - use string 1330 (32/64)
• 21.09.17 Fixed: "Search in separate process" dialog, list of text search plugins: checkboxes were missing (32/64)
• 21.09.17 Fixed: "Search in separate process" dialog, list of text search plugins: lines too high (64)
• 21.09.17 Fixed: "Search in separate process" dialog: Lines in search results were too high (32/64)
• 21.09.17 Fixed: cm_switchlongnames not working with wincmd.ini set to read only (32/64)
• 21.09.17 Fixed: New help topic "Environment variables" had some problems with line breaks (32/64)
• 20.09.17 Fixed: Auto update check function would report beta versions even with AutoUpdateCheck=2, which should report only release versions (32/64)

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Changes for v9.0a - v9.10 beta 1

• 20.09.17 Release Total Commander 9.10 beta 1 (first public beta) (32/64)
• 20.09.17 Fixed: Shift+F4 didn't work in empty directories on FTP servers/in file system plugins (32/64)
• 20.09.17 Fixed: Icon in 1-2-3-nag dialog used wrong (16x16) icon (64)
• 20.09.17 Fixed: Error message when launching programs not very detailed - show windows message (using FormatMessage) in addition to TC message (32/64)
• 19.09.17 Fixed: Right click context menu: Entries in "New" submenu were not translated on Windows Vista or newer (32/64)
• 19.09.17 Fixed: Dialog box "Commands" - "System information": Font too small on high DPI screens (64)
• 19.09.17 Fixed: Get folder sizes via 'Everything' didn't work if Total Commander was started with higher user rights (as administrator) and 'Everything' with normal rights (32/64)
• 18.09.17 Fixed: TC was no longer passing 8.3 names to content plugins not supporting Unicode (32/64)
• 18.09.17 Fixed: Automatic key download (paste mail with Ctrl+V) was always via HTTP, not via HTTPS (32/64)
• 18.09.17 Added: New optional translation string 5062="Change single button" for title bar of single button change dialog (32/64)
• 18.09.17 Fixed: Files - Change attributes, click on >> date/time picker: Error beep was played when closing dialog with ESC (64)
• 18.09.17 Fixed: Button bar, change single button: using just "explorer" as icon file didn't work (missing .exe extension) (32/64)
• 17.09.17 Fixed: Support environment variables like %commander_path% also in path= entry in [left] / [right] sections of wincmd.ini, but only if the name doesn't start with a plugin, ftp server, or UNC path (32/64)
• 17.09.17 Fixed: Show symbolic links to folders as a folder icon (with link overlay if overlays are enabled) instead of just a link icon, also when Explorer icons are disabled (32/64)
• 17.09.17 Fixed: Xnview was no longer working to load thumbnails or lister images (due to added Unicode support for Irfanview) (32/64)
• 17.09.17 Fixed: FTP/file system plugins/archives: Shift+F4 not working when using F4menu or OpenFileTC with a multiple-document editor already running in the background (32/64)
• 16.09.17 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Thumbnail lines could be shown as high as in full or brief view when the thumbnail+text surpassed 255 pixels (64)
• 15.09.17 Fixed: New placeholder picker button in F7 and Shift+F4 dialogs too narrow (32/64)
• 15.09.17 Fixed: Tree could be added as empty line to directory history, e.g. (Ctrl+F8, Alt+Cursor right, Alt+F1 - C) (32/64)
• 15.09.17 Fixed: Date picker control (e.g. in "Files" - "Change attributes" - ">>" button) was too narrow (64)
• 15.09.17 Fixed: Installer would fail on some XP installations (reason: problem with loading comctl32.dll dynamically from system32 -> uses static linking) (32/64)
• 10.09.17 Release Total Commander 9.10 beta 1 pre 3 (private beta) (32/64)
• 10.09.17 Added: Apply FontQuality option also to main menu in TC and Lister (64-bit only, not in right click context menus or menus in 32-bit version, because they are not owner drawn) (64)
• 10.09.17 Fixed: Right click on button bar button, Change.., Click in field "Icon file", close dialog -> icon index was reset to 0 if the icon file name contained environment variables (32/64)
• 10.09.17 Fixed: Shift+F4 not possible in plugins linking to local files like Virtual Panel -> show error (32/64)
• 10.09.17 Fixed: Alt+Shift+Enter could cause hang with many 10'000 subdirectories, with or without 'Everything' option (32/64)
• 10.09.17 Fixed: 'Apply' button wasn't enabled when clicking on 'Everything' option in Configuration - Options - Operation (32/64)
• 08.09.17 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] set TranslateMessageButtons=0 to NOT translate buttons in MessageBox windows to current Total Commander language (e.g. Shift+Delete) (32/64)
• 08.09.17 Fixed: No translation for warning about missing dir size index in 'Everything' when activating the option to get folder sizes from 'Everything' in the settings (32/64)
• 08.09.17 Fixed: Translation of OK button used wrong string from lng file (32/64)
• 07.09.17 Fixed: The icons for folders with a desktop.ini file could differ in the file list and the tab header (SHGetFileInfo called differently, once with idlist and once with path name) (32/64)
• 06.09.17 Fixed: File system plugins, upload/download in background, try close TC -> program was closed even when the user chose "No" (32/64)
• 06.09.17 Fixed: Symbolic link files to programs (.exe) were only shown with a standard icon (32/64)
• 06.09.17 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] MftAllowed=0 By default, access to drive:\$MFT and below will be blocked, to prevent a Windows crash. Do not enable unless you have changed the permissions of $MFT to access it (32/64)
• 06.09.17 Fixed: Shift+F4 new file: Didn't work in file system plugins if the plugin didn't download any existing file, but reported success -> no new temp file was created (32/64)
• 06.09.17 Fixed: Master password dialog still not in foreground in 64-bit version (64)
• 05.09.17 Fixed: FTP: Keep alive during transfers was sent too often when the PC had a long uptime >=25 days (problem with GetTickCount returning DWORD instead of longint) (64)
• 05.09.17 Fixed: Lister: Switching between text and binary mode could change the Lister size (if one mode had a horizontal scrollbar and one not) (64)
• 04.09.17 Release Total Commander 9.10 beta 1 pre 2 (private beta) (32/64)
• 04.09.17 Fixed: Look for paths starting with D:/$MFT/ and do not try to access them with FindFirstFile, CreateFile, CreateDirectory, or SetCurrentDirectory to prevent Windows crash (32/64)
• 04.09.17 Added: Shift+F4 new file: Now also works in archives, on FTP servers, and with file system plugins (single files only, no counters) (32/64)
• 04.09.17 Fixed: Shift+F4 new file: F10 (Tree) was no longer working - now it works when NOT using placeholders (32/64)
• 03.09.17 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Trying to access a file system plugin would show the master password input dialog behind the breadcrumb dropdown list (32/64)
• 01.09.17 Added: Shift+F4 new file: Use same placeholders as in F7 new folder and multi-rename tool (32/64)
• 01.09.17 Fixed: F7 new folder: Use separate text controls for rename preview first/last file (when using a counter) (32/64)
• 29.08.17 Fixed: F7 new folder, placeholder menu: '<' prefix wasn't added automatically before placeholders (32/64)
• 29.08.17 Fixed: F7 new folder, placeholder menu: Separator was shown as '-' and clickable instead of horizontal line (32/64)
• 29.08.17 Fixed: No accents were shown in F7 new folder - placeholder menu, they appeared as '?' instead (64)
• 28.08.17 Release Total Commander 9.10 beta 1 pre 1 (private beta) (32/64)
• 28.08.17 Fixed: View modes: Do not call "Auto-run commands" exit command (after "|") for previous view mode of a tab when starting (32/64)
• 28.08.17 Fixed: Lister: The keyboard didn't work in the "Print" dialog - it only worked after clicking on a control (64)
• 28.08.17 Added: One more parameter added to installer: /N"user" sets user for desktop and start menu shortcuts. /N* installs them for all users. Note: All parameters MUST be passed in one group after a single slash, e.g. /AHN"testuser"D0G (auto-install, hidden, user "testuser", no desktop icon, group icons (32/64)
• 25.08.17 Fixed: Adjust custom columns to DPI changes too. May need to re-save custom column positions to make it work (stores screen DPI) (32/64)
• 23.08.17 Added: Configuration - Options - Operation: Option to use "Everything" to get directory sizes via Alt+Shift+Enter and/or spacebar. Needs recent Everything version with folder size index enabled (32/64)
• 22.08.17 Fixed: Lister: Also scroll images with finger on touch screen (32/64)
• 22.08.17 Added: Command line parameters: Pass .tab file (instead of a directory name) to load the saved tabs (replacing the current tabs) (32/64)
• 22.08.17 Added: Synchronize dirs: Checksum with file system plugin: support plugin-specific checksums - the plugin has to return the checksum for both the remote and the local file (32/64)
• 22.08.17 Added: Create directory (F7) also in RAR archives (32/64)
• 22.08.17 Added: Create a range of numbered directories also in file system plugins, archives, virtual folders like the desktop, and on FTP servers (32/64)
• 21.08.17 Fixed: Drag file from within ZIP to some programs like Visual Studio 2017 could cause a crash (reason: VS tried to release the DataObject much later, when it was already destroyed by TC) (64)
• 21.08.17 Added: Create directory (F7), create a range of numbered directories: [C] placeholder takes same options as in multi-rename tool, e.g. <1-20>[C10+5:3] create 20 folders, starts at 10, steps by 5, uses 3 digits width (32/64)
• 21.08.17 Added: Create directory (F7): Create a range of numbered directories, e.g. <5-10>test[C] creates folders test05, test06, test07, test08, test09, test10. The number of digits is determined by the highest number, but can be set via parameter, e.g. [C:2] (32/64)
• 20.08.17 Added: Create directory (F7): Support the same placeholders as in the multi-rename tool, e.g. [YMD] for date. [T3] is the default for date formats (current date). Lime must start with < character (32/64)
• 20.08.17 Added: Multi-rename tool: New modificators [T1], [T2]. and [T3] determine the used date/time for all date/time fields after this position. T1 is the default (file last modified date) (32/64)
• 20.08.17 Added: Multi-rename tool: New placeholder [i]: am/pm indicator in English, e.g. for time format 10.30pm. Use [i1] for just a or p, e.g. 10.30p. (32/64)
• 20.08.17 Added: Multi-rename tool: New placeholder [H]: Paste hours, always in 12 hour 2 digit format (1-12) (32/64)
• 15.08.17 Added: Button bar: Support icons from Windows 8/10 store apps, icon must be defined as @anyname.ext (also works for non-store apps, even on older Windows versions) (32/64)
• 14.08.17 Added: Lister: Start auto-scrolling when moving finger quickly vertically over lister window, stop with another tap (32/64)
• 14.08.17 Added: Lister: Select text on a touch screen by moving a finger across the screen when text already selected (e.g. via double tap) (32/64)
• 14.08.17 Fixed: Lister didn't react to touch screen - use for vertical and horizontal text scrolling (32/64)
• 14.08.17 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, with FTP: Ignore seconds when comparing and the server sends the time only with hours and minutes (e.g. default Unix format) (32/64)
• 14.08.17 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, with FTP: When deleting just an empty folder (no files) from a subfolder, that subfolder wasn't reloaded, so the deleted folder was still displayed (32/64)
• 13.08.17 Fixed: Internal 7zip unpacker: Show missing timestamp as ? and not as 1.1.1601 (32/64)
• 13.08.17 Fixed: ENTER on archives in temporary panel plugin no longer opened them internally. Instead, they were launched with the associated programs (32/64)
• 13.08.17 Fixed: Position of TC wrong when starting it on Windows 10 when the user changed the scaling (e.g. 125% -> 150%) after logging in (32/64)
• 13.08.17 Added: When changing screen resolution and the main window position was saved in that resolution, resize TC to the saved resolution (only when on same screen) (32/64)
• 09.08.17 Fixed: FTP: Search, feed to listbox, select some files/folders in subdirs, search again in selected only -> nothing was found (32/64)
• 08.08.17 Fixed: Open file/program by double click within a file system link with relative path -> launch with target name as before, but with link directory as current location (32/64)
• 08.08.17 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: junctions (mklink /J) were incorrectly detected as infinite loops and skipped if the link name was 1 char longer than the target, and both in the same directory, e.g. dir$ -> dir (32/64)
• 08.08.17 Fixed: Menu font size was wrong on Windows 7 after adding DPI support for Windows 10 (64)
• 08.08.17 Fixed: "Background" button not working with some packer plugins like Total7zip when another operation was moved to background and ended before clicking "Background" again (32/64)
• 06.08.17 Added: Auto-install icon library, set type=prg and file=WCMICONsomeUniqueName.DLL -> set this library as the default, and reload button bars (32/64)
• 06.08.17 Added: Internal 7zip unpacker: Support background unpacking, multiple archives in parallel (32/64)
• 06.08.17 Added: Multi-rename tool, regular expressions: In "Replace with", support parameters \U, \L, \F, \n to convert from this point on to uppercase, lowercase, first char in word uppercase, and back to unchanged (32/64)
• 06.08.17 Fixed: Translate buttons Yes, No, OK, Cancel in standard Windows MessageBox on NT based systems (note: MessageBoxEx does NOT work) (32/64)
• 04.08.17 Added: Windows Vista and newer: Support GUIDs in environment variables, e.g. %${374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}% -> downloads folder, same as %$Downloads% (32/64)
• 04.08.17 Added: Windows Vista and newer: Support new pseudo environment variables described here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457.aspx. Leave out prefix FOLDERID_, e.g. FOLDERID_Downloads -> %$Downloads% . Only fields with "Default Path" option are supported (32/64)
• 04.08.17 Fixed: Button bar: Icons loaded from .ICO files were scaled worse (by LoadImage) than the same icons loaded from EXE/DLL files. Use LoadIconWithScaleDown instead if available (32/64)
• 26.07.17 Fixed: FTP, inplace rename: Support the following names: subdir/ moves file to specified subdirectory, .. or ../ moves it one level up (32/64)
• 26.07.17 Fixed: Change sort order: With aa.txt and AA.txt in same dir on ftp server or in an archive, the wrong file could be focused after re-sorting (32/64)
• 26.07.17 Fixed: Folder tabs: With aa.txt and AA.txt in same dir on ftp server or in an archive, switching to a different tab and back could place cursor on wrong current file, or re-select the wrong file (32/64)
• 26.07.17 Fixed: Search function, go to file: Handle the case of multiple files with same name but different case in the same location, e.g. aa.txt and AA.txt on ftp server or in an archive (32/64)
• 17.07.17 Fixed: In the OneDrive folder on Windows 10 (fall creators update preview 2017), Windows reported overlay icons with index 0, resulting in overdrawing all icons with a default file icon (32/64)
• 17.07.17 Fixed: Show symbolic links to folders as a folder icon (with link overlay if overlays are enabled) instead of just a link icon (32/64)
• 17.07.17 Fixed: Could not launch files in OneDrive folder on Windows 10 preview (fall creators update preview 2017) (32/64)
• 17.07.17 Fixed: Verify checksums: new option ChecksumExtraTypes takes precedence over checksums in the file name or in the clipboard (32/64)
• 17.07.17 Fixed: Option "Icons: EXE/LNK not on floppy" only checked for drive letters A or B, not whether the drive really was a floppy disk drive (32/64)
• 17.07.17 Fixed: Decode MIME-Encoded files: Nested boundaries were not supported, e.g. Multipart/Mixed (mail+binary attachment) containing mail of type Multipart/Alternative (e.g. text+html) with nested boundaries (32/64)
• 16.07.17 Added: Support URLs to Windows shares in the form smb://server/share/subdir , e.g. via command line parameters (32/64)
• 16.07.17 Fixed: Internal content plugin "tc": Version information fields didn't support long file names with more than 259 characters (32/64)
• 16.07.17 Fixed: Content plugins: "delayed" field (loaded in background thread) didn't work for file names longer than 511 characters (32/64)
• 12.07.17 Added: Search with Everything: If Everything 1.4 or newer is installed, pass parameters "size" and "date from/to" to Everything to let it handle the matching (32/64)
• 12.07.17 Fixed: Search with Everything: Catch out of memory error, revert to normal search (32/64)
• 12.07.17 Fixed: Search with Everything: Free result transfer buffer when done searching, not only when doing the next search (32/64)
• 10.07.17 Fixed: On Windows 10, load Uiautomationcore.dll at program start, otherwise TC may crash randomly due to a Windows 10 bug (32/64)
• 10.07.17 Fixed: Buttonbar: limiting the number of button bar lines with wincmd.ini [buttonbar] barlimitlines=x didn't work when vertical button bar was active (32/64)
• 10.07.17 Fixed: F5 copy, auto rename on name collisions: separate number (2) by a space from the file name, just like the Explorer and multi-rename tool (32/64)
• 10.07.17 Added: Multiple screens with different DPI support: Completed port to 64-bit, fixed bugs in 32-bit (32/64)
• 07.07.17 Added: Let the user configure different file icon sizes for each DPI value, depending on which screen the main program is displayed (32/64)
• 04.07.17 Added: Make coordinate transformation from DPI unaware to DPI aware ourselves (32/64)
• 04.07.17 Added: Synchronize dirs: Load different button icons depending on screen DPI (32/64)
• 23.06.17 Added: Start porting DPI per screen functions from 32-bit to 64-bit (64)
• 14.06.17 Added: DPI: Better default sizes for various dialogs depending on current screen DPI (32)
• 13.06.17 Added: DPI: Save OverrideDpi values separately for each screen DPI value, so the user can scale dialogs differently on multiple screens (32)
• 12.06.17 Added: DPI: Reload button bar icons in background thread and use scaled icons with wrong size in the meantime when dragging between screens (32)
• 07.06.17 Added: DPI: Scale button bar icons, ftp toolbar, various dialogs (32)
• 06.06.17 Added: DPI: Scale button bar configuration dialogs (32)
• 06.06.17 Added: DPI: Scale various other dialogs like the multi-rename tool, find files dialog etc. (32)
• 02.06.17 Added: DPI: Scale "Synchronize dirs" dialog (32)
• 29.05.17 Added: DPI: Scale icons in main menu, font in hints and Lister (32)
• 26.05.17 Added: DPI: Scale icons in drive button bar and drive dropdown comboboxes (32)
• 26.05.17 Added: Multiple screens with different DPI support: Scale fonts in file lists, main window and dialog boxes (32/64)
• 25.05.17 Added: Call "SetThreadDpiAwarenessContext" on Windows 10 creators update to handle multiple screens with different DPI settings (32/64)
• 25.05.17 Added: Start working on support for multiple screens with different DPI at the same time, e.g. one 4K screen and one full HD screen (32)
• 22.05.17 Fixed: Crash copying from archive to virtual folder (64)
• 19.05.17 Fixed: Upload to file system plugin, target exists, rename -> user was asked to overwrite even if no file existed with the new name (32/64)
• 15.05.17 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, asymmetric mode, left side shows archive content, right side directory with that archive -> archive was (invisibly) marked for deletion (32/64)
• 12.05.17 Added: Synchronize dirs: Checksum with file system plugin: support also SHA256 and SHA512 (32/64)
• 10.05.17 Added: Synchronize dirs: use file system plugin checksum functions to compare by content (32/64)
• 10.05.17 Added: New file system plugin functions to get checksums (CRC32, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) (32/64)
• 10.05.17 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Cannot read archives detected by content only, e.g. some exe files unpacked with Total7zip (32/64)
• 09.05.17 Fixed: Speed buttons flickering when mouse enters/exits their position (classic theme only), e.g. buttons in multi-rename tool (64)
• 09.05.17 Fixed: Division by zero error could occur in thumbnail view with very narrow file window (32/64)
• 09.05.17 Fixed: Show link icon for link files where the icon wasn't loaded yet, or will not be loaded (e.g. lnk files on the desktop with "EXE/LNK not on net" checked) (32/64)
• 09.05.17 Fixed: Content plugin field picker dialog: Preview field couldn't show & character (e.g. in name a&b.txt) (32/64)
• 07.05.17 Added: Paste button to button bar: accept also Unicode text directly (32/64)
• 07.05.17 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] ChecksumExtraTypes=*.sum adds extra patterns to recognize as checksum files for menu Files - Verify checksums (32/64)
• 07.05.17 Fixed: Never start any program when user presses Ctrl+PageDown on a file (32/64)
• 05.05.17 Fixed: Reviewed all the changes, fixed incomplete or not working functions (32/64)
• 30.04.17 Fixed: 64-bit uninstaller tcunin64.exe: Also delete uninstall registry key from 32-bit branch if present (64)
• 30.04.17 Fixed: Uninstaller tcuninst.exe/tcunin64.exe sometimes failed to delete itself (32/64)
• 30.04.17 Fixed: 64-bit installer and combined 32+64-bit installer: remove uninstall entry from 32-bit registry branch created by older installers (32/64)
• 30.04.17 Fixed: RAR files: Some of the displayed timestamps would differ from the timestamps after unpacking (need to call TzSpecificLocalTimeToSystemTime) (32/64)
• 27.04.17 Added: Support Unicode names when loading images via Irfanview (needs new Unicode version of Irfanview) (32/64)
• 27.04.17 Fixed: Loading thumbnails via Irfanview from TC 64-bit didn't work correctly (32/64)
• 26.04.17 Added: Enable/disable crypto API for checksums manually: wincmd.ini [Configuration] UseChecksumCryptoApi= 0:disabled, 1:enabled (except when faulty on XP/2003), 2:force also when faulty (32/64)
• 26.04.17 Fixed: Bug in Microsoft crypto API to calculate SHA512 checksums on Windows XP and Server 2003 only, and only for files > 512MB -> use slower internal functions (32/64)
• 24.04.17 Added: Compare by content: Set width in binary mode to 8, 16, 24 or 32 bytes (32/64)
• 24.04.17 Added: Set font quality (e.g. force antialiasing on/off): wincmd.ini [Configuration] FontQuality= 0:DEFAULT, 3:NONANTIALIASED, 4:ANTIALIASED, 5:CLEARTYPE, 6:CLEARTYPE_NATURAL (32/64)
• 23.04.17 Fixed: Lister (32 or 64) couldn't use x64 Irfanview to view additional file types (reason: I_View64 sends invalid bitmap header). Will be fixed both in TC and Irfanview (32/64)
• 23.04.17 Fixed: F5 copy: Aborting the counting of the files before copying didn't work in some cases (e.g. just one directory selected, containing many subdirs and files) (32/64)
• 23.04.17 Added: Quick search with search dialog/quick filter: allow to enter/paste a search text leading to 0 matching files: wincmd.ini [Configuration] QuickSearchAllowNoMatch=1 (32/64)
• 23.04.17 Fixed: Changed the names used to load default icons from c:\xyz* to C:\TC_FolderIcon, C:\TC_ExeIcon.exe and C:\TC_NoIcon.tcnoicon to make it clear for what they are used (32/64)
• 23.04.17 Fixed: Separate quick view window (Ctrl+Shift+Q): Do not switch focus to Total Commander when user presses n or p key (next/previous file in list) (32/64)
• 05.04.17 Fixed: Command line: cd %commander_exe% while quick search filter active -> quick search filter wasn't removed when changing to the directory containing that file (32/64)
• 04.04.17 Fixed: Lister: View UTF-8-encoded HTML file with byte order marker (no plugins installed), press 7 then 4 -> caret not shown (64)
• 04.04.17 Fixed: Lister: View UTF-8-encoded HTML file with byte order marker (no plugins installed), press 7 then 5 -> caret position wrong (32/64)
• 04.04.17 Fixed: Lister: View UTF-8-encoded HTML file with byte order marker (no plugins installed), press 7 then 4 -> first 3 characters not shown (32/64)
• 04.04.17 Fixed: Lister: NTFS file system links to image files were shown as text because the size reported is 0 (32/64)
• 03.04.17 Fixed: Could not unpack stored AES-encrypted ZIP files with header behind the file and sizes in front set to 0 (32/64)
• 31.03.17 Fixed: Binary compare UTF-8 encoded files by content: unprintable characters like line breaks were shown with red dots although there was no difference (32/64)
• 31.03.17 Fixed: Create CRC checksums in branch view or search results: Do not sort by folder unless the user has checked separate checksums per folder (32/64)
• 24.03.17 Fixed: Setting option [Lister] NoMediaFileTypes=*.txt disabled viewing as image/plugin in Ctrl+Q not only for the viewed file, but for all files after it until closing Ctrl+Q (32/64)
• 24.03.17 Fixed: Verify after copy: retry up to 3 times to open target file if it fails (e.g. because writing is still not done) (32/64)
• 24.03.17 Fixed: Don't try to get volume label from floppy disk drive when hovering with mouse over the button (32/64)
• 24.03.17 Fixed: Comments from descript.ion can be wrong when the descript.ion file contains a mix of Windows and Linux style line breaks (32/64)
• 22.03.17 Fixed: Copy, delete, calculate occupied space: prevent stack overflow with very deep directories by checking remaining stack size (32)
• 20.03.17 Fixed: Installer: Only load dlls from Windows and System folders (32/64)
• 20.03.17 Added: Content plugins: Show error when plugin is missing, or in 64-bit when only 32-bit plugin is detected (32/64)
• 08.03.17 Added: Lister, html viewer: Support for ™ placeholder. Note: Only works in some encodings like UTF-8, Western, Central European, Windows Cyrillic (32/64)
• 07.02.17 Added: Support wildcards like subdir1\subdir2\ or \subdir1\subdir2\*.ext also in branch view within archives (32/64)
• 03.02.17 Added: Wildcards for relative paths: If the wildcard starts with "\" it is relative to the current directory, otherwise the name is matched anywhere in the subdir (32/64)
• 03.01.17 Added: Support wildcards for relative dirs also in F5 copy dialog (only copy files of this type) (32/64)
• 29.01.17 Added: Synchronize dirs: Support wildcards for relative dirs also for subfolders, in the form subdir1\subdir2\ or \subdir1\, also supports ** wildcard (32/64)
• 29.01.17 Added: New wildcards for relative dirs now support wildcard **, which stands for any number of subdirs, e.g. subdir\**\*.txt finds text files where the relative path contains "subdir" anywhere in the path (32/64)
• 29.01.17 Added: Select/unselect files, branch view: Support wildcards in the form \subdir1\subdir2\*.ext or \*.ext (for base dir) to include/exclude files in specific subdirs relative to the current directory (32/64)
• 29.01.17 Added: Synchronize dirs: Support wildcards in the form \subdir1\subdir2\*.ext or \*.ext (for base dir) to include/exclude files in specific subdirs relative to the sync base directory. Supports wildcards in dir names too, e.g. \subdir*\*.ext (32/64)
• 29.01.17 Fixed: Files - Unpack specific files: Combobox to select file types was limited to max 20 entries even if MaxItemsInComboBox was set to a higher number (32/64)
• 29.01.17 Fixed: Custom view mode, containing auto-run command "cm_TrgActivateTab2" or similar changing the active panel -> panel focus could get out of sync with active panel (32/64)
• 29.01.17 Fixed: Sending WM_USER+50 with wparam set to 1005..1008 returned invalid values in thumbnail mode (32/64)
• 18.01.17 Fixed: Lister: RTF control text was limited to 32k after toggling "word wrap" manually (Reason: inherited control was calling EM_LIMITTEXT with limit=0, which limits to 64k bytes, 32k Unicode chars) (64)
• 16.01.17 Fixed: Could not delete subdirs in folders accessed "As administrator", e.g. belonging to other users (32/64)
• 16.01.17 Fixed: Copy progress: Timer wasn't always reset when pausing, resulting in incorrect speed and remaining time during the first few seconds (32/64)
• 16.01.17 Fixed: Updated some descript.ion text for newer dll versions, added some missing descriptions (32/64)
• 16.01.17 Fixed: x64 installer showed wrong character in German text on language selection dialog (64)
• 16.01.17 Fixed: On high DPI displays, the icons in the content plugin field selection dialog were overlapping vertically (32/64)
• 13.01.17 Added: Faster search for text in office xml and epub files by unpacking inner xml/html files to memory if <1MB (32/64)
• 13.01.17 Fixed: HTML viewer: do not show ­ dash: it would be a conditional dash, only shown when breaking text there (32/64)
• 13.01.17 Fixed: Use pre-loaded data and do not call FindFirstFile when loading various internal "tc" content plugin fields: size, modification date+time, most attributes (32/64)
• 11.01.17 Fixed: No error shown when opening damaged 7zip file (missing bytes at the end) (64)
• 08.01.17 Fixed: Open multi-volume 7zip with internal unpacker -> first part remained open (need to use IFileStream instead of IHandleStream) (64)
• 08.01.17 Fixed: Improved tsclient detection function (not working when RemoteFX vGPU was running) (32/64)
• 06.01.17 Fixed: New plugin field picker showed folder icons for "compare text" fields (used only in synchronize dirs) - show "TXT =" icon instead (32/64)
• 06.01.17 Fixed: Selecting files with Shift+PageDown didn't go to the last file when using a quick search filter, when not all files were shown (32/64)
• 06.01.17 Fixed: Switching between languages with same language code, e.g. wcmd_rus.lng -> wcmd_other_rus.lng -> strings 1579, 1580, and 1742 (internal plugin fields) were not reloaded (32/64)
• 06.01.17 Fixed: Find files: When using "Everything" option, change search string *.* to * to also find files not containing a dot, e.g. "testfile" (32/64)
• 06.01.17 Fixed: Startup screen: Set fixed width for version number field, it may otherwise be cut on some Windows versions (32/64)
• 06.01.17 Fixed: Search function: File sizes >2GB were not supported in file system plugins (result list and feed to listbox) (32/64)
• 06.01.17 Fixed: Custom columns view: The size field didn't support Unicode, e.g. Cyrillic on English Windows (language for non-Unicode programs) for size.bkMG (32/64)
• 06.01.17 Added: Show extra text in the title bar in front of or behind the normal title: wincmd.ini [Configuration] TitleExtraText= *text in front, -text same but without instance number, $text behind (32/64)
• 06.01.17 Fixed: FTP over SSL/TLS: reading directories and downloading files could sometimes hang at the end for a few seconds (32/64)
• 03.01.17 Fixed: Master password not remembered with some screensavers which always enable their separate desktop (32/64)
• 16.12.16 Fixed: String encoding would revert to the active code page by mistake when a string requested from LNG file was missing (32)

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Changes for v8.52a - v9.0

• 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 directrories 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)

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Changes for v9.00 beta 14 - v9.0 beta 15

• 21.09.16 Fixed: View modes: Commands defined in view modes were always applied to the left panel only (release beta 15 rev a) (32/64)
• 21.09.16 Fixed: Do not watch notifications for network drives, it can hang the watch directory thread (32/64)
• 21.09.16 Fixed: Re-signed all included EXE/DLL files with separate SHA-1 (re-issued) and SHA256 certificates (32/64)
• 21.09.16 Added: Message dialog with checkbox (e.g. shown on multi-rename name collisions): Show icon, make it look more like the standard MessageBox dialog (32/64)
• 21.09.16 Added: For the sorting commands like CM_SRCBYNAME, add parameter 4 to sort by additional columns, e.g. CM_SRCBYSIZE 5 adds sort by size, ascending (32/64)
• 20.09.16 Added: The following internal commands now accept parameters 0 (toggle, default), 1 (true), and 2 (false), except in main menu (* stands for LEFT, RIGHT, and SRC): CM_VERTICALPANELS,CM_*THUMBS,CM_*BYNAME,CM_*BYEXT,CM_*BYSIZE,CM_*BYDATETIME,CM_*UNSORTED,CM_*NEGORDER (32/64)
• 20.09.16 Fixed: Make sure that when rubberband selection starts in one file panel, it will remain there (32/64)
• 20.09.16 Fixed: FTP: avoid infinite retries if both PASV and PORT mode fail due to server misconfiguration (32/64)
• 20.09.16 Fixed: Auto-switching to thumbnails view in directory with images -> one of the images would sometimes not get a thumbnail (64)
• 20.09.16 Added: Execute view mode commands also when switching between 2 tabs with different view modes (32/64)
• 20.09.16 Added: Define view mode commands when switching away from a view mode to a different mode. Separate by | (vertical line), e.g. cm_100percent|cm_50percent (32/64)
• 18.09.16 Added: Support Ctrl+Q (quick view panel) also during quick search. May cause problems like lost cursor with some plugins (32/64)
• 18.09.16 Fixed: Open background transfer manager without starting any operation in it, then close TC -> warning about running background operations (32/64)
• 18.09.16 Fixed: Number of folders wasn't updated in footer when network shares were added after reading the network neighborhood (delayed reporting) (32/64)
• 18.09.16 Fixed: Do not show any network shares in Network Neighborhood (as in TC 8.x) when Allowed= doesn't contain the backslash (32/64)
• 18.09.16 Fixed: Look of horizontal separators in Configuration - Options - Fonts (32/64)
• 18.09.16 Added: Multi-rename tool: On Windows NT-based systems, the new placeholder [u] at the start of the new name field converts all composite characters (e.g. separate a and ^) to precomposed characters (a with accent) (32/64)
• 18.09.16 Fixed: Disable themed caret (cursor in listboxes) by default if WindowBlinds is running. Otherwise no cursor at all may be shown (32/64)
• 16.09.16 Fixed: Free space on drive was shown delayed on startup (32/64)
• 16.09.16 Fixed: Lister: Viewing file with BOM (UTF-16 or UTF-8): Cursor would sometimes not show up at all until it is moved, e.g. until a cursor key is pressed (64)
• 16.09.16 Fixed: HTTPS downloads could hang at the end when not using OpenSSL (due to incorrect error handling) (32/64)
• 15.09.16 Added: New SSL/TLS implementation: support TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2, and report the protocol in the connection log (32/64)

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Changes for v9.0 beta 13 - v9.00 beta 14

• This is a bugfix release.

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Changes for v9.00 beta 3 - v9.0 beta 4

• This is a bugfix release

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Changes for v8.52a - v9.0 beta 1

• Here is a list of the most important additions:
• User interface:
• View modes, can be switched manually via menu "Show", or automatically by rules
• Show icons on folder tabs depending on the displayed folder
• Vertical button bar (can be disabled via Configuration - Options - Layout)
• Rubber band selection mode when using left mouse button selection, disable via settings
• Show up to 3 external devices without drive letter (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
• Use system drive and folder icons (dynamically loaded) instead of internal
• Dimmed icons for hidden files/folders
• Show small green arrow as overlay icon when a folder is open, 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
• Set scaling of dialog boxes (OverrideDPI) via main settings - fonts
• Option to show sizes with 1k=1000bytes instead of 1k=1024bytes
• Option to show numbers in TBytes, with 1 or 2 decimal digits
• File operations:
• Unicode support for descript.ion files
• Inplace rename: Use up/down arrow to jump to previous/next file (configurable)
• F5 Copy/F6 Move: Show combobox with all open tabs and all subdirectories in the target panel (Shift: Source panel)
• F5 copy: Skip empty dirs by appending |**\ to line "only files of this type"
• Create and verify additional checksum types: SHA224, SHA384, SHA3_224, SHA3_256, SHA3_384, SHA3_512
• Delete files directly (not to recycle bin): In case of errors, ask at the end of the entire operation
• Delete files directly: Also offer "Skip all" when a file is missing
• Re-use threads for delete, loading hints and ID-lists
• Disable overwrite confirmation in sync: wincmd.ini [Confirmation] SyncConfirmOverwrite=0
• FTPS, HTTPS:
• Support TLS 1.1 and 1.2 with new openssl dlls
• Use Windows certificate stores "ROOT" and "CA" to verify purchased server certificates
• Packer:
• ZIP unpacker: Support new compression method XZ (method 95) with updated tcmdlzma.dll and tclzma64.dll
• Support invalid ZIP archives with no CRC in the local header and behind the zip file, 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
• Improved range selection dialog
• If there are duplicate names, or names that already exist, offer to auto-rename to "name (2).ext", "name (3).ext" etc.
• Lister:
• Ctrl+Shift+Q: Opens Quick View in separate Lister window, updates contents when going to other file
• View files of type RTF, BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, ICO, HTML with internal viewers also in read-protected folders (via DuplicateHandle)
• Use larger buffer sizes to handle longer blocks of text without line breaks
• Other operations:
• Double click/ENTER: Follow .url files pointing to directrories within Total Commander. Disable via wincmd.ini
• Manual update check via menu Help - Check for updates now, using DNS lookup
• Automatic update check (experimental): wincmd.ini [Configuration] AutoUpdateCheck= (1: all updates, or 2: no beta versions)
• Ctrl+B in search result = Go to directory of file under cursor
• Read virtual folders like the Network Neighborhood asynchronously (faster initial response) and in a background thread
• Directory history: Remember name under cursor and position in list when entering a subdir via double click/Enter
• Content plugins: new content field chooser dialog instead of menu. Also show field preview for file/dir under cursor
• Synchronize dirs: Compare with multi-part ZIP, supports compare by content and view
• Buttonbar, Startmenü: 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

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Changes for v8.52 - v8.52a

• This is a bugfix release.

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Changes for v8.52 - v8.52a RC 1

• This is a bugfix release! There are no new features.

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Changes for v8.51a - v8.52

• Total Commander was sometimes hanging when loading the drive buttonbar on Windows 10 (problems with some removable media)
• The Windows Explorer couldn't completely unpack ZIP archives created with Total Commander when they contained more than 65535 files

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Changes for v8.51a - v8.52 RC 1

• This is a bugfix release! There are no new features. You should download this beta if you use Windows 10, and Total Commander hangs at start or when trying to access an SD-Card or USB drive

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Changes for v8.51a - v8.52 beta 1

• This is a bugfix release! There are no new features. You should download this beta if you use Windows 10, and Total Commander hangs at start or when trying to access an SD-Card or USB drive.

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Changes for v8.51 - v8.51a

• This version mainly corrects an error with uploads to FTP servers using "MODE Z" compression, and with the right click context menu

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Changes for v8.50 - v8.51

• This version mainly corrects errors, but there are also some new functions:
• File icons are now completely loaded in the background, so they should no longer slow down the user interface
• More speed improvements when reading directories (icons, shared folder overlays)
• FTP rename file (Shift+F6): Show overwrite confirmation dialog if target exists
• FTP: Faster upload in fast networks by using a dynamic upload block size

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Changes for v8.51 Beta 2 - v8.51 beta 3

• This is a bugfix release! There are no big new features.

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Changes for v8.50 - v8.51 Beta 1

• This is a bugfix release! There are no new features.

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Changes for v8.50 RC 3 - v8.50

• 17.02.14 Fixed: Opening partial RAR archive (or multi-volume with missing parts): The last (incomplete) file was not listed (32/64)
• 17.02.14 Fixed: Parameter FTPOPEN:configured_connection_name only worked on PCs with a drive "F:" (32/64)
• 17.02.14 Fixed: After moving files as administrator with F6-OK-Background, and switching to the target panel before the copying ended, the source panel wasn't refreshed (32/64)
• 16.02.14 Fixed: Commands - Search - Advanced - "Find duplicate files" - "same plugin fields": No error was shown when the closing "]" was missing (32/64)
• 16.02.14 Fixed: After moving files as administrator with F6-OK-Background, the background progress dialog could remain open (32/64)
• 10.02.14 Fixed: Crash in synchronize dirs started as separate program, when overwriting files (preview images enabled) (32/64)
• 06.02.14 Fixed: Duplicate file finder, feed to listbox, select duplicates dialog: Selection by directory not always working correctly (due to uninitialized array) (32/64)
• 06.02.14 Fixed: Trying to copy entire drive (e.g. c:\) from search results to same drive wouldn't cause error message that this isn't allowed (32/64)
• 06.02.14 Fixed: Couldn't copy entire drive (e.g. c:\) from search results with F5 - F2 in background (32/64)

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Changes for v8.50 Beta 11 - v8.50 Beta 12

• Bug fixes

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Changes for v8.50 Beta 8 - v8.50 Beta 9

• Beta 9 is mainly a bugfix release.

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Changes for v8.50 Beta 6 - v8.50 Beta 7

• Fixed: Closing or minimizing search dialog caused a stack overflow error on Windows 9x/ME (32)
• Fixed: Quick search with Chinese input not working when adding ideograms with ENTER (works with SPACE!) because the texts gets selected for some unknown reason (64)
• Added: Control overwrite behaviour in background transfer manager: wincmd.ini [Configuration] BackgroundCopyFlags=1: 0=never reset; 1=reset overwrite flags when list becomes empty; 2=reset overwrite flags each time a file or group of files is added to the list (32/64)
• Fixed: Checkbox overlap in Configuration - Options - Copy/Delete (32)
• Fixed: Using Win+Cursor down while copying, searching or synchronizing only minimized the copy dialog, not the main window (32/64)
• Fixed: Copy in background: When user closes TC and confirms to abort background transfers, give operations enough time to terminate before exiting (32/64)
• Fixed: Find files, duplicate file finder: Wrong encoding adding plugin fields via "+" button where the name contains accents (only when accent in the deepest menu level) (64)
• Added: Auto-install file for plugins (pluginst.inf) now supports version= field, which will be shown on a separate line in the auto-install dialog (32/64)
• Fixed: When renaming a folder on an FTP server, invalidate the cache of that folder and all subfolders, not just the base folder containing it (32/64)
• Fixed: Search, Feed to listbox, click on "\" or press Ctrl+R -> Always return to directory before the search, even when switching tabs before leaving the search results (32/64)
• Fixed: Pause during delete to recycle bin could cause error "CheckSynchronize called from non-main thread" (64)
• Fixed: Inplace rename failed (did nothing) when files were added in the other (inactive) panel while the rename box was active, e.g. downloads, and the cursor in the inactive panel was below the rename position in the active panel (32/64)
• Fixed: Search dialog: Use better method from forum user "MarcinW" to show dialog maximized without overlapping task bar on Windows 8 (32/64)
• Fixed: Pack with RAR.EXE not handling long archive names and spaces correctly if RAR packer was specified with parameters, but program name not in double quotes (32/64)

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Changes for v8.50 Beta 1 - v8.50 Beta 2

• Beta 2 is mainly a bugfix release

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Changes for v8.01 RC 5 - v8.01

• 03.08.12 Release Total Commander 8.01 final (32/64)
• 03.08.12 Fixed: The entry "Network (workgroup)" was shown with user color for encrypted files (32/64)
• 02.08.12 Fixed: Inplace rename button wasn't removed after entering inaccessible network path in current path field (32/64)
• 31.07.12 Fixed: Click on button in second row of button bar which opens bar as submenu multiple times -> pressed state sometimes not removed (32/64)
• 31.07.12 Fixed: Workaround to faulty CAB unpack dll on Linux with Wine passing unaligned FDINOTIFICATION structure to callback (64)
• 31.07.12 Fixed: Lister: Could not search for English text in file encoded with ISO-2022-JP (50220). Displayed position, copy to clip are unfortunately wrong (32/64)
• 31.07.12 Fixed: Copying a folder with Shift+F5 didn't remove trailing spaces entered by the user (32/64)

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Changes for v8.01 RC 4 - v8.01 RC 5

• This version mainly corrects bugs, there are no major new features.

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Changes for v8.01 RC 1 - v8.01 RC 2

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Changes for v8.0 RC 1 - v8.0 RC 2

• - Fixed: Configuration dialog was opened twice when launching TC with ini location read only and 0 byte (or no) ini (64)
• - Fixed: Do not call SHFileOperation with names longer than 259 characters (to delete to recycle bin), because it always fails, and may even cause an access violation on Windows Server 2003 (32/64)
• - Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Empty directories were not deleted when deleting to recycle bin (32/64)
• - Fixed: Main window, bottom buttons: Refresh problem on Ctrl+F2 when using classic theme (64)
• - Fixed: Ctrl+D - Add current directory didn't support tabstops in folder names when adding dir to subfolder (32/64)
• - Fixed: Enter (and ESC in 32-bit version) didn't work in inplace rename edit when a MessageBox was open in Lister. Unfortunately the beep cannot be avoided (32/64)
• - Fixed: Configuration - Options - Colors: Center color comboxes vertically to ">>" button (32/64)
• - Fixed: Configuration - Options - Colors: Foreground color combobox had wrong height (32)
• - Fixed: Connection progress dialog (FTP) couldn't be closed if the connection failed (64)
• - Fixed: Default beep on first opening (with fresh wincmd.ini) of multi-rename tool (32)
• - Fixed: "Copy NTFS Permissions" was missing in F5 copy dialog when the Netware client was installed (32)

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Changes for v8.0 beta 21 - v8.0 beta 22

• 02.03.12 Added: (Experimental) Change font for tooltips separately: wincmd.ini, resolution-specific section, FontNameTip, FontCharsetTip, FontSizeTip and FontStyleTip (TC uses the dialog box settings if these are not present) (32/64)
• 02.03.12 Added: Options to set format of WM_GETTEXT result (for screen readers): wincmd.ini [Configuration] GetTextMode=0: Delimiter: 0: space, 1: tab, 2= 3= 4=like 2 5=like 3. 4&5 show fields with column headers (tab-separated), e.g. Name:FilenameSize:10k (32/64)
• 01.03.12 Fixed: Inactive focus rectangle not redrawn correctly when user closes inplace rename edit box by clicking in other panel (32)
• 01.03.12 Fixed: When starting TC maximized, extensions could be shown attached to names by mistake because the calculation returns -1 for the name column width, which means directly after name (32/64)
• 29.02.12 Fixed: Installing a plugin a second time didn't find the previous installation if the existing plugin path contained an environment variable (32/64)
• 29.02.12 Fixed: FTP: Displayed file sizes invalid (far too large) when using a template (64)
• 29.02.12 Fixed: When uninstalling 64-bit version, UNRAR9X.DLL from a 32-bit version in the same directory wasn't removed. Cannot remove 32-bit links because they may be pointing to a different directory (64)
• 29.02.12 Fixed: Use timer to show inplace edit box in synchronize dirs in a similar way to the main program, otherwise double clicks do not work always (32/64)
• 29.02.12 Fixed: Ctrl+Enter still selected the entire command line when it had the focus AND Ctrl was released before the Enter key (64)
• 29.02.12 Fixed: Packer plugin configuration dialog: Show "File x not found" error when the user enters a non-existing plugin name manually (32/64)
• 29.02.12 Fixed: Don't set cursor in source window when user closes inplace rename box by clicking in other panel (64)
• 28.02.12 Added: Log function for icon thread: wincmd.ini [Configuration] DebugIconThread=1 to allow test why icon extraction or dir size calculation hangs (=2 for more details) (32/64)
• 26.02.12 Fixed: Changed Lazarus code to draw menu bar background area correctly (just the empty area) (64)
• 26.02.12 Fixed: Menu background was drawn incorrectly with classic theme (64)
• 26.02.12 Fixed: Menu wasn't drawn disabled with classic theme when TC/Lister didn't have the focus (64)
• 26.02.12 Fixed: On some computers, changing themes causes problems with main menu bar (menu items have 0 width) -> try to call DrawMenuBar with a timer, also try normal width if theme width returns 0 (64)
• 26.02.12 Fixed: Inplace rename edit box in sync tool was using the wrong colors (instead, use standard window text and background) (32/64)

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Changes for v8.0 beta 20 - v8.0 beta 21

• bug fixes

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Changes for v8.0 Beta 15 - v8.0 Beta 16

• 13.01.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 16 (32/64)
• 13.01.12 Fixed: Alt+F1/F2 drive combobox: Don't use user-defined background color for closed combobox on Windows Vista/7 (64)
• 13.01.12 Fixed: Get symbolic link target: Support also links of type IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK, not only IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT (32/64)
• 12.01.12 Fixed: Directory lists with more than 65535 items could not be scrolled by dragging the scrollbar (32/64)
• 12.01.12 Added: Hints in multi-rename tool for options 1x and [E] (only shown when translation exists) (32/64)
• 12.01.12 Added: Allow to translate new media audio remote menu (32/64)
• 12.01.12 Fixed: Problem with focus following the mouse cursor in internal associations dialog -> use PostMessage for child dialog (64)
• 11.01.12 Added: Change attributes: F2 Load/Save combobox: Set width to longest string if more than combobox width (32/64)
• 11.01.12 Fixed: Quick view (Ctrl+Q) in temporary panel: Only reload preview if the link target actually changed (32/64)
• 11.01.12 Fixed: Could not scroll through dropdown combobox list with cursor keys if the list contained the same line twice - it always jumped back to the first of the two (64)
• 10.01.12 Fixed: Inplace rename: option "Select only the file name when renaming" still not working when user pressed ENTER to invoke it (e.g. command line, context menu or button bar with keyboard) (64)
• 10.01.12 Fixed: Create dir in ZIP: Cursor wasn't placed on directory when creating dir in right panel (32/64)
• 10.01.12 Fixed: Command line dropdown list did not use the correct colors when user defined different list color (Bug in Lazarus) (64)
• 10.01.12 Fixed: Command line dropdown list had only 8 visible entries instead of 20 (64)
• 10.01.12 Fixed: Moving cursor over current path with breadcrumb bar turned off could make font darker (due to font smoothing) (64)

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Changes for v8.0 beta 1 - v8.0 Beta 2

• 23.09.11 Fixed: Support translation of shortcuts in Lister main menu (64)
• 22.09.11 Fixed: Problem with FTP downloads causing strange crashes (64)
• 22.09.11 Fixed: Menu bar not drawn correctly by Lazarus if it had a left to right gradient (64)
• 22.09.11 Fixed: Editing the current path (by clicking behind it) resulted in an empty path field on some systems (64)
• 22.09.11 Fixed: Search function, tab "Load/Save" only supported English characters (64)
• 21.09.11 Fixed: Command line: Various hotkeys including Ctrl+K and ENTER not working (64)
• 21.09.11 Fixed: Selecting a file with space didn't update the footer (64)
• 21.09.11 Fixed: Lister: view large image with internal viewer, switch from full size to "fit to window" and back -> vertical scrollbar was missing (64)
• 21.09.11 Fixed: Background transfer manager: The speed limit wasn't loaded when the dialog was created (32/64)
• 21.09.11 Fixed: Dual screen, TC on secondary screen -> the overwrite confirmation dialog was shown on the primary screen (64)
• 21.09.11 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar dropdowns didn't have any border -> modify Lazarus component library (64)
• 21.09.11 Added: Search function: Save current search text before starting a search, so Lister plugins can access it (32/64)
• 21.09.11 Fixed: Splash screen: an additional icon appeared in the taskbar (64)
• 21.09.11 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Main window focus was lost, and additional icons appeared in the taskbar (64)
• 21.09.11 Fixed: Some controls were overlapping in main configuration dialog with Windows classic theme (64)
• 21.09.11 Fixed: Maximize main window, minimize to tray, click on tray icon -> window wasn't maximized any more (64)
• 21.09.11 Fixed: Some more shortcut keys on buttons were not working, e.g. in button bar change dialog (64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Screen update very slow while comparing by content (64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Beep sound when renaming file in place -> removed (64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Thumbs view: Alpha blending (transparency) not handled correctly, folders look ugly (64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Selection with mouse in brief view not working correctly, caret sometimes shown twice (64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Passive mode not working with IPv6 (PreferIPv6=1 in wincmd.ini) (64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Let Lazarus draw the main menu bar (64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Tree: [+] indicator too large when using Windows classic theme (32/64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Custom message box (e.g. when deleting read-only files): Shift+Cursor keys was not working (64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Selection wasn't removed when switching edit mode off (64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Could no longer select text with the mouse (32/64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Exceptions in external C/C++ dlls (e.g. when aborting RAR unpacking) cause TC to crash (Ctrl+C hit) due to bad exception handling in free pascal, see http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=17280 -> patch system.pp (64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Button [N#-#] did not work correctly, it always returned the entire range (64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: The sorting header did not have a separator line above it to the current path (64)
• 20.09.11 Fixed: Arrows in the sorting header (showing the sort direction) were not filled when using Windows classic theme (64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: After switching from full to brief view or back, some files could suddenly be selected (64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: Cursor shape changed to "Drop not allowed" when the mouse was moved just above the tabs (64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: Main and Lister window position were restored incorrectly when the Windows task bar was on the left side (64)
• 19.09.11 Added: Show version 8 in properties of installation auto-extractor and installer (32/64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: In some dialogs like the overwrite confirmation dialog, hotkeys for buttons were not working (64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: CRC check dialog: The button used to jump to the next/previous error wasn't moved when resizing the dialog (32/64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: Brief view: Name/Ext/.. headers not resized correctly when maximizing or restoring (64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: Program started without any tabs - mode with 2 panels above each other not restored (64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: noclose.exe/noclose64.exe wasn't included in the installer. It's used to open a command line program and keep the window open (Shift+ENTER) (32/64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: TC didn't start on Windows 9x/ME/2000 due to a missing function -> load it dynamically (32)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: Alt+F5 pack multiple dirs, each to a separate subdir -> two dots instead of one before extension (64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: FTP: All stored passwords not protected with a master password could not be loaded (64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: The title bar didn't show the "Beta" character in all languages (e.g. Russian) (32)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: Double click/press ENTER on file with internal association in an archive would open the file twice, both with the internal and the system association (32/64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: By default, look for tcmatch64.dll instead of tcmatch.dll (64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: FTPS: load libeay32.dll first, because it's used by the other OpenSSL dll -> makes sure the right dll is used (32/64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: x64: Look for ssl dlls in subdir "64" if they couldn't be loaded from TC directory (e.g. because the 32-bit dlls are there) (64)
• 19.09.11 Fixed: Crash verifying certain wincmd.key files (Reason: error porting assembler to 64-bit) (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Lister: Images not centered initially if larger than the screen (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Progress dialog (file operations): ENTER key sometimes triggered Abort instead of the focused button (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: English help file: Section about wincmd.ini was cut off (32/64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Self-extracting installer: Bad progress bar (due to bug in Lazarus str function) (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Lister: Scrollbars not working when viewing image files (32)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: File system, lister and content plugins: Plugin not loaded if the path contained an environment variable (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: With Windows basic theme (AeroGlass off), file tooltips were not completely removed if their height changed (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Buttonbar: When loading new bar with OPENBAR command, the window size wasn't adjusted if the bar height changed (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Buttonbar dropdown list: Menu breaks (continue menu at the top right) were not supported by Lazarus, added manually (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Buttonbar dropdown list: didn't receive WM_MEASUREITEM messages, so the lines would be too small (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Focus is lost for a short moment when closing the button bar configuration dialog (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Search using list file: Ignore empty lines in file, they were erroneously interpreted as the location of the list file (32/64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Dialog box font was only 2 pixel high when choosing a different charset in Configuration - Options - Fonts for dialog boxes (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Drive buttonbar: Clicking on "\" button (the one without icon) went to network neighborhood instead of going to the root (only when drive dropdown list was off) (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Ctrl+V in command line pasted the same string twice (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Command line didn't show up on cursor right or cursor left when it was hidden via configuration (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool / change attributes: F2 ENTER only closed the combobox, but didn't choose anything (64)
• 18.09.11 Fixed: Alt+F1 ENTER only closed the combobox, but didn't switch the drive (64)

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Changes for v7.57 - v7.57a

• Corrects bugs found after the release of TC 7.57

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Changes for v7.56a - v7.57

• This version corrects the most important errors found since the release of version 7.56a. Because the beta test takes longer, we will first release this version. It's also interesting for companies who have certified the use of the 7.5x version and do not want to switch to version 8 yet.

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Changes for v7.57 RC 1 - v7.57 RC 2

• This version corrects the most important errors found since the release of version 7.56a. Because the beta test takes longer, we will first release this version. It's also interesting for companies who have certified the use of the 7.5x version and do not want to switch to version 8 yet.

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Changes for v7.56 - v7.56a

• This version mainly corrects some errors which were found after the release of Total Commander 7.56. For example, sending files as attachements via context menu (Send to) no longer worked with Outlook 2003.

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Changes for v7.55a - v7.56

• Button bar right click menu: Option to run a program as administrator
• Find files: Keep last search results when using "Go to file" or "Cancel"
• Lister and Compare by content: Auto-detect UTF-8 files by their content

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Changes for v7.55 - v7.55a

• Total Commander 7.55a is now available for download. This version corrects errors which were found only after the release of Total Commander 7.55 final, mainly in the ftp function (infinite re-downloads in case of certain connection losses, XCRC problem with removed 0s), and various x64DisableRedirection problems. We recommend that you install the update as soon as possible.

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Changes for v7.55 RC 3 - v7.55

• Bug fixes from 7.50 RC3

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Changes for v7.55 RC 1 - v7.55 RC 2

• This is mainly a bugfix release.

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Changes for v7.55 Beta 3 - v7.55 RC 1

• Total Commander 7.55 release candidate 1 is available now! This is mainly a bugfix release, there are only minor new features like SHA256 checksum checking. See below (beta 1) for a list of new features in Total Commander 7.55).

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Changes for v7.55 Beta 2 - v7.55 Beta 3

• This is mainly a bugfix release, there are only minor new features like "Background" button in "Verify checksums".

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Changes for v7.55 Beta 1 - v7.55 Beta 2

• Total Commander 7.55 public beta 2 is available now! Please do not use it for every day work yet, only for testing! This is mainly a bugfix release, there are only minor new features like "paste" in the quick search dialog. See below (beta 1) for a list of new features in Total Commander 7.55).

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Changes for v7.50 - v7.55 Beta 1

• Use MLSD command for file listings in FTP function (better time resolution, time in UTC)
• Transfer files between two computers over a special USB cable
• Improvements to synchronize dirs function: Compare via plugins and FTP, options to skip hidden files and hard links, SITE UTIME in ftp sync
• Compare by content now shows different and changed lines with a slightly different background color (configurable via wincmd.ini)
• Unpack directory time stamps from archives
• Lister: Increased maximum line length to 1024 characters (Unicode: 512)

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Changes for v7.50 - v7.50a

• This version corrects errors which were found only after the release of Total Commander 7.50 final, mainly in the print function in Lister (for Unicode files), when unpacking certain encrypted zip files, and slow moving of directories within the same drive. We recommend that you install the update as soon as possible.

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Changes for v7.50 RC 2 - v7.50

• Full Unicode support in most functions where it is possible, including FTP, ZIP packer, and plugin interfaces
• Help file now by default in HTML format (CHM). The old HLP file is still available online
• Support for file names longer than 259 characters (up to 1022) in most file operations
• The current directory above the file lists can act as a clickable bar ("breadcrumb bar")
• Protect the stored ftp passwords with a master password using AES256 encryption
• Start Lister, compare by content or synchronize dirs directly via command line parameters
• Comments (Ctrl+Z) can now have a max. length of 4095 characters, and support line breaks
• Synchronize dirs: Option to synchronize also empty directories, option to copy just specific file properties (like the time)
• Allow to use the Windows key for user-defined hotkeys
• On 64-bit Windows, allow to use 64-bit shell extensions in local menu (context menu)
• Copy files/directories to multiple target directories (or lnk files pointing to directories) in one operation
• Quick search with search dialog: Show button which allows to show only files/dirs matching the filter
• Choose different character encodings in Lister, full support for right to left text
• New internal association system, e.g. for using Total Commander from a USB stick

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Changes for v7.50 RC 1 - v7.50 RC 2

• Bug fixes

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Changes for v7.50 Beta 5 - v7.50 Beta 6

• Bug fixes

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Changes for v7.50 Beta 4 - v7.50 Beta 5

• Fixed: Delete with option "All as admin", then "Skip all" when a file is locked -> empty dirs which could be deleted as admin were skipped too
• Fixed: Couldn't edit Unicode alias commands in Configuration - Options - Misc.
• Fixed: Not all comboboxes supported Unicode yet
• Fixed: Master password input dialog: Use ToUnicode() to support special Romanian characters (may cause different master password than in Beta 4 or older!)
• Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Saving the option "Only selected (in main window)" didn't work on Windows 9x/ME

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Changes for v7.50 Beta 2 - v7.50 Beta 3

• Mostly bug fixes

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Changes for v7.04a - v7.50 Beta 1

• Full Unicode support in most functions where it is possible, including FTP, ZIP packer, and plugin interfaces
• Support for file names longer than 259 characters (up to 1022) in most file operations
• Compare by content allows to compare text files of different type, e.g. Ansi and UTF-8
• The current directory above the file lists can act as a clickable bar ("breadcrumb bar")
• Option to show *.bar file in button bar as a popup menu instead of switching bars
• Show icons and subfolders in ftp connection dialog
• Protect the stored ftp passwords with a master password using AES256 encryption
• FTP, PORT mode: Allow to specify external IP address of the Internet router
• Start Lister, compare by content or synchronize dirs directly via command line parameters
• Comments (Ctrl+Z) can now have a max. length of 4095 characters, and support line breaks
• Synchronize dirs: Option to synchronize also empty directories, option to copy just specific file properties (like the time)
• Create CRC checksums now also supports the SHA1 hash format
• Allow to use the Windows key for user-defined hotkeys
• On 64-bit Windows, allow to use 64-bit shell extensions in local menu (context menu)
• New internal command cm_SwitchX64Redirection to turn redirection of system32 dir under 64-bit Windows on/off
• Internal unpacking of multi-part RAR archives, and RAR archives where the file names are encrypted
• Copy files/directories to multiple target directories (or lnk files pointing to directories) in one operation
• Quick search with search dialog: Show button which allows to show only files/dirs matching the filter
• Switch character encodings in Lister
• New internal association system, e.g. for using Total Commander from an USB stick

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Changes for v7.04 - v7.04a

• Corrects an error in the delete function: It could delete the file under the cursor instead of the selected files if the current directory was changed in the background while the delete confirmation dialog was up
• Corrects problems with unpacking multi-volume RAR files
• Corrects AES encryption on NT4
• Corrects an access violation when starting minimized to the system tray

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Changes for v7.03 - v7.04

• Support for ZIP encryption, both the old ZIP 2.0 method
• AES (advanced encryption standard) encryption
• Compatible with common zip packers
• Many small fixes and improvements to existing functions

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Changes for v7.02a - v7.03

• Bug fix release to version 7.02a, which fixes a few bugs found since last Autumn when Total Commander 7.02a was released

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Changes for v7.02 - v7.02a

• Fixes a few bugs only detected after the public release

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Changes for v7.01 - v7.02

• Fixes a few bugs only detected after the v7.01 public release
• Fixes a security hole in the FTP client

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Changes for v7.0 - v7.01

• Fixes a few bugs detected after the public release

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Changes for v7.0 RC 5 - v7.0

• Updated user interface: flat buttons also on XP, new file list icons, drive icons, and bar icons (by external designer), icons in the main menu (optional)
• Separate background color can be set for odd and even lines
• Compare by content now allows to edit files, and to re-synchronize manually
• Separate tree panel: Either one for both file panels, or one for each
• Lister now supports a text cursor, allows to center images, and resize only larger
• Change attributes allows to use/change content plugin values
• File operation logging
• Show drive letter in folder tabs
• File system plugins can now support custom columns and thumbnails
• Multi-rename-tool: Allow to edit target names
• More options in copy overwrite dialog: Compare by content, Rename target, automatic rename, copy all smaller or all larger
• Exclude directories in "Show"-"Custom...", e.g. with *.* | .cvs\
• Increased maximum command line length
• Sort by additional columns, e.g. by size, then by date/time: Ctrl+click on additional columns
• Auto-complete path in command line, current directory, copy dialog etc.
• Use Shift+Del to remove unwanted entries from various comboboxes: Command line, search function, multi-rename-tool etc.
• Secure FTP over SSL/TLS. Needs OpenSSL dlls from www.openssl.org.
• Custom user-defined commands for main menu and hotkeys
• Alias commands for the command line for internal commands or external programs
• Overwrite dialog allows to show preview images and custom fields
• When a copy/move/delete/create directory operation fails due to insufficient rights, ask user whether he wants to copy as administrator. Also allow a user to read from an inaccessible directory if he knows the administrator password.
• Search on FTP servers

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Changes for v7.0 RC 4 - v7.0 RC 5

• Bug fix release to RC 4

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Changes for v7.0 RC 3 - v7.0 RC 4

• Added: Multi-Rename Tool: Use standard menu key F10 to open Multi-Rename menu (menu button)
• Fixed: Blue screen crash trying to use the parallel port connection under Windows Vista

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Changes for v7.00 RC2 - v7.0 RC 3

• Fixes a new bug in RC2 concerning synchronization over ftp

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Changes for v7.0 Beta 4 - v7.0 RC 1

• Bug fixes

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Changes for v7.0 Public Beta 3 - v7.0 Beta 4

• Bug fix release

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Changes for v6.55a - v6.56

• Corrects a bug with re-packing of RAR files with an external packer which can cause data loss

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