Back to home - bring TC after work back to an initial state

[Lemony]

After I used Total Commander to do some stuff I would like to clean things up. By cleaning things up I mean close all tabs and go back to a default view i.e. on the left and right pane show the "This PC" view.

How do I achieve this? Currently, I manually close all tabs and navigate to the place but I find this a bit cumbersome. Is there a quicker way to go back to "home"?

[Gral]

1. Save your desired clean state to TAB file - right click on tab - "Save tabs on both sides to file"
2. Make button with OPENTABS command and pathname of your TAB file as a parameter.
Done.
Use button to reload saved "clean" tabs.

[sqa_wizard]

The easiest way is to create the initial "home" status at TC.
- Then do a right mouse click on a tab
- Select entry "Save tabs on both sides to file"
- Save it to "%COMMANDER_PATH%\TABS\home.tab"

Next create a button (just copy below lines and paste it to your button bar):

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
OPENTABS %COMMANDER_PATH%\TABS\home.tab

wciconex.dll,83
Open clean TC

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A click on this button will restore the "home" setup next time

[funkymonk]

For a really cleaned up TC, I recommend to simply restart it.

This can be simplified with two user commands in usercmd.ini ...

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[em_NewAdminTC]
cmd=*%COMMANDER_EXE% /N
param=
menu=Open new instance of Total Commander as Admin
button=%COMMANDER_EXE%

[em_RestartTCAsAdmin]
cmd=em_NewAdminTC, cm_Exit
button=%COMMANDER_EXE%
menu=Restart Total Commander as Admin

... and a new keybinding in wincmd.ini ...

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[Shortcuts]
CS+L=em_RestartTCAsAdmin

Then, Ctrl+Shift+L will simply restart TC (start a new instance and end the old one). Of course, you can also create a button in the button bar.
If you don't want TC to restart in admin mode, just remove the * in em_NewAdminTC.

Hope this helps.

BR
funkymonk.

[Lemony]

Thank you for the responses, I went with the button and the home tabs. Which is great and works as expected.

I also tried to set the /L= and /R= command line parameters to "\\This PC\" such that when I open Total Commander, I have the tabs they way I want them. When I do this however, I get the error "Drive not found!". Do you know why that is the case as the path to the home directory works as expected with the button?

[petermad]

2Lemony

I also tried to set the /L= and /R= command line parameters to "\\This PC\"

TC does not support paths to virtual folders like "\\This PC\" in command line and in command fields for buttons and em_commands

You can try to replace \\This PC\ with ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

[Lemony]

Cool this works, thanks a lot. I tried it already before because I saw it in the saved tabs folder but I didn't add the two :: in front and then it didn't work as expected but with the dots everything works like a charm.