List of changes (version 6.51 - 6.52)

List of changes (version 6.51 - 6.52) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 6.51 until the release of version 6.52. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.

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List of changes (version 6.51 - 6.52)

(30.04.05) Release Total Commander 6.52

• (30.04.05) Fixed: Could not view 2 identically named files on remote ftp with external viewer

(29.04.05) Release Total Commander 6.52 Release Candidate 2

• (29.04.05) Fixed: Search in content plugins not working if type of value different from type of variable, e.g. floating instead of integer. Now integer and floating values are interchangeable
• (29.04.05) Fixed: Right click on current path - New - xyz file: In addition to Documents and settings, look in Windows\ShellNew for template files (some Microsoft programs seem to use this location)
• (29.04.05) Fixed: Netware version: Ctrl+Shift+F5 dialog: Remove netware copy options, they are irrelevant for creating shortcuts
• (29.04.05) Fixed: Create CRC checksums: files were created in the target instead of the source when specifying no target path and the last directory change was on the target side

(27.04.05) Release Total Commander 6.52 Release Candidate 1

• (24.04.05) Fixed: Default string in delayed/on demand fields not shown in first custom column

(21.04.05) Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 3

• (21.04.05) Fixed: Pack multiple files to zip:"*.*.zip" deleted the first character of each name (correct syntax would have been zip:*.*.zip without the double quotes anyway)
• (21.04.05) Fixed: Command line command del /q /s *.tmp deleted all files. Reason: TC tries to insert current path to avoid that the wrong dir is deleted if there is a .pif file for command.com with a default dir
• (21.04.05) Fixed: Right-aligned custom columns not shown correctly on some systems (because of addition of TABs)
• (21.04.05) Added: Korean is now included as a default language due to the increased number of registrations from Korea
• (17.04.05) Fixed: Changing sort order while in tree view changed the sort order for full and brief view without changing the sort indicator arrows
• (17.04.05) Added: cm_SwitchWatchDirs command to turn off (and back on) watching of directory changes with the wincmd.ini option WatchDirs=
• (17.04.05) Fixed: Don't show hidden/system files with WatchDirs option when the display of hidden/system files is disabled in the configuration
• (16.04.05) Fixed: Sometimes there was an access violation when closing TC while in a rapidly changing dir with WatchDirs enabled
• (16.04.05) Fixed: With Watchdirs option 8 added, Watchdirs sometimes stopped working until the next dir change

(13.04.05) Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 2

• (13.04.05) Added: Support gzip archives >4GB, both creation and extraction
• (13.04.05) Added: When restarting Total Commander, and the current path is replaced (e.g. via the command line), then add the previous path to the history
• (12.04.05) Fixed: Memory leak in Netware function to copy trustees (Netware version only)
• (12.04.05) Fixed: Removed code which sets directory attributes to 0 after creation - this is already done automatically by all 32-bit operating systems!
• (11.04.05) Added: New wincmd.ini section: WatchDirsExclude= (defaults to empty string): set drives which should be excluded from WatchDirs directory monitoring
• (11.04.05) Added: New wincmd.ini section: noreread2= (which defaults to the content of noreread=): set drives which should not be remembered when restarting TC. Until now, this was part of noreread= See example in help.
• (11.04.05) Fixed: Tabs in content plugin strings should now be shown correctly in custom columns view
• (11.04.05) Fixed: Turn off watchdirs between copy dialog and progress dialog to avoid error that directory contents have changed
• (11.04.05) Fixed: Lister now shows "access denied" instead of "file not found" if there is a sharing violation accessing a file (e.g. it's opened in a different program)
• (10.04.05) Fixed: Reset directory checksum after receiving a directory change notification - will cause TC to always reread the directory on F2 or when switching back to it
• (10.04.05) Fixed: USB stick copy option turned off - not saved permanently
• (08.04.05) Fixed: Don't count dir content of target of a junction when deleting the junction
• (08.04.05) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Sync with ftp could cause access violation if path longer than 259 characters
• (08.04.05) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: return to root not working when syncing with ftp root
• (08.04.05) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Compare two files by content didn't work with files in ftp subdirs
• (07.04.05) Fixed: TC uses 100% CPU when WatchDirs option enabled, and trying to access dir which cannot be monitored, e.g. a Win9x share

(06.04.05) Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 1

• (06.04.05) Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration], WatchDirs= determines operation of automatic dir updates: 1: turn option on, 2: detect changes to size, date, attributes, 4: put newly added files at the END, 8: don't react to updates while TC isn't in the foreground
• (06.04.05) Fixed: WinXP: Playing a CD with F3 didn't stop when closing lister
• (06.04.05) Fixed: Could no longer access "tar" archives after associating extension "ar" with any packer plugin ("tar" was interpreted as "tar.ar")
• (06.04.05) Fixed: 16-bit version: Invalid time stamp written to .tar files
• (05.04.05) Added: Watch changes of directories, and update them immediately on changes (using ReadDirectoryChangesW function). Requires Windows NT, 2000 or XP
• (03.04.05) Added: Support for BSD-style MD5 checksum files, e.g. MD5 (./subdir/somefile.ext) = e573fe599272957b234dba19e41237a1
• (03.04.05) Fixed: Lister: When playing multimedia via built-in media player plugin, allow to use hotkeys like pageup/pagedown/home/end even if the scrollbar doesn't have the focus
• (01.04.05) Fixed: Custom columns view with horizontal scrollbar: When using a rectangle as cursor, don't draw right line unless scrolled to the end of the row (otherwise drawing artifacts will result)
• (01.04.05) Fixed: ftp ctrl+left or right tries to open directory with two consecutive slashes, e.g. /subdir//subdirundercursor
• (30.03.05) Added: Experimental IPv6 http support (both proxy-ftp and http downloads).
• (30.03.05) Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also copies thumbnails with files (if enabled in configuration - thumbnails)
• (30.03.05) Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also allows to copy NTFS permissions (checkbox in copy dialog)
• (30.03.05) Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also removes the "read only" attribute when copying from CD
• (30.03.05) Fixed: Access violation trying to download a file from FTP via HTTP when the local path became longer than 259 characters
• (30.03.05) Fixed: Browsing of network paths not working correctly when double clicking on "share x on server y" in nethood
• (30.03.05) Added: Experimental IPv6 ftp support. To use it, add to wcx_ftp.ini section [General], PreferIPv6=1 if you want to prefer IPv6 for servers which support both IPv4 and IPv6, or PreferIPv6=0 to prefer IPv4 (default=-1: IPv6 off)
• (22.03.05) Fixed: Alt+F1 Alt+F7 opened search window with only the height of the title bar if the window was maximized
• (22.03.05) Added: Compare by content (in main window) now also works with FTP
• (22.03.05) Added: Synchronize dirs: Compare by content of single files (double click on file pair) now also works with FTP and file system plugins
• (22.03.05) Added: Synchronize dirs: When creating dirs during copying, also copy dir time stamp (if configured), NTFS permissions, and Netware trustees (Netware version only). The dir timestamp is NOT copied (NTFS changes it when copying files to the dir).
• (20.03.05) Fixed: Unicode search for whole words not working properly in lister and search
• (20.03.05) Fixed: Unicode case-insensitive search not working properly for encodings other than latin-1 (English, German etc.)
• (20.03.05) Fixed: Lister: Selecting text in Unicode mode in the first line of a file selected displaced by 1 character
• (18.03.05) Fixed: FTP templates dialog: switch back to "Courier New" when loading the dialog even if the user has changed the default dialog font. Otherwise it's quite impossible to create detect strings.
• (18.03.05) Fixed: FTP over HTTP: First item in list not always shown if <PRE> formatting was used without a <br> or <p> in front of it
• (18.03.05) Fixed: FTP not always working correctly if the user name had the form user@host
• (18.03.05) Added: Multi-rename tool: Two new rename strings [N2--5] means the second character until the fifth-last. [N-5-] means the 5fth-last until the end of the name
• (16.03.05) Fixed: Better caching of item idlists on network shares should speed up browsing network paths
• (16.03.05) Fixed: Drawing of XP themed speed buttons and bit buttons (e.g. in Compare by contents): Erase background before drawing button, draw highlight of bit buttons
• (16.03.05) Fixed: Compare by contents: Removed WS_BORDER style, looks ugly (on WinXP only)
• (16.03.05) Fixed: Compare by contents: moved listboxes down 2 pixels to avoid overlapping of checkboxes under XP
• (16.03.05) Fixed: XP listbox bug: In synchronize dirs, clicking or double clicking below last listbox item affected the last item in the list
• (15.03.05) Fixed: Multi-rename tool: access violation after renaming when sorting by extension needed
• (15.03.05) Fixed: Unpacking single archive containing " -" with option "unpack to separate subdirs" didn't work correctly (" -" was interpreted as command line parameter)
• (13.03.05) Added: Auto-detect USB sticks and use compatibility mode to copy to them (can be disabled in configuration - copy/delete). Reason: USB sticks have no write cache on WinXP.
• (13.03.05) Fixed: Some TC functions not working properly if the TEMP variable pointed to the root of a drive WITHOUT a trailing backslash, e.g. TEMP=f:
• (11.03.05) Added: Decoding MIME-encoded files: Accept file names in the form =?ISO-8859-1?Q?filename.ext?= (see RFC2047)
• (11.03.05) Added: Ftp over http proxy: upload entire dir trees, also to non-existing subdirs (proxy needs to support uploading of files to not yet existing subdirs)
• (11.03.05) Fixed: Lister html viewer: show &lsquo and &rsquo as normal single quote characters: '
• (11.03.05) Fixed: On WinXP, CopyFileEx (compatibility mode) couldn't copy encrypted files if the destination couldn't be encrypted
• (09.03.05) Fixed: Slow access to network admin shares like \\server\d$ because TC tried to get attributes/time stamp of \\server\d$ directory itself, which caused Windows to access \\server\d instead 8without the $)
• (08.03.05) Added: If ZIP encryption dll is installed, also allow to encrypt with external RAR, ACE, ARJ, ZIP
• (08.03.05) Added: Quick search: Letters only with no search dialog now also supports the * wildcard
• (08.03.05) Fixed: Top file list at wrong position with the following settings: vertical arrangement, always show dir tabs, drive bar, not drive dropdown list
• (03.03.05) Fixed: Regular expression search in text: $ or \b at end of search string sometimes matched strings in the middle of a file, when the match was at the end of the search buffer
• (01.03.05) Fixed: Speed limit for FTP and HTTP not working properly for high bit rates
• (01.03.05) Fixed: Could not switch through custom column views with cm_SrcNextCustomView etc. if the view had no additional columns defined
• (01.03.05) Added: Middle click on drive button in drive button bar opens drive in new tab
• (27.02.05) Added: Lister and Compare by Content now display tab characters correctly in Unicode mode (only on Windows NT/2000/XP, function is missing on Win9x)
• (27.02.05) Added: Path above file lists: Accept also forward slashes, e.g. //server/share (auto-convert to backslashes)
• (25.02.05) Added: Synchronize dirs now also supports unicode names (normal files only, no archives, ftp or plugins)
• (25.02.05) Fixed: Synchronize dirs with zip-subdirs: using the wildcards selection box in the middle didn't find files by name (e.g. a*.*) when in subdirs, by extension worked fine
• (24.02.05) Fixed: Unpacking of files >2GB and <4GB from ZIP archives (>4GB already worked)
• (24.02.05) Added: Unpacking of ZIP archives >4GB
• (23.02.05) Fixed: Custom columns: tc.comment field wasn't refreshed if shown in the same column as a delayed field like shelldetails.comment
• (23.02.05) Fixed: F3 on file when path not accessible -> wait cursor shown
• (23.02.05) Added: Plugin columns with string content now also use the sort method defined via SortUpper= in wincmd.ini
• (23.02.05) Fixed: EXE icons initially didn't show up if share_nt.exe wasn't found
• (23.02.05) Added: Calculate occupied space (also before copying) now also supports Unicode file names+dirs, as long as they have a valid alternate DOS name
• (23.02.05) Added: Change attributes now also works with Unicode file names+dirs, as long as they have a valid alternate DOS name
• (23.02.05) Fixed: Alt+F1 while quick view is open on the desktop -> drive dropdown list opens and quickly closes again
• (23.02.05) Fixed: FTP: CDUP command on command line didn't refresh the current dir and directory listing
• (23.02.05) Fixed: CRC check: support file names starting with a space, or multiple spaces
• (23.02.05) Added: wcx_ftp.ini, [General], GetModeFromLocalFile=1 : The name of the local file determines the transfer mode (binary, text) in automatic mode (normally: the name of the remote file)
• (23.02.05) Fixed: Multi-Rename-Tool: "Load results" button didn't take content plugins into account
• (23.02.05) Added: New function ContentPluginUnloading in content plugin interface
• (23.02.05) Fixed: Content plugin returning different type on extraction than when loading -> crash in search function. Solution: Ignore such values in search (TC reports content plugin interface version >=1.3)
• (23.02.05) Fixed: Duplicate hotkey Alt+P in multi-rename tool
• (23.02.05) Fixed: Search - feed to listbox - lock tab - double click on directory -> search result was lost
• (23.02.05) Added: Drag&Drop to external programs now also works when using Alt+Tab instead of moving the cursor out of the program window
• (23.02.05) Fixed: Some functions didn't function correctly if the TEMP environment variable contained / instead of \, e.g. c:/temp instead of c:\temp
• (23.02.05) Fixed: Viewing files with Alt+F3 no longer working after "feed to listbox"
• (23.02.05) Fixed: Custom columns appeared to be sorted by non-existing column when sorting by the last column and then deleting that column
• (22.02.05) Fixed: Double click on configuration in custom columns dialog -> after closing the dialog, Drag&Drop of items was active
• (22.02.05) Fixed: LOAD-SAVE panel in FIND FILES not always refreshed correctly (when saving with name which is part of another existing name)
• (22.02.05) Fixed: Changed quick search cursor color back to what it was in TC 6.50, because the cursor became almost invisible with some configurations
• (22.02.05) Tested:Shell overlay icons definitely do NOT work on WinNT4 even with IE6, IShellIconOverlay interface is NOT available
• (22.02.05) Fixed: Synchronize dirs of 2 archives, deleting file via right click menu sometimes deleted file from the wrong archive