START with defined folders: how to go back to START again?

[Fotis_Greece]

Go to "start" position, is it possible?

Hello dear friends,
I am using TC for quite a long now. I do have one question though.
I have configured TC to start with panels at selected certain folders. After doing my job and going to various other folders, is it possible to go back to start position with one click?
I currently exit and restart TC to achieve this.
Thank you

[sqa_wizard]

From the context menu of a tab select "Save tabs on both sides to file"
After this you have to create button with "OPENTABS <filename>"
With a click on this button you get back to start position.

[Stefan2]

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I have configured TC to start with panels at selected certain folders.
After doing my job and going to various other folders, is it possible to go back to start position with one click?

I currently exit and restart TC to achieve this.
Thank you

You can automate the restart a little bit by let a DOS batch do the work.

-- Save the code to the TC folder as "Restart.CMD"

-- Create a button
CMD="D:\rive\path to\Restart.CMD
or better "%Commander_Path%\sub folder if any\Restart.CMD"
PARAM=
ICON=WCMICONS.DLL

Click that button to restart TC.
You may have to set TC configuration to not save current open tabs.



Restart.CMD

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@ECHO OFF
REM Stefan 2016, Restart currently running TC
REM http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=47493
REM Call it from a TC button:
REM CMD="D:\rive\path to\this.cmd"
REM or better CMD="%Commander_Path%\sub folder if any\Restart.CMD"
REM PARAM=
REM ICON=WCMICONS.DLL
REM .........................................
REM COMMANDER_DRIVE=X:
REM COMMANDER_EXE  =X:\ToCo8\TOTALCMD.EXE
REM COMMANDER_INI  =X:\ToCo8\wincmd.ini
REM COMMANDER_INSTANCE=1
REM COMMANDER_PATH =X:\ToCo8

ECHO  Kill   %COMMANDER_EXE%
ECHO  EXE  : %COMMANDER_EXE%
ECHO  PATH : %COMMANDER_PATH%
REM Remove Com_Path from Com_Exe to get Exe-name only:
CALL SET TCExeName=%%Commander_EXE:%COMMANDER_PATH%\=%%
ECHO  myExe: %TCExeName%
ECHO.
ECHO.
ECHO Remove the line with PAUSE if you don't need THIS message.
ECHO Press Ctrl+C to cancel this script, or any key to restart TC...
ECHO.
PAUSE
TASKKILL /IM %TCExeName%
ECHO Launch %COMMANDER_EXE%
START "" %COMMANDER_EXE%
REM PAUSE

HTH?

[Horst.Epp]

From the context menu of a tab select "Save tabs on both sides to file"
After this you have to create button with "OPENTABS <filename>"
With a click on this button you get back to start position.

To make that even better add this 2 em_command to your usercmd.ini

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[em_savealltabs]
cmd=SAVETABS2L %COMMANDER_PATH%\SAVETABS2L.tab
menu=Save all tabs to file

[em_OpenSavedTabs]
cmd=OPENTABS %COMMANDER_PATH%\SAVETABS2L.tab
menu=Open tabs from file

Then you can add buttons or entries in your menu or assign hotkeys to it.
No need to enter filename or use the tab context menu

[Fotis_Greece]

From the context menu of a tab select "Save tabs on both sides to file"
After this you have to create button with "OPENTABS <filename>"
With a click on this button you get back to start position.

Thank you very much. That does the trick. It may sound silly but i was unaware of the tabs existence.
May I kindly ask, is it possible when pressing that button (which loads the mystart.tab as I have named) NOT to show the tabs actually? I have a rather small laptop screen and would like to keep it minimal.
Thanks in advance and best regards from Greece

[MVV]

If you save tabs when you have no tabs, TC will restore only panel paths, w/o tabs.

You can use e.g. SAVETABS2L <filename> command from buttonbar button in order to save paths w/o tabs, and of course you can edit saved file and remove extra tabs from it. The only thing to mention: if you save tabs while right panel is active, OPENTABS will flip panels.

[Fotis_Greece]

It is now perfect, thank all very much

[petermad]

2Fotis_Greece

If you don't use tabs then this button is easier to use:

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
cd C:\

%COMMANDER_EXE%,1
Go to Start
F:\

-1

Just replace C:\ and F:\ with the two start directories of you choice.

You can just copy the green code here above to Clipboard and then right click on TC's button bar and choose Paste - then the button will be made for you. Make sure you have the cursor in the left file panel when you press the button - otherwise the two directories wil be swapped.

[Fotis_Greece]

That is even easier, thank you very much Peter.