Total Commander extDir v1.8.3 - Extended directory & file creator

[MarcRené]

Most likely my fault, but I can't add new templates (neither in 1.8.0 nor in 1.8.1).
F7 - options - manage templates. Entering a template like "%Y-%N-%D %H-%M-%S" and a name, pressing "add", and "apply".
Result: Gone. nowhere to find...

[Bluestar]

2MarcRené
Thank you for your report - its not your fault, looks like to be a little bug about handling Templates because of the recent unicode conversion, sorry!
I just made a fix for it, which I'm gonna release soon along with some more updated languages.

[Bluestar]

Total Commander extDir v1.8.2

Bugfix release which fixes mostly unicode support-related problems, and also includes a bunch of updated languages. Enjoy!

Starting from the previous 1.7 version, extDir supports the (batch) creation of files as well.
( Important: You need to turn it ON in the configuration, if you'd like to use it to create files as well! )

Download | 28-02-2025 | MD5 (exe): 7451daeaa6b5d2b22e285ff4f65601f8

Changelog:

* New: Slovenian language support (translated by Jadran Rudec - thanks!)
* New: Updated Chinese language (thanks to efree)
* New: Updated Dutch language (thanks to Jaap Kramer)
* New: Updated Italian language (thanks to ErreGi)
* Change: some code refactor, detect it faster if the extDir was not being run from TC, and close accordingly
* Fixed: Manage Templates - failed to save new custom user template after apply (unicode-conversion related bug, introduced in 1.8.0)
* Fixed: creating directories with specific attributes (archive, read-only etc) was not working properly (unicode-conversion related bug)
* Fixed: after installation, extDir has always restarted the 32-bit version of TC (TOTALCMD.exe), even if the user was running the installer from the 64-bit version
* Fixed: Placeholders - the text of the error dialog to fill all placeholder might not be loaded properly
* Fixed: extDir was unable to open the Help file through popup or F1 keypress
* Fixed: some other minor, unicode-related fixes


All suggestions and feedback are welcome!
& waiting for translator's contributions regarding the update of other languages - thank you for your help.

Regards,
Bluestar

[Bluestar]

New hotfix version is out (1.8.3), contains fixes related to the installer & a fix for automatic detection of replacement characters in directory string (case sensitivity problem).

Download | 04-03-2025 | MD5 (exe): 47db61823a91c552fbbb6422b7173524

[Ceras]

Is there a way to fix initial run speed? extDir initial run takes 1 to 3 seconds.

[Bluestar]

2Ceras:
I'm gonna look into it, its surprising because it definitely supposed to be much faster than that.
On my PC it opens up in about 0.25 - 0.36 sec on first instance, second run is even faster.

One idea would be to try to put it on a SSD/M.2 if its not yet, and also worths to add it to Windows Defender ignore list, just in case it would try to scan it before run (especially because it doesn't have digital signature, so Windows can do extra checkups on it).

Win11 / i5-13600K [3500 MHz] / 32 GB RAM here, what OS/config ur trying it?
Also, can you please try a previous version to see if it was running faster or not? (i'm wondering, if the Unicode support might be a factor for a slow down on your machine?)

[ The version before the Unicode support (1.7.0) is available here: https://bluesoft.hu/software/tcextDir/Total_Commander_extDir_v1.7.0_utility.zip ]

Anyone else also experiencing slow opening on first run?