Total Commander

Good morning,

This morning when I started up my computer and TC I got a message that there was an update to RC5 for version 9.51. I immediately updated (from version 9.51 RC4) and when I restarted after that I found out that all my settings were gone. I was back to square one. I always keep copies of wincmd.ini, default.bar and default br2 files, so I thought to be able to fix the problem by overwriting these files in their respective directories (wincmd.ini in c:\windows, and default.bar and default.br2 in c:\Program Files\Total Commander\). Normally this works, but I now found out that nothing changed. What went wrong?

Thanks for any help.
regards,

WTKTJE
Dongen., Netherlands

What paths to your ini settings files Total Commander does show in "Help"->"About Total Commander..." ?
Will TC use your ini files at previous locations if to downgrade TC back to 9.51 RC4 (install as update over RC5 from
tc951x32_64_rc4.exe (32-bit + 64-bit versions), tc951x32_rc4.exe (32-it version) or tc951x64_rc4.exe (64-it version))

Drshark,

Thanks for your quick reply.

In RC4 the wincmd.ini file is located in C:\windows, as I expected.
In RC5 this file is renamed to WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini.

(screenshot of part of my About-box RC5)
Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i12u2gxk8kebmg1/Knipsel2.JPG?dl=0

screenshot of my C:\windows directory, with both my old (RC4) wincmd.ini and the new (RC5)-one:
Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6dionhuqfzmhl3c/Knipsel1.JPG?dl=0

I solved the problem by renaming the old RC4-wincmd.ini to WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini.

After restart RC5 reads my old RC4-settings in the renamed ini-file.

That's very strange. Could you please give me some additional information?
1. Your Windows version
2. Start regedit.exe and go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ghisler\Total Commander
then tell me the contents of these values:
iniFileName and ftpIniName

Ghisler,

Thank you for your time in this matter.

My windows version:
windows 10 pro, ver. 1909, build 18363.719
Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/43rv1i8l7ko4i0h/win10.JPG?dl=0

regedit:
iniFileName: wincmd.ini
ftpIniName: wcx_ftp.ini
Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0rmhxvu3voqg4yi/regedit.JPG?dl=0

my TC about screen:
Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ui8l2er0x42ln1a/TC_about.JPG?dl=0

Same problem here, had to change filenames in Windows directory..
But it seems "wtktje" has the file name 3 times (WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini), i got it only 2 times (WINCMD.INIwincmd.ini)

Windows 8.1 64bit

Windows directory
wcx_ftp.iniwcx_ftp.ini
WINCMD.INIwincmd.ini

regedit:
iniFileName: wincmd.ini
ftpIniName: wcx_ftp.ini

About screen
C:\Windows\WINCMD.INIwincmd.ini
C:\Windows\wcx_ftp.iniwcx_ftp.ini

EDIT: When i use the 32 bit version i also have the filename 3 times (WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini wcx_ftp.iniwcx_ftp.iniwcx_ftp.ini)

EDIT: When i use the 32 bit version i also have the filename 3 times (WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini wcx_ftp.iniwcx_ftp.iniwcx_ftp.ini)
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I use only the 64-bit version

Sorry for the troubles. The problem is that the ini file locations are stored without path in regedit:
iniFileName: wincmd.ini
ftpIniName: wcx_ftp.ini
As a quick fix, just change this to the real location, e.g.
iniFileName: c:\windows\wincmd.ini
ftpIniName: c:\windows\wcx_ftp.ini

TC was trying to convert inaccessible locations to 8.3 names, and this failed when no path was specified.

Christian,

That did almost do the trick. It worked only for the wcx_ftp.ini-file. After editing the regedit and restarting the PC, TC created again a WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini file in c:\windows. But the info in my aboutscreen shows the correct filenames: wincmd.ini and wcx_ftp.ini, both in c:\windows

Therefore I renamed WINCMD.INIwincmd.iniwincmd.ini in wincmd.ini and now it works again. Probably everything shall work after a clean install of TC instead of an upgrade.

Thanks for your help, and keep up the good work

For me it did the trick in one go.....Thanks

Restarting your PC is not necessary, just restarting Total Commander after the registry change is sufficient.

This should be fixed in RC6, please test it!