List of changes (version 11.01 - 11.02)

List of changes (version 11.01 - 11.02) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 11.01 until the release of version 11.02. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.

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List of changes (version 11.01 - 11.02)

(09.11.23) Release Total Commander 11.02 official release

• (09.11.23) Fixed: Button bar: Overlays for .bar dropdown and paused cm_SynchangeDir too low in classic theme with "XP style" checked. Also move 1 pixel higher on buttons >=30x30 (32/64)
• (08.11.23) Fixed: Button bar: Overlays for .bar dropdown and paused cm_SynchangeDir too big on larger buttons >40x40, use new medium sized icon for 48x48 and largest only for 64x64 (32/64)
• (07.11.23) Fixed: New zip packer with libdeflate: Update progress bars more often when packing smaller files (32/64)

(06.11.23) Release Total Commander 11.02 release candidate 6

• (06.11.23) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Double clicking on "Abort" button during compare phase now tries to close the synchronize dialog as quickly as possible (32/64)
• (06.11.23) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Use same buffer size (128k) as in "Compare by content" for faster file comparison (32/64)
• (06.11.23) Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir: When using InactiveFocus, two items may have the inactive focus in the target panel (the correct one plus "..") (32/64)
• (06.11.23) Fixed: Couldn't use backspace to go up one level to the desktop from virtual folder reached via cd ::{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103} (32/64)
• (06.11.23) Fixed: unrar*.dll 6.24.0 was replacing any file system links within the target path with directories. Included new dll provided by RAR author (32/64)
• (05.11.23) Fixed: Synchronize dirs, multi-rename tool: The tab positions were always written to the settings file even if they didn't change (32/64)
• (05.11.23) Fixed: Background transfer manager: Couldn't invoke system menu with Alt+Space (32/64)
• (03.11.23) Fixed: When packing with cm_PackFiles with parameters, the extension of the file to be packed wasn't remembered, so packing to .ext.gz didn't work (32/64)
• (01.11.23) Fixed: Button bar: Changed back to smaller .bar dropdown overlay and cm_SyncChangeDir paused overlay for button size 24 (larger from 25) (32/64)
• (31.10.23) Fixed: Don't change ShrinkBitmap in wincmd.ini when a plugin sends WM_COMMAND with option itm_fit to Lister when already zoomed (32/64)
• (30.10.23) Fixed: Commands - Volume label: Disable OK button while asking for administrative rights (32/64)

(30.10.23) Release Total Commander 11.02 release candidate 5

• (30.10.23) Fixed: Button bar: Draw larger .bar dropdown overlay and synchangedir paused overlay already for button size 24 (and even larger for size 40) (32/64)
• (29.10.23) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: When loading previously saved settings, remove any exclamation marks from buttons "duplicates" and "singles" (32/64)
• (27.10.23) Fixed: Dark mode, quick search with search dialog: Label "Search" had wrong size when using a custom DPI value in Configuration - Options - Font (64)
• (27.10.23) Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir: In button bar, show tiny "pause" overlay in bottom right instead of big yellow "pause" overlay while the function is suspended (SyncChangeDirMode=5) (32/64)
• (26.10.23) Fixed: Unrar.dll 7.0 beta was crashing when called from Total Commander (because it was using uninitialized fields in RARHeaderDataEx) (32/64)
• (26.10.23) Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir: Going up one level with backspace with SyncChangeDirMode=1 or 3 didn't keep the function enabled (32/64)
• (26.10.23) Fixed: Commands - Volume label: Disable Cancel button while asking for administrative rights (32/64)
• (26.10.23) Fixed: Compare by content, previous difference within a line (Shift+F2): Don't repeat beep for 1 second when nothing is found, otherwise no beep may be played at all (32/64)

(25.10.23) Release Total Commander 11.02 release candidate 4

• (24.10.23) Added: cm_SyncChangeDir: In button bar, show yellow pause icon overlayed over button while the function is suspended (32/64)
• (24.10.23) Added: cm_SyncChangeDir: Going up one level is now handled in a similar way to going down: If the names of the left and right directories are different, the function gets turned off or suspended just like when the clicked subdirectory doesn't exist on the other side (32/64)
• (22.10.23) Fixed: Compare by content, find next/previous difference: Didn't find missing lines on one side where there is a line on the other when the cursor was directly before that line (32/64)
• (20.10.23) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Right clicking on a line after clicking on an arrow button would sometimes show the wrong option on which side to delete files (64)
• (20.10.23) Fixed: Get directory sizes didn't work correctly on Windows 9x/ME (no recursion into subdirectories) (32)
• (20.10.23) Fixed: Drive bar, flat icons disabled, dark mode, while drive dropdown list disabled: The panel border for the label, free and total space could extend beyond the maximum width (32/64)
• (20.10.23) Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir: The function was getting enabled by mistake when entering an archive within an archive with SyncChangeDirMode=1 (or 2 or 4 added to it) (32/64)

(18.10.23) Release Total Commander 11.02 release candidate 3

• (18.10.23) Fixed: Quick view panel (Ctrl+Q): Pressing "Q" didn't correctly close the viewer (32/64)
• (18.10.23) Fixed: Thumbnail view: Better strategy to purge thumbnails when the memory limit is exceeded (32/64)
• (17.10.23) Fixed: Thumbnail view: Ignore the value of ThumbnailMemoryLimit on NT based systems. Instead use new value ThumbnailSizeLimit, which limits the size (in Megabytes) the thumbnails are allowed to take (min 1 MB, max 1 GB, limited to max 10% of physical memory) (32/64)
• (17.10.23) Fixed: Thumbnail view: Cache thumbnails in main memory instead of GDI objects, so we can cache far more than the maximum 10000 possible GDI objects per program (32/64)
• (16.10.23) Fixed: Command line: cd drive:\path\file.docx always opened file as zip if the active panel already showed the content of an archive (32/64)
• (16.10.23) Fixed: Find files: when invoked via LOADSEARCH=Saved_search, start the search only after the search window is fully visible to avoid crash after additional searches (32/64)
• (16.10.23) Fixed: Thumbnail view: Cached thumbnail limit wasn't correctly enforced, so TC could run out of GDI objects or memory (32/64)
• (15.10.23) Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir: Also handle SyncChangeDirMode values 1 and 4 when entering and leaving archives (32/64)
• (15.10.23) Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir: No warning when trying to enter an archive which didn't exist on the other side when using SyncChangeDirMode=2 (the default) (32/64)
• (13.10.23) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] CompareSkipLineNumbers=1 skips all digits at the start of a line until the first non-digit (32/64)
• (13.10.23) Fixed: Compare by content, find next/previous difference: Don't repeat beep for 1 second when nothing is found, otherwise no beep may be played at all (32/64)
• (13.10.23) Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir, SyncChangeDirMode with 4 added: Backspace or click on ".." button wasn't treated the same as double clicking on [..] in the file list (32/64)
• (13.10.23) Fixed: Get directory sizes or load thumbnails in very large directories: Use own message queue to avoid errors when Windows message queue gets full (32/64)
• (12.10.23) Fixed: Dialog box to choose commands (e.g. opened with cm_CommandBrowser): On the usercmd.ini page, clicking Rename/Copy didn't preserve lines longer than 259 characters (32/64)
• (12.10.23) Fixed: Getting the folder size with SPACEBAR stopped working (32/64)

(11.10.23) Release Total Commander 11.02 release candidate 2

• (11.10.23) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Clear selection when clicking on one of the buttons <- = =/= -> duplicates singles, otherwise Windows sometimes reports items as selected when they aren't (32/64)
• (11.10.23) Fixed: Thumbnail view: Memory leak in internal thumbnail load function from JPG thumbnails (32/64)
• (10.10.23) Fixed: Thumbnail view: Faster loading of many thumbnails with complex Unicode names: the rendering speed of the fonts was the slowing factor because the entire line was redrawn when a single thumbnail was updated (32/64)
• (10.10.23) Added: CtrlArrowOpenArchive: Add 8 to take PreferOpenTypes value into account (only relevant if 1 is set too) (32/64)
• (10.10.23) Added: SyncChangeDirMode: Add 4 to suspend going up one level when going down into a directory only existing on one side. Resume when going back to base dir, or using a bookmark, button etc. to go elsewhere (32/64)
• (09.10.23) Fixed: Thumbnails view: Dynamically increase number of images in cache when there are more images shown than cached (32/64)
• (09.10.23) Fixed: Compare by content, edit text, find next/previous difference within a line with F2/Shift+F2: Don't move caret when there aren't any more matches (32/64)
• (09.10.23) Fixed: Pack files (Alt+F5): * must be allowed in names when using option "Create separate archives, one per selected file/dir" (32/64)
• (08.10.23) Fixed: Synchronize dirs: While paused, pressing Alt+F4 or clicking on the "X" button didn't abort the comparison, only ESC worked (32/64)
• (08.10.23) Fixed: Dark mode, Synchronize dirs: The "Synchronize" button didn't change to "Pause" when starting the comparison (64)
• (08.10.23) Fixed: Executables totalcmd.exe and totalcmd64.exe had wrong product version (32/64)
• (06.10.23) Fixed: Change attributes: Field tc - comment didn't support setting Unicode comment via >> button (32/64)
• (06.10.23) Fixed: User-defined hotkeys: Handle hotkeys Enter, Tab, Space or Insert in the command line and drive comboboxes as if they were not redefined (64)

(05.10.23) Release Total Commander 11.02 release candidate 1

• (05.10.23) Fixed: Updated unrar.dll, unrar64.dll and unrar9x.dll (compiled by us for Windows 9x/ME) to latest version 6.24.0 (32/64)
• (05.10.23) Added: cm_SyncChangeDir: New option in wincmd.ini [Configuration] SyncChangeDirMode=2 0: turn off mode when no dir with same name in other panel, 1: don't turn off, add 2 to warn on first try to enter dir (32/64)
• (05.10.23) Added: Synchronize dirs: Change "Synchronize..." button to "Pause" while comparing, "Start" while paused (32/64)
• (04.10.23) Added: New file (Shift+F4), New Folder (F7), Pack files (Alt+F5): Warn user when file name contains invalid character ?*|:<> and offer to change it to an underscore (32/64)
• (03.10.23) Fixed: Create checksums: No error was shown when the checksum file couldn't be written because the disk was full (32/64)
• (03.10.23) Fixed: Compare by content: The 3 buttons "Find", "Find next" and "Vertical arrangement" had no icons for the disabled state, especially problematic in 32-bit where no replacement was created (32/64)
• (03.10.23) Fixed: cd path: Don't use shell:::{ prefix in commands when the path contains ?\usb somewhere (32)
• (03.10.23) Fixed: When deleting a nested folder like a/b/c/d failed, TC asked for each parent whether it should retry to delete it (32/64)
• (28.09.23) Fixed: FTP connect dialog (Ctrl+F): In dark mode, pressing Enter on a folder showed an extra non-dark mode dialog (32/64)
• (28.09.23) Fixed: FTP connect dialog (Ctrl+F): Couldn't create new folder when there were no other entries (64)
• (28.09.23) Fixed: FTP connect dialog (Ctrl+F): No drag cursor shown when dragging connection to folder (64)
• (25.09.23) Added: wincmd.ini [Packer] ZipTestWarnExplorer=0 turns off warning when testing archives that a file can't be unpacked by Windows Explorer due to a bug in Explorer when standard DEFLATE method had been used packing the archive (32/64)
• (25.09.23) Added: Menu Files - Test archives: Show warning when a ZIP file (created by the new libdeflate) can't be unpacked by Windows Explorer due to an Explorer bug (32/64)
• (21.09.23) Fixed: Dark mode, compare by content: Clicking on the "Sync" button and choosing a different sync method turned the button white (32/64)
• (21.09.23) Fixed: Internal commands: Parameters %A1, %A2 etc. incorrectly handled substring fields like %A1:~1,-1 (32/64)
• (18.09.23) Fixed: Some redefined hotkeys like Alt+F7 didn't work while the command line history (Alt+F8) was up (64)
• (15.09.23) Fixed: Dark mode, synchronize dirs: Aborting a comparison with ESC turned the abort button white for a short moment due to delayed refresh after changing the button text (32/64)
• (15.09.23) Fixed: The internal 7zip unpacker couldn't open and unpack multi-part 7zip archives larger than about 250 MB (64)
• (13.09.23) Fixed: Change attributes: Field tc - comment didn't support setting Unicode comment (different codepage) (32/64)
• (13.09.23) Fixed: Plugin icons in the right panel were not always loaded (32/64)
• (12.09.23) Fixed: FTP: ESC didn't work twice in connect dialog, e.g. when both LIST/MLSD and PASV hang, so the user has to cancel twice (32/64)
• (12.09.23) Fixed: Thumbnail view: Deleting 6 or more images at a time stopped the loading of thumbnails (32/64)
• (12.09.23) Fixed: cm_RightViewModeList didn't support parameter 0 (default) and view mode names as cm_LeftViewModeList (32/64)
• (11.09.23) Fixed: Access violation when trying to use a plugin in a read only directory (e.g. under "Program Files") when the profile directory is not accessible (32/64)
• (11.09.23) Fixed: cd *.ext or cd c:\path\*.ext didn't work in command line, or when combining multiple commands in button bar (where the path must be put in double quotes) (32/64)
• (11.09.23) Fixed: Button bar: cd path\office_document now behaves the same as in command line (takes CtrlArrowOpenArchive into account), usually places cursor on file instead of opening it as an archive. Append backslash to open as archive (32/64)
• (10.09.23) Fixed: In rare cases, the Windows 7/8/10/11 Explorer couldn't unpack ZIP archives created with the new libdeflate dll, although all other packers including Windows XP Explorer, pkzip, winzip, winrar and 7zip could (32/64)
• (10.09.23) Fixed: Dropping an URL on a file panel (e.g. from a Web browser) with Shift pressed to download only worked with http URLs, not with https (32/64)
• (10.09.23) Fixed: Dark mode: Checkboxes which were not part of a group box were always shown with underlined hotkeys, e.g. in Configuration - Options - History (32)
• (10.09.23) Fixed: Dark mode: Opening the dark mode replacement of the standard message box with Shift+Enter (e.g. menu Help - About) would immediately close the dialog (32/64)
• (10.09.23) Fixed: Tab order wrong in expanded F5 copy dialog and Create shortcut dialog (32/64)
• (10.09.23) Fixed: Create shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+F5): Wrong tab order of "Options" button (32/64)
• (08.09.23) Fixed: Many user-defined hotkeys were restricted to work only in the two file panels, e.g. Ctrl+Alt+Home (changed after 10.52) (32/64)