Total Commander - a program that makes working with your documents simple and convenient. When you load it, you will see a window divided into two fields. You can select the file you want to open in any of the parts; then you need to click on the name of the desired disk at the top and folders will open under it. Then click on the line with the file.
Working with files in Total Commander
If you want to copy a file, in one part of the window, go through the process of opening the folder in which it is located, and in the other part - the folder into which you want to copy it. Then drag with the left mouse button this file from the first window to the second. Also you can apply a button click F5 (copying).
If you want to go through the process of selecting several files in a row, hold down the key with the name Shiftwhile clicking on the line with the first file and then the last. If the files are not arranged in a row, but randomly, you need to also hold down the keys Ctrl + a, click on each one.
To rename a file, use the left mouse button to click on it and at the bottom - the "rename" button or press the buttons together Ctrl + F6... After that, you need to enter a new one.
In order to view the file without opening it, you need to press the F3 key, and to delete the file - the F8 key.
Total Commander navigation
The navigation system of this program is easy and convenient. To go to the root of the disk, press the corresponding button in upper area panels. The disc position is changed by pressing the buttons Alt + F1 (left panel) and Alt + F2 (right).
To go to the level higher on the first line "..." you need to click on Enter or double click.
In this program, you can change the existing interface settings, for which you need to go through Configuration to point Customization... For example, you can set up a call context menu through right button mouse. Also there you can interface, window decoration, change button types, etc.
Thus, working with this program is very easy and simple. Using its capabilities can speed up your interactions with.
Many people use the program Total commander... However, not many people know about its capabilities. In this article I will try to reveal some of the search capabilities in the Total commander. One of these capabilities of Total commander is a different search: quick search, find files, duplicate files, empty folders.
Search functions allow us to significantly reduce the time to find the file we need. Especially when we do not remember its exact name or the folder in which the file was saved. And this time Total commander will please us with the opportunity quick search Your files or directories.
So let's take a closer look at each of the search options.
Search options
1.
Quick search
You can quickly search for files in the current directory by pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + S... In the window that opens, you must enter the first letter of the file or directory that we want to find. Files or directories corresponding to the selection criteria will be displayed in the explorer window. In order to see all files in the explorer without leaving the search mode, you must press Ctrl + S.
2.
Find files
Using this command, you can find files by the specified parameters. To do this, open the search box with one of the available ways:
Menu - Tools - File Search or press the keyboard shortcut Alt + F7.
In the window that opens, the following tabs will be available: Common parameters, Advanced, Plugins, Search Templates. To switch between tabs, you need to press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + PageDown (next tab) and Ctrl + PageUp (previous tab). To start the search, you need to click Start Search. To stop searching - Cancel.
With the help of the options of this tab, you can search for files by their full or abbreviated name, by the contents of the files. Set directory and directory nesting depth when searching. To clear the search history, use the following keyboard shortcut Shift + Del.
In field Search files one of the following search formats is allowed:
* .mp3 For example, the file KiSh.mp3 will be found.
Petrov A file whose name contains "Petrov" will be found - Denis Petrov.doc.
* .wave * .mp3 * .avi Finds all audio and video files with the specified extensions.
* p.ini Names that necessarily contain p before period will be found.
* iti * .doc All files that contain iti with the file extension doc will be found.
Z *. * | * .doc * .txt Finds files that will start with Z and do not end with .doc or .txt.
Search location you can specify the directory or drive where you want to search. If you need to create a search template that, when loaded in the future, will not overwrite the already existing content of the "Search location" field, then before saving the template as a search expression, specify "\u003e" in the field.
Search also in archives
Allows you to search in files with extensions ARJ, GZ, ZIP, LZH, RAR, 7Z, TAR, CAB and ACE... It is even possible to search for text in the archive (including some formats that are supported by archiving plugins). The files are unpacked into random access memory, they are searched, after which the unpacked files are deleted.
Additionally
On the tab you can set extra options search. For example, if you do not know the file name, you can try to search for the file by the date it was saved.
On the tab, search for the following parameters:
by the date interval within which the file was modified;
by how old the file can be;
by file size;
by attributes: archived, hidden, system, readable, compressed, encrypted.
Plugins
This tab allows you to search for informational plugins or special file attributes... For the convenience of searching, you can create rules.
Search patterns
On this tab you can create and save templates for searches that are performed frequently. For example, you can create a template to search for text files.
3.
Total commander gives us the ability to search for duplicates. To do this, open the search by pressing the keyboard shortcut Alt + F7... Then you need to go to the Advanced tab. Select Find Duplicates. And set one or more search options: by name, by size, by content.
The program searches the specified directories for files that match one or more criteria: name, size, or content. Only files that will be encountered several times will be displayed in the explorer window.
by name files will be compared with each other only if they have the same name. If the function is not checked, then the flag "by size" must be set. Sometimes disabling the "by name" option can be useful if we need to find several identical backups while searching.
to size the search will find files with the same size, which will be considered identical.
4. Search for empty folders
For searching empty files or catalogs open the search window by clicking Alt + F7... Go to the Advanced tab. Let's specify the file size equal to zero KB. In the Attributes values, select the Catalog. Click Start Search.
The Search Results window displays empty directories.
Total Commander is a convenient and functional application that will facilitate working with file system computer. This program is so easy to use that it is considered a genius! It further simplifies the PC experience. New possibilities open up before you, such as viewing hidden folders, smart search inside files, analysis of disks for duplicate documents, audio files, etc. And you can get all this for free.
But the most interesting thing is that Total Commander can be customized completely for yourself! This is another feature of the genius of this program that cannot be ignored.
Setting up Total Commander is largely an individual process. Probably, like many fans of such programs, after installing the application, you immediately go to the file or to the configuration menu to see what functions are there and what can be changed. So, you will like Total Commander even more when you see the limitless number of options that can be configured within the program! Will this article show you how you can do this?
Where Total Commander saves settings
If you are an advanced user and want to get to the very essence of this file manager, you can use the same Total to find the program configuration files. Total Commander has not one settings file, but many. And each file is responsible for some key function program that you can customize.
Each configuration file is in ini format. If you remember, even during the installation of the program, you were asked to select the path for the settings ini files on the computer. If you have not selected it yet, that is, you have not installed Total Commander, then you have a great chance to predetermine where the application configurations will be located so that you can easily find them later.
The key configuration file is wincmd.ini. It is considered key, because this file contains the settings of Total Commander as a file manager, and this is the main task of this program. The wcx_ftp.ini file is responsible for configuring the program as an FTP client. And the usercmd.ini file stores your custom commands that you specified in the settings - more on that later in the article. The other four configuration files are responsible for configuring various plugins.
Please note that to change the settings of the Total Commander program, you do not need to look for the configuration file - everything can be done right in the menu. The only file you will need to click to do this is the program shortcut to launch the file manager.
How to set up Total Commander
To begin with, Total Commander has a very convenient toolbar. As soon as you try to use it, you will realize that the standard guide is hellish boredom and irrationality. You can place your own icons in the panel for quick access to commands, applications and various actions. Not only is there a handy panel, but you can also create a sub-panel!
Another big plus of Total is very fast work... The program is so well thought out that even the described panel is not loaded every time the page is refreshed - it is loaded only once when you open it, and so it is stored in separate file... As a result, you can load the toolbar with as many functions as you want, and it will still run fast! Over time, you will start to get mad at standard features your operating systembecause it is absolutely not thought out. After all, even the "Start" in Windows will work worse than the toolbar in the Total Commander program!
To add to the control panel fast access to any program, you can simply drag the shortcut to the interface using the mouse. This sounds almost fantastic, because there are few programs of this kind that allow you to perform such actions. Remember Far with its terminal and commands. Or remember about windows Explorer, which does not even allow such actions to be performed.
But the most interesting thing about the toolbar is not that you can drag shortcuts into the interface, but that you can even open files this way. For example, imagine that you have a shortcut to the Daemoon Tools program in your panel and you have an unmounted image on your computer. To open it through Daemoon Tools, you just need to drag the image to the toolbar and point it to the program shortcut! This will open Daemoon Tools and you can create a virtual disk. This is very convenient and you will soon understand it. Therefore, make the most of the toolbar.
And don't worry about experimenting with the toolbar. Try posting on it various programs and even folders. If you try to drag a file to the panel on the icon of a certain folder, then it will be quickly copied to the selected directory! You will not find anything like this anywhere. So don't be prejudiced about the toolbar, but rather with enthusiasm and great interest - it can do a lot.
Concerning top menu, do not disable it if it seems to you that it slows down the Total Commander program. In fact, you don't even suspect that this menu, just like the control panel, supports the Drag`n`Drop option - that is, you can drag files onto it and use it to perform various actions. But it's even better to use various commands that will soon become a substitute for a mouse - you will learn how to do all actions only on the keyboard, as it happens in American films in moments where there are programmers.
Another useful thing that you definitely need to customize for yourself is the "Menu of frequently used directories". Probably, many of you dreamed that in the standard explorer you could independently configure the frequently visited folders that are displayed there. But alas, this can only be done in the Total Commander program. To open the menu, either press Ctrl + D, or double-click on the current folder. In the "Frequently Used Catalogs Menu" you can create entire categories and subcategories to quickly get to the "popular" sections on your computer. To add new folder in this menu, use a third-party utility - Wincmd Directory Menu Customizer, which will greatly simplify this process.
The most main settingthat you need to implement in the Total Commander program is changing the hotkeys. You have the opportunity to create an individual file managerthat will be convenient only for you. To do this, go to the Start Menu and Change Start Menu. Next, figure out where you want to go using a combination of several keys. For example, you want to speed up the process of getting into a folder with documents, pictures or music. Then add this folder to the menu, specify the path to it below, and before that write the function cd. After that, add a keyboard shortcut that is not yet used in Total Commander and do not forget to save the changes! Now you have a handy new command for your authorship.
If you want not only to configure hotkeys for instantly opening certain directories, but also to view other commands, then go to the "Configuration" menu. Then go to the tab "Settings" and "General". There you can see all the teams that are in Total at the moment. Moreover, you can not only view the commands for the Ctrl, Alt, Shift keys together with other keys, but also change the purpose of certain combinations of buttons. Then Total will definitely become an individual application!
You can customize not only the usability, but also the design of the file manager. To do this, use the third-party utility Aezay TC Color Presets. You will be able to choose different colors for the files different format... This will not only be more beautiful, but also more convenient - you will visually distinguish between files of different formats. In addition to customizing the design, you should definitely set up the file commenting function, which is in Total, starting from version 5.5. Hold down the Ctrl + Shift + F2 keys and you can create comments on various files, which will further simplify the work with the computer, because Total saves this data forever and at the same time works just as quickly. And if any of the files are lost, use the smart Total search.
Hello everyone. Today I will tell you about what kind of program Total Commander is, so that you can easily understand whether you need it or not. In general, well, who does not know this program, everyone probably knows it. But here is a small correction, this program was known to everyone EARLIER, and now not everyone knows. It's just that it was very popular before, now not so many people use it ..
Well, Total Commander is a kind of file manager that can do everything with files, copy them there, create folders and so on. In general, this program has no equal in this matter. That's interesting, I just didn't know, it turns out that the program was called Windows Commander before. But in 2002, Microsoft said, well, they renamed the program quickly! And since then the program is called Total Commander. I think that Microsoft did not want users to think that it was she who made the program, and after all windows name Commander is hinting at this .. In general, this is a trifle, just interesting
The program works very quickly and it is even difficult for me to imagine a computer on which it would slow down. As for me, the program is just excellent, although, I admit that I almost never used it. I don't know why, well, I didn't have such a need.
If you want to install it yourself, keep in mind that there is a version for both 32-bit Windows and 64-bit. But if suddenly you download a 32-bit version of the program on a 64-bit Windows, then in principle nothing terrible will happen, the program will work, but if on the contrary, then you will not even be able to install the program
Total Commander runs under the TOTALCMD64.EXE process, here it is in the manager:
The program is installed at the root system disk, here in this folder:
After the launch of Total Commander, you will see a window where it will be written, well, what they say you can use the program for free for a month. And then you need to either buy it, or delete it. These are the strict deeds guys. This is the window:
And at the bottom of the window there is still such a thing, well, like press some number, you know what this is all about? This is such a cartoon for programs that give a free trial period. You know, they are creating something like such an artificial complex, because if you bought the Total Commander, then nothing like that would have happened. This kind of complication should prompt you to buy.
After I pressed the number, the Settings window itself appeared:
Well, I looked at these settings and I don't think it's worth changing anything there. Unless you know, here on the Content tab of the panels, here you can put a check mark to display hidden files, system files:
But again, these checkboxes should be checked if you are a more or less advanced user, hidden files are hidden for a reason
Here is the main window of the Total Commander:
This is the window, this is the whole principle of the program, the whole essence of the Commander! On one side you have one disk, on the other side you have another disk. And now you can copy and move files back and forth. To select or change a drive, you need to click here and select a drive letter:
Well, then you can already do something in the program. Now, if you call the Network menu, then look, the Commander still supports working with network drive, with FTP, and even some kind of connection can be established via the LPT / USB port:
To be honest, I have not tested all these features as they work. But due to the fact that the program is not young and has long been known, I think that everything works here clearly and without jokes
Although, you know, for the sake of interest, I'll still try to go to the free and open FTP server Opera, by the way, here is his address:
In the Network menu, I selected the New FTP connection item, then I inserted the Opera server in the window and clicked OK:
Then a window popped up for me to enter some mailing address... To be honest, I don’t know why this is necessary, but I entered a fake one, I just wrote [email protected], and then the following Firewall window appeared:
It's simple Windows firewall asks us if Total Commander can go online. After all, to go to the FTP server, it goes without saying that you need to go to the Internet. In general, just click Allow access and do not worry
That's it, after that in the first half of the program there will be the selected disk, well, which was selected earlier, but in the second half, the contents of the FTP server will appear:
And that's it, now you can drag something from the FTP server to the disk. You can upload something to the FTP server, but I'm not sure if the server from Opera supports it. And in general, you can calmly
For example, I dragged the opera-developer folder (don't pay attention to these brackets, it's like this design) from the FTP server to the C drive (that is, to the drive on the left). Such a window popped up, then just click OK:
Well, look, the files started downloading from the FTP server to the disk:
Well, that is, everything works clearly, as we have seen.
Then, to delete the folder, I clicked on it once and then pressed the Del button (or you can still press F8), after which this window popped up:
Then some other confirmation popped up, after which the folder quickly disappeared.
In general, the Commander has a lot of functions, I don't even know all of them, but I don't think that it will be difficult for you to understand them.
Well, what do you think, do you need this Total Commander program or not? It seems to me that although the program is useful, it is unlikely that an ordinary user will use it. Some advanced can and will use it, but an ordinary user hardly needs all the functions that are in the Commander. And even in such a format as the Total Commander program, you still need to take a couple of minutes to understand it
You will be able to get the fastest and ultra-convenient access to all the content available on your drives and perform instant operations with any folders / files.
The user interface of Total Commander is made in a classic two-pane form, which is certainly convenient when executing a variety of commands with objects. At the top of the "commander" is the main optional menu, and under it - toolbar for instant access to many TC functions and settings. The horizontal panel below, for even greater convenience, contains the most commonly used commands.
These are, in principle, all the main functional blocks of the file manager, which may be useful to you when using TC.
Selecting disks (drives) in Total Commander
Before you start working with files / folders, first, you need to find and open the external / internal / network drive on which they are stored. To do this, in the upper left corner of each panel, click on rectangle with arrow and select this hard drive / stick / network hdd etc.
Search for files in Total Commander
To quickly find important folders / files on the disk, use the search function integrated into the TC by clicking on the "binoculars" icon on the toolbar or by clicking on the following options in the setup menu: "Commands" --> "Find files"... And for best results, use add. search parameters.
Basic operations with folders / files in Total Commander
All actions with folders / files in the "Commander" are performed very simply, literally, by pressing one or two buttons.
Selecting files
To perform file operations with several objects at once, you first need to select them. This can be done by clicking on each rights object. clav. mouse or her lion. button, after pressing and holding Ctrl.
Renaming files
Find the desired file / folder and double-click on the object (but not very fast!) Lion. with the mouse button, and then set a new name.
Deleting files
Select the desired object or mark several pieces at once. Then, press F8 - delete key.
Copy / move files
Select in one socket desired file / folder or several pieces, having previously marked (i.e. highlighted) them. Then, in another panel, select destination directory (i.e. the folder where you want to copy / move these objects) and click F5 or F6.
FTP connection in Total Commander
Click the icon "Create ftp connection" on the Total Commander toolbar. Next, enter url or server address and configure additional. connection parameters. To connect to ready-made ftp connections in the future, click on the option "Connect to ftp server".
Connecting network drives in Total Commander
Call option "Network" in the settings menu of the program. Then, select the function "Map network drive".
In the window that appears, select desired disk and network folder that you want to use in the future.
This is the most basic thing you may need when using TC. However, if you study this utility more seriously, you can use its capabilities much wider!
