Today I came across the fact that there is not so much information on the Internet about regular expressions for Total Commander`a. To be more precise, it may exist, but it is extremely difficult to find. Yes, and besides, not all the subtleties are said and “chewed” there. And for us, people who live very quickly, every minute is precious. And it takes a very long time to figure out what will help us and what won’t... In general, I decided to collect here all the information that I found on the regular season for Total Commander. To begin with, I will show you what is written in the manuals (official information) from the developers themselves, but with a Russian translation! =)

Help for using regular expressions in Total Commander (manual)

Regular Expressions

Regular expressions are very powerful tool search. They allow you to search complex combinations words Regular expressions are mainly intended for professionals, but can also be useful for beginners to search for specific documents (see examples below).

Total Commander supports regular expressions in the following functions:
- Commands → Search for files. Search allows you to find a file by file name and/or file content
- In Lister
- In the bulk renaming tool
- In the selection dialog

Regular expressions consist of regular characters and special characters, so-called meta-characters. The following symbols are meta-characters or they can be called the leading portions of meta-characters:
, \ () () ^ $ + *? (only in character classes:-)

Regular characters

If you write only ordinary characters for searching, for example: “test”, then search will find You have a file with these characters going to in strict order, as "t→e→s→t". Note: This query finds "test" anywhere in the file name and/or line in the text.

Mileage sequence

The backslash \ starts the escape sequence. Examples of control sequences:
\t - Stop tab stop
\xnn - Symbol with hexadecimal code"nn". Example: \x20 is a space. Charmap.exe's character table (if installed) shows the character codes of most special characters. You can use this table in constant mode to convert from decimal system calculus in hexadecimal format.
\x(NNNN) - Unicode with hex code NN. Please note that Total Commander now uses Unicode for file names, so you must use this notation for non-Latin characters. For example, when searching for Russian characters.
\[ - Left square bracket. Since square brackets are meta-characters, if you want to find a square bracket in the text, you will need to put a backslash in front of it (the square bracket): \[
\\ - Finds a backslash.
\. - Finds a period (Only "." finds any character, see below).

Character classes

Symbols in square brackets allow you to build a symbol class. Total Commander will find one of the symbols of this class. The dash allows you to define groups, for example, .
^ - At the beginning, finds all characters except those listed.

Examples:
- Search for exactly one of the listed characters.
[^aeiou] - Searches for all but the listed characters.
Mer Finds "Meier" by everyone possible ways letters: Mayer, Meyer, Maier, Meier. This is very useful if you can't remember the exact spelling of a name.

Meta characters

Here is a list of the most important meta characters:
^ - Start of line
$ - End of line
. - Any character
\w - letters, numbers or underscore _
\W is the opposite of \w
\d - digit
\D is not a number
\s - word separators (space, tab, etc.)
\S - words without delimiters
\b - finds a word boundary (combination of \s and \S)
\B is the opposite of \b

Iterators

Iterators are used to repeat the character or expression on the left side of the iterator.
* - Zero or more times somewhere
+ - One or more times somewhere
(n) exactly n times somewhere
(n,) at least n times somewhere
(n,m) minimum n and m maximum times somewhere

All of these operators are "greedy", meaning that they accept as many characters as they can get. Enter question mark? after the operator makes them "not greedy", i.e. it takes exactly as many characters as necessary.
Example: if you apply "b+" to the target string "abbbbc", then the search will find "bbbb", and if you apply "b+?", then the search will only find "b".

Alternatives

Alternatives are enclosed in parentheses and separated by a vertical bar. Example: (John|James|Peter) matches one of the names John, James, or Peter.

Search subexpressions + replace function

The text parts in parentheses are taken as subexpressions. Example: To change the name and interpret the name of an .mp3 file when they are separated by a dash (Name - Interpreter.mp3), this can be solved as follows:
Search: (.*) - (.*)\.mp3
Replace with: $2 - $1.mp3
Here $1 means the text in the first brackets, and $2 means the text in the second brackets.

Reverse

\n - Finds subexpression n another time in the search result.
Example: (.+)\1+ finds, for example, abab (where the first ab is found by: .+ and the second by: \1+)

Modifiers

Modifiers are used to change the behavior of regular expressions.

(?i) - Ignore uppercase/lowercase letters. In Total Commander, this is the default for filenames.
(?-i) - Case sensitive.
(?g) - Enable greedy mode (enabled by default)
(?-g) Disable greedy mode, so "+" means the same as "+".

Other modifiers are not related to Total Commander, because the program supports search by regular expressions ONLY IN ONE LINE.

Total Commander uses the free Delphi libraries "TRegExpr" from Andrey V. Sorokin
Some of the explanations above are taken from the help file for this library.

A few words from myself

If you want to search by files (by file name) in certain files(in my case I needed php and js files), then here is the expression that helped me:

*. php;*. js I.e. It turns out that no parentheses helped me there... You just need to separate each expression with a semicolon and then everything will work out. In general, for IT people everything is intuitive! =)

Sometimes in everyday computer activities the task arises of finding duplicate files. There can be many reasons for this: lack of space on the hard drive, attempts to reduce entropy in your files, deal with those dumped in different time photographs from the camera and many other necessary cases.

You can find it online a large number of programs that allow you to search for duplicate files. But why look for any programs if a smart tool for such work is usually always at hand. And this tool is called Total Commander(TC).

In this article I will show all the methods based on Total Commander versions 8.5 , in this version, the search for duplicate files has become very rich in functionality.

!!!A small important digression. What do you mean by duplicate file? Two files are IDENTICAL only if they are exactly the same bit by bit. Those. Any information in a computer is represented by a sequence of zeros and ones. So, files match only when they completely match the sequence of zeros and ones that make up these files. All talk about how you can compare two files on any other basis is deeply erroneous.

TC has two, essentially different, methods for finding duplicate files:

• Synchronize directories;
• Search for duplicates;

Their features and applications are best illustrated with examples.

1.Directory synchronization.

This method is used when the two folders you are comparing have an identical structure. This usually happens in many cases, here are a few of them:

• Have you regularly archived your work folder? After some time, you need to find out which files have been added or changed since the archive was created. You unpack the entire archive into a separate folder. The folder structure in it practically coincides with the working one. You compare two folders “original” and “restored from archive” and easily get a list of all changed, added or deleted files. A couple of simple manipulations - and you will remove from the recovered folder all the duplicate files that are in the working one.
• You are working in a folder on network drive and regularly make a copy to yourself local disk. In time your work folder has become quite large and the time spent on a complete copy has become very large. In order not to copy the entire folder each time, you can first compare it with the backup one and copy only those files that have been changed or added, and also delete them in backup folder files that were deleted from the main one.

Once you get the hang of it and feel the full power of this method, you yourself will be able to come up with thousands of situations where the directory synchronization method will be of great help to you in your work.

So, how does everything happen in practice? Let's get started.

Let's assume we have a main folder "Working", which contains the files with which you are working. And there is a folder "Archive", in which lies old copy folders "Working". Our task is to find duplicate files in both folders and remove them from the folder "Archive".

Open TC. In the right and left panels, open the folders being compared:

Press menu “Commands” - “Synchronize directories...”

The directory comparison window opens

Next we need to set the comparison parameters. Check the parameters “with subdirectories”, “by content”, “ignore date”

• "with subdirectories"— files in all subdirectories of the specified folders will be compared;
• "by content"- this is the key option that forces TC to compare files BIT by BIT!!! Otherwise, files will be compared by name, size, date;
• "ignore date"- this option forces TC to show differing files without trying automatic detection directions for future copying;

!!! Files will only be compared with same names!!! If the files are identical, but they have a different name, then they will not be compared!

Press the button "Compare". Depending on the size of the files, the comparison can take a very long time, do not be alarmed. Eventually the comparison will end and the result will be displayed in the bottom status line (section 1 in the figure):


If the buttons in the “Show” section (section 2 in the figure) are pressed, then you will see the comparison result for each file.

— this button enables the display of files that are in the left panel, but not in the right;

— this button enables the display of identical files;

— this button enables the display of differing files;

— this button enables the display of files that are in the right panel, but not in the left;

If you initially have all display buttons turned off, then the result of the comparison can only be assessed by the status bar (section 1 in the figure above), in in this case we see that 11 files were compared, of which 8 files are the same, 2 files are different, and there is also a file in the left panel that is not in the right panel.

To complete our task, it is necessary to leave the display of only identical (identical) files, so we turn off all other display buttons


Now we only have identical files left, and we can safely delete them in the folder "Archive". To do this, select all files. The easiest way to do this is by pressing the universal combination CTRL+A. Or first select the first line with the mouse, then press the key on the keyboard SHIFT and without releasing it, select the last line with the mouse. As a result, you should get something like this:

The final step is to click right key mouse on any line and select the item in the menu that opens "Delete on the left"

TC kindly asks us about our desire,

and if we press "YES" then it deletes all marked files in the folder "Archive".

After this, the two folders are automatically compared again. If you do not need a repeated comparison, the process can be interrupted by pressing the button "Abort" or press a key ESC on keyboard. If the repeated comparison was not interrupted, and we turned on all the display buttons, then we will see a window like this

All. The task has been completed. All identical files found and deleted in the folder "Archive".

Educational video on the topic

2.Search for duplicates.

Fundamental difference this method from the directory synchronization method is that TC ignores the names of the files being compared. In fact, it compares each file with each, and shows us identical files no matter what they are called ! This search is very convenient when you do not know either the folder structure or the names of the files being compared. In any case, after searching for duplicates, you will receive an exact list of identical files.

I will show you the search for duplicates on one practical problem, searching for duplicates of personal photos. Quite often you dump photos from your digital gadgets. Often the situation gets confused, something is reset many times, something is skipped. How to quickly delete files that have been dropped multiple times? Very simple!

Let's get started.

Let's say you always dump all your photos into a folder "PHOTO" on drive D. After all the resets, the folder looks something like this:

As you can see, some files are located in folders named by the date of shooting, some are dropped to the root of the folder "_New" And "_New1"

To start searching for duplicates, open the folder in which we will search in any TC panel. In our case this is the folder "PHOTO"

Next, press the key combination on the keyboard ALT+F7 or select from the menu “Commands” - “Search files”

The standard TC search window opens. String "Search files:" leave it empty, then all files will be compared.

Then go to the bookmark "Additionally" and check the boxes “Search for duplicates:”, “by size”, “by content” and press "To start searching".

The search can take a VERY long time, do not be afraid of this, as it happens great amount comparisons large volume files. At the same time, the progress percentage is shown in the status bar

When the search ends, a search results window will open, in which we press the button "Files to panel"

In the search window and in the panel window, identical files are collected in sections separated by dotted lines

Each section displays the file name and full path to the file. The names of IDENTICAL files can be completely different!
In this case, it is clear that the same photograph was recorded THREE times, twice under the same name( IMG_4187.JPG) and the third time this photograph was recorded under a completely different name ( IMG_4187_13.JPG).

Next, it remains to select unnecessary identical files and delete them. This can be done manually by selecting each file by pressing a key Ins. But it takes a long time and is not effective. There are better and faster ways.

So our task is to remove duplicate files in folders "_New" And "_New1".
To do this, click on additional keyboard, on right big key [+] . Typically, using this key in TC, files are selected by mask. The same operation can be done through the menu “Selection” - “Select group”

). But this method of searching for the necessary files is very, very ineffective, especially searching for files in Windows 7, which, by and large, can hardly be called a search, since we can say that it is not there, or rather, it is there, but it is so unthought-out that it is impossible to use It’s almost impossible for them. Besides standard search Windows does not give us the wide range of capabilities that a specially designed . Therefore, today we will get acquainted with one of such programs. In principle, its main task is not search, but at the same time, here it is quite functional and gives ample opportunities. It's called Total Commander. In fact, this is a file manager, and perhaps many are already familiar with it.

You can download Total Commander.

So, how to search for files on your computer using Total Commander

Open the search window - you can do this in several ways:

A search window will open in front of us, in which we will do everything necessary settings depending on the situation:

As you can see, there are a lot of different parameters here that make our life very simple and will not let any of your lost files get lost.

Let's go over the settings a little.

• “Search” field - here we enter the name of the file or files separated by a comma “,”
• Field “Location” - select either the exact (approximate) location on the disk, if you know where the files are approximately located, by clicking on the “>>” button, or select logical drive or all by clicking on the “Disks” button
• If you need to search by text in a document, then check the box under “With text” and enter here required text. As you can see, there are a lot of additional settings under the field - use them to refine your request, or if the search does not produce results.

Go to the “Advanced” tab

Here you can select the time of creation of the desired file - check the “Date between” checkbox and select the desired time period, you can select the “age” of the file – the “not older” checkbox, file size, set the necessary File Attributes, and also carry out .

We won’t consider the “Plugins” tab, since I never use it, and it’s of no use to the average user - this is for the most advanced search, and even without these additional settings, I have plenty of options. Here you can search by photo/video size, duration, and much, much more.

Search Patterns Tab:

Very useful section. In order not to enter data manually, simply select the required template, click “Load” and the program will search according to the specified parameters. For example, you need to find everything on your computer, select “Audio files” and you will find everything music recordings. The templates here are mainly made for file extensions (in human terms, for file types). Thus, when selecting one or another template, the search for files will be carried out only for a certain type of file.

But that's basically all. The program is not complicated, everything is intuitive, you try it a couple of times and everything will work out. If anything, ask in the comments. After Total Commander, you won’t want to search for files through Windows 7 at all :).

Total Commander is essentially an analogue Windows Explorer, but it is much more efficient and easier to manage. For many users, this file manager has long been vital necessary tool, from which work on the PC begins. The popularity of Total Commander is also largely determined by its weak level of payment protection. This file manager is distributed under a Shareware license, i.e. it is implied free use within a month. But in fact, even after free month use of Total Commander is not blocked.

Just press one of the three numbers (1, 2 or 3) and after counting down the seconds, the manager will start. There will be no restrictions on the functionality of the program.
Download Total Commander current version can be found on the official website page. At the time of writing, the infinite trial version of Total Commander 8.51a is current, both 32-bit and 64-bit.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that during Total installations Commander You can select the folder where the configuration files are located, for which you need to click on the "Set path to INI files" button. Now you can easily transfer your Total Commander settings to another computer simply by copying the INI files.

I chose the program directory to store INI files (convenient when the program is used from different operating systems). If you use several versions of Total Commander on your computer, then it is better to store the INI files in the Windows directory.

The Total Commander user interface is designed in a classic two-panel form, which is very convenient when performing a variety of manipulations with files and folders.

Setting up Total Commander

Let's go through the settings of Total Commander, for this you need from top menu select "Configuration" - "Settings". Window view - here are concentrated some of the most important settings, which determine the appearance of the file manager window.

In order to add or remove certain components of the main window, just uncheck or check the checkbox, after clicking the "Apply" button you can see with your own eyes changes made. If you are satisfied with everything, click “OK”.
On the tab "Panel Contents" provides the opportunity to configure work with files and folders on the manager panels.

Settings items: Icons, Fonts, and Colors arrange to your liking.
In the tab "Tabulators" we configure tab stop positions (size, file type, date), and also set a template for displaying file sizes. For me personally, it is more convenient when the size of files (folders) is shown not in bytes, but in Mb, Gb or Kb.

Agree that it is not very convenient to often open a folder that is located somewhere deep in the directory.
You can pin frequently used tabs to the file panel as follows. Open the desired folder and right-click on it. From the context menu, select the option or "Rename/Lock tab" . You can also use hotkeys: Ctrl+T - create a tab, Ctrl+W - delete a tab.

If there are a lot of blocked tabs, then they can be evenly distributed across both manager panels simply by dragging them with the mouse. Don't forget to save changes from the top menu "Configuration" - "Save position" and "Save settings" . Now you have the necessary tabs, which will not disappear until you change the settings. During long work With the program, it may happen that you have many tabs open. In order to close them on any of the tabs, right-click and select the item from the menu "Close all tabs" or click on the hotkey combination "Ctrl+Shift+W". After this, all unlocked and inactive tabs on the file manager panel you selected will close.
The next important setting item "Basic Operations" .

Connecting the Notepad++ editor to Total Commander by default

Best editor text files, in my opinion, is Notepad++ . How can I make it the default editor in Total Commander? On the next settings tab "Edit/View" you can connect external programs to view and edit files in Total Commander by pressing the F3 (view) or F4 (edit) button.
Choose Editor program- a path selection window will open where you need to find Notepad++ on your computer.

Setting up hot keys in

It is worth noting that Total Commander by default has a huge number of keyboard shortcuts to work with. The list of hot keys can be viewed by clicking on the "Help" button in the right top corner Total Commander. It is noteworthy that in the settings item "Miscellaneous" You can redefine hotkeys in the manager at your discretion. Let's set, for example, showing and hiding system files keyboard shortcut Ctrl+H - cm_SwitchHidSys.

So, I recommend assigning the following hotkey combinations:
"Ctrl+W" - cm_CopyNamesToClip- copy file names to the clipboard. You can copy one or more file names at once.
"Alt+W" - cm_CopyFullNamesToClip- copy file names with their location paths to the clipboard. Significantly saves time!
"Shift+Home" - cm_OpenDesktop- open the "Desktop" tab in the Total Commander window. It is often convenient to start work from the desktop, and from here you can go to the Control Panel, etc.
"Shift+BackSpace" - cm_GoToRoot- go to the root directory of the disk from anywhere. Also a very useful thing. Clicking "Ctrl+\" you also, by default, go to the root directory of the disk. Well, just a key "BackSpace" by default in Total it moves one level higher.

On the official website of the Total Commander developer you can find and download a great variety of plugins: http://www.ghisler.com/plugins.htm. If you don’t want to bother translating their descriptions into Russian, then visit the Russian-language website http://wincmd.ru. New plugins are also available from the unofficial TC website (http://www.totalcmd.net/).
If you open the tab "Plugins" in the settings of Total Commander, you will see that the plugins themselves are divided into four types: Archive plugins (have the WCX extension), Plugins file system(WFX), Internal Viewer Plugins (WLX) and Information Plugins (WDX).

Archiving plugins allow you to work with archives that are not initially supported in the file manager or are supported with restrictions. Using archiving plugins, support for working with a number of other file formats- CHM, MSI, ICL, DLL, etc. File system plugins allow you to access drives that are not accessible from Windows, remote systems, internal Windows modules, media with other file systems. Internal viewer plugins allow you to view files various formats, incl. not supported by Lister's internal viewer, such as images, tables, databases, etc. Information plugins are designed to provide access to extended information about files (MP3 tags, image attributes, etc.)
There are two ways to install plugins: automatically and manually. Automatic installation does not cause any difficulties: just open the downloaded archive with the plugin in the Total Commander panel and the manager itself will offer to install the detected module. Is it true, automatic installation Not available for all plugins.

Connecting additional plugins manually is also not difficult. To install the plugin, unpack the contents of the archive into a separate folder. It is best to create a subdirectory in the directory with the Total Commander manager "Plugins" , where to create separate folders for each plugin separately. In the future, this policy will allow you to avoid confusion in the Total Commander folders.
Now you need to open Total settings Commander Configuration - Settings , where in the section Plugins you should click on the button "Settings" With the right type plugin. In the drop-down window, click "Add" and select a file with the extension .wfx (wdx, wcx or wlx) - the actual file of the plugin to be installed from the folder we created. All! The plugin is installed.

To see which plugins of each type are installed in your Total Commander build, click the button "Tune" in the relevant area. I emphasized the archiver plugins in my manager build.

Thanks to installed plugins you can view any folders and files on the adjacent Total Commander panel using a hotkey combination "Ctrl+Q". If you navigate through files in one panel, their contents will be displayed in the adjacent viewing panel.

There are many software for managing Windows OS parameters - these are plugins built into the system, and various tweakers, and system utilities. There are many plugins developed for Total Commander that solve the same problem. Using TC file system plugins provides the opportunity to keep your finger on the pulse of your computer’s OS from the familiar and very user-friendly interface TS file manager and perform many operations much faster than through the built-in Windows toolkit.

File system plugins are available in Total Commander via network

Very easy to use Uninstaller 64 plugin , which is designed to quickly uninstall applications that are in the list "Installation and removal of programms" panels Windows management. The plugin allows you to view all entries, including hidden ones, and works much faster than the built-in one. Windows uninstaller. To uninstall an application using this plugin, you need to highlight the line with the program name and press the Enter key. The plugin is also used to remove broken links (Del or F8 buttons) and view the uninstallation command (F3 or Ctrl+Q).

Thanks to the plugin ProcFS Task Manager you can view running processes on your PC, including those that may be hiding from standard dispatcher Windows tasks. The panel shows the name of the process, its type, the amount of memory occupied by the process, and the time it started. The plugin allows you to view properties running processes and the libraries they use (F3), change processes' priorities (double-click on the process) and unload them (Del).

Services2 plugin - This handy tool to work with Windows services. This plugin allows you to view a list of services, and by appearance icons you can immediately understand whether the service is running or stopped. The plugin allows you to quickly change the launch mode of a specific service (manual, automatic, disabled), you can pause the service, delete or start the service. All of the above operations are performed in the service properties window, which opens double click mouse on the service line or by pressing the Enter key.

Quick Tabs and Files in Total Commander

Open the folder in Total Commander that you want to save and have access to fast access, and press the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl + D" or click on the star in the upper right corner of the panel. On Google Chrome given the keyboard shortcut adds to bookmarks, and in Total Commander – to the quick access menu. From the context menu, select "Add current directory" .

You can select any of the proposed types of submenus. By clicking again on the star or keyboard shortcut "Ctrl + D" you can view a list of your directories that you have quick access to. This menu can also be called up using the mouse - double click by the name of the current directory.

Total Commander Control Panel

Add shortcuts to programs, internal commands, and any system team to the Total Commander toolbar is quite simple. You must either drag the exe file of the program onto the panel itself or enter the path to the program manually.
First option. Go to the folder " Program Files"and drag the exe file of the program with your mouse to Total panel Commander.

Second option. Click right button mouse over an empty space in the toolbar and then “Edit”. In the window that opens, click “Add” and add the program by specifying the full path to it exe file. I prefer to use the first option.

If, after clicking the “Add” button, you click the small button with a magnifying glass, then you will see a huge list of commands provided in Total Commander.

At the bottom of the window in the box "Filter" , indicate, for example, the command number 2400 (group renaming) and click "OK". Will appear in the toolbar additional icon, by clicking on it, you can rename the entire list of files at once.

The Total toolbar is also interesting because other files and folders can interact with the programs pinned here. Drag, for example, the folder containing mp3 files onto the AIMP3 player icon in the toolbar. Your audio files will start playing one after another. Similarly, drag the CSS file onto the icon text editor Notepad++ and the program will open it immediately. Drag"n Drop (take and throw) from file panels to the shortcuts of the folders we created earlier will cause files to be copied to these folders!
If your Total Commander is in startup, then thanks to installed icons launch programs directly from the TS manager toolbar, you will not need to install extra shortcuts on the desktop. If necessary, unnecessary icons can be easily removed from the toolbar in the same way as they were installed: by highlighting unnecessary icon, click on the "Delete" button and the icon will disappear.
At the bottom of the manager there are function key buttons

These buttons also support Drag"n Drop, so the most convenient way to use them is not by pressing the F3, F4, F5 buttons themselves, but by dragging selected files and folders onto these buttons. Believe me, it’s more convenient this way. And if you right-click on the F8 button, it will open context menu, where you can empty the Trash or view its properties.

The FTP client integrated into Total Commander allows you to connect to your website (blog) without any problems and provides necessary information. To select a connection, just press the key combination CTRL+F, and if you have not configured a single connection yet, then in the window that opens, simply click on the “Add” button.

The FTP connection settings are not much different from the FileZilla FTP client settings, so you already know what to do next.

Connecting network drives in Total Commander

Turn on "Net" in the Total Commander setup menu. Select function .
In the window that appears, select the drive and folder in which you want to store the information. You can specify the path to the site where images and documents will be stored.

Basic operations with folders/files in Total Commander

All actions with folders/files in the file manager are performed extremely simply, literally, by pressing one or two buttons.

Selecting files

Before performing operations on several objects at once, they must first be selected. This can be done by clicking on each object with the right mouse button or with the left button, after pressing and holding Ctrl key.

Renaming files

Hover over required file/folder and double-click on the object (but not very quickly!) with the left mouse button, the object will turn blue, and then set a new name.

Deleting files

Select the desired file/folder or select several at once. Then, press F8 - the delete key.

Copy/move files

Select the desired file/folder or several at once in one file manager panel. Then, in another panel, select the folder where you want to copy/move these objects and press the F5 or F6 button accordingly.

Select on any panel the required number of files that will need to be renamed using a specific mask and press the key combination Ctrl+M.

Setting up internal associations is available from the "Files" menu. All files that you open in Total Commander with a double click can be associated i.e. configure their opening by any programs on your computer.

Working with archives

You can pack (Alt+F5), unpack (Alt+F9) and check (Alt+Shift+F9) archives using the archive plugins installed in Total Commander. In addition, you can enter archives like regular folders, which significantly saves your time.

Search by files in Total Commander

To quickly find important folders or files on the disk, use the search function integrated into the file manager by clicking on the “magnifying glass” icon on the toolbar or use the Alt+F7 key combination. If you search for files in Russian, do not forget to check the “UTF-8” checkbox. All additional settings(size, creation date, available attributes) for searching you will find in the tab "Additionally" .

Splitting a file into fragments

Breakdown large file into fragments given size available from menu "Files" . The cut file can be assembled into reverse order through the same menu. This function can be useful, for example, when sending large files by email.

Here is the most basic thing you may need when using Total Commander. However, if you delve deeper into the study of this file manager, you can use its capabilities much more widely!
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It is the simplest and most convenient program to work with disks and files. With its help, you can easily and quickly select, copy, move, delete folders, unpack archives, run programs as an administrator and perform many other operations. This file manager is recognized indispensable program for all PC users.

IMPORTANT! In some cases, when unpacking an archive using WinRAR and 7-Zip, the user may encounter the problem of missing installation file in folder. Standard archivers may not move exe files. Total Commander solves this problem.

Total Commander interface overview

The Total Commander interface is designed in a classic two-panel form, which is convenient when performing various operations with files from various disks.

At the top of the program window there is an optional menu. Below it are the toolbar icons. Below are buttons for the most frequently used operations.

How to work with disks?

To select a drive and start working with it, click on the drive letter. The contents of the disk will open in one part of the program window. In another part you can view the contents of another media. This is useful when comparing content.

You can open disk files and folders by double clicking.

How to search for files in Total Commander?

In order not to open every drive and folder in search of the desired file, Total Commander has a search function. To use it you need to do the following:

• Click the “Search files” button on the toolbar.

• A small window will open. If you know what drive the file is on, you can specify it.

• By going to the “Search Templates” tab, you can specify the file type.

• After all the parameters for the search have been specified, you should click on the “Start Search” button.

• The search results will be displayed in the same window.

• Pressing desired result, the file will open.

What operations can be performed on files and folders?

Selecting files and folders. Select necessary elements in Total Commander there are several ways.

• By right-clicking on an element.
• The combination “Ctrl + left mouse button”.

If you need to select several files, then hold down the “Ctrl” key and use the “up” and “down” keys to select the required number of files or click on the folders with the left mouse button.

The selected files will be colored in a different color.

Copying. You can also copy an element in several ways.

• Using the key combination “Ctrl+C”;
• By selecting the file with one click and pressing “F5”;
• Using the button at the bottom of the program's working window.

Moving files. In order to move a file, you should perform a few simple steps:

• Select the file with one click of the left mouse button. In the second window, open the drive or folder to which you want to move the file. Click "Move". We confirm the operation.

• Or simply drag and drop the desired element.

Deleting files. In order to delete the desired file or folder, you should select it and press the “Delete” key or select special button on the toolbar.

Packing and unpacking files. File manager Total Commander can replace any archiver. It can be used to pack and unpack files. To do this, just select the archive and click “Unpack”.

Or select several files (or one) and click “Pack”.

The archive has been created.

Setting up an FTP connection in Total Commander

To create FTP connection you should do the following:

• Click on the “Connect to FTP server” icon.