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Yesterday was released another version because of reported critical bug. There was very big chance that on directory content refresh File Commander crashes. This was fixed here so please download this release. Thank you…
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Hello… next release is out. Major update is based on support of deleting files in archives. This feature must be supported by packer plugin of course. Then there are few features implemented which were required in task tracker as well as bug fixes. Next release will have support of creating archives and updating existing ones. Again with bug fixes and new features in task tracker. Only if there is some critical bug I will release next version earlier.
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So early next version… and that all because of (for now only) two bugs which cause crashing when search is feeded to panel and when you leave archive. This should be fixed in this release.

It took a long time to release next version. It's because I decided to write again file access part of application. I have unified the interface of accessing files and inclusion of other file systems like FTP should be easier. This also means that it works another way than before so it can contain some new bugs that was not in previous release.

There are also little optimizations, memory leak fixes and so on… One significant improvement is that extracting of archives is now supported on the background. But… it can crash very easy . I won't explain here why because it's about implementation of file extracting process but please if you will have some difficulties with some packer plugin make a bug report with at least description of the plugin (name and version, link to download is usefull too). Another thing that can hapen when extracting files is that the extracting process is shown incorrectly or not at all. This is related to the previously mentioned „problem“ but doesn't influence the extracting process at all. Data will be extracted correctly, only process is shown incorrectly. You can again make a bug report about this. This all is because I'm unable to test so many packer plugins if all are working correctly. That's all for now… I hope it will work for you at least so good as the previous version .
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As somebody could notice web site was not available for a few days. It was because I was changing web hosting provider. But I would like to say thanks to previous provider for really great services. I was completely satisfied. I decided to make a change because new provider gives me more options (which I will not use yet ) and it's also a little cheaper.

Hello everybody. I would like to inform you that I decided to rewrote most part of handling filesystem in File Commander to make it more usable in future, especially for access by FTP. This will take some time, I expect about one or two weeks. After this I will make a release to let you test it again and then I will start development of the FTP part. Thank you for you attention .

In this version there are „only“ some „unimportant“ improvements and more or less important fixes. Improvements include completers (file path suggestion) for all controls where path is filled, history for almost all controls, sorting by other columns than name and extension, terminal button and directory history list. There are also some fixes and I hope I have reduced delay of showing directory content.

Now I will probably focus on FTP client and then I will finish packer plugin's support. So next release is planned in several weeks if there is no critical bug found.
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So… there are not much changes and improvements in this version. Just some fixes I found and from task tracker and improvements like drag and drop files from archives, archive file information and few minor.

Another thing I found that on „slower“ computer takes a really long time to show directory with a lot of files. I first thought that it's because of loading icons of all these files but the delay is in method filling tree view. So… I have to optimize it but I will do it later. But if it's really annoying to you you can create a bug for this and I will take a look earlier on this.

And second thing… I bought inline skates and I would like to learn how to ride on them so development will be little slower now .
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I had enough time last days so I was able to finish (somehow) support of packer plugins, fix some bugs, create new ones and release this way new version of File Commander. One of improvements that should be in previous release is switching column sets. I don't know why I forgot that, it's now possible from main menu. Two another most significant improvements are user definable favourite directories and (limited) support of packer plugins. By limited I mean it „should“ support browsing through archive and unpack files. This version is also using Qt 4.3.0 which means there are right file icons by the files. And it seems like QFileSystemWatcher class (for monitoring file systems) is working much better so automatic refreshes works almost how it should work (if it's not enough I can add automatical refresh of directory view after every made operation).

I tested only two packer plugins – ISO and 7-Zip. I tested ISO as first and when it seems like it's finally working I tested it with 7-Zip plugin and it wasn't working very well… . Now it is but I would like to tell you that other plugins might not work correctly so just (kindly ) let me know and I will (try to) fix it. The same is still for content plugins – there are some types not handled so if there should be some value in column and it's not tell me. It's because I had not content plugin with these type of values to test it.

Another thing I'm thinking about is… what next? I have some ideas like

• extend packer plugin support by packing, testing and maybe some other methods there (deleting, multiple volumes support, configuration and so on)
• implement FTP client (and Qt 4.3.0 has as a new feature support of SSL) but this could take some time…
• something else (bug fixes at most and work on some „details“)

So… if you would like to use this application and want to have something there in „near future“ you can make a choice.
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Last several days I spent on working on packer plugins support and few things finally work. Now it's possible to browse through archive as by local directory and extract files by copying them into local directory. I tested it only on one plugin (… ) for now (iso files) and it seems that it's working well. Because I had to modify several other methods many things can be more unstable than before so I have to test it a little. Another things I would like to do till next release are add some options about this kind of plugins, menu commands and integrity test of archive files. And another thing not important for you is that copy, move and extract methods code is how to say… little messy and I need to go through of it to make it more transparent.

And… if somebody of you have a lot of time you can make plugin for RAR and ZIP archives because (not only) for this are not plugins – they have native support in Total Commander. I have not in plan to make any native support for them so if not somebody of you I will make at some time plugin for them. It should be only some kind of wrapper to their unpack library file.