What's new in DCommander 3.9.5
Apr 16, 2024
- Added auto, dark, light theme selector. Restarting is no longer needed when changing themes
- Added separate file list light and dark color themes
- Added iCloud drive access from the sidebar when available
- Added error message when re-acessing folders with revoked permissions
- Added parent folder information in the sidebar when .. is selected
- Fixed terminal commands not working on newer macOS versions
- Fixed OneDrive folder location resolving
- Fixed symlink resolving
- Fixed crash when quickly switching between remote drives
- Fixed crash on initial launch when importing favorites
- Fixed tooltip text on remote drive buttons
- Fixed drive list not allowing access to certain drives (such as PCloud)
- Fixed /Volumes/* symlink empty contents
- Fixed color issues when system theme is dynamically set throughout the day
- Fixed file size in Get Info window not using the appropriate unit size setting
- Fixed popup window not closing when toggling the transfer manager button or hotkey
- Fixed adding current folder as favorite removing default favorite locations
- Fixed remote connection drive button occasionally not disappearing after disconnect
- Fixed left file panel not being focused on startup
- Fixed file list focus after opening sidebar locations
- Improved drive buttons interface
- Improved startup speed
New in DCommander 3.9.4 (Feb 22, 2023)
- Added Command+S shortcut for Synchronize Folders
- Added Shift+F2 shortcut for Multi Rename
- Added Command+K shortcut for Connection Manager
- Added ESC keyboard shortcut to quickly clear and hide the quicksearch filter bar
- Added Multi Rename support when pressing F2 on multiple selected files
- Fixed issue with invisible filename when renaming in certain color schemes
- Fixed not being able to rename the first item with quicksearch filtering active
- Fixed folder sizes not being accounted for in the status bar statistics
- Fixed "Open With" keyboard shortcut Command+Return not working correctly
New in DCommander 3.9.3 (Oct 23, 2022)
- Added Calculate Size in File menu, with hotkey Shift+Command+Return
- Added Copy Full Path to File menu, with hotkey Shift+Command+C
- Fixed minimum column width for Size and Date columns in file lists
- Fixed Drive Hotlist not displaying correctly
- Improved support for macOS Ventura
New in DCommander 3.9.2 (Oct 23, 2022)
- Added new Quick Search with Search Bar and Filtering for the active file list
- Added Quick Search preferences section
- Added option to disable Quick Search
- Added configurable Quick Search matching (prefix, suffix or any)
- Fixed crash when dropping a new item on the favorites sidebar
- Fixed favorites sidebar not refreshing properly when rearranging items
- Fixed inactive file list selection bar color on macOS Big Sur and newer
- Fixed selected file cursor color mismatch
- Fixed German translation
- Fixed German and Dutch language UI elements
New in DCommander 3.9.1 (Oct 10, 2021)
- Added full support for Apple silicon
- Added Dutch language support
- Added separate customizable cursor and selection colors
- Added invert cursor option with customizable font color
- Improved FTP and SFTP connection manager
- Fixed file list visual offset on newer macOS versions
- Fixed issue with moving files in the same location
- Fixed drive bar color issue in dark mode
- Fixed create new folder name with spaces issue on SFTP connections
- Fixed navigation issue on FTP and SFTP connections
New in DCommander 3.9.0 (Feb 28, 2021)
- Added additional key exchange algorithms for SFTP connections
- Improved internal viewer with capability of displaying very large files
- Improved Hex mode display for viewer
- Fixed internal viewer not showing archive file binary contents
- Fixed reported FTP and SFTP issues
- Fixed high memory usage when viewing large files in Text mode
- Fixed reported layout issues on new installs
- Fixed SFTP disconnect issue on macOS High Sierra
New in DCommander 3.8.9 (Dec 18, 2020)
- Improved folder navigation and loading performance
- Improved display performance when showing large amount of files
- Improved synchronization tool performance
- Fixed freeze while synchronizing folders with large amount of files
- Fixed parent item(..) in root of drive toggle issue
- Fixed rare viewer text display issue
- Fixed empty tab path issue
New in DCommander 3.8.8 (Nov 27, 2020)
- Added double-click to center file panel splitter
- Fixed dark mode text readability
- Fixed rare startup crash on Big Sur
- Improved detection of light mode / dark mode when starting DCommander for the first time
- Improved startup time
- Improved documentation
New in DCommander 3.8.7 (Nov 13, 2020)
- Added German language support
- Added support for latest operating system
- Fixed startup issue on macOS Yosemite and El Capitan
- Fixed issues when performing actions on the parent list item
- Improved toolbar icons on Dark Mode
New in DCommander 3.8.6 (Aug 14, 2020)
- Fixed folder compare delays and freezes in synchronization panel
- Fixed network connection errors when disconnecting forcefully
- Fixed SFTP stuck loading state when connection could not be established
- Fixed login denied authentication error when private key cannot be accessed
- Fixed connection manager issues
New in DCommander 3.8.5 (May 24, 2020)
- Added automatic scroll to newly created folder or file
- Added right-click context menu for Drag&Drop Storage
- Added ability to clear the Drag&Drop Storage
- Added automatic dark/light mode transition support for macOS 10.14 and newer
- Fixed unified tab bar dark mode appearance
- Fixed unified tab bar freeze
- Fixed Copy Full Path empty clipboard issue
- Fixed alias folders opening in Finder instead of DCommander
- Fixed issue when attempting to copy files to readonly drives
- Fixed small visual issues
New in DCommander 3.8.0 (Jan 13, 2020)
- Added Touchbar support
- Added UnMount ability for drives and volumes
- Added right-click context menu for drives in the Drivebar
- Added Scan for New Drives option
- Added right-click context menu for drives in the Sidebar
- Added Preferences toolbar item, accessible when customizing the toolbar
- Added initial sidebar Favorites on first start or when no existing favorite places are found
- Added progress window for archiving files and folders
- Added Abort functionality when compressing files and folders
- Changed archive naming when compressing only one file. It now contains the single file's title
- Changed default color scheme and layout
- Improved alias resolving and creation speed
- Fixed system utility apps not launching on macOS 10.15
- Fixed drive button pressed state
- Fixed QuickLook focus issue on macOS 10.14 and newer
- Fixed initial left side file list focus
- Fixed custom terminal application not opening on macOS 10.15
- Fixed invalid or expired folder paths issue when saving tabs state
- Fixed file list columns sizing issue
- Fixed problem with modal dialogs when the application is running in fullscreen mode
- Fixed advanced copy method error on write or read multiple alert messages
- Fixed pane splitter overlay issue when toggling sidebars
- Fixed ftp/sftp file date parsing
- Fixed user interface freeze when compressing large files
- Fixed filesystem access issue when limited to Home folder only
- Fixed reported crashes
New in DCommander 3.7.0 (Jan 13, 2020)
- Added Dynamic size units
- Added new Preferences window
- Added Dock progress indicator for file transfers
- Improved file and folder local disk copy performance by 3x
- Improved file checksum calculation speed
- Added k,M,G suffix for item unit sizes
- Added SHIFT key support for opening archives and containers when navigating
- Added scroll to active tab when refreshing or navigating in the file panel
- Added configurable buffer size for advanced copy method
- Added Viewer loading indicator when fetching remote files
- Added standard copy method toggle on Copy/Move window
- Added file copy/move error messages
- Added separate SCP option in the connection manager
- Added show button for directory hotlist preference
- Fixed invisible edit cursor when using a darker file panel color preset
- Fixed item renaming in the filelist canceling itself after a time interval
- Fixed item renaming selecting all text when accessed
- Fixed folder extension rename issue
- Fixed OPTION + SPACE quicklook behavior
- Fixed dropped folder copied/move as a file issue with Advanced Copy mode
- Fixed tab coloring issue with dark mode on
- Fixed file path text for SCP and FTP in Transfer Manager and file Copy windows
- Fixed Viewer Dark Mode readability
- Fixed Drag&Drop Storage coloring issues
- Fixed rare Get Info window freeze
- Fixed copy window incorrect size display
- Fixed sidebar info file preview image issue
- Fixed rare startup with no files shown issue
- Fixed Viewer not refreshing after fetching a remote file
- Fixed rare incorrect remote session handling issue
New in DCommander 3.5.1 (May 24, 2018)
- added SFTP/SCP public key authentication support
- added import and export network settions for connection manager
- added Reload button for file viewer
- improved Connection Manager Details user interface
- fixed copy from inside zip files not working in some cases
- minor bug fixes
New in DCommander 3.5.0 (Apr 7, 2018)
- added new Dark Mode visual theme for MacOS 10.10 and newer. You can toggle it from the Preferences
- added RegEx matching and case sensitive toggles for File Search
- improved File Search interface
- improved file copy speed on remote drives
- improved UI readability
- minor bug fixes
New in DCommander 3.2.1 (Apr 7, 2018)
- fixed FTPS/SCP authentication issues on some servers
- fixed file move with Advanced Copy Method not working correctly
New in DCommander 3.1.1 (Sep 30, 2017)
- Fixed startup freeze on macOS High Sierra.
New in DCommander 3.1 (Aug 11, 2017)
- fixed renaming issue while file is being overwritten by an external program
- fixed file move with Advanced Copy Method not working correctly
- improved compatibility with macOS High Sierra
- fixed reported occasional layout problems
- minor bug fixes
New in DCommander 3.0 (Mar 31, 2017)
- added Back/Forward buttons with history. Long-press the buttons to reveal the history menu.
- added Multi-Rename Tool (bulk renamer)
- added transfer manager panel. It shows the operations queue and history.
- added Background button for file copy and move operations
- added Retry ability for canceled or failed file transfers
- added Open button for completed transfers
- added sidebars with Favorites, Places and Drives. Each filelist can have it's own sidebar.
- added information sidebar with integrated QuickLook
- added Drag-Drop ability for the Dock icon. Simply drag a folder or file over the DCommander dock icon and it'll browse to it's location
- added right sidebar favorites/information toggle
- added window layout toggle (sidebar, 1 panel mode, 2 panels mode, infobar)
- added mirror column sizes option
- added drag/drop storage box in the sidebar
- added square brackets support for the parent item (...)
- added support for viewing and opening files directly on FTP/SFTP paths
- added unified tab bar
- added individual filelist tabs
- added SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, MD2 and MD5 checksum information for files
- added archive contents browsing override by pressing Shift when opening
- added DropBox, iCloud, GoogleDrive and MacFUSE filesystems support
- added Disconnect button in the active filelist when browsing FTP/SFTP servers
- added Advanced Copy Method for using a proprietary transfer procedure when copying or moving files
- improved Mount External Drive window usability
- completely rewritten FTP and SFTP implementations
- fixed occasional uncommitted CATransaction warnings
- fixed unknown size for certain container files
- fixed synchronization window left and right paths not storing after Compare
- improved container file size calculation speed
New in DCommander 2.9.0 (Aug 2, 2016)
- fixed crash when browsing certain zip files
- fixed reported startup glitch
- minor bug fixes
New in DCommander 2.8 (Jan 20, 2016)
- added automatic SCP password and keyboard-interactive authentication support
- added icons for connection status in connection manager
- added ability to navigate to specific folder using the Go To Folder command
- added Go To Folder option in the menubar and toolbar
- added support for navigating iCloud drives
- added Help button in the Preferences window
- added DSync and DFind link support
- added Mount Network Drive button in the connection manager
- added ability to Deactivate / Reactivate Premium versions
- improved readability in connection manager
- Viewer (F3) now includes inline search bar
- fixed incorrect scrolling to selected tab when opening a new DCommander instance with many tabs
- fixed SCP timeout bug
- fixed issues while uploading FTP folders
- fixed SCP renaming issue
- fixed case-insesitive renaming of local files
- fixed occasional rename not working issue
- fixed folder renaming issue (special names such as folder.1]] ) with square brackets activated
- fixed invalid context 0x0 issue on older Macs
- fixed French translation
- fixed German translation
New in DCommander 2.7.2 (Aug 19, 2015)
- fixed an issue with Reset All Settings after app crash
- fixed an issue with icons on the Synchronize window
- fixed an issue where the recovery dialog was detached from the main window when prompting to reset settings after a crash
- fixed QuickLook file navigation when "Alternate Spacebar action" is enabled
- fixed QuickLook console warning messages on newer versions of OS X
- fixed localization issue with Show/Hide system files label
- fixed German translation
New in DCommander 2.7.1 (Jul 14, 2015)
- added full SCP support
- added filelist selector color customization
- added Tutorials and Tips link in the menubar
- added better notifications for FTP/SCP errors
- added SCP drives in the drivebar and drive selector
- added custom terminal support (for example, you can now set iTerm as your terminal application)
- added activity indicator when DCommander takes longer to start
- added full remote SCP session restore on DCommander restart
- fixed blurry tabs on retina displays
- fixed interface text becoming blurred in some cases
- FTP sessions are now dynamic. This means they connect/disconnect automatically depending on usage
- changed permissions to symbolic notation
- Escape key now closes the View window when active (F3)
- tabs now retain remote sessions when changing between them, resulting in lower network bandwidth usage
- fixed brackets around folders not working
- fixed an issue where ZIP archives were not browsable due to uppercase extension
- fixed stability issues with certain FTP configurations
- fixed a bug where the ‘…’ item disappeared from the filelists
- fixed UI glitches when starting DCommander after a crash
- fixed instability with corrupt directory listings
- fixed remote transfer window not closing after succesfull transfers when using View(F3)
- fixed small network icon in the connection manager in certain cases
- fixed FTP download issue
- improved connection manager considerably
- improved default settings and window sizes
- improved German translation
New in DCommander 2.5 (Jan 8, 2015)
- space bar now selects or deselects files/folders in the current filelist
- added Alternate Spacebar action in the Preferences panel
- added Shift + click multiple selection capability
- added Reset All Settings prompt when DCommander was not shutdown properly
- improved memory usage
- improved HFS+ file listing speed
- improved user interface
- new icon
- fixed folder brackets [] not showing correctly under certain localizations
- fixed other minor bugs you probably didn't notice
New in DCommander 2.1.2 (Aug 27, 2014)
New in DCommander 2.1.1 (Aug 12, 2014)
- added Java EAR and WAR archive browsing support
- added XPI and ODT archive browsing support
- fixed Overwrite All skipping multiple items
- fixed duplicate folder adding a . after the name when brackets [] are enabled
- fixed CMD-I keyboard shortcut not showing the Get Info window
- fixed Viewer not initially setting a fixed-width font
- fixed Viewer "Open in Editor" function not using a custom editor if available
- fixed German localization
- minor bug fixes
New in DCommander 2.1 (Jul 24, 2014)
- added JAR archive browsing support
- added synchronize folders icon in the toolbar
- added Extended Attributes in the Get Info window
- changed viewer font to have a fixed pitch for better readability in ASCII and HEX views
- changed Get Info shortcut from Ctrl-Enter to CMD-I
- changed Inverse Selection keyboard shortcut to CMD-SHIFT-I
- changed close tab keyboard shortcut to CMD-W
- changed close window keyboard shortcut to CMD-SHIFT-W
- changed Attributes from decimal (511) to octal (777) format
- fixed pressing the clear button (x) in the search field opening a new Search window
- fixed deleted files not always moving to trash when Permanently delete files and folders is unselected
- fixed sorting by size not working properly when units other than bytes are selected
- fixed "Select all files with the same extension" sometimes selecting files with unrelated extensions if the file kind is the same
- fixed Automatically calculate container file size not working correctly
- fixed incorrect file size displayed in the Get Info window for large package files
- minor bugfixes
New in DCommander 2.0.1 (Jun 13, 2014)
- added manual language selector in the General Preferences panel
- added Polish translation
- added French translation
- fixed Compressing multiple files and folders in one pass
- fixed Custom Sync Tool selection on German and Czech translations
- Compress option now creates the archive in the same folder as the selection, with the name of the current folder
- fixed filelist columns hiding when changing languages
- fixed folders not ordering to top when using a different locale
- fixed "Overwrite All" button label mismatch when copying/moving files
- fixed Czech translation
- minor bugfixes
New in DCommander 2.0 (Jun 5, 2014)
- Added:
- Overwrite All option when copying/moving files
- new ftp connection manager with ability to store and modify previous connections
- new Mount a Remote Drive window
- colorize titlebar option to easily differentiate the main DCommander window from others
- automatic selection of the item below the cursor when right-clicking. If you already have multiple items selected, it will add the new item to your previous selection
- left and right arrow buttons for scrolling through tabs
- customizable item size units (Bytes/KiloBytes/MegaBytes/GigaBytes)
- folder compare and synchronization
- quicksearch for filelists (just start typing the name of a file or folder and it'll be automatically selected)
- ability to set a custom sync tool
- custom FTP support
- remote connection tab titles are now colorized with green to distinguish them from local paths
- Fixed:
- context menu showing when right-clicking on empty spaces in the filelist
- folder renaming when Display brackets [] is enabled
- an issue when drag/dropping items onto a folder in the file list
- open archive contents toggle not always working
- pixelized tab fonts on Retina display
- Cancel not immediately canceling file transfers
- ftp refresh issue
- improved memory usage
- improved copy/move speed
- removed DCommander version id from the titlebar
- visual tweaks
- minor bugfixes
- German and Czech translations
New in DCommander 1.5.0 (Feb 1, 2014)
- Added:
- Lynx-like folder navigation (using arrow keys)
- ability to browse ZIP archives like normal folders
- ability to open files inside archives without unpacking
- ability to view (F3) files inside archives without unpacking
- ability to selectively unpack files and folders from archives
- extension column for file lists
- split filenames into base names and extensions in the file list
- ability to edit file names and extensions separately
- ability to switch between renaming names and extensions by pressing Tab
- sort by file extension support
- "Search for text inside file" option in the internal search utility
- case sensitive search support
- improved file and folder search speed
- fullscreen mode for Viewer windows
- Media view mode for Viewer windows
- improved Viewer window interface
- dynamic Drive Bar buttons resizing if the main window is too small
- Reset All Settings button in the Preferences panel
- new Apps preferences panel
- Fixed:
- incorrect resolving of aliases pointing to folders
- sandbox issue when using an alias pointing to a folder
- reported crash on startup for some users
- function buttons bar not showing by default on first run
- minor bugfixes
New in DCommander 1.2 (May 21, 2013)
- added permissions column (Attr)
- added 6 color presets
- added ability to resize row height for font size smaller than 16
- added icons to folder hotlists
- added option to have a focus ring around the active file list
- added Custom Search Tool option
- added Copy Full Path option to the context menu
- UI improvements
- fixed inconsistent settings on first run
- fixed startup freeze on OSX 10.6
- fixed tab titles not showing on OSX 10.6
- fixed crash on dragging columns when filelist contains colored labels
- minor bugfixes
New in DCommander 1.1 (May 7, 2013)
- new Preferences window
- added ability to show/hide various parts of the main window's interface
- added ability to set custom external viewers and editors
- added support for forward delete key on wired keyboard
- added option to show prompt message before Copy/Move operations
- added option to show prompt message before clipboard drop operation
- added folder hotlist list menu (also accessible via CMD+H)
- added ability to show/hide file list columns
- added ability to change file list font
- added ability to change file list row size
- added ability to change the alternate background color
- added limited filesystem access support
- fixed unmounting DMGs not refreshing panels accordingly
- fixed cmd-c and cmd-v shortcuts not working in some cases
- fixed resizing main window causing visual glitches on the drive buttons bar
- fixed crash when viewing folders using the internal viewer (F3)
- fixed PgUp/PgDown/Home/End keys not behaving correctly
- fixed tab header pixelation on Retina displays
- fixed NAS volume delete issue
- fixed drivebar name cutoff
- all Preference settings are now applied dynamically, no need to refresh the file panels
- minor bugfixes
- modified Filesystem Access notification
- NOTE: If you don't see any items in the filelists after updating, please open DCommander Preferences, go to the Troubleshooting tab, click Request Filesystem Access, then click Allow. Restart DCommander and everything will show properly.
New in DCommander 1.0.9 (Mar 28, 2013)
- added full support for 32bit Macs on OSX 10.6
- added double-click to close tab option
- added cmd+delete shortcut for deleting files in addition to the default F8 hotkey
- added display label coloring option
- added bold text for folders option
- added item preview for the Get Info window
- added folder size calculation for Get Info window
- added Ctrl-Return keyboard shortcut to access the Get Info window for the selected item(s)
- improved file listing speed, particularly in folders with many different file types
- improved item icon clarity
- improved startup time with multiple tabs
- changed main window closing behavior. Clicking on the dock icon will now show the main window if it's not visible.
- fixed slow AFP/SMB share file listing
- fixed filesize text not updating correctly when switching tabs
- fixed invalid total file size if alias or volume files were present in the current path
- fixed an issue with expand/shrink selection window not showing correctly
- fixed QuickLook window not updating when pressing Tab or changing active file panel
- fixed copy/move window freezing for a few seconds before performing the operation
- fixed wrong folder size text on copy/move windows
- fixed unmount drive operations not being detected
- fixed removable media devices not showing in the drives menu when connected
- fixed right-click menu on multiple selected files only selecting one file
- fixed Move to Trash not working on OSX 10.6 and OSX 10.7 in some cases
- fixed an issue on OSX 10.6 where the main window would not appear after running DC for the first time
- fixed an issue on OSX 10.6 where the bottom shortcut buttons would not appear
- minor bug fixes
New in DCommander 1.0.8 (Mar 12, 2013)
- added tabs support
- added ability to customise colors for filelist background and texts
- added vertical and horizontal grid display option for filelists
- added "Reset Main Window" option in the Window menu in case the main window is no longer visible.
- added back Drives selection menu for easier volume selection
- added icons for the Drives selection menu
- added go to Root and Go back buttons below the drive selection bar
- added Tabs menu and keyboard shortcuts for full keyboard control
- added Next/Previous Tab menu options and keyboard shortcuts
- added ability to rearrange tabs
- added automatic Tabs restoring when restarting DCommander
- added Connect toolbar button to quickly mount network drives
- added items counter at the bottom of file lists, with realtime size calculation of selected files
- added multi-item text notification when showing Delete alert message
- fixed file list focus bug where the selected items were not ignored
- fixed disk size display error when disk is completely full
- fixed slow start with multiple tabs opened
- fixed an issue with OSX 10.6.8
- minor bugfixes
New in DCommander 1.0.7 (Feb 28, 2013)
- added scrollbable drive button bar
- added new File Search window and shortcut (Option+F7 shortcut)
- added Sub-Folder searching ability
- added in-line renaming of items in the filelist (Option+Return shortcut)
- added quick item selection by pressing alpha-numeric keys in the filelists directly
- added New Folder and New Empty File to the right-click menu
- added Show/Hide hidden files toggle in the toolbar
- added more real-time information for copy/move windows
- added Overwrite, Skip and Cancel All confirmation dialog for file operations
- added ability to have multiple File Search windows opened at once
- drag/drop file copying and moving now use the new File Transfer window
- big performance improvement when copying and moving files
- fixed "Permanently delete files" option to not always applying
- fixed file list focus bug
- fixed Get Info window buttons not working properly
- fixed quicklook not always showing current selected items
- fixed slow file copy/move progress-bar updating
- fixed freezes while copying large files in bulk
- fixed DCommander temporarily freezing when dropping files from external apps
- fixed an issue where multiple files were not moved to trash when specified
- minor bug fixes
New in DCommander 1.0.6 (Feb 20, 2013)
- added Mark menu, allowing better control over item selection
- added Expand and Shrink selection dialog with wildcard support
- added Save/Restore selection
- added Commands menu
- added sorting column repositioning. Simply click&drag a column to change it's position
- added ability to create a new empty file at location
- added Created Date and Last Modified Date preferences for the Date column
- added Refresh Panels button in the Preferences window to preview changes faster
- added Option+Enter shortcut to open Get Info window for selected item
- added Report a Bug button in the Troubleshooting preferences panel
- added Network menu, allowing to mount network shares
- added Sharing and Network Preferences in the Network menu
- fixed scrolling to selected item when going back to a previous folder
- fixed invalid file operations on root (...) item
- fixed newly created folder not being selected or in view for large file lists
- fixed copy/move progress percentage not updating in all cases
- minor bugfixes
New in DCommander 1.0.5 (Feb 12, 2013)
- UI improvements
- fixed tab focus not on the file list on initial run
- added Group folders while sorting option (now default)
- added Troubleshooting tab in the Preferences panel
- improved Viewer
- added item count at the bottom of file lists
- added double-clicking on the splitter now centers it
- fixed double-click on sorting headers opening selected item(s)
- added persistent splitter positioning through multiple runs
- option+space now shows Quicklook directly in fullscreen
- fixed large file copy/move progress not showing correctly
- main window restore now preserves Fullscreen state
- fixed Allow Filesystem Access requesting on every app run