Friday, February 28, 2014

How to create a shortcut button to a specific folder in total commander

I love total commander, it is my favorite file manager and I really miss it on my mac :(
Since I use it very often I found useful  to define shortcuts for some of my working folders.
How did I do this?
It's easy.

In this example, I will add a button to the toolbar pointing to my foo folder present on my C: drive, so it's path will be C:\foo

1)  In TotalCommander, select the Button Bar... entry from the Configuration menu.
All the buttons available at the moment on the toolbar are displayed.  

2) Click Add

3)  Fill the fields Command and Parameters as shown below:

Command: CD
Parameters: C:\foo


Useless to say, if you want a shortcut to another folder, just change the field Parameters accordingly.

4) Select a nice icon for the field Icon file. You can choose one your own .ico file by clicking on the >> button.

That's it!

PS
You can change the position of your shortcut too.


7 comments:

  1. Thank you so much!

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  2. Thank you for the post. Is there anyway to make the folder shortcuts open in the same pane (same side) the focus is on? I can't figure that out because whenever i'm working on one side and want to open a shortcut on the same side it goes to the other side.

    Thanks

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    1. HI,
      this is the default behavior. Is your button configured as the figure in the post? (I added it for you ;))

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  3. Hi, I have been surfing the net for HOURS to find a solution for this problem - and finally I found your site! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ADVICE! (it looks quite simple - once you know how to do it...) All the best a diky moc :)

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  4. THANK YOU VERY MUCH BRO

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  5. Thank you so much! Very good !!!

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