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# Quick starter

## Examples for using the quick starter

### Creating a new repository file

the following steps to create a repository file to find files from the windows folder ...

Here's a hack I created and it seems to work!

Install everything and everything cli (add cli tool to path) from voidtools website.

Define favorite toolbar.
Add new item:

Name: Everything
Program or Folder: C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe
Parameter: -NoLogo -NoProfile -Command "& { $fc ...

help > about reads: "FreeCommander 32-bit is free to use and distribute..."

However, I'm running the 64-bit (donor) version. Seems like that wording should be clarified.

A crazy hack I came up with. Requires ES ("Download Everything Command-line Interface") from https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/

Save as es_fc.cmd:


@echo off
setlocal
if "%~1"=="" GOTO :EOF

set TEMP_FCC=%TEMP%\out.fcc
echo #FreeCommander file cart>"%TEMP_FCC%"
es.exe "%~1" -txt -sort name /a-d ...

For anyone interested, here's what I use for pdf/epub:

Programs > External Viewers
Filter: *.pdf;*.xps;*.djvu;*.cbr;*cbz;*.chm;*.epub;*.mobi;*.txt
Program: C:\Users\milnak\AppData\Local\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe
Parameters: -esc-to-exit -presentation -view "book view" -reuse-instance "%ActivItem ...

I clicked "activate jump list" but right clicking the pinned FreeCommander XE icon in Windows 11 doesn't show the list. Am I doing something wrong?

ctrl-f (Find)
file name: .vs;debug;release
[x] search in subfolders up to level: 0
Timestamp/Size/Attr: Attributes: [x] Directory

click "Find".
Select all and delete.

+1 on on this.

I've created a toolbar button as such:

Name: ytdlp-mp3
Program: yt-dlp.exe
Parameter: --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --console-title --ignore-errors --output "%(title)s [%(id)s].%(ext)s" %Dlg%

Rather than needing %Dlg% to get the URL, I'd prefer a way to have a popup as ...

I've created a temporary workaround using a toolbar item:

Program: %windir%\System32\cmd.exe
Parameter: /k %windir%\System32\fc.exe /b "%ActivDir%\%ActivItem%" "%InactivDir%\%InactivItem%"

But this isn't ideal.

Maybe I'm missing it, but I see an option to generate checksums and verify checksums, but if I have a file in the left pane and one in the right pane, is there a way to do a binary comparison of them?

Here's how I configured FastCopy for FreeCommander.

Change program path below to match where you installed fastcopy to.

Tools > Favorites tools > Favorite tools edit... (Shift-Ctrl-Y)

Add new toolbar (Ins)
Name: FastCopy

Click FastCopy toolbar and add these:

Name: Copy
Program: C:\Users ...