File Manager – Ant Commander Pro 4.0

Screenshot of Ant Commander Pro

After many months of development and many months in beta, I’m pleased to announce the release of the file manager Ant Commander Pro 4.0.

This is a major refactoring of Ant Commander, so here are only the main changes:

  • Based on a new application framework
    • Signed and notarized .dmg file for Mac OS X
    • Install via Homebrew
    • Signed executable than include the Java runtime
    • New about dialog with more information (changes, licenses, system info, …)
    • More skins, including a few dark themes
    • Possibility to zoom the UI
    • Window always on top and translucent
    • Icons support HiDPI screens
  • File operations
    • Moved file operations from Apache Ant tasks to be done in Java via Apache Commons VFS API
    • Migrated from Apache Commons VFS 1 to 2.10.0-SNAPSHOT
    • Improved showing file operation(s) progress
    • Detect file conflict before executing file operation
    • Many new file operations
      • Create multiple directories
      • Duplicate file multiple times by number or by list
      • Categorize/Classify files. Move file to subdirectories based on file date or pattern
      • File statistics (size, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, CRC32)
      • Verify file checksum
      • Copy selected panel image to clipboard
      • New file from clipboard
      • New file from template
      • Open location with OS default file manager
      • Split file
      • Combine files
      • Rename extension
      • Multiple files rename (find/replace, regular expression, use file date/time, truncate, counter, change case, remove diacritics)
      • Touch files (set last modified time to now)
      • Change date and time of selected files (last modified attribute)
      • Find duplicates in directories
      • Compare directories for duplicated files
      • Diff directories
      • Git add
      • Git ignore
      • Change last modified time of file to creation time
      • Unify files timestamp to most or least recent
      • Empty file content
  • New Panels
  • Improved navigation
    • Breadcrumbs
    • History, copy path, paste path buttons on top of panel
    • Refactored Go To window
    • Alt+single click to go through directories
    • Navigate from the search field
    • Navigate to other file from text editor
  • Improved search field
    • Search sub-directories
    • Search compressed files
    • Search by regular expression, date, time ago, file size, file type, git status, containing text or regular expression, directory name
    • Combine criteria with & (and) and | (or) (e.g. >5kb & <5days)
    • Negate criteria with ! (e.g. !.backup)
    • Enter to execute the first file, or go to directory if it’s a directory
    • Control+Enter to select first file in its directory
    • Show progress bar for long searches with a stop button
    • Alt+A to select all viewable files
  • New icon and website

As you see, it’s indeed a big change, so go to https://www.antcommander.com to download and discover more with the screenshots and videos.