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Version notes

Peach Commander is a pre-1.0 preview. The current build carries version 0.1.0. This page summarizes what works today, what is still on the way, and the honest limits of this release, so you know what to expect before you install it.

Peach Commander is a universal app — it runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs — and requires macOS 13 (Ventura) or later.

What works today

The core of a dual-panel file manager is in place and usable for day-to-day work:

  • Dual-panel browsing with tabs, a path bar, a drive bar that lists every mounted volume live (including disk images), and a status bar that summarizes your selection. Press Tab to switch panels.
  • File operations — copy (F5), move (F6), delete, and create — with an optional background transfer manager so long copies don't block you, plus drag-and-drop between panels and to and from Finder.
  • Two keyboard schemes so you can work the way you already think: a classic dual-commander layout and a macOS-native layout. See Keyboard shortcuts.
  • Archives as folders — open ZIP, 7z, TAR, and RAR archives and step into them like any other folder. See Working with archives.
  • Deep search across names and contents, including regular expressions, hex, text-encoding matching, searching inside archives, and Spotlight. See Finding files.
  • File utilities — multi-rename, folder synchronize, compare, duplicate finder, and checksums. See Multi-rename and Comparing and syncing.
  • Built-in networking — FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, WebDAV, and SOCKS5, plus a resuming HTTP downloader, with a saved-sites connection manager. Passwords are stored only in the macOS Keychain, never in plain files. See FTP and SFTP.
  • Viewers and editors — a text and image lister with Quick Look, a text editor with find and replace, a hex editor, a binary compare tool, and a diff viewer.
  • Native macOS integration — Quick Look (Cmd+Y), the Share sheet, Open With, Finder Tags, and richer Get Info details. See macOS integration.
  • Plugins and an SDK — five plugin types are supported, and settings can be imported from a Total Commander wincmd.ini. See Plugins.

Peach Commander collects no telemetry and transmits nothing about your usage automatically. See Privacy and security.

Still coming

A few things are planned but not yet enabled in this build:

  • Automatic updates. The groundwork for background auto-update is present but not wired up, so this preview will not update itself. Watch the project's release page for new builds and install them manually for now.
  • Finalized signing and notarization. Developer-ID code signing and Apple notarization are being finalized. Until that is complete, a preview build is not signed, so macOS Gatekeeper may warn that the app is from an unidentified developer the first time you open it. To run it, right-click (or Control-click) the app and choose Open, then confirm.
  • Instant folder refresh. A panel currently checks the active folder for outside changes about every 2 seconds rather than the instant a file appears. You can always refresh manually — see the limitations below.

Known limitations

This is a preview, so some features have honest limits worth knowing before you rely on them. In brief:

  • Very large ZIP files (ZIP64) may not open in the built-in reader.
  • Changing file attributes over SFTP/SCP has no effect in this version.
  • The Download from URL shortcut can conflict with a Go-menu shortcut; start the download from the Net menu to be sure.
  • Panels notice outside changes on a short delay (about 2 seconds); refresh the active panel with F2 or Ctrl+R if you don't want to wait.
  • The preview build is unsigned (see above).

For the full list, workarounds, and details, read Known limitations.

A note on version numbers

Version numbers on this page come straight from the app and its changelog. As a pre-1.0 preview, features and shortcuts may still change between builds, and nothing here should be read as a promise of a specific future version. If your copy behaves differently from what this page describes, check the version shown in the Help menu against the number at the top of this page.