Here is the batch file I attach to a button on the toolbar. Hopefully the next version of FC will capture toolbar settings within the Layouts. It works nicely even for switching just 1 or 2 toolbars on/off. Its easy now to switch the toolbars and restart FC by pressing one button in the FC toolbar. Ok Textrawler still remains my favorite tool for file search/replace, but for the time being, I found this CLI search and replace tool (rxfind) that supports regex. Here are the 3 x regex commands I used to do the job (the file itself is generated by TextCrawler). If the whole job could be done with a single batch file it would be very fast indeed (even for just 1 or 2 toolbars). I have posted in the authors forum begging for some command line options to run the script and pass in the target file (freecommander.ini).

But if you are like me and have several, it works out a fair bit quicker. There's a few clicks involved (load TextCrawler, load batch script, run it etc) so its probably not worth it if you only have 1 or 2 toolbars to toggle. I did try multiple ini files but found it a lot of work to propagate changes whenever I tweaked the main setup. Now I can switch all 6 toolbars on and off by running freecommander.ini through this program (TextCrawler v2.0 Beta). So today I sat down and compared the freecommander.ini files and found a nice regex tool with a batch search and replace mode. I got tired of turning 6 toolbars on and off (using toolbars -> customize, toggle 12 checkboxes).

I use different sets of toolbars on my FC depending on location (different network shares etc), monitor size (on my htpc I turn off all but essentials).

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