cwdio documentation

cwdio needs no manual to start — it opens as two folder panels and behaves like one. These pages exist for the moment you want the next thing: a shortcut, a setting, an explanation of what a tool will and will not do. Every page is also available as plain text for assistants.

Guides

Getting started with cwdio Install, first launch, and the ten things to try in the first ten minutes. cwdio keyboard shortcuts — the complete default keymap Every default chord, grouped by menu, with what it does. Orthodox F-keys plus VS Code-style developer chords; all rebindable. Install, update and uninstall cwdio Installer vs portable, how each learns about a new version, verifying a download, and removing cwdio cleanly. Troubleshooting cwdio SmartScreen, the crash-recovery dialog, logs, update states, the Explorer menu on Windows 11, and reporting a bug. Licensing and Founding Users What a Founding User is, how the email claim works, what the licence key does (and does not do), and the tiers at 1.0. Switching from Total Commander to cwdio What carries over from Total Commander (most of the keys), what is different, and what is missing. Switching from Windows Explorer to cwdio Two panels, F5/F6, Space, Ctrl+Z, and the tools Explorer never had — while Explorer stays your default.

Feature reference

One page per capability — what it does, how to open it, its default shortcut, and its limits. See all features →

Shift+F2 Bulk rename with a live preview Find/replace and regex, counters, case, crop, prefix/suffix, EXIF and audio-tag tokens, saved recipes, AI suggestions — a live old→new table, conflicts flagged, one undo. Ctrl+Shift+G Git in the file list — status, changes, branches, history Status badges in the file list, a changes view with stage/commit/stash, a branch switcher, a history view with patches, and fetch/pull/push. Remote servers as folders — SFTP, FTP and FTPS SFTP, FTP and FTPS mount as folders; transfers use the queue; a real SSH shell shares the connection; credentials stay OS-encrypted. Ctrl+Shift+F Search — by name, inside files, or by meaning Name search, gitignore-aware content grep, optional semantic search. Results are live rows: F5/F6/F8/F2/F4 work on them. Ctrl+` Terminal sync — the panel and the shell always agree Navigate a panel and the terminal follows; type cd and the panel follows. Multiple shells, each tracking its own pane — including over SSH. F5 Transfers you can trust: verified copies, a queue that survives F5/F6 through a queue: verified copies, resume after a disconnect, a journal that survives a restart, per-file skip and retry, taskbar progress, an Operations drawer with history.