--- title: "Different File Colors" url: "https://courses.osherove.com/courses/commanding-total-commander/different-file-colors.md" canonical: "https://courses.osherove.com/courses/commanding-total-commander/different-file-colors/" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Lesson 8 of 15 in Commanding Total Commander (File Ninja: Searching, Filtering and Selecting Files), 1:30. Free video by Roy Osherove." usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Different File Colors 1. [Courses](https://courses.osherove.com/#courses) 2. [Commanding Total Commander](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/commanding-total-commander/) 3. File Ninja: Searching, Filtering and Selecting Files Lesson 8 of 15 Duration: 1:30 [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y_Ui42jOTA) ## In this lesson Roy uses the colors page of the configuration options to define colors by file type, making all .config files red. With Ctrl-B flattening the folders, the config files are then easy to find, which he finds useful when many files share a name but have different extensions. ## Transcript 207 words [\[00:05\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y_Ui42jOTA&t=5s) Now, let's talk about coloring. One of the nicest features that I like about Total Commander is that you can configure it to show different file types in different colors. For example, if I know that I always want to edit CSR project files or CS files or config files. Let's make sure that all config files have the same color. So, I'm going to go to configuration options and under colors [\[00:36\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y_Ui42jOTA&t=36s) Here I can change the font color etc. And what I care about is define colors by file type. So, let's add something. Let's say that everything.config and I press okay will have a red color from this moment on. When I press okay and okay again, you can see that immediately packages.config has changed colors. Now let me press CtrlB to flatten all the files so we can see everything. [\[01:08\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y_Ui42jOTA&t=68s) Let's see if we can find all the config files very easily. And you can see it's very easy to find all config files right now. So that's a very nice and simple way to make your life just easier. Especially if you have a lot of files with the same name and different extensions, it's a very easy way to find them around. [Previous lesson Selecting by Extension, Custom Selection, Flattening and Filtering](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/commanding-total-commander/selecting-by-extension-custom-selection-flattening-and-filtering/) [Next lesson Searching and 'Feed to Listbox'](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/commanding-total-commander/searching-and-feed-to-listbox/) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/