--- title: "Folder Shortcuts" url: "https://courses.osherove.com/courses/commanding-total-commander/folder-shortcuts.md" canonical: "https://courses.osherove.com/courses/commanding-total-commander/folder-shortcuts/" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Lesson 5 of 15 in Commanding Total Commander (First Steps), 1:49. 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/" --- # Folder Shortcuts 1. [Courses](https://courses.osherove.com/#courses) 2. [Commanding Total Commander](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/commanding-total-commander/) 3. First Steps Lesson 5 of 15 Duration: 1:49 [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj448obGEyo) ## In this lesson Roy opens the directory shortcuts menu with Ctrl-D, adds the current directory to it under a name, and marks one letter of the name so that pressing that letter in the menu goes straight to the folder. When a shortcut also saves the target directory, choosing it switches the other pane as well, so the two directories work as a couple. ## Transcript 292 words [\[00:02\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj448obGEyo&t=2s) One last thing I forgot to actually tell you about is directory shortcuts. If I press Ctrl D, you see that I have this interesting menu. If I press configure, these are the directory shortcuts I have. I'm going to delete the items so you can see what I'm talking about. Let's say I always want to get go to the I'm going to press tab here and go to the moved folder on the left. If I always want to get back to it, I can put a shortcut to it. add current directory and I can call it moved or whatever I want. [\[00:33\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj448obGEyo&t=33s) And if I want it to be keyboard friendly, I can even put an amp% in one of the letters. Let's say under O. So it looks like this. M% O. And so this way I can always get back to it. If I press backspace multiple times and press Ctrl D, I have this. I can just press O and I'll get to this directory. Now, here's another cool thing. I can remove the current directory. Let's say that. And I'm going to add it again. [\[01:05\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj448obGEyo&t=65s) But when it's when it's added, I can also save the target directory. The target directory will be saved. That means that whenever I go to this directory, the other pane will be moved switched to the directory that's currently active in it. So that now these directories work as a couple. I'll go back in both of them. We'll go to D, control D, go to moved. And you'll see that now the other tab has been switched automatically. [\[01:37\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj448obGEyo&t=97s) So directory shortcuts are a very powerful feature in Total Commander. You can change the title or whatever you want. [Previous lesson Moving Around, Basic File And Folder Commands](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/commanding-total-commander/moving-around-basic-file-and-folder-commands/) [Next lesson Renaming and Zipping](https://courses.osherove.com/courses/commanding-total-commander/renaming-and-zipping/) --- ## 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/