Orchard Commander 2.0.0

Orchard Commander 2.0.0 is a new implementation of the app in Rust. It has the same features, keys, menus and settings as 1.1.1. It starts faster, handles large folders without freezing, uses less memory and runs on older macOS versions.

Faster and lighter

Measured against 1.1.1:

	1.1.1	2.0.0
Start until the window shows	0.52 s	0.23 s
Listing a folder with 100,000 files	1.8 s, the window doesn't respond meanwhile	0.17 s, the window keeps responding
Multi-rename preview of 5,000 files	10.5 s	14 ms
Memory with a 100,000-file folder open	204 MB	81 MB

System requirements

• macOS 12 Monterey or later on Apple silicon. 1.x needed macOS 14.
• Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit, as before.
• Linux x86-64 with glibc 2.35 or later, for example Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12 or Fedora 36 and later.
• RAR archives open without unrar or 7-Zip installed. RAR support is now part of the app.

Your settings carry over

Settings, bookmarks, saved connections, known SFTP hosts, your color schemes and the passwords saved in the system keychain are read from the same places and in the same format as in 1.x. Nothing needs to be imported. On Windows the installer upgrades an existing 1.x installation in place. On macOS, replace the app or run brew upgrade --cask orchard-commander. On Linux, install the new .deb or .rpm over the old one.

What works differently from 1.x

• Go to (⌘G / Ctrl+G) with a relative path such as src/app or ../other now looks for it in the active panel's folder.
• Clicking a column header sorts the entries already shown and doesn't read the folder again. For a server folder that means no wait. To see changes made on a server since the folder was opened, press ⌘R / Ctrl+R.
• The color picker in the color scheme editor is now a dialog of the app itself on every system. It has basic colors, a hue and saturation field, a brightness bar and a field for the hex value.
• Line spacing (Options → Settings) now changes the row height everywhere in the window, not only in the file lists.

Licenses

The packages include the license texts of the third-party components: FFmpeg (LGPL, with where to get its source), PDFium, UnRAR and the Rust libraries the app is built from. They are in the licenses folder of the app, and in /usr/share/doc/orchard-commander/ on Linux. Options → About Orchard Commander opens this folder.

Downloads

System	Files
macOS 12 or later, Apple silicon	Orchard-Commander-macOS.dmg (signed and notarized), or brew upgrade --cask orchard-commander
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit	Orchard-Commander-Setup.exe (installer), Orchard-Commander-Windows.zip (portable)
Linux, x86-64	Orchard-Commander-Linux-x86_64.AppImage, .deb, .rpm, Orchard-Commander-Linux.tar.gz