17 December 2015

2015 Holiday Sale - Half price!

To celebrate the end of another fine year of Directory Opus development, GP Software is pleased to announce the 2015 Holiday sale is now on!

Until December 26th, everything Directory Opus-related is 50% off! That means:

  • Directory Opus Light is 50% off.
  • Directory Opus Pro is 50% off.
  • Upgrades from Opus 10 or earlier to Opus 11 are 50% off.
  • Extra licences are 50% off.
  • Optional features like Advanced FTP and USB export are 50% off.
It's all 50% off! :)

To take advantage of this sale, use the coupon code HALFPRICE2015 before December 27th.
We hope you've had a great 2015. Enjoy the holiday season and we wish you a fantastic year in 2016!

All the best,
Greg & Jon
GP Software, Brisbane, Australia

Directory Opus 11.17

Directory Opus 11.17 is now available as a free update for all Directory Opus 11 users.

Download:

Changes:

This stable update includes the following new change in addition to everything from the 11.16.x beta updates:

11.17:
  • Enabled preservation of folder dates when copying to FTP sites.
11.16.1 beta:
  • Fixed an error uploading to some SSH SFTP sites.
  • The combination of Single Click and Full Row Select modes now interprets clicks anywhere on the line as a double-click, instead of only on the name part. (Unless Preferences / Miscellaneous / Advanced: single_click_rename is on.)
  • Fixed scrollbars and full row selection rectangles not updating to account for bold labels in auto-sized columns when changing folders.
  • Windows 10: Open With > Choose Default Program now lets you set a default program again, not just select which program is used to open the file once.
  • Breadcrumbs path field now respects the Select previous folder when going up Preferences setting by default. The selectprevious and noselectprevious args can be used to override this.
  • The Drives List drop-down will now take you to the root of the drive if you select the drive you are already on. (Previously, it did nothing, even when the curdir argument was not specified.). When the curdir argument is used this must be enabled by adding the rootmode argument as well. The same change also applies to the Go DRIVEBUTTONS command when CURDIR argument is used.
  • Metadata panel defaults to the current folder when you add cover art. (Since the cover art is usually already in the same folder as the music.)
  • Metadata panel would show coverart unghosted if you selected one file, then ctrl-selected another with different art. Both covers should be ghosted unless changed or in both files.
  • Fixed Windows Search results from the previous query coming into the results collection if you changed the query while the previous one was about to return results.
  • Fixed libraries pointing at network paths loading slowly if localized paths were enabled.
  • Fix for status bar which could appear over some lister elements if it was turned off and you switched to dual display.
  • Tooltips in some list controls (mainly in Preferences, not the file display) could show text for the item above the mouse pointer in some situations.
  • Fixed cosmetic issue with Thumbnails mode where tiny thumbnails (or huge fonts) could cause labels to draw on top of each other in extreme cases.
  • Fixed cosmetic issue with Tiles mode and the Details mode Thumbnail column. The case of CD cover thumbnails could grow larger than the cover art inside it.
  • Fix for the script log not showing all script output when scripts generated a huge volume of messages at once.
  • Fixed memory leak when using script columns.
  • Fixed memory leak each time a Rename or Column script was called for a file.
  • Fixed scripting doubleClickData.mouse always showing "none" outside of Details and Power modes.
  • Fix for script columns not working for all items in folders with around 10,000 items or more.
  • Fix for crash which could occur with some script code. e.g. "Set x = Nothing, DOpus.Output x"
  • Windows 10: The folder tree no longer shows duplicate copies of removable drives under both Desktop and This PC branches (sometimes reported as empty drives being shown).
  • AudioTags plugin now handles incorrect FLAC files with ID3 data before the "fLaC" header by skipping over it.
  • Fixed a number of issues with high DPI displays.
11.16.2 beta:
  • The thumbnail size slider can now be made to preserve the currently set aspect ratio, by adding the "preserve" keyword to the Args field when editing the field's underlying command.
  • The thumbnail size slider, and Show THUMBNAILSIZE by default, now affect hidden folder tabs as well as the visible ones.
  • Static context menu items that have localized strings for labels now work if they use an environment variable (e.g. @%CommonProgramFiles%\...) to load a string from a DLL.
  • Copy MAKELINK AS now guards against creating a shortcut on top of the file being pointed to.
  • Fixed Create Multiple Folders checkbox not always redrawing immediately if toggled via the keyboard.
  • Clicking the Sync panel's source/dest swap button now also swaps the lock states of the two path fields.
  • The Find and Dupes panels now automatically unlock their folder lists when the lists are modified.
  • Fixed crash when changing Find In folder via the browse dialog in specific circumstances.
  • Fixed the new destination tab opened for Find Results being made the source if it triggered dual display opening and the global option to open the dual display as source was on.
  • Renaming the case of things inside Rar and 7z archives now works.
  • Adding files from collections (including search results) to archives is now faster for Zip and now possible for plugin formats (7z, RAR, etc.).
  • If you launch a folder that is already open in the destination side of a dual-display lister, that side will now be made the source, so you can immediately use the folder via the keyboard.
  • Fixed copied folders gaining the A attribute when preserving attributes, if NTFS ADS metadata for them was also copied.
  • Fixed metadata panel only allowing the mouse wheel to increase, not decrease, the MP3 year tag if it was empty before clicking on it.
  • If you ran the Duplicate Finder with nothing defined for the output collection, the Select button did not work.
  • High DPI: Fixed the Advanced Button Editor toolbar covering the first line of the edit control at high DPI, if the dialog had its minimal size.
11.16.3 beta:
  • Opus now attempts to detect when third-party DLLs incorrectly call the WSACleanup() function, which can cause Opus FTP to stop working. If an incorrect call is detected Opus will block it and inform you of the faulty DLL's name.
  • If Opus detects it is running elevated on a machine with UAC enabled, it now displays "ADMINISTRATOR" in the titlebar so it is easy to detect. It also adds warnings beside Preferences options related to things which only work when Opus is run normally, like Explorer Replacement and Desktop Double-Click. (See our related guide for more information. Generally, you should use the built-in UAC support and Administrator Mode rather than run the whole program elevated.)
  • SSH - Updated putty to 0.66 (minor changes only).
  • Windows 10: Double-clicks on PDF files now work on a vanilla Windows 10 machine. (May also fix double-click issues with some other file types that don't have a file type class registered.)
  • Fix for drag & drop not working from Calibre to Opus.
  • Fix for crash which could happen when holding down a hotkey for several seconds, triggering folder read/refresh, with either scripts diverting the read to a different folder or a folder that takes a long time to read.
  • Fixed problem that could cause TortoiseSVN status icons to not update after a commit.
11.16.4 beta:
  • The Go command has a new TOFRONT argument which makes the lister the active window and brings it to the front. This can be useful if you need to send Opus a single-line command from an external program and want to both change folders and activate the window.
  • Fixed 11.16.3 breaking TSVN overlays in some cases, and possibly some other shell extensions which used WinSock in certain ways.
  • Set COLUMNSTOGGLE=columnlist,insert now inserts nearest where you right-clicked, instead of always inserting to the left of the column you clicked on.
  • The default column header context menu uses COLUMNSTOGGLE=columnlist,insert now.
  • Button editor menus for COLUMNSTOGGLE now include the insert argument.
  • The list under Preferences / Display / Fields now only draws items in custom font styles/colors if they are enabled.
  • Select Folder dialog (e.g. from Find panel's browse button) no longer selects the special Local Harddrives item when it isn't supposed to, and now does select it when it is supposed to.
  • Windows 10 and 8.1: Select Folder dialog (e.g. from Find panel's browse button) now filters the This PC (aka My Computer) branch to exclude things which are not drive roots, removing the profile folder clutter Windows has put there.
  • The "Allow file selection when clicking..." mouse options are now more consistent with their descriptions, between Details/Power and other modes, and with how they handle selection vs deselection.
  • Fix for lister not coming to the front if "Allow file selection when clicking to switch source/destination state" was turned off and the lister was activated by clicking on a file outside of Details and Power modes.
  • Improved UAC elevation "ADMINISTRATOR" warnings added in 11.16.3 to exclude built-in admin account if not subject to UAC.
  • Fixed a crash if you closed the Customize dialog when you had a context menu's submenu displayed.
11.16.5 beta:
  • Fixed breadcrumbs path field sometimes showing the wrong icon for the current folder when editing the path, and in the drop-down list.
  • Fixed path field drop-downs ending up with multiple items for the same folder if the Recent list was disabled.
  • Fixed Breadcrumbs and Recent path field drop-downs using the per-lister History limit to trim the Recent list, if they are displaying it.
  • Improvement to icon refresh after e.g. TortoiseSVN commit.
  • Fixed bug which stopped the FTP Quick Connect function from working when selecting a site from the dropdown list.

7 December 2015

Directory Opus 11.16.5 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.16.5 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Download:


Changes:

  • Fixed breadcrumbs path field sometimes showing the wrong icon for the current folder when editing the path, and in the drop-down list.
  • Fixed path field drop-downs ending up with multiple items for the same folder if the Recent list was disabled.
  • Fixed Breadcrumbs and Recent path field drop-downs using the per-lister History limit to trim the Recent list, if they are displaying it.
  • Improvement to icon refresh after e.g. TortoiseSVN commit.
  • Fixed bug which stopped the FTP Quick Connect function from working when selecting a site from the dropdown list.

3 December 2015

Directory Opus 11.16.4 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.16.4 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Download:


Changes:

  • The Go command has a new TOFRONT argument which makes the lister the active window and brings it to the front. This can be useful if you need to send Opus a single-line command from an external program and want to both change folders and activate the window.
  • Fixed 11.16.3 breaking TSVN overlays in some cases, and possibly some other shell extensions which used WinSock in certain ways.
  • Set COLUMNSTOGGLE=columnlist,insert now inserts nearest where you right-clicked, instead of always inserting to the left of the column you clicked on.
  • The default column header context menu uses COLUMNSTOGGLE=columnlist,insert now.
  • Button editor menus for COLUMNSTOGGLE now include the insert argument.
  • The list under Preferences / Display / Fields now only draws items in custom font styles/colors if they are enabled.
  • Select Folder dialog (e.g. from Find panel's browse button) no longer selects the special Local Harddrives item when it isn't supposed to, and now does select it when it is supposed to.
  • Windows 10 and 8.1: Select Folder dialog (e.g. from Find panel's browse button) now filters the This PC (aka My Computer) branch to exclude things which are not drive roots, removing the profile folder clutter Windows has put there.
  • The "Allow file selection when clicking..." mouse options are now more consistent with their descriptions, between Details/Power and other modes, and with how they handle selection vs deselection.
  • Fix for lister not coming to the front if "Allow file selection when clicking to switch source/destination state" was turned off and the lister was activated by clicking on a file outside of Details and Power modes.
  • Improved UAC elevation "ADMINISTRATOR" warnings added in 11.16.3 to exclude built-in admin account if not subject to UAC.
  • Fixed a crash if you closed the Customize dialog when you had a context menu's submenu displayed.

26 November 2015

Directory Opus 11.16.3 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.16.3 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Download:


Changes:

  • Opus now attempts to detect when third-party DLLs incorrectly call the WSACleanup() function, which can cause Opus FTP to stop working. If an incorrect call is detected Opus will block it and inform you of the faulty DLL's name.
  • If Opus detects it is running elevated on a machine with UAC enabled, it now displays "ADMINISTRATOR" in the titlebar so it is easy to detect. It also adds warnings beside Preferences options related to things which only work when Opus is run normally, like Explorer Replacement and Desktop Double-Click. (See our related guide for more information. Generally, you should use the built-in UAC support and Administrator Mode rather than run the whole program elevated.)
  • SSH - Updated putty to 0.66 (minor changes only).
  • Windows 10: Double-clicks on PDF files now work on a vanilla Windows 10 machine. (May also fix double-click issues with some other file types that don't have a file type class registered.)
  • Fix for drag & drop not working from Calibre to Opus.
  • Fix for crash which could happen when holding down a hotkey for several seconds, triggering folder read/refresh, with either scripts diverting the read to a different folder or a folder that takes a long time to read.
  • Fixed problem that could cause TortoiseSVN status icons to not update after a commit.

13 November 2015

Directory Opus 11.16.2 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.16.2 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Download:


Changes:

  • The thumbnail size slider can now be made to preserve the currently set aspect ratio, by adding the "preserve" keyword to the Args field when editing the field's underlying command.
  • The thumbnail size slider, and Show THUMBNAILSIZE by default, now affect hidden folder tabs as well as the visible ones.
  • Static context menu items that have localized strings for labels now work if they use an environment variable (e.g. @%CommonProgramFiles%\...) to load a string from a DLL.
  • Copy MAKELINK AS now guards against creating a shortcut on top of the file being pointed to.
  • Fixed Create Multiple Folders checkbox not always redrawing immediately if toggled via the keyboard.
  • Clicking the Sync panel's source/dest swap button now also swaps the lock states of the two path fields.
  • The Find and Dupes panels now automatically unlock their folder lists when the lists are modified.
  • Fixed crash when changing Find In folder via the browse dialog in specific circumstances. Fixed the new destination tab opened for Find Results being made the source if it triggered dual display opening and the global option to open the dual display as source was on.
  • Renaming the case of things inside Rar and 7z archives now works.
  • Adding files from collections (including search results) to archives is now faster for Zip and now possible for plugin formats (7z, RAR, etc.).
  • If you launch a folder that is already open in the destination side of a dual-display lister, that side will now be made the source, so you can immediately use the folder via the keyboard.
  • Fixed copied folders gaining the A attribute when preserving attributes, if NTFS ADS metadata for them was also copied.
  • Fixed metadata panel only allowing the mouse wheel to increase, not decrease, the MP3 year tag if it was empty before clicking on it.
  • If you ran the Duplicate Finder with nothing defined for the output collection, the Select button did not work.
  • High DPI: Fixed the Advanced Button Editor toolbar covering the first line of the edit control at high DPI, if the dialog had its minimal size.

25 October 2015

New FAQ: Display full name or path in pop-up info-tips

A new FAQ has been posted over at the Resource Centre, detailing how you can add the full filename or full path to the into tip which appears when you hover over a file.

If you use fixed-width columns, or modes like Thumbnails or Tiles, you'll probably find this useful.

-> Display full name or path in pop-up info-tips

19 October 2015

Directory Opus 11.16.1 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.16.1 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Download:


Changes:

  • Fixed an error uploading to some SSH SFTP sites.
  • The combination of Single Click and Full Row Select modes now interprets clicks anywhere on the line as a double-click, instead of only on the name part. (Unless Preferences / Miscellaneous / Advanced: single_click_rename is on.)
  • Fixed scrollbars and full row selection rectangles not updating to account for bold labels in auto-sized columns when changing folders.
  • Windows 10: Open With > Choose Default Program now lets you set a default program again, not just select which program is used to open the file once.
  • Breadcrumbs path field now respects the Select previous folder when going up Preferences setting by default. The selectprevious and noselectprevious args can be used to override this.
  • The Drives List drop-down will now take you to the root of the drive if you select the drive you are already on. (Previously, it did nothing, even when the curdir argument was not specified.). When the curdir argument is used this must be enabled by adding the rootmode argument as well. The same change also applies to the Go DRIVEBUTTONS command when CURDIR argument is used.
  • Metadata panel defaults to the current folder when you add cover art. (Since the cover art is usually already in the same folder as the music.)
  • Metadata panel would show coverart unghosted if you selected one file, then ctrl-selected another with different art. Both covers should be ghosted unless changed or in both files.
  • Fixed Windows Search results from the previous query coming into the results collection if you changed the query while the previous one was about to return results.
  • Fixed libraries pointing at network paths loading slowly if localized paths were enabled.
  • Fix for status bar which could appear over some lister elements if it was turned off and you switched to dual display.
  • Tooltips in some list controls (mainly in Preferences, not the file display) could show text for the item above the mouse pointer in some situations.
  • Fixed cosmetic issue with Thumbnails mode where tiny thumbnails (or huge fonts) could cause labels to draw on top of each other in extreme cases.
  • Fixed cosmetic issue with Tiles mode and the Details mode Thumbnail column. The case of CD cover thumbnails could grow larger than the cover art inside it.
  • Fix for the script log not showing all script output when scripts generated a huge volume of messages at once.
  • Fixed memory leak when using script columns.
  • Fixed memory leak each time a Rename or Column script was called for a file.
  • Fixed scripting doubleClickData.mouse always showing "none" outside of Details and Power modes.
  • Fix for script columns not working for all items in folders with around 10,000 items or more.
  • Fix for crash which could occur with some script code. e.g. "Set x = Nothing, DOpus.Output x"
  • Windows 10: The folder tree no longer shows duplicate copies of removable drives under both Desktop and This PC branches (sometimes reported as empty drives being shown).
  • AudioTags plugin now handles incorrect FLAC files with ID3 data before the "fLaC" header by skipping over it.
  • Fixed a number of issues with high DPI displays.

17 September 2015

Directory Opus 11.16

Directory Opus 11.16 is now available as a free update for all Directory Opus 11 users.

Download:

Changes:

This stable update includes the following new change in addition to everything from the 11.15.x beta updates:

11.16:
  • Fix for rare crash when opening the button editor.
11.15.1 beta:
  • Added {fsys} status bar code to show the current file system type in the status bar.
  • The utility panel now remembers if it was collapsed (shrunk) as well as remembering its previous size.
  • Synchronize will longer incorrectly resolve network junction paths (since the paths they resolve to are usually not valid on the local machine).
  • Fixed Preferences dialog growing slightly each time it was opened if you were using Opus in Polish (and possibly other languages).
  • A script command could incorrectly have one of its /S switch arguments set to true if arguments not matching the template were provided on the command line.
  • The state of the Preferences / Folders / Global Filters / Ignore prefix when sorting flag was ignored (so if the prefix field has something in it, it would always be used even if the checkbox were turned off).
  • Fixed problem when sorting by the Label column which could cause the sort to not be done correctly (because not all labels had been evaluated yet).
  • Fixed problem where file descriptions could get lost if a description was set or changed and then the parent folder renamed immediately (only happened using descript.ion descriptions).
  • Fixed problems with dragging files from the TortoiseSVN RepoBrowser to Opus.
  • Fixed problem where inline rename could sometimes be triggered incorrectly instead of registering a double-click.
11.15.2 beta:
  • Added the Set TREELOCK command which lets the folder tree lock be used even if the tree header is turned off.
  • Fixed crash under Windows 10 when double-clicking on an Acronis TrueImage .tib file.
  • The "Current sort field" background color setting was ignored when the file display was grouped.
  • Fixed overriding of certain system Windows+<key> hotkeys in Windows 10.
  • TrueImage context menu extensions are no longer blocked by default as they seem to be better behaved these days.
11.15.3 beta:
  • Added the SysInfo script object which lets scripts access mouse and monitor coordinates.
  • Upgraded putty code to 0.65, fixes SSH login error on a particular server.
  • The command SetAttr META * will now clear date taken/date digitized fields from EXIF tags.
  • Multiple-key hotkey sequences now work even if a child control has input focus (provided the first key in the sequence isn't consumed by the control).
  • Improved filtering in the synchronize function (previously orphan folders could be left behind selected for sync even if their contents had all been filtered out)
  • The Archives plugin now disables ISO handling by default, to avoid getting in the way of the ISO mounting built in to newer versions of Windows or similar tools (and because it could only handle certain ISO types).
  • Improved performance of zip archive extraction with archives that contain tens of thousands of files and folders.
  • The browse-for-folder dialog is now faster when browsing folders containing zips with a huge number of items inside.
  • Fixed glitched transition animations (e.g. when changing folders) when using multiple monitors at mixed DPIs.
11.15.4 beta:
  • You can now toggle file and folder labels. e.g. You could bind a hotkey to Properties SETLABEL=Bold SETLABELTOGGLE to toggle the selected files between bold and normal.
  • Properties SETLABEL=!menu now respects the SETLABELINFS argument, propagating it to the menu items it generates. Similarly, Properties SETLABEL=!menu SETLABELTOGGLE also works.
  • The script Vector object's assign method can now copy into a vector from a collection object.
  • The script Command objects's SetFiles and AddFiles methods (and also the DOpus.SetClip method) now accept a Vector of Item objects as well as a collection
  • High DPI: Color picker now scales with DPI. (Some more minor issues DPI with it will be improved in the future.)
  • Fixed auto-sized date/time columns not expanding correctly in reaction to the first bold label being applied in a folder.
  • A command like Copy TO=C:\ ADDTOARCHIVE now opens the Add To Archive dialog with C:\ as the destination folder. Previously, the TO argument was ignored by the dialog and you had to use a script to do the same thing.
  • In the file display, the Desktop virtual folder now shows proper icons for OneDrive and the user profile, if they are configured to appear. (Folder tree etc. already had the right icons.)
  • Windows 10: Right-clicking files in OneDrive no longer shows "make available online-only" option which only applies to the Windows 8.1 version of OneDrive/SkyDrive.
  • Windows 10: Fixed option to hide OneDrive from the folder tree not working at all.
  • Windows 10: Fixed "OneDrive" being called "SkyDrive" in various places.
  • Windows 10: The "File Explorer" item on the Start button's right-click menu no longer triggers Explorer Replacement.
  • Windows 10: Glass status bar cosmetic improvements.
  • Windows 8.1: Fixed option to hide OneDrive/SkyDrive from the folder tree only working temporarily (until refresh or new window).
  • Workaround for loading incorrectly written 24-bpp BMP files produced by Infinity Engine games.

11 September 2015

Directory Opus 11.15.4 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.15.4 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Download:


Changes:

  • You can now toggle file and folder labels. e.g. You could bind a hotkey to Properties SETLABEL=Bold SETLABELTOGGLE to toggle the selected files between bold and normal.
  • Properties SETLABEL=!menu now respects the SETLABELINFS argument, propagating it to the menu items it generates. Similarly, Properties SETLABEL=!menu SETLABELTOGGLE also works.
  • The script Vector object's assign method can now copy into a vector from a collection object.
  • The script Command objects's SetFiles and AddFiles methods (and also the DOpus.SetClip method) now accept a Vector of Item objects as well as a collection
  • High DPI: Color picker now scales with DPI. (Some more minor issues DPI with it will be improved in the future.)
  • Fixed auto-sized date/time columns not expanding correctly in reaction to the first bold label being applied in a folder.
  • A command like Copy TO=C:\ ADDTOARCHIVE now opens the Add To Archive dialog with C:\ as the destination folder. Previously, the TO argument was ignored by the dialog and you had to use a script to do the same thing.
  • In the file display, the Desktop virtual folder now shows proper icons for OneDrive and the user profile, if they are configured to appear. (Folder tree etc. already had the right icons.)
  • Windows 10: Right-clicking files in OneDrive no longer shows "make available online-only" option which only applies to the Windows 8.1 version of OneDrive/SkyDrive.
  • Windows 10: Fixed option to hide OneDrive from the folder tree not working at all.
  • Windows 10: Fixed "OneDrive" being called "SkyDrive" in various places.
  • Windows 10: The "File Explorer" item on the Start button's right-click menu no longer triggers Explorer Replacement.
  • Windows 10: Glass status bar cosmetic improvements.
  • Windows 8.1: Fixed option to hide OneDrive/SkyDrive from the folder tree only working temporarily (until refresh or new window).
  • Workaround for loading incorrectly written 24-bpp BMP files produced by Infinity Engine games.

2 September 2015

Directory Opus 11.15.3 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.15.3 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Download:


Changes:

  • Added the SysInfo script object which lets scripts access mouse and monitor coordinates.
  • Upgraded putty code to 0.65, fixes SSH login error on a particular server.
  • The command SetAttr META * will now clear date taken/date digitized fields from EXIF tags.
  • Multiple-key hotkey sequences now work even if a child control has input focus (provided the first key in the sequence isn't consumed by the control).
  • Improved filtering in the synchronize function (previously orphan folders could be left behind selected for sync even if their contents had all been filtered out)
  • The Archives plugin now disables ISO handling by default, to avoid getting in the way of the ISO mounting built in to newer versions of Windows or similar tools (and because it could only handle certain ISO types).
  • Improved performance of zip archive extraction with archives that contain tens of thousands of files and folders.
  • The browse-for-folder dialog is now faster when browsing folders containing zips with a huge number of items inside.
  • Fixed glitched transition animations (e.g. when changing folders) when using multiple monitors at mixed DPIs.

10 August 2015

Directory Opus 11.15.2 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.15.2 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Download:


Changes:

  • Added the Set TREELOCK command which lets the folder tree lock be used even if the tree header is turned off.
  • Fixed crash under Windows 10 when double-clicking on an Acronis TrueImage .tib file.
  • The "Current sort field" background color setting was ignored when the file display was grouped.
  • Fixed overriding of certain system Windows+<key> hotkeys in Windows 10.
  • TrueImage context menu extensions are no longer blocked by default as they seem to be better behaved these days.

29 July 2015

Directory Opus 11.15.1 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.15.1 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Download:


Changes:

  • Added {fsys} status bar code to show the current file system type in the status bar.
  • The utility panel now remembers if it was collapsed (shrunk) as well as remembering its previous size.
  • Synchronize will longer incorrectly resolve network junction paths (since the paths they resolve to are usually not valid on the local machine).
  • Fixed Preferences dialog growing slightly each time it was opened if you were using Opus in Polish (and possibly other languages).
  • A script command could incorrectly have one of its /S switch arguments set to true if arguments not matching the template were provided on the command line.
  • The state of the Preferences / Folders / Global Filters / Ignore prefix when sorting flag was ignored (so if the prefix field has something in it, it would always be used even if the checkbox were turned off).
  • Fixed problem when sorting by the Label column which could cause the sort to not be done correctly (because not all labels had been evaluated yet).
  • Fixed problem where file descriptions could get lost if a description was set or changed and then the parent folder renamed immediately (only happened using descript.ion descriptions).
  • Fixed problems with dragging files from the TortoiseSVN RepoBrowser to Opus.
  • Fixed problem where inline rename could sometimes be triggered incorrectly instead of registering a double-click.

7 July 2015

Directory Opus 11.15

Directory Opus 11.15 is now available as a free update for all Directory Opus 11 users.

Download:

Changes:

This is an out-of-band update to fix a problem introduced in 11.14 that could cause Opus to fail to run on Windows Server 2012 R2.

2 July 2015

Directory Opus 11.14

Directory Opus 11.14 is now available as a free update for all Directory Opus 11 users.

Download:

Changes:

This update includes all the changes in the 11.13.x betas:
Additionally, it includes the following change:
  • Raw Digital Camera plugin updated with support for new camera models.

24 June 2015

Directory Opus 11.13.3 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.13.3 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Download:


Changes:

  • Added option to the Thumbnail preferences to display the date taken (or file date) underneath the thumbnail.
  • Added StringTools script object, which provides methods to encode/decode strings and blobs in various ways.
  • Fixed sorting by image title (and possibly one or two other fields which both images and documents can have).
  • Labels stored in the filesystem can now be set on read-only files and folders.

15 June 2015

Directory Opus 11.13.2 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.13.2 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Download:


Changes:

  • Scripting: Added winver object to the DOpus.version object which makes it easy to get Windows version information from a script.
  • New option Preferences / File Operations / Metadata / Update last modified file dates when setting metadata in NTFS ADS which bumps modified timestamps when you change metadata (e.g. labels, ratings, descriptions, tags) which is written into NTFS ADS (alternate data streams) rather than the main file data itself.
  • Added the Set LISTERCMD=ToFront command so scripts can bring an arbitrary Lister to the front.
  • Updated the default Movies filetype group with some common file extensions which were missing.
  • In the Startup preferences, selecting Shutdown Directory Opus when the last Lister closes now disables Don't open any Listers and automatically selects Open the Default Lister to reflect what will happen. (A Lister must be opened when Opus is run in this mode, since it tells Opus to exit if no Lister is open.)
  • Fixed Windows+E key not being trapped on Windows 10 preview.
  • The Archives plugin now reports copy speed during batch extract.
  • The Archives plugin now suppresses thumbnails and most metadata for video files, to avoid typically large files being extracted to temp for the data.
  • Fixed non-recycle delete not removing the parent folder if deletion of a child item failed once but then succeeded on a retry.
  • Fixed script/function edit control using too small a font on high DPI monitors.
  • Fixed memory leak related to system-wide environment variable changes, triggered for some users at the start or end of Remote Desktop sessions.
  • Fixed location field and grouping of new files added to library folders. Previously, they could show the library itself as their locations until a refresh.

29 April 2015

How to toggle display of Hidden / System files

Commands to toggle system and hidden items can be found in the default toolbars:



Or under Preferences / Folders / Global Filters:



(These options affect all windows and folders at once. You can also use folder formats to hide files with certain attributes in certain folders.)

1 April 2015

Directory Opus 11.13.1 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.13.1 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Download:


Changes:

  • When using the Folder Options dialog to save a new default folder format for all folders, the formats for Collections, Flat View, and similar special folder types will now be turned on and derived from your new default format, along with additional settings specific to those folders. For example, Collections have the Location column added. This process will also be applied the first time you run this update, but only for formats types which are currently turned off, repairing the problem a lot of people see where they're missing the Location column in their Find Results, and similar.
  • Added focus keyword to the Set UTILITY command, which can be used to give focus to the Utility panel. When used in conjunction with toggle (e.g. Set UTILITY=find,toggle,focus), it will only turn the utility panel off if it currently has focus. Otherwise, it will be given focus first.
  • Added Set LISTERCMD=OnTopOn and OnTopOff commands, to allow the "on top" state of a Lister to be modified by a command.
  • The DOpus.Output script command can now be used to print an error message as well as a regular message (which causes the error icon to flash in the status bar if no log window is open). e.g. DOpus.Output("Oh no!", true);
  • Ctrl-A now selects all in metadata tag (and similar) fields.
  • Fixed checkbox next to a disabled folder format in Preferences not becoming checked if the format was edited, until Preferences was re-opened.
  • The Print Folder dialog ignored changes typed into the output file field if you pushed return while still in the field. (Tabbing or clicking to another control, or clicking OK both worked.)
  • The Archives plugin now supports .xz and .tar.xz / .txz archives.
  • The internal viewer now preserves the selection rectangle through flips (as it already did for rotations).
  • Relative Date graphs were broken in the Desktop folder.
  • Experimental changes for UTF-8 support in SSH.

26 March 2015

Directory Opus 11.13

Directory Opus 11.13 is now available as a free update for all Directory Opus 11 users.

Download:

Changes:

This update includes all the changes in the 11.12.x betas:
Additionally, it includes the following fixes:
  • Fixed problem translating some toolbar strings from one language to another.
  • Tabs are now converted to spaces when pasting text into the Create Folder dialog.
  • Fixed issue with EXIF image tags only displaying the last one entered.

20 March 2015

Directory Opus 11.12.5 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.12.5 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Note that this uses the new unified 32/64 bit installer. Please report any installation problems you may encounter!


Changes:

  • Fixed issues with UTF-8 in image metadata introduced in the previous betas (fundamentally UTF-8 encoding wasn't being handled properly for IPTC tags, which now take precedence over Exif/Xmp for some fields).
  • Replaced the Dialog script object's "default" property with "defvalue", and the Toolbar object's "default" property with "deftoolbar", to avoid clashes with JScript reserved keywords. The old property names are still supported for backwards compatibility in other languages.
  • Dialogs displayed with the {dlgfolder} code are now centered over the Lister that launches them.
  • The copy buffer file size is now 512KB by default, since it seems that gives much better results on most modern devices.
  • The Standard Toolbar Highlight and Shadow colors (in Preferences / Display / Colors and Fonts) can now be set as transparent to stop separators being drawn.
  • Updated to version 1.0.2a of the openssl libraries (security fixes).

12 March 2015

Directory Opus 11.12.4 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.12.4 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Note that this uses the new unified 32/64 bit installer. Please report any installation problems you may encounter!


Changes:

  • The @disablenosel command modifier can now test for files or folders specifically (@disablenosel:files, @disablenosel:dirs)
  • The USB Export function now gives the option of 32 bit, 64 bit or both when exporting on a 32 bit machine as well as on a 64 bit one (this is possible because the unified installer means we always have all files available now - previously only the 64 bit installer contained both versions).
  • Ctrl+Backspace now works in the Create Folder dialog (deletes the previous word).
  • Updated to the latest DCRaw code. Supports a few additional cameras.
  • Updated to the latest version of Putty (for FTP SSH support) which mainly offers some security fixes. Please report any SSH issues you may notice with the new version.
  • Fix for web links in some Auslogic tools causing Opus windows to open instead of a web browser if Explorer Replacement was on.
  • Setting just the Image Description metadata field for an image no longer makes it appear as if the Title and Subject fields were set too.
  • Holding the Ctrl key down to display a tooltip for the file with focus will no longer show a tooltip if the mouse is moving, or if a tooltip is already visible from the mouse cursor (previously it was possible to display two tooltips at once, using the mouse and then the keyboard).
  • Fixed the image converter leaving behind an old copy of the image if the file was read-only. Also added a REPLACE=readonly argument to the Image command to suppress read-only prompts.
  • The file display background color for "when quick filter is active" is no longer used if a quick filter is defined but has been temporarily disabled.
  • Fixed renaming into new sub-folders from collections (e.g. rename * to subdir\* in Find Results). Previously, the subdir would not be created.

3 March 2015

Directory Opus 11.12.3 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.12.3 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Note that this uses the new unified 32/64 bit installer. Please report any installation problems you may encounter!


Changes:

  • Made a change to hopefully fix a problem during EXIF/IPTC tag writing that could cause the process to fail.
  • Network ABE (access-based enumeration) support should now work correctly on mapped drives as well as UNC paths.

2 March 2015

Directory Opus 11.12.2 (Beta)

Directory Opus 11.12.2 (beta) is now available for all Opus 11 users.

This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.

Note that this uses the new unified 32/64 bit installer. Please report any installation problems you may encounter!


Changes:

  • Fixed crash that could occur when setting the Authors or Tags metadata fields in an image file.
  • Added debugging output (visible in DebugView) when writing EXIF/IPTC metadata.
  • Fixed problem with desktop/start menu shortcut icon not being installed on a 32 bit system.