6 December 2022

Directory Opus 12.30.1 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.30.1 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 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 since 12.30:

  • Fixed problem reading empty directories with SFTP servers which return a completely empty list for them (missing the usual "." and ".." entries).
     
  • Fix for viewer status bar's text potentially appearing bold (overprinted) if status icons were displayed on it.
     
  • Added a kludge to block duplicate DropBox context menu items on Windows 11. (The actual cause is a DropBox bug).
     
  • Scripting:
     
    • DialogListColumns object has new GetDisplayOrder and SetDisplayOrder methods for changing the order columns are displayed on-screen, including the ability to move secondary columns before the primary column which usually appears first.

    • Added Control.redraw property. Set to false to disable redraw in some types of control (e.g. listviews) while making multiple changes to them. Set back to true to redraw changes.

    • File objects (representing open file handles which are being read/written) can now be passed directly to Command.AddFile and similar methods without conversion. (Provided the File object has a path; not for virtual files that only exist in memory.)

    • Fixed rendering issue with group boxes with no title set in script dialogs

21 November 2022

Directory Opus 12.30

Directory Opus 12.30 is now available as a free update for all Directory Opus 12 users.

New versions are often made available several days before they will be detected by the update checker. You can download Opus using the links below if you don't want to wait.

Download:



The following changes were part of the 12.29.1 - 12.29.2 beta updates:

  • Added Subject and Title fields to Image category in the advanced filter (find) control.
     
  • Added script dialog Control.SetItemWidth method. Used to set the width of listview items in list and small icon view. Use -1 for autosizing.
     
  • Fixed redraw issue with changing manual sorting order via the keyboard.
     
  • Fixed problem with AirDriveLive context menus when cloud drive is mounted on a folder (rather than as a drive).
     
  • Fixed Type column in collections showing File Folder for junctions/symlinks instead of more detailed information, after a restart. (Fixes items added to collections after this update. Older items must be removed and re-added to correct them.)
     
  • The text viewer/editor search and replace dialogs now allow more characters to be entered in the find and replace fields.
     
  • Fixed problem using Copy TO=ask when the chosen destination is the sub-folder of a zip file.
     
  • Removed erroneous Skip identical option shown on the warning dialog when extracting a folder from a zip file when the target folder already exists.
     
  • Fixed some tab labels not being blurred when taking a secure screenshot.
     
  • Fix for Print Folder crash with certain printer drivers and/or Windows versions. ( https://resource.dopus.com/t/print-export-folder-listing-error-win-11/42326/1 )
     
  • Fix for stray toolbar/menu separator if the Favorites list was on a toolbar/menu and had a separator as its first item.
     
  • Fix for Windows 11 22H2 where Select All and Select Invert did not work in special shell folders (e.g. Recycle Bin).
     
  • Show VIEWERCMD=refresh in the viewer no longer skips the next picture if the current picture has been deleted.
     
  • Workaround for Dropbox context menus not working in the most recent Dropbox version on Windows 11.
     
  • Fixed Details and Power modes not scrolling the focus item into view if you scrolled away from it and then pushed the cursor key in the same direction you had scrolled.
     
  • Improved handling of renaming a directory into a sub-dir of itself, particularly with network drives where another Opus or Explorer window is displaying the directory being moved.
     
  • When loading Icon Sets, additional validation is performed on the specified icon sizes and coordinates.
     
  • The Print Folder tool now calculates file counts of archives if one of the file count columns is added to the format and the option to calculate folder sizes is turned on.
     
  • Changing the user interface language no longer replaces the filetype group infotips and tile definitions if they have previously been modified from the defaults.


The following changes are new for 12.30:

  • Improved viewer support for Photoshop PSB files (like PSD but larger/rarer). The standalone viewer can now open them on double-click and will include them in the next/previous image list.
     
  • Blocked the PC Revive shell extension by default, due to it breaking other things.
     

3 November 2022

Directory Opus 12.29.2 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.29.2 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 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 since 12.29.1:

  • Fixed Details and Power modes not scrolling the focus item into view if you scrolled away from it and then pushed the cursor key in the same direction you had scrolled.
     
  • Improved handling of renaming a directory into a sub-dir of itself, particularly with network drives where another Opus or Explorer window is displaying the directory being moved.
     
  • When loading Icon Sets, additional validation is performed on the specified icon sizes and coordinates.
     
  • The Print Folder tool now calculates file counts of archives if one of the file count columns is added to the format and the option to calculate folder sizes is turned on.
     
  • Changing the user interface language no longer replaces the filetype group infotips and tile definitions if they have previously been modified from the defaults.

28 October 2022

Crashes caused by MaxTo

A quick heads-up for anyone using Directory Opus and MaxTo together.

 

If you have both installed on the same system and have had Opus crashing or spontaneously exiting, especially when the image viewer opens, then it is possible MaxTo was the cause.

 

Unfortunately, we don't know of anything which we can do on our side to mitigate the problem or block the MaxTo hooks/DLL from loading into the Opus process. It is something which MaxTo will need to fix, either by fixing the code which is crashing or by adding Opus to their compatibility list (similar to the way it avoids affecting other software to prevent causing similar issues with things like the Windows Terminal app).

 

You can track the bug report here:

https://github.com/digitalcreations/MaxTo/issues/779

14 October 2022

Directory Opus 12.29.1 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.29.1 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 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 since 12.29:

  • Added Subject and Title fields to Image category in the advanced filter (find) control.
     
  • Added script dialog Control.SetItemWidth method. Used to set the width of listview items in list and small icon view. Use -1 for autosizing.
     
  • Fixed redraw issue with changing manual sorting order via the keyboard.
     
  • Fixed problem with AirDriveLive context menus when cloud drive is mounted on a folder (rather than as a drive).
     
  • Fixed Type column in collections showing File Folder for junctions/symlinks instead of more detailed information, after a restart. (Fixes  items added to collections after this update. Older items must be removed and re-added to correct them.)
     
  • The text viewer/editor search and replace dialogs now allow more characters to be entered in the find and replace fields.
     
  • Fixed problem using Copy TO=ask when the chosen destination is the sub-folder of a zip file.
     
  • Removed erroneous Skip identical option shown on the warning dialog when extracting a folder from a zip file when the target folder already exists.
     
  • Fixed some tab labels not being blurred when taking a secure screenshot.
     
  • Fix for Print Folder crash with certain printer drivers and/or Windows versions. ( https://resource.dopus.com/t/print-export-folder-listing-error-win-11/42326/1 )
     
  • Fix for stray toolbar/menu separator if the Favorites list was on a toolbar/menu and the list a separator as its first item.
     
  • Fix for Windows 11 22H2 where Select All and Select Invert did not work in special shell folders (e.g. Recycle Bin).
     
  • Show VIEWERCMD=refresh in the viewer no longer skips the next picture if the current picture has been deleted.
     
  • Workaround for Dropbox context menus not working in the most recent Dropbox version on Windows 11.

30 August 2022

Directory Opus 12.29

Directory Opus 12.29 is now available as a free update for all Directory Opus 12 users.

New versions are often made available several days before they will be detected by the update checker. You can download Opus using the links below if you don't want to wait.

Download:



The following changes were part of the 12.28.1 - 12.28.4 beta updates:

  • Updated LibRaw, including support for new OM-1 cameras.
     
  • FLAC/Ogg publisher data now writes "ORGANIZATION" tag for better compatibility. (Both "ORGANIZATION" and "PUBLISHER" work when reading tags.)
     
  • The viewer pane will now allow .docx files which have been incorrectly named .doc to be passed to the MS Word preview handler.
     
  • Go NEW=x,y now accepts negative coordinates.
     
  • WAV waveform thumbnails in IEEE floating point format are now supported.
     
  • SSH connections are now treated as case sensitive by default in case we aren't able to auto-detect it.
     
  • Fixed incorrect metadata shown for audio files whose metadata comes from the Windows shell (e.g. .m4a files).
     
  • Fixed range selection via Shift + Page Down which, with the file display grouped and some of the groups collapsed, would not always immediately repaint all items to reflect their new states.
     
  • Fixed mouse cursor being confined until you alt-tab'd to another window if you opened a color picker, dragged its sliders with the mouse, then closed it with the Esc key without releasing the mouse button.
     
  • Fixed problem with separators going missing if the buttons they were attached to were hidden (e.g. an Undo LIST command that didn't generate any items.)
     
  • Fixed problem with range selection in details mode when selecting a range by shift-clicking and then pressing Shift+Up to deselect the last item in the range.
     
  • Fixed problem where the path-to-selection highlight in the folder tree could show in the wrong color if the tree was locked.
     
  • Fixed problem where the busy indicator in the location field could keep spinning forever if a script column called Script.RefreshColumn in certain circumstances.
     
  • Fixed "Stretch background" not working in floating toolbars.
     
  • Fixed problem setting EXIF dates which meant Adobe Bridge did not recognize the "Date Taken" field ("DateTimeOriginal") when set through Opus.
     
  • Setting the EXIF Date Taken ("DateTimeOriginal" tag 0x9003) field in Opus now applies the same value to the EXIF "ModifyDate" field (tag 0x0132). Previously this would be set when changing the modification time of the actual file, but it makes more sense for it to mirror the DateTimeOriginal field.
     
  • The "Ignore diacritics" option in the Filter Bar now handles the Norse O correctly (or at least, it's now consistent with the similar option for the Find As You Type field).
     
  • Fixed problem with Explorer Replacement when clicking on folder links in Excel.
     
  • Fix for CreateFolder command, when run via scripts, creating things below the selected folder if there is one and a name (not full path) is specified.
     
  • Simple OK/Cancel dialogs that respond to the Y or N keys now only do so on key press, not key release (in case the same key is used to launch the function.)
     
  • Fixed problem with script dialog static controls which could display text in the wrong color in some situations.
     


The following changes are new for 12.29:

  • Fixed TortoiseGit showing additional, non-functional, context menu in Windows 11.
     
  • Fixed problem opening folder links containing spaces from Outlook emails.
     

25 August 2022

Directory Opus 12.28.4 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.28.4 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 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 since 12.28.3:

  • Fix for CreateFolder command, when run via scripts, creating things below the selected folder if there is one and a name (not full path) is specified.
     
  • Simple OK/Cancel dialogs that respond to the Y or N keys now only do so on key press, not key release (in case the same key is used to launch the function.)
     
  • Fixed problem with script dialog static controls which could display text in the wrong color in some situations.
     

4 August 2022

Directory Opus 12.28.3 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.28.3 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 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 since 12.28.2:

  • Fixed "Stretch background" not working in floating toolbars.
     
  • Fixed bug in previous beta which could cause problems when trying to view Word documents which could not be opened.
     
  • Fixed problem setting EXIF dates which meant Adobe Bridge did not recognize the "Date Taken" field ("DateTimeOriginal") when set through Opus.
     
  • Setting the EXIF Date Taken ("DateTimeOriginal" tag 0x9003) field in Opus now applies the same value to the EXIF "ModifyDate" field (tag 0x0132). Previously this would be set when changing the modification time of the actual file, but it makes more sense for it to mirror the DateTimeOriginal field.
     
  • The "Ignore diacritics" option in the Filter Bar now handles the Norse O correctly (or at least, it's now consistent with the similar option for the Find As You Type field).
     
  • Fixed problem with Explorer Replacement when clicking on folder links in Excel.

18 July 2022

Directory Opus 12.28.2 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.28.2 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 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 since 12.28.1:

  • The viewer pane will now allow .docx files which have been incorrectly named .doc to be passed to the MS Word preview handler.
     
  • Go NEW=x,y now accepts negative coordinates.
     
  • WAV waveform thumbnails in IEEE floating point format are now supported.
     
  • SSH connections are now treated as case sensitive by default in case we aren't able to auto-detect it.
     
  • Fixed problem with separators going missing if the buttons they were attached to were hidden (e.g. an Undo LIST command that didn't generate any items.)
     
  • Fixed problem with range selection in details mode when selecting a range by shift-clicking and then pressing Shift+Up to deselect the last item in the range.
     
  • Fixed problem where the path-to-selection highlight in the folder tree could show in the wrong color if the tree was locked.
     
  • Fixed problem where the busy indicator in the location field could keep spinning forever if a script column called Script.RefreshColumn in certain circumstances.
     

20 June 2022

Directory Opus 12.28.1 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.28.1 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 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 since 12.28:

  • Updated LibRaw, including support for new OM-1 cameras.
     
  • FLAC/Ogg publisher data now writes "ORGANIZATION" tag for better compatibility. (Both "ORGANIZATION" and "PUBLISHER" work when reading tags.)
     
  • Fixed incorrect metadata shown for audio files whose metadata comes from the Windows shell (e.g. .m4a files).
     
  • Fixed range selection via Shift + Page Down which, with the file display grouped and some of the groups collapsed, would not always immediately repaint all items to reflect their new states.
     
  • Fixed mouse cursor being confined until you alt-tab'd to another window if you opened a color picker, dragged its sliders with the mouse, then closed it with the Esc key without releasing the mouse button.

3 June 2022

Directory Opus 12.28

Directory Opus 12.28 is now available as a free update for all Directory Opus 12 users.

New versions are often made available several days before they will be detected by the update checker. You can download Opus using the links below if you don't want to wait.

Download:



The following changes were part of the 12.27.1 - 12.27.2 beta updates:

  • Improved layout of button editor menus on low resolution (~720p) screens.
     
  • The archives plugin now filters the file attributes it returns to Opus to avoid ones that can appear in archives but don't make sense in them and cause problems (e.g. "offline" and "pinned").
     
  • Fix for situation where a credentials prompt wasn't triggered for some network drives that needed one.
     
  • Fixed problem which meant desktop double-click handling would stop working if Explorer was restarted.
     
  • On Windows 11, the OneDrive commands to pin or free up space now work recursively on folders to match Explorer's behavior.
     
  • Fixed the Toolbar command ignoring its POS argument if the first coordinate was negative.
     
  • If a Style is saved with the view mode option turned on, but a tab group selected, the view mode setting is now correctly ignored (since view modes in that instance are supposed to come from the tab group).
     
  • Fixed Open With > Paint.Net opening the file twice with newer versions of PaintDotNet.
     
  • Fixed a problem where the folder format could go wrong if a style that was set to turn the format lock on opened a tab group.
     
  • Improved performance of context menus in some situations.
     
  • Updated WebP plugin, which fixes some images not loading.
  • Fixed context menu items registered under HKCR\* appearing for directories when they should only appear for files.

  • Fix for OneDrive context menus not appearing when "Files On Demand" is turned off.
     
  • Fixed @if not working on Viewer toolbar buttons if the only command being run after them was a Show VIEWERCMD=... variant.
     
  • Show VIEWERCMD=fullscreen,on and ...,off can now be used with the viewer to always get a particular state rather than toggle the current state.
     
  • Fixed issue where nothing happened if some Control Panels were opened in particular ways (e.g. "Manage BitLocker" from the drive right-click menu).
     
  • Fix for standalone image viewer opening on the wrong screen if it was previously moved and closed near the right (or bottom) of another screen.

  • Fixed incorrect behaviour when renaming files in FlatView when two files in different folders ended up with the same name.


The following changes are new for 12.28:

  • Fixed problem with undoing a create folder.
     
  • Fix for crash which could happen when undoing a rename.
     
  • Fix for "New" context menu excluding items without descriptions in the registry.
     
  • Fix for bogus Open With menu items due to uninstalled Microsoft Store apps.

18 May 2022

Directory Opus 12.27.2 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.27.2 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 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 since 12.27.1:

  • Fixed context menu items registered under HKCR\* appearing for directories when they should only appear for files.

  • Fix for OneDrive context menus not appearing when "Files On Demand" is turned off.
     
  • Fixed @if not working on Viewer toolbar buttons if the only command being run after them was a Show VIEWERCMD=... variant.
     
  • Show VIEWERCMD=fullscreen,on and ...,off can now be used with the viewer to always get a particular state rather than toggle the current state.
     
  • Fixed issue where nothing happened if some Control Panels were opened in particular ways (e.g. "Manage BitLocker" from the drive right-click menu).
     
  • Fix for standalone image viewer opening on the wrong screen if it was previously moved and closed near the right (or bottom) of another screen.
     
  • Fixed incorrect behaviour when renaming files in FlatView when two files in different folders ended up with the same name.

26 April 2022

Directory Opus 12.27.1 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.27.1 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 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 since 12.27:

  • Improved layout of button editor menus on low resolution (~720p) screens.
     
  • The archives plugin now filters the file attributes it returns to Opus to avoid ones that can appear in archives but don't make sense in them and cause problems (e.g. "offline" and "pinned").
     
  • Fix for situation where a credentials prompt wasn't triggered for some network drives that needed one.
     
  • Fixed problem which meant desktop double-click handling would stop working if Explorer was restarted.
     
  • On Windows 11, the OneDrive commands to pin or free up space now work recursively on folders to match Explorer's behavior.
     
  • Fixed the Toolbar command ignoring its POS argument if the first coordinate was negative.
     
  • If a Style is saved with the view mode option turned on, but a tab group selected, the view mode setting is now correctly ignored (since view modes in that instance are supposed to come from the tab group).
     
  • Fixed Open With > Paint.Net opening the file twice with newer versions of PaintDotNet.
     
  • Fixed a problem where the folder format could go wrong if a style that was set to turn the format lock on opened a tab group.
     
  • Improved performance of context menus in some situations.
     
  • Updated WebP plugin, which fixes some images not loading.

21 March 2022

Directory Opus 12.27

Directory Opus 12.27 is now available as a free update for all Directory Opus 12 users.

New versions are often made available several days before they will be detected by the update checker. You can download Opus using the links below if you don't want to wait.

Download:



The following changes were part of the 12.26.1 - 12.26.3 beta updates:

  • FTP SSH now supports elliptic curve algorithms (NIST and 25519).
     
  • The Publisher tag is now supported for FLAC and Ogg files.
     
  • Workaround for Open With > Paint.Net not working correctly due to incorrect data in the registry.
     
  • Fixed List and Small Icons modes not painting the bottom pixels of some icons until something triggered a repaint.
     
  • Fixed problem with standalone viewer's metadata panel not updating when moving to the next/previous.
     
  • Static context menu entries added to the HKCR\* key are now shown for folders as well as files.
     
  • Fixed F-Secure SAFE context menu not appearing.
     
  • Double-clicking in the path field now selects whole path segments, rather than stopping on the wordbreak_char_paths characters like Ctrl-Left / Ctrl-Right does.
     
    • Added space to default wordbreak_char_paths so it's now consistent with wordbreak_char_names which has space hard-coded.
       
    • Added slash and backslash to the default wordbreak characters for names and paths.

      (Some things handled them by default anyway but, previously, if you pasted a full or relative path into the inline rename field, it'd treat the separators like normal letter characters and make it a pain to jump to them.)
       
  • Fixed a crash which could occur using the Clipboard PASTE AS command with a name beginning with a [ character.
     
  • Transparent docked toolbars now use the whole area of each button for hit-testing, even before the buttons become hot, which should make them easier to use.
     
  • Fixed items for a couple of programs appearing multiple times in context menus.
     
  • Commands using both Set QUICKFILTER and QUICKFILTERFLAGS on the same line will now highlight as "on" provided both arguments match the current state.
     
  • Fixed turning on Flat View not applying the Flat View folder format's column-grouping.

    For example, if the file display was already grouped and you turned on Flat View (Mixed), it would stay grouped, but the menus would indicate it was not grouped. The menus were correct and the file display should have been un-grouped, assuming the default situation where the Flat View folder format is turned on and configured to turn off grouping.
     
  • Go FOLDERCONTENT menus now work with collections where multiple items have the same name.
     
  • Fixed crash that could sometimes occur if you held the F5 key down to repeatedly refresh the This PC folder.
     
  • Made a change to hopefully fix incorrect timestamps on SFTP servers.
  • The recently added option to choose whether to display folder icons or lightbulb (Opus logo) icons is now set to lightbulbs by default. If you want to use folder icons you can select this from Preferences / Display / Options / Use current folder's icon.
     
  • Cosmetic fixes/improvements for borders around a few controls on Windows 11.
     
  • Fix for very slow handling of some Photoshop PSD files due to extreme metadata bloat in the form of Adobe's document history tracking.
     
  • Text and TextThumbs plugins now ignore files that start with the PaintDotNet signature, so they can be displayed via its thumbnail handler instead. (Most data at the start of PDN's file format is text, so they looked like text files to both plugins.)
     
  • Fixed problem with automatic path completion in the location field with aliases beginning with a . character.
     
  • Fix for using Windows Search below mount points.
     
  • Scripting DOpus.Create.Blob("test") with no encoding specified creates a UTF16 string again, as per the documentation.
     
  • Troubleshooting setting context_menu_debug now logs more information.
     
  • Blocked Daemon Tools shell extensions by default. See Shell extensions which are blocked by default if you wish to re-enable them, but keep in mind they have caused crashes for several people.
     
  • The GetNewNameData script object (passed to the OnGetNewName method) has a new preview property, which returns true when the method is being called to generate the preview in the Rename dialog, and false when it's renaming the file for real.
     
  • Fixed issue with case-insensitive search for Cyrillic text.
     
  • Fix for Set TABPOSITION=below being able to push things below the file display out of the window frame until the window was resized.


The following changes are new for 12.27:

  • Improved file context menu de-duplication. While building the menus, some registry keys were processed more than once. Menus should now open a little faster. This also fixes the problem introduced in 12.26.2 beta where a single item added via the File Types dialog could appear in the menu more than once.
     
  • Fixed bug introduced in 12.23 where the Viewer Pane / Display Shell Icons checkbox did nothing and the adjacent Display Shell Thumbnails checkbox controlled both settings.

5 March 2022

Directory Opus 12.26.3 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.26.3 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 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 since 12.26.2:

  • FTP SSH now supports elliptic curve algorithms (NIST and 25519).
     
  • The Publisher tag is now supported for FLAC and Ogg files.
     
  • The GetNewNameData script object (passed to the OnGetNewName method) has a new preview property, which returns true when the method is being called to generate the preview in the Rename dialog, and false when it's renaming the file for real.
     
  • Fixed issue with case-insensitive search for Cyrillic text.
     
  • Fix for Set TABPOSITION=below being able to push things below the file display out of the window frame until the window was resized.

27 February 2022

Directory Opus 12.26.2 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.26.2 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 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 since 12.26.1:

  • The recently added option to choose whether to display folder icons or lightbulb (Opus logo) icons is now set to lightbulbs by default. If you want to use folder icons you can select this from Preferences / Display / Options / Use current folder's icon.
     
  • Cosmetic fixes/improvements for borders around a few controls on Windows 11.
     
  • Fix for very slow handling of some Photoshop PSD files due to extreme metadata bloat in the form of Adobe's document history tracking.
     
  • Text and TextThumbs plugins now ignore files that start with the PaintDotNet signature, so they can be displayed via its thumbnail handler instead. (Most data at the start of PDN's file format is text, so they looked like text files to both plugins.)
     
  • Fixed problem with automatic path completion in the location field with aliases beginning with a . character.
     
  • Fix for using Windows Search below mount points.
     
  • Fixed issue in previous beta which meant duplicate context menu items were removed even if the duplicates weren't all at the top level. This also caused problems if Opus-specific items which started or ended sub-menus were filtered out, causing menu items after them to go into the wrong menu level.
     
  • Scripting DOpus.Create.Blob("test") with no encoding specified creates a UTF16 string again, as per the documentation.
     
  • Troubleshooting setting context_menu_debug now logs more information.
     
  • Blocked Daemon Tools shell extensions by default. See Shell extensions which are blocked by default if you wish to re-enable them, but keep in mind they have caused crashes for several people.

20 January 2022

Directory Opus 12.26.1 (Beta)

Directory Opus 12.26.1 (beta) is now available for all Opus 12 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 since 12.26:

  • Workaround for Open With > Paint.Net not working correctly due to incorrect data in the registry.
     
  • Fixed List and Small Icons modes not painting the bottom pixels of some icons until something triggered a repaint.
     
  • Fixed problem with standalone viewer's metadata panel not updating when moving to the next/previous.
     
  • Static context menu entries added to the HKCR\* key are now shown for folders as well as files.
     
  • Fixed F-Secure SAFE context menu not appearing.
     
  • Double-clicking in the path field now selects whole path segments, rather than stopping on the wordbreak_char_paths characters like Ctrl-Left / Ctrl-Right does.
     
    • Added space to default wordbreak_char_paths so it's now consistent with wordbreak_char_names which has space hard-coded.
       
    • Added slash and backslash to the default wordbreak characters for names and paths.

      (Some things handled them by default anyway but, previously, if you pasted a full or relative path into the inline rename field, it'd treat the separators like normal letter characters and make it a pain to jump to them.)
       
  • Fixed a crash which could occur using the Clipboard PASTE AS command with a name beginning with a [ character.
     
  • Transparent docked toolbars now use the whole area of each button for hit-testing, even before the buttons become hot, which should make them easier to use.
     
  • Fixed items for a couple of programs appearing multiple times in context menus.
     
  • Commands using both Set QUICKFILTER and QUICKFILTERFLAGS on the same line will now highlight as "on" provided both arguments match the current state.
     
  • Fixed turning on Flat View not applying the Flat View folder format's column-grouping.

    For example, if the file display was already grouped and you turned on Flat View (Mixed), it would stay grouped, but the menus would indicate it was not grouped. The menus were correct and the file display should have been un-grouped, assuming the default situation where the Flat View folder format is turned on and configured to turn off grouping.
     
  • Go FOLDERCONTENT menus now work with collections where multiple items have the same name.
     
  • Fixed crash that could sometimes occur if you held the F5 key down to repeatedly refresh the This PC folder.
     
  • Made a change to hopefully fix incorrect timestamps on SFTP servers.