This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.
New features and minor changes:
When using inline rename on a file, you can use Ctrl-Backspace and Ctrl-Del to delete the previous and next words, respectively. This behaviour has also been extended to most other edit fields.
Added FROMCLIPBOARD/S argument to the FileType command. This lets you make multiple new files at once using filenames that are on the clipboard (i.e. filenames put on the clipboard via the Clipboard COPYNAMES command).
When using the Filter Bar, if you explicitly add a * at the start or end of the pattern then Opus now assumes you do not wish to use partial matching even if it is turned on in Preferences. This allows you the convenience of partial matching most of the time while still being able to filter by the start or end of things when you need to.
Date and size fields now reverse sort by default:
For example, when clicking the Date Modified column to sort by that field, the first click will put the most recent files at the top rather than the bottom.
Changes have also been made to sort empty values to the bottom of the list when reverse-sorting Date and Time columns.
Folder formats from older versions, which sort by date/size fields that now reverse-sort by default, will be adjusted so that they put newest/largest files at the top of the list. This should ensure the affected formats do what is desired in most situations, both for people who still had the default sorting and for people who had manually turned on reverse sorting for those columns.
In cases where you want the oldest/smallest files at the top for certain folders, you will need to flip the sort order and re-save those formats (or the layouts, folder tabs, etc. which they are part of) as a one-off change.
In the Rename dialog, the last column of the Preview list now auto-sizes as the window is resized to avoid an unnecessary scrollbar when reducing the window's width.
Bug fixes:
When deleting to the Recycle Bin, a delete confirmation would only be shown if delete confirmations were turned on for both Opus itself and for the system Recycle Bin. Now, only the Opus setting matters and the system setting is ignored. This is important since Windows 8 has delete confirmations turned off by default. If you now see confirmations before recycling files that you don't want, you can turn them off via Preferences / File Operations / Deleting Files / Ask for confirmation before commencing delete.
Go OPENCONTAINER now works when you specify the path on the command line. Previously it only worked when run against selected files/folders.
Monochrome, high-DPI TIFF images are no longer scaled down to the screen's DPI. Instead they are displayed and scaled the same as any other image. (Forcing them to be scaled down made some such images difficult to read and is not what other TIFF viewers seem to do.)
It's now possible to drop folder shortcuts on the Find panel's Find In list to add those shortcuts to the list.
Fixed problem where thumbnail would not show for an MP3 even though the metapane could show it (involved the file having a corrupt cover art image listed before one that was valid).
Fixed various problems to do with sorting:
The sort arrow is now reversed for columns whose default sort order is reversed. (So the arrow is always consistent with the real sort direction, and the reverse option just lets you change which way around things sort the first time you click on the column header.)
When setting a Lister to sort by multiple columns, the way the Reverse Sort and sort arrows work is now more intuitive.
If file list is sorted by 'Size on Disk' column it is now resorted automatically after running the GetSizes command (previously the sorting wouldn't be updated and would remain "dirty" until you manually resorted the list).
Fixed bugs in how the following columns were sorted:
Recorded TV: Episode Name, Credits, Channel Number, Is HD, Is Repeat, Broadcast Date, Recording Time, Station Name.
Document: Last Saved Date. (Note: This is an extra datestamp inside Office documents and is unrelated to the standard Modified, Created, Accessed datestamps, which were unaffected.)
MP3: Release Date. (Files with dates were sorted consistently, but MP3 files without dates mixed with non-MP3 files in the dir could mean the dated files appeared in the middle of the list, instead of at the top or bottom, and sometimes meant they moved around within the list.)
Fixed several problems on the Prefs / Display / Fields Preferences page:
Resetting or Restoring the Fields page did not update the checkboxes in the list.
Fields which are reverse-sorted are now indicated by an arrow icon in the list. (We had this initially, then it was lost during the conversion to a themed list view.)
The checkbox in the list of fields is now updated when the "custom color and font settings enabled" checkbox on the right is toggled (and vice versa, which worked already).
In the Rename dialog, if you toggled "rename files in selected sub-folders" twice after generating the full preview, all items in sub-dirs were ghosted in the preview.
The Rename dialog left an empty Location column in the preview list after turning off "rename files in selected sub-folders".
The Startup shortcut Opus creates automatically (when configured to run on startup) should now localize the word "Startup" on newer versions of Windows.
The Startup shortcut now does nothing if Opus has already been launched via some other action. (Before, you'd get an extra Lister opening up.)
Adjusted the Licence Manager dialog so it fits on small screens again.
Fixed function editor bug, introduced in 10.1.0.1-beta, where the drop-down Arguments menu would not insert the argument name for a /K or /O argument that was last in the list.
Fixed the Advanced Button Editor and Rename Script Editor handling of Ctrl-Backspace and Ctrl-Del when at the very start or end of a word.
Fixed text viewer showing garbage for files containing just a UTF8 BOM and no further data, and some related issues.
The new label filters should now work properly in List and Thumbnails mode (without having to move the mouse over files to make their labels update), fixing the remaining glitch from the previous beta.
Fixed problem where label filters could cause Opus to crash if the Desktop folder was shown while configured to show File Collections as a child item.
If you did a Copy-As from a non-zip archive and the new name you gave for a file was already in use, the Replace File dialog opened proposing the file's original name, meaning you had to type the new name again if you wanted to overwrite the file. The prompt now uses the correct name.
Added checks to prevent a reported crash when copying text from Adobe software on Windows 8.
This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.
New features and minor changes:
The {dlgfolder} external control code can now take the "expand" argument to cause specified folder to be automatically expanded (e.g. {dlgfolder||C:\Users|expand}
The Go TABCLOSE command can now close tabs in left/right/dest as well as source file displays.
Bug fixes:
Label filters did not work properly in the icon modes.
In the metapane, the "Release Date" field can now be set for WMA files.
The "Type" column now shows the correct name for file types, like .ps1, which have incorrectly registered localized names.
Fixed "Go up to ..." tooltip on ".." item - incorrect wrapping for long paths which don't have spaces.
In power/details mode, clicking a partially obscured item would give keyboard focus to the item above.
Improved the ability of the viewer panel to clear itself when a file it is showing is moved or deleted (prevents "file in use" errors when the file is being viewed by Opus).
Workaround for Quick PDF Tools Pro and other context menus which have bugs when asked to add themselves to an empty context menu.
Added problematic LibreOffice shell extensions to the blacklist to workaround e.g. crashes caused by the LibreOffice "Pagecount" column in directories containing PDF files.
Fixed "Open Containing Folder" from another application not always restoring the existing Opus window if one was already open for the folder but was minimized.
Fixed folder tree selection events when applied to collections. e.g. If the tree was configured to run "Go NEWTAB" for the middle mouse button, it did not open the correct folder in a new tab if you middle-clicked on a collection.
Fixed extra ".." in the target path when creating relative links to folders. (Was fine for files, and for everything when using absolute paths.)
The Print FOLDER AS argument now works correctly when printing to clipboard.
Initial cursor position/selection was not respected on inline rename in the icon modes (list, thumbnails, etc.) when cursoring up/down through files.
Folder Format wildcards can now use "grp:Archives" and similar expressions to match file type groups.
Fixed edits to file/folder labels not always updating the names displayed in the Preferences list until Preferences was OK'd and re-opened.
This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.
New features and minor changes:
Added option for "label filters" to Preferences / Favorites and Recent / File and Folder Labels, which allows the use of advanced filter control to label files and folders (for example, you can make all files newer than 1 hour red). Also added checkboxes to the list of labeled files and folders which lets you turn filters off without deleting them.
There is now a button in the About dialog to copy the Opus and Windows version information to the clipboard.
The Filter Bar now shows a balloon tip when you type ( ) [ ] ' ~ # explaining that they are wildcard characters and need to be escaped with an extra ' if you want to match their literal values.
Added Display labels option in Preferences / File Display Modes / Thumbnails to make it possible to display thumbnails with no labels. Also added Set THUMBNAILLABELS command to make the change from a command.
Added Shell column clause to the advanced filter control that allows searching on the value of a shell column extension. Performs either a simple wildcard match against the value, or limited numeric comparison (supports != == < > <= >= && || and decimal numbers only).
Added "seconds" as a unit for the Time-within clause in the advanced filter control
Added Hide unaffected items and Reveal hidden items commands to the file display background context menu when using the Synchronize tool. Also added the Select HIDEUNAFFECTED and Select SHOWUNAFFECTED commands.
Added the @ifpath and @ifpathr command modifiers, which let you perform simple branching in commands based on the current source folder.
Added some new features for inline rename:
Rename INLINE=endstem command to position cursor at the end of the filename stem (but without selecting it).
If the Retain cursor position option is OFF, when moving up/down between files the original selection type is now preserved. Previously, the value of the INLINE argument was only looked at for the first file, and all others defaulted to "stem".
Added a new Preferences category - File Operations / Inline Rename. This contains the two existing inline rename flags which were previously in File Operations / Options, as well as a new option that lets you configure the default selection behavior when inline rename is initiated.
Improved change notification handling to better support programs that use "safe-save" techniques:
This makes Opus see "safe-save" and "ReplaceFile" events as if the old file was being updated rather than renamed/deleted and replaced with a new file.
It means you can select a Word doc and it should stay selected when you save over it. Or a PNG which you overwrite with Photoshop.
Similarly, it should fix larger JPEGs being de-selected when modified via the metadata panel.
It may also help collections keep track of files better when they are replaced with new versions.
In the standalone image viewer, you can now use * and / on the numeric keypad for Grow-To-Page and Original-Size
Bug fixes:
The Filter Bar's drop-down extensions list now escapes wildcards when building the filter, if the extensions contain wildcard characters like ~.
Fixed the Filter Bar's drop-down list truncating the display of longer extensions unnecessarily.
Fixed a problem in Vista/Windows 7 where Opus could incorrectly determine whether the recycle bin was enabled or disabled on a specific drive.
When moving a directory into a destination handled by the Archives plugin, the directory's contents would be moved but the (empty) directory itself would be left in the source, if a directory of the same name was already in the archive.
Fixed folder merge prompt not being displayed when moving a folder on the same device (i.e. by rename). Also fixed move operations aborting if there was an error at a folder level (very rare) and Skip was chosen.
Fixed images added via "Prefs ADDBACKGROUND" not working until Opus was restarted.
Fix for pasting clipboard images into files (ctrl-v in the file display) when the image data came from a .Net application (which used the .Net clipboard API rather than P/Invoking the native ones). (Workaround for apparent bug in .Net or OleGetClipboard.)
Changes to Collections are now saved every five minutes, even for Collections which are left open in a window. (Previously, they would only be saved when you navigated away from them.)
Fixed certain situations where changes to file collections would not be saved when a config backup was made, because the changes had not been written to disk yet.
Fixed truncated directory name in drag & drop tooltip when dragging into the sub-sub-folder of a Library.
Fixed button editor menus inserting the wrong arguments for the Set command if your system had more than a handful of shell extension columns installed (forum thread).
Fixed files being moved via slow copy-then-delete instead of rename when dragging folders below the Temp folder, using the folder tree. (Folders in other locations, or dragged via the file display, were not affected.)
Fixed pattern matching behaviour with certain nonsense repeated expressions, which could previously cause long delays or, in some cases, infinite loops
File-in-use errors now show which process is locking the file in a few more situations.
File-in-use errors now report the name of the application as well as its EXE path.
Fixed a problem where control sequences like {file} would fail to resolve library paths if a Select command had been used in the same function.
Copying files from an archive in a library is now much quicker.
Fixed "Close ALLLISTERS=collapse" (which moves all other open listers into new tabs in the active lister, and closes the other windows) with certain combinations of tabs in the current and/or other listers.
Workaround for Universal Graphics Viewer plugin causing PDF and some other document formats to be included in the viewer's next/prev image lists.
Fixed the progress dialog "jumping" around sometimes when changing from one queued copy to another.
Fixed what happened if you aborted a paused copy job while another was queued behind it. The next job would start running with parts of the progress dialog still indicating it was paused. Now, the next job remains paused and the dialog shows the correct state.
Workaround for conflict with "Actual Tools Multiple Monitors" which modifies the behaviour of Opus in a way which caused queued copy operations to abort if you changed folders (or various other actions) after queuing two or more file copies.
Filetype descriptions were not localized in some cases.
Directory Opus 10.1.0.0 is now available as a free update for all Directory Opus 10 users.
Evaluation period reset:
If you have been test-driving Directory Opus 10.0 and your 60-day evaluation has run out, you can request a new 60-day evaluation for Directory Opus 10.1 to see what's new.
If you're currently using an Opus 10.0 evaluation certificate then you'll need a new 10.1 evaluation certificate as the old eval cert won't work with the new version (it will say the old cert has expired). You'll get a full 60-day period from the new cert.
If you've purchased Opus 10.0 then you don't need to do anything. Your existing certificate will continue to work with all 10.x versions and never expires.
Downloads:
You can download the update via the GPSoftware website, or use Check For Program Updates in the program's Help menu.
If you use the German (Deutsch) version of Opus, go to Haage & Partner's downloads page for the program update, Help file and additional resources translated into German. (For all other languages, use GPSoftware's site.)
The 10.1.0.0 update includes everything from the 10.0.5.x beta versions:
This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.
Bug fixes:
Fixed display error that could occur if an existing file was replaced/modified and a) the file display was grouped, and b) the "don't sort new files" option was turned on.
Fixed crash that could be caused by extracting a folder from a 7z-plugin archive with a % in the archive name.
We have added a new "API key" for ImageShack uploads that hopefully will fix the issue of anonymous uploads not working (they seem to keep changing things so there's no guarantee, unfortunately).
The Find tool's "Refine" checkbox effectively did nothing if "Clear previous results" was turned off. The "Clear previous results" checkbox is now ignored (treated as if it is turned on) when Refining, as it should be as it is disabled.
The music Protection column would incorrectly say "Yes" for MP3s with the "protection" bit set in their headers. The column indicates DRM while the protection bit in the MP3 header just means there is an extra CRC in the file.
Fixed per-item delete confirmations not appearing if exactly one folder and one file were selected.
Per-item delete confirmation options no longer apply when using the Recycle Bin, as per what it says in Preferences.
Set KEEPFOLDERSALPHA=On and Off buttons are now checked appropriately, so they work with @ifset as well. Previously only Toggle was checked.
