Directory Opus 12.20.4 (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.
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Changes since 12.20.3:
- The FileType NEW command can now create directories by specifying directory as the file type to create. This lets you create multiple directories at once (e.g. FileType NEW=directory NEWCOUNT=10).
- The FileType NEWNAME argument can now be used to specify a separate name that's used when the original name clashes, and to control where the incremental number is inserted. For example, FileType NEW=.txt NEWNAME="Text:Text Num %c" would use "Text" for the initial name, and then try "Text Num 1", "Text Num 2" etc. You can use %Nc to zero-pad the number to N digits (e.g. %3c to zero pad to three digits). The default behavior if a separate name isn't specified is still to append the incremental number in brackets.
- The option to specify a single image (via name or wildcard) for folder thumbnails can now be used to allow up to 4 images per folder thumbnail that match the wildcard.
- When dragging attachments from Outlook to an Opus Lister, Opus now detects the special 1/1/4501 timestamp that Outlook uses for some reason, and substitutes the current date and time instead.
- If you turn on the Lister's Copy or Delete filter and then run a command which explicitly specifies a filter, the command will now use the filter it specifies without prompting. (Normal commands which don't specify a filter will still prompt you to choose or define one.)
- If a copy/move operation uses a custom queue name this is now shown in the title bar of the progress dialog as described in the manual.
- Fixed issue introduced in previous beta where folder tree branches would only fully populate when manually expanded.
- Fixed issue introduced in previous beta which caused drive roots to be highlighted when viewing This PC with a filter that highlights recently modified folders.
Directory Opus 12.20.3 (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.
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Changes since 12.20.2:
- A command that copies files into a file collection using {filepath} etc. codes now works correctly with more than one item selected.
- Fixed the folder tree scrolling to the wrong position if both Expand selected branch when changing tabs and Position selected item in the middle of the tree were enabled at once.
- Changing the advanced no_folder_cd_thumbs or cd_thumb_coverart_file settings now clears any cached folder thumbnails and does a refresh immediately.
- Buttons can now use things like @ifpath:/trash to make commands conditional on being in virtual folders like Recycle Bin.
- Using the Favorites FILTER argument no longer filters out separators from the Favorites list (other than to remove double separators where everything between them was filtered out).
- Fixed a cosmetic issue with the Backup & Restore dialog at 125% DPI scaling.
- Added LocalizedNameTest registry flag for testing alternative methods of retrieving localized names (re: Google Drive). See https://resource.dopus.com/t/dopus-slow-to-load-google-drive-file-stream-folder-with-many-items/35468 for details.
- Added Dialog.WatchTab script method. Allows a (detached) script dialog to receive various notifications about a folder tab (file selection, file changes, etc).
- Script dialogs shown as a checkbox list (using Dialog.choices) are now themed and resizable.
Directory Opus 12.20.2 (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.
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Changes since 12.20.1:- The FAYT field's Range Select mode (# key by default) now lets you select a range based on the current focus position. For example, #+10 will select the next 10 files from the current position, and #-5 will select the previous 5. You can also use, for example, #-5+5 to select 5 files either side.
- Previously the Range Select mode required the Index column to be added before you could use it, but now the mode is always available (in details/power mode) and the Index column will be automatically added if needed, and removed again once the FAYT closes..
- Background threads generating metadata now prioritise the active tab. When you switch tabs any outstanding threads are re-ordered so results for the newly active tab should start to be returned much more quickly.
- A number of improvements to the Go FOLDERCONTENT command:
- Go FOLDERCONTENT now sorts and filters items by their localized display names, not the underlying disk names.
- Go FOLDERCONTENT=useshell now supports multiple folders. Also added support for merging the current folder "." with one or more fixed paths.
- Go FOLDERCONTENT=useshell now shows better descriptions (on mouse hover) for shortcuts.
- Go FOLDERCONTENT=useshell no longer treats zip files as folders.
- Go FOLDERCONTENT without useshell now adds a separator between files and folders at the top level. (Previously, this only happened within sub-menus or when useshell was specified.)
- If a folder tab shows a collection which is deleted, the tab now reacts by going up a level (if the collection stays deleted) or refreshing (if the collection is re-created immediately).
- The dialog for creating new FTP site bookmarks no longer resets the password drop-down when you change the connection type drop-down.
- Improved feedback if PDF metadata update fails.
- Fixed a problem with the MD5 cache which could in some cases cause checksums to not be calculated (files would show as duplicates but with a zero checksum).
- Improved compatibility with music tags in certain M4A files.
- Resetting the Archives filetype group to its default settings now initialises the default file extensions for the group.
- Fixed the Flat View state of the first folder carrying over to its replacement when loading a Folder Tab Group.
- Documented the refreshsub action for the OnBeforeFolderChange and OnAfterFolderChange script events.
- By default, Opus no longer overrides the font chosen by virtual folders which Opus does not handle itself. A new option Preferences / Display / Options / Enable custom fonts in virtual folders exists to turn this back on, but note that it can cause cosmetic issues or even crashes when going to those folders.
- Fixed drop-downs at the bottom of Preferences / Display / Images not updating correctly when custom images were removed.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if you rapidly refreshed a file collection.
- The standalone viewer now adds the initial file it opens to the Windows recent documents list.
- Fixed unnecessary null being added at end of IPTC string tags.
- If a rename fails because a file is in-use Opus will now show the processes that have the file locked if possible (same as when trying to delete).
- Fixed Go FROMSEL NEW=nodual opening a Lister with a second folder tree, if the default Lister had dual folder trees.
- The Image Viewer toolbar now respects the icon size override on the Customize Toolbars page.
- Fixed Customize Toolbars list in Opus Light showing the wrong checkbox state for the Images toolbar if it was turned on.
- In Opus Light, you can now override the File Display Border toolbar's icon size and the setting will be saved to disk.
- The Customize Toolbars list now shows File Display Border toolbars as in-use, to help identify them. They can also no longer be turned on as normal toolbars (although you can still do so via commands if you really want to for some reason).
- If the File Display Border or Image Viewer toolbars are changed in Preferences while the Customize dialog is also open, the Customize dialog now updates itself.
- When the standalone viewer is displaying something with the Text plugin, you can now close it with Esc.
- Fixed a crash which could occur in the standalone viewer if you had the Reuse existing viewer windows option turned on and double-clicked the same image twice in extremely quick succession (e.g. due to a faulty mouse button).
- When you right-click a file which is a member of multiple File Type Groups, the context menu items they add (if any) are now in the same order as the groups in the file type editor (i.e. by group name).
- Improved Rename dialog's filtering of invalid characters to allow ":" to be typed after {scp even when not at the very end of the line.
- The progress dialog's unattended mode errors dialog no longer shows itself when the progress dialog is minimized and restored if the unattended option has been turned off again.
- The Command.AddFilesFromClipboard script method now works better when the clipboard files came from a library.
- Fixed an issue where the standalone viewer could be blank after exiting fullscreen mode in specific situations.
- Layouts applied to existing windows (Prefs LAYOUTTHISLISTER) should now work with Navigation Lock and Linked Folder Tabs.
- If you have a toolbar with empty space on the right (or bottom, for vertical toolbars), and you move the mouse across the last button and into the empty space, the button will no longer be left highlighted.
- Drive roots may now be added to file collections. (Primarily intended for scripts/commands.)
- The Item.filegroup script property now works correctly in script functions run from a context menu.
Microsoft have updated their Raw Image Extension with support for Canon's newer .CR3 images*.
This extension works in both File Explorer and Directory Opus, for thumbnail and viewer support.
While Opus comes with its own Raw Camera plugin, you may find Microsoft's codec works better for some camera models (or vice versa).
More detail here on the forum:
Viewer/VFS Plugins: Raw Image Extension (Microsoft)
Note that Windows 10 (1903) or above is required.
* Edit: It turns out the CR3 update is only for Windows Insider build users at the moment, but will presumably be released for everyone in time.
Directory Opus 12.20.1 (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.
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Changes since 12.20: - Added columns to the native This PC view to show percentage space free and full as a number (instead of as a bar graph).
- Added special handling when moving folders up to parents, where the same folder names appear both above and below the source level. (e.g. C:\A\A\A\A up to C:\A when C:\A\A\A\A\A\A exists.)
- Added support for File Explorer's %V code. This inserts the selected file or folder if there is one, and the current folder path otherwise.
- The Join dialog now puts the focus in the output filename field by default. If all input files have the same file extension, the default output filename will now be given that extension as well.
- Library member folders are now shown in the tree in the order they're configured via the Properties dialog, rather than being sorted alphabetically.
- The option to hide OneDrive for Business in the folder tree now applies to OneDrive for School as well.
- In Windows 10, the folder tree no longer appends the drive letter (or share name) to the name of library member folders (this is to match what Explorer does).
- When selected files are filtered out of the display by the filter bar (or the FAYT in filter mode), they are now deselected automatically.
- Added alternative syntax for opening a specific file in the viewer pane. As well as the old Show VIEWPANECMD="open,C:\cat.jpg" you can also now use Show "C:\Cat.jpg" VIEWPANECMD=open.
- Show VIEWPANECMD=open now works with filenames and relative paths; previously it required a full path.
- A command like Delete FILE="coll://CollectionName" will no longer show any warning or confirmation dialogs if the collection already does not exist.
- Fixed zip files appearing in breadcrumbs menus when archives were turned off for them.
- The breadcrumbs option for showing This PC as an icon now only affects This PC, not other folders that are the first path branch (e.g. Network, or folders below Desktop).
- Go OPENCONTAINER=target now selects the target file even if the OPENINDUAL argument is used to open the containing folder in the other file display.
- The Preferences aliases list now selects the next alias after one is deleted.
- Fixed incompatibility with PeaZip context menu.
- Improved compatibility with context menus added by PotPlayer.
- Added support for a type of nested context menu used by some software (e.g. the Sound Forge Convert To sub-menu).
- Added support for a second type of nested context menu used by some software.
- Fixed copy queue buttons looking incorrect at 125% DPI scaling.
- Fixed Go FOLDERCONTENT menus which merge multiple paths together. (e.g. Start Menu Button)
- Fixed crash if you used the mouse wheel over certain parts of the Customize > Context Menus UI.
- Fixed a problem with automatic filename quoting getting confused by a = argument separator (e.g. CREATEFOLDER={file|noext} would put the quote before the CREATEFOLDER rather than after the =).
- Fixed drag & drop into a file display with manual sort enabled, where dropping a file between two sub-folders now drops it to the current folder, consistent with what the visual preview indicates.
- Added rotate property to the Control script object (for static controls set to image mode). This allows the script to rotate the displayed image.
- Added protection against a crash that could be caused by having lots of tabs opening at once with a script that implements the OnBeforeFolderChange event.
- Script columns displayed in Listers now update their headings/names if the script is edited or calls Script.InitColumns or Script.RefreshColumn.
- Scripts generated by the Create New Script dialog now escape or replace quotes, backslashes and other special or invalid code or path characters typed into the dialog.
If you work with Markdown documents (.md files) or SVG images, you may find these new viewers useful.
Microsoft have updated their PowerToys for Windows 10 with viewers for both formats.
Details, links and screenshots of what they look like within Directory Opus can be found here:
For Markdown, there is also a second, alternative viewer linked at the bottom of the post, in case it works better for you.
For SVG, you can also preview .SVG files via Internet Explorer's built-in support, which Opus will use by default in the viewer pane if nothing else is installed.
With version 12.20 of Directory Opus we have switched to a new installer (InnoSetup), to hopefully solve the many problems people have been having installing Directory Opus upgrades over the past few months.
Unfortunately the new installer no longer supports Windows XP. We have built a final version of the old installer (Installshield) which will allow any Windows XP users to upgrade to 12.20 (assuming the installer doesn't fail of course!) but this will be the last version that we release which will install on Windows XP.
Opus itself will continue to support Windows XP (only the installer won't) so in future if you want to update to later versions you will need to install on a more modern machine, and then copy the program files over to your Windows XP machine manually.
We highly recommend that you upgrade any machines you have that still run Windows XP. Microsoft have not supported it for several years, which means there will be unpatched security bugs that could easily compromise your safety when connected to the Internet.
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