Directory Opus 10.5.2.2 beta is now available for all Opus 10 users.
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This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.
The following is a guide to the changes in the Directory Opus 10.5.2.2 beta:
New features / minor changes- Added a new option - Sort name and extension separately - to the Display tab in the Folder Options dialog. This option is enabled by default. When enabled, Opus sorts folders by name by splitting up the filename stem and the extension, and sorting them separately (i.e. it sorts by the stem first, and only if the stem is the same does it consider the file extension). This has the effect of keeping names with the same stem together, for example:
In the above image, there are only three files with the stem Test, and a fourth with the stem Test.bbb, and with the option turned on Opus has sorted the two groups separately. If you turn this option off, Opus will consider the whole filename including the extension as a single string, which will produce the following result:
The new Set SORTNAMEEXTSEPARATELY command can be used to change this setting from a button or hotkey.
- When you right click with more than one file selected, the Opus Add to xxx.zip context menu item is now listed twice - once for the name of the file you right-clicked on and once for the parent folder. This lets you create an archive of two or more files named after the folder the files are in.
- The Select DATE command now lets you use constructions like >3 days to select files older than three days, <1 year to select files younger than a year, etc. It also accepts the new keyword next, which when used as Select DATE=newest,next has the effect of progressively selecting the next newest file in the list. Without the next keyword, if the newest file in the list is already selected nothing will appear to happen.
Bug fixes- In the Find panel, if the Lock Folder button is turned off, it now remembers the previous folder you searched rather than opening with the current folder. (If you want the current folder, just turn on the lock.) (Only the first folder is remembered, by design, unless you explicitly request all folders to be restored by running Find LOADPREV=all.)
- Clipboard PASTE USESEL now works when a Zip file is selected (and the command is run from a button/hotkey) instead of just from the context menu.
- Linked folder tabs are now selected if you change tabs using a hotkey that involves Ctrl or Shift.
- New tabs opened via an external command (e.g. dopusrt.exe /cmd Go C:\ NEWTAB), with the command run when the Lister is not the active window, now properly gain focus when the Lister is activated.
- Fixed the new source file display not getting focus if you were in a dual-display window, using inline rename, when you switched to a new source.
- Closing the Lister, file display or folder tab while doing an inline rename will now cancel the rename instead of applying it. (Changing tabs, changing folders, and most other actions will still apply the unfinished rename.)
- The folder tab context menu now includes the Close command when there's only one tab open in a dual-display window.
- If the current folder is a namespace-only path like Computer, and you type a string beginning with \ into the location field, it will now be treated as relative to the root of the drive Opus is installed on.
- The path completion used in the advanced filter control's Location/Path/Target fields no longer traps chars like ~, meaning these can be entered at the beginning of the wildcard pattern.
- A command that calls Set FILTER=On followed by Copy no longer displays the string "(null)" in the filter dialog.
- The Opus native My Computer display now correctly checks if non-drive namespace extensions should be hidden (e.g. the Norton 360 Backup Drive if turned off in Norton settings).
- The progress dialog for a Synchronize operation would show an incorrect "total files processed" value while copying the first file.
- Fixed crash if you started an inline rename in a dual-display Lister and then closed the last file display on either side via its tab.
- The Properties SETLABEL list now displays the labels' custom icons (if they have them).
- The SHOWRESULTS argument now works in conjunction with the Find QUERY command.
- Added Clipboard PASTE <normal> to the command template.
- Fixed a problem that could cause numeric name sorting to stop working if a folder containing names with numbers greater than 2^63.
- Clicking on items in the path completion dropdown list now works correctly.
- The File Types action/event editor dialog could display "(null)" in the title for some file types.
Directory Opus 10.5.2.1 beta is now available for all Opus 10 users.
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This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.
The following is a guide to the changes in the Directory Opus 10.5.2.1 beta:
New features / minor changes- Added SIZE and DATE arguments to the Select command to provide a simple method selection by date or size (less complicated than using the advanced select mode).
Select SIZE accepts the keywords largest and smallest to select the largest or smallest item in the list. You can also specify a size (in bytes by default, or specify kb, mb or gb to use different units). If specifying a size, you can use > or < for greater or less than, and specify a range using .. between the two sizes.
Examples:
Select SIZE=largest - select largest item in the list
Select *.zip SIZE=smallest - select smallest zip file in the list
Select SIZE <500kb DESELECTNOMATCH - select all items below 500Kb in size, deselect all others
Select SIZE 1mb..5mb - select all items between one and five megabytes
Select DATE accepts the keywords oldest and newest to select the oldest or newest item in the list. You can also specify a date (in the format YYYY-MM-DD) and/or time (in the format HH:MM). If specifying a date, you can use > or < for greater or less, and specify a range using .. between the two dates. By default Select DATE only considers the last modification time of files, but you can add the keyword created to look at the creation time of the file, or both to look at both timestamps. If these keywords are provided they must be listed first followed by a comma and then the date to test for.
Examples:
Select DATE=newest TYPE=files - select the most recently modified file in the list
Select *.txt DATE=both,oldest - select the oldest text file, considering both creation and last modification times
Select DATE created,2012-05-15 - select items created on 15th May, 2012
Select DATE 10:00..14:00 - select items modified between 10am and 2pm
Select DATE "<2010-06-07 17:30" - select items modified earlier than 5:30pm on 7th June, 2010 (note the quotes around the argument value, because of the space between the date and the time).
- The Clipboard PASTE command can now be used to paste files, images and text from the clipboard directly as archives (instead of creating the archive first and then pasting the items into it).
Examples:
Clipboard PASTE=zip - paste clipboard contents as a new zip file. The filename will be set automatically (if files are on the clipboard, the first item name will be used) unless the AS argument is also used.
Clipboard PASTE=7z - paste clipboard contents as a new 7Zip file
Clipboard PASTE=rar AS=ask - paste as a new RAR file (requires WinRAR), prompting for archive name and settings.
- The USESEL argument for the Clipboard PASTE command now lets you paste the clipboard contents into an existing archive (i.e. put the command Clipboard PASTE USESEL on the context menu for the Archives filetype group, and you can then right-click an existing archive and paste the clipboard contents into it).
Bug fixes- Menus generated by Copy COLLLIST and Copy INCLUDEINLIBRARY now respect the @nodeselect modifier if it is present in their parent buttons.
- The names of Collections and Libraries in menus generated by Copy COLLLIST and Copy INCLUDEINLIBRARY, respectively, are now displayed correctly when they contain ampersand characters.
- Removed Delete and Cut commands from the context menu of folders in the Favorites menu to avoid accidental deletion of folders.
- Fixed a problem where a button that had a Go command that failed (e.g. path not found), followed by a command to turn Flat View on, would result in the contents of the process current folder being read in Flat View mode.
- A style that was set to read a folder and turn on Flat View Mixed/No Folders would fail to remove the folders from the list.
- Improved handling of MP3 cover art where the MIME type has been set to an invalid string.
- The Select Folder dialog's Favorites drop-down now shows the complete label set for each favourite, instead of just the "filename" part of the label. (Before, it would exclude anything before the last slash, if any, in the label.)
- If you save the installer from the update checker, the path field reminding you where you put it is now truncated in the middle if it is too wide for the window. (You can still resize the window to see the whole thing, or click on the path to open the installer's parent folder and select it.)
- The update checker now ensures the installer has a .exe extension if you choose to save it. Previously, the extension could be left off if you edited the name or path and had Windows configured to hide file extensions.
- Fixed file displays being left in Sync or Dupe modes if they were not the active tab when you closed the utility panel.
- If you run the Sync tool from a single-display lister, automatically opening the dual display, the dual display is now left open when you close the Sync tool. Previously, it would be closed automatically (only if it had been opened automatically), but this was not always desirable and we now leave it up to you when to close the second display.
- Fixed rename sorting bug that could end up with files in the wrong position if the display was grouped and the files were in the "unspecified" group.
- Fixed problem that could cause the inline rename field to end up positioned incorrectly (thus revealing a hidden filename) if the file display was grouped and you used the up/down cursor keys to rename multiple files.
- Fixed filenames in the rename dialog being drawn in the wrong color after certain edits to the old/new name fields.
- Fixed failure to save metadata in some images when clearing the EXIF flash tag.
- Fixed internal library paths being revealed by favorites tooltip, and the Favorites list in Preferences.
- Fixed internal MTP paths revealed by copy error dialog in some cases.
- Running Opus from USB/U3 no longer leaves the desktop double-click handler (dopusrt) running when Opus itself is shut down - prevents the USB drive from being locked after Opus has quit.
Directory Opus 10.5.2.0 is now available as a free update for all Directory Opus 10 users.
Download:What's new:
The 10.5.2.0 update includes everything from the 10.5.1.x beta versions:
(The help file contains a summary of all these changes in one place and will be displayed the first time you run the new version.)
- Win + E hotkey
Normally, the Windows + E hotkey will open the Computer folder, rather than your default lister. If Directory Opus is set as the default file manager then the Computer folder will open in Opus.
The Win + E hotkey is defined by Windows itself, whether or not Opus is installed, as meaning "open the Computer folder", and that's just what it does. (You can change what it does, if you wish; see below.)
- Shift + Win + E and Win + O hotkeys
Opus creates its own system-wide hotkey which opens your default lister. The hotkey will be either Shift + Win + E or Win + O, depending on your version of Windows and the version of Opus you first installed.
(Before Opus 10.5, Win + O was the default hotkey. Unfortunately, Windows 8 has taken over the key and it no longer works for Opus. Newer versions of Opus use Shift + Win + E as the default instead. If you do a clean install of Opus you will get the newer Shift + Win + E hotkey. On the other hand, if you use a configuration that came from an old version of Opus then you will keep the old Win + O hotkey, unless you're on Windows 8 where it is automatically changed to the new Shift + Win + E key.)
- Overriding the Win + E hotkey
To override the Win + E hotkey and make it open your default lister instead of the Computer folder, follow these steps:
- Select Settings -> Customize Toolbars...
- Select the Keys tab and click the New Hotkey icon.
- Tick the System-wide hotkey checkbox.
Click on the Hotkey field and push Win + E.
(i.e. Hold down the Windows key, then push the E key, then release the Windows key.)
(If the keys do not work, or cause the Start Menu or Computer folder to open, you probably did not set the System-wide hotkey checkbox; you must do that first to be able to use the Windows key here.)
Set the Function field to Go NEW (or the command of your choice).
- Finally, click OK in the Command Editor, and then click OK again back in the Customize window.
(As with all FAQ entries, the forum version of this FAQ will be kept up-to-date while the version here will remain a snapshot of the initial posting.)
Directory Opus 10.5.1.3 beta is now available for all Opus 10 users.
32-bit version: Universal Deutsch 简化字
64-bit version: Universal Deutsch 简化字
This is a preliminary, beta release. Translations may not be fully up-to-date and some English text may appear in non-English versions.
The following is a guide to the changes in the Directory Opus 10.5.1.3 beta:
Bug fixes- Fixed crashes/problems caused by deleting a collection that had child collections.
- Fixed certain situations where the status bar did not clear the custom Opus status bar panels when showing the simple status bar text for a shell folder. e.g. "1 object(s) selected" might appear for the shell folder's status, next to some other information that was left over from the previous normal folder, which should have been cleared.
- Buttons on the file display border now respond correctly to Windows theme changes.
- Fixed toolbar drive buttons not displaying drive labels correctly if they contained '\t'.
- Fixed right edge of the Find filter toolbar not repainting correctly on the first resize causing the scrollbar overlapping it to be removed.
- The Set Description dialog now picks up the existing description (comment) from MP3 files, and similar for other filetypes where the description is stored within their native metadata. Similarly, the Description clause in advanced Find/Select/etc. filters now pick up those descriptions.
- Fixed error when double-clicking on an FTP site entry from the ftp:// namespace root if the site had a & in the name.
- When copying MP3 files to an MTP device, Opus will now set several of the MTP metadata tags from the source file's ID3 tag (to compensate for dumb devices that don't do their own ID3 parsing).
- Fixed delay when typing a path starting with "\" into the path field when on an unresponsive network share, despite the Preferences / Folders / Folder Behaviour / Complete paths for local drives only option being turned on. (If the option is turned off, there may still be a delay, so you may wish to turn the option on if you use slow network drives a lot.)
- Improvements and fixes to the Undo menu:
- The descriptions of each item can now be longer before they are truncated.
- When truncating descriptions, the individual paths are truncated, instead of the overall string. (So copying a file with a long name won't cause the destination information to be lost off the end of the description entirely.)
- Paths are truncated in the middle, rather than at the end, so the truncation is less of a problem when it does occur.
- Source and destination paths containing ampersand characters are now displayed correctly in the list.
- Undo actions for shortcut creation now display the folder the shortcut was created in correctly.
- Fixed minor issue in path completion (it could break if you typed a %envvar% or alias path followed by a path containing a space, like "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft ").
- Sorting on the image Physical Width, Physical Height and Physical Size fields did not work.
- Fixed the Rename dialog's preview list header showing file icons instead of sort arrows after being clicked.
- The CLI DOSPROMPT=admin command now works correctly if the current directory contains a & or ^ character.
- If you click Apply in the metadata pane and then while the save is still going on, clear the pane or select new files, you will no longer be prompted to save the files you're already saving.
- Pressing escape should now abort a tree expansion initiated by pressing the * or + keys.
- Improved folder tree performance when processing large numbers of events, e.g. hundreds of new folders being created in a branch which the tree is showing.
- Fixed progress window title showing "Paused: (null)" if you paused an operation and had the Show percent complete in progress bar titles option turned off (or when the percentage could not be calculated).
- Fixed accelerator keys for the Backup, Restore and Export choices at the start of the Preferences Backup and Restore wizard.
- The Select Folder dialog drop-downs no longer truncate paths based on the smallest window size, but instead use the true size of the window.
- The Select Folder dialog now works correctly when you manually enter a path alias.
- Enabling the Open second Folder Tree in dual display mode option now automatically shows the second tree if the Lister is already in dual display mode.
- The New Collection... and New Stored Query... context menu items are now displayed on the right-click menu for a collection in the Folder Tree.
- The Lister did not redraw correctly when enabling FlatView (Mixed No Folders) in a folder that only contained an empty folder.
- The Search field now works correctly in the Desktop folder on Windows XP.
- The file group context menus (Collapse, Expand, etc.) are now displayed in the Desktop folder even if virtual items like Computer are included in the group.
- Right-clicking on a file group header in Power mode now displays the same group-related menu items as in details mode.
- Files copied from MTP devices are no longer fully cached in memory if their size exceeds 1/10 of the physical memory in the computer.
- Fixed the Folder Options / Folder Format editor's Columns page not updating its lists properly when you turned grouping on or off and had Opus configured to automatically add the Group column while grouping.
- The Group column did not work correctly in the Computer folder.
- Copying compressed or encrypted folders to non-compressed/encrypted locations no longer re-compresses/encrypts them. (This was already the case with files, but folders and their contents were handled inconsistently. Copied files and folders now always inherit the compression/encryption settings of the folder they are copied into (as with Windows Explorer).
- If you turn on administrator mode in a protected folder like C:\Program Files and then drag a file into that Lister from the desktop, Opus no longer shows an unnecessary UAC prompt.
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