Directory Opus is a replacement for Windows Explorer. It is a well-known fact that Windows Explorer is one of the weakest features of all the Windows operative systems. No wonder why everyone feels like they need to write a replacement for it. Directory Opus is one replacement that packs a lot of features. First, the most important one: stability. The application isn't really connected to any other applications, so it is more stable and when it crashes, you can simply restart it, unlike Windows Explorer, which messes up your whole system. It allows you to manage files and folders with ease. It uses a tabbed interface, so say good-bye to all those open windows. It also adds features that make it more usable, too. For example, you get a built-in file viewer. Browsing photos from within the application is a breeze. Also, with ZIP support, you can browse zip files and their contents without having to extract the files first. The FTP support completes Directory Opus, giving you the means to distribute your files. So, thanks to this application you can tackle tasks that would otherwise require 4 or 5 different applications with a single one.
v11.5 [Jul 10, 2014]
- Added Select SHOWFOCUS command, to make the focus item visible without modifying the selection
- The "Set LISTERTITLE" command normally acts as a toggle, if the title which is already set is specified again. You can now prefix the title with "notoggle:" to prevent this, as will be useful in event-driven scripts.
- The slide show speed can now be set to 0 which means "as fast as possible".
- Filters can now be used to stop operations proceeding through junctions and soft links to folders. When filtering, the Subfolder clause can now contain a Type clause, which can be used to match "[Junctions/Links/Shortcuts]". The Type clause was always able to match those things, you just could not use it inside of Subfolder until now.
- Fixed Opus archives context menu's "cascade" option sometimes causing the menu (or sometimes other items) to not appear in Explorer.
- Added .m4a to the default Music filetype group.
- You can now close multiple tabs quickly by clicking them with the middle mouse button. Previously, if you clicked fast enough to register as a double-click then every second click was ignored.
- Copying using Non-buffered I/O is now disabled by default due to compatibility issues with certain devices. This will affect system cache memory usage while copying and may also affect copy speed (although it can be both better or worse, depending on your system, and probably won't make a huge difference to speed either way). If you wish to go back to how things were in the previous release, simply go to Preferences / Miscellaneous / Advanced and set copy_nonbufferio_threshold to 1 MB.
- Possible fix for crash during startup if network shares were being created simultaneously.
- Fix for RAR support not working on some machines unless the new RAR 5 (UnRar.dll) support was disabled.
- Fixed crash which could occur when opening or flicking through several folder tabs pointing to junctions if the timing was just right.
- Fixed folder tree mouse events (other than normal left-click) on folders below Libraries. For example, the default middle-click event to open a new tab would open the parent folder in a new tab, not the folder you clicked on.
- The Text viewer plugin now blocks going into full-screen mode, since it isn't very useful for that plugin and it isn't obvious how to exit from it.
- Fixed movie plugin (and possibly others) not re-loading the current file if it came from a Library and the viewer pane's "Full Screen" button was clicked.
- Fixed automatic copy queue functionality when copying to drives mounted only as folders on other drives, without drive letters.
- Fixed file displays not updating automatically in recent versions when below drives which were only mounted via folders on other drives and were not assigned drive letters.
- Fixed Find panel not correctly displaying filter names when they contained ampersand characters.
- Fixed right-clicking and then choosing Rename on a partially-visible item at the top of the file display causing inline rename to begin with the wrong file in focus.
- Fix for progress dialogs not hiding correctly in response to the using Win Down Arrow hotkey in some situations.
- Things like @ifset:common (and similar with @ifpath and @ifexists) now work if you put a space after the ":" or before the end of the line.
- Fixed "SetAttr META gpslatitude:50.123" and similar not working with coordinates which did not explicitly specify a hemisphere (e.g. 50.123N worked but 50.123 on its own did not).
- Fixed folder tree not updating for changes below drives which mounted as folders on other drives without drive letters of their own.
- File Display Toolbar/Border glyphs now have 1.5x and 2x size versions for people using high DPI displays or large fonts.
- Toolbar button rows with labels above or below icons, and varying icon sizes, now center icons in the available height and ensure the labels line up.
- The location bar now handles pasted path strings that contain unwanted newline characters.
- The file display will now preserve the focus item (if possible) and scroll to make it visible when toggling flat view on or off (or through the various modes).
- In the Advanced Rename dialog, text editor hotkeys now get priority when the text editor has the focus. (For example, Ctrl L now works to toggle line numbers when the text editor has focus, and prompts if you wish to delete the current rename preset as before when it doesn't.)
- Possible fix for submitted crash dump.
- Copying without a destination window now updates the recent folder list with the destination folder you choose when prompted, even if the Favorites and Recent / Recent List / Ignore filesystem folders that are only transited Preferences option is off.
- Improved placement of breadcrumbs pop-up menus when there isn't room for them in their usual bottom-right position.
- Brainchild edit controls.
- Scripting Changes.
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