Directory Opus 10.5.3.0 - 25th September 2013

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. You can also use constructions like >3 days to select files older than three days, <1 year to select files younger than a year, etc. 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. In conjunction with the newest keyword you can also use the keyword next has the effect of progressively selecting the next newest file in the list.
    
    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).
        Select DATE=newest,next - progressively select the next newest file in the list.
    
• 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). 
• 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.
• Added a new command - Show VIEWPANECMD. This lets you trigger viewer panel actions like zooming and rotating from a command, which in turn lets you assign them to hotkeys that will work even when the panel doesn't have input focus.
• Added a new TABNAME argument for the Go command which lets you assign a name to a tab - either the current tab, or a new tab in conjunction with the NEWTAB argument.
• Arguments for the Go command like KEYARGS, OPENINLEFT, etc. now work when used in a folder content menu (Go FOLDERCONTENT).

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.
• 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.)
• 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.
• 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.
• The Go ROOT command did not correctly disable its button when already at the root folder.
• Fixed error which meant when the file display was grouped, the Unspecified group was at the top of the list rather than at the bottom as intended.
• Going to the Recent Items virtual folder would show the full path to the folder as the tab label.
• In rare cases where multiple context menu shell extensions add items to sub-menus with the same name, the sub-menus are now merged together instead of each one appearing separately.
• Since the option to open external folders in new tabs also applies to zip files, the checkbox for it in Preferences is now enabled whether or not Explorer Replacement is enabled.
• Fixed changes to configuration or collections not being saved if done just before shutdown or restart of the machine.
• Fixed problems which could occur after renaming a collection which was inside another collection, until Opus was restarted.
• FTP - Changed thresholds to assist with bad servers that don't correctly report end of listing data.
• FTP SSL - Changed default methods for creating SSL connections. Now use SSLv23_method for greater compatibility to older servers. ** Please notify us if you find any compatibility issues with your SSL servers.
• FTP SSL - Updated OpenSSL libraries to 1.0.1e versions.
• Improved detection of empty disk drives. This will hopefully address issues where, when Opus is set to hide empty disk drives (in the My Computer folder and in drive buttons), it fails to detect media being inserted/removed at some times.
  • Fixed problem on some machines where Opus launched at boot would sometimes treat an empty optical drive as non-empty until it was restarted.
  • Improved handling of drives which do not correctly generate events to tell Opus and other programs when media is inserted and removed. Refreshing the Computer folder will force Opus to re-check the drives, and they will also be checked periodically whether or not they generate notifications.
  • Fixed newly mounted drives not always appearing in the folder tree or on toolbar drive-buttons until a folder change or refresh.
• Copying FTP files out of a file collection now supports resume.
• A Copy COLLLIST button did not update correctly to reflect newly created/deleted collections.
• Attempting to copy a folder over the top of an already existing file now displays an error message (previously it would just fail silently).
• Possible fix for issues with shell extensions which access cloud-storage.
• The Group column is now allowed in the Computer folder.
• Fixed thumbnails sometimes being incorrectly rotated, until refreshed, after modifying EXIF rotation field in the metadata panel.
• Fix for metadata editor failing to update files (sometimes leaving them with temporary names) because they were briefly in use (often by Opus itself, e.g. if in thumbnails mode and a previous change triggered the file being modified to be re-read as it is being modified again).
• In certain places, the attempt to delete a directory now automatically retries for about 1 second if the directory is non-empty, hopefully addressing a problem a couple of people saw with errors during moves. (It is thought this is due to other tools or antivirus holding hold locks (shared for deletion) on things below the directories, delaying the actual deletion until they release their locks.)
• Fixed attempt to delete directory and subsequent error message (and, from the previous change, delay) when a child item is filtered out or skipped due to error, during move or deletion.
• Fixed cosmetic issue with some tree controls when set to both never scroll horizontally and do full-row selection. Wide item labels could extend slightly past the right edge of their selection boxes.
• Running a command like "Go %windir%" combined with @noexpandenv now works again.
• Fixed being able to paste slash characters into FTP site names. (You can still paste them but they are replaced by dash characters as the change is applied.)
• Fixed crash when importing FTP bookmarks with an existing bookmark selected which would then be replaced.
• Improvements to the update checker:
  • Improved the update checker's detection of when an update has already been installed but is pending a reboot. - (Previously, if the installer had been launched via the updater checker then you'd be prompted to reboot rather than to run the installer again. This is now also the case if you ran the installer manually, or if you restarted Opus after running the installer.)
  • The update checker will now check more than once per session. (Previously, if you started Opus and it was then time for the weekly or monthly update check, and no new version was found, Opus would never check again until restarted and you would not be notified of an update released, say, a week later if your PC remained up and running Opus for that week.)
  • Fixed update checker settings not being saved properly in certain situations just after Opus had been installed.