Added the option of using non-buffered IO for file copying. For large files, this can result in faster copies for some devices and also avoids flushing the system’s file cache memory of other data which is more likely to be used. Copies between different devices are now asynchronous, which can result in a dramatic speed up when one device is a lot slower than the other (e.g. copying from a slow USB stick to an SDD), and copies on the same device now use a much larger buffer to avoid repeated seeking. Small files are still copied using buffered IO as we have found non-buffered IO slows them down. The size threshold can be set under Preferences / Miscellaneous / Advanced / copy_nonbufferio_threshold (0 which means disabled; 1MB is the default). Non-buffered IO can also be controlled on a per-function basis with the new NONBUFIO parameter for the Copy command.
Added NOAUTORUN argument to Find command to allow the find panel to be opened with a specified name, location and filter but without actually starting the find.
The @confirm command modifier now supports \n for embedded line breaks.
Added escnl modifier for {filepath} and similar codes, to escape \n sequences that might appear in the paths. This is mainly useful when using {filepath} as the message text in a {dlgstring} dialog.
Added an option to the Preferences / Folders / Folder Behaviour / Prevent automatic loading… section to prevent automatic loading of powered-down drives.
There is now a separate image_size_units setting, distinct from image_res_units (in Preferences / Miscellaneous / Advanced). For example, you can have resolution in DPI and physical sizes in centimetres.
Added option to Preferences / Display / Colors and Fonts for a separate "destination" folder tree color (i.e. the tree that is linked to the destination file display).
The folder alias system now supports accessing drives by their volume label, using /$<label> (e.g. /$Backup/ would refer to a drive labeled Backup).
Added Preferences / Zip & Other Archives / Zip Files / Set archive date to date of newest file within it option. When enabled, the last modified timestamp of a Zip archive will automatically be set to the time of the newest file within the archive.
When in Tiles mode with thumbnails enabled, thumbnails can now be displayed in popup InfoTips as well, provided the image in the infotip is significantly larger than the image displayed in the tile.
When Explorer Replacement is set to open folders in new tabs, Opus now switches to an existing tab if one is already open for the folder instead of opening a redundant tab. (This new behaviour is automatic for most things but will not apply to Zip files and jump-lists until you make a change to your Explorer Replacement tab options.)
A new Explorer Replacement option can make Opus open all of your default folder tabs in addition to the folder being launched:
Turn on Preferences / Launching Opus / Explorer Replacement / Open all Default Lister tabs when opening a new window to enable this.
With the new option on, if there are no existing windows then your default Lister will open -- including all of its folder tabs -- and then a new tab will be added to it for the launched folder. (If the launched folder is already in one of your default tabs, that tab will be selected instead of opening a redundant tab.) If you launch a folder and there is already a window open then a new tab will open within that window, as before.
The Go command has a new NEWTAB=deflister argument which can give you similar behaviour, regardless of your Explorer Replacement settings. i.e. Open a new tab in an existing window if there is one, else open your default Lister, with all its tabs, and then open a new tab within that.
The Go command has a new EXISTINGLSITER argument:
This tells Opus to switch to another window if one is already showing the specified folder and to open a new window or tab (etc.) otherwise.
You can use EXISTINGLISTER=seltabsonly if you only want active tabs to be considered, so that another top-level window might be activated but no windows will change their currently active tabs.
As an example of where you can use this, you could create a User Command
which runs:
Go /Desktop NEW KEYARGS
"none:EXISTINGLISTER=seltabsonly"
If you assign that to your Desktop
Double-Click action then double-clicking the desktop will switch to an
existing Lister, if one is already showing Desktop in an active tab, and
open a new Lister showing Desktop otherwise. The KEYARGS part means
that holding shift, ctrl or alt while double-clicking will override the
EXISTINGLISTER check so that you can open multiple windows showing
the Desktop folder when you want to.
Folder tabs no longer underline their labels when the mouse is over them, if Treat tab label as folder when dragged or right-clicked is turned off.
When opening the container of selected files (e.g. from the Find Results collection), the files are now selected after opening the folder(s), even if the OPENCONTAINER=target argument isn't used. You can use the new arguments Go OPENCONTAINER=noselect and Go OPENCONTAINER=target,noselect to prevent selection if you wish.
Improvements to the Print/Export Folder command and dialog:
It is now much faster to send large folder listings to the clipboard or a text file.
File outputs now use non-buffered IO and support UAC elevation if needed to write the file.
File outputs now allow you to choose the text encoding (ASCII or UTF-8, with or without a BOM), via a drop-down in the Browse dialog.
You can also specify the encoding via the Print command's new ENCODING argument.
The dialog no longer goes unresponsive while generating the listing or print-out, and some quirks of the window's behaviour have been ironed out.
Windows 7 taskbar progress "pause" (yellow) and "error" (red) states are now used in more situations to help you see when a background task is prompting for your attention.
Improved GetSizes MD5/SHA and Clipboard COPYNAMES=hash commands:
Byte-by-byte progress shown as each file is calculated (much nicer for huge files).
Full progress dialog including Pause button and time estimates.
Non-buffered IO used to read large files.
Better error handling.
Files can now be skipped.
Codes that insert paths into commands can now use escregexp to escape those paths for use in regular expressions. For example, you can use the following command when in Flat View mode to calculate the selected item paths relative to the current folder and put them in the clipboard:
@nofilenamequoting
Clipboard COPYNAMES REGEXP "{sourcepath|escregexp}(.*)" \1
Re-organized some Preferences options:
Sort newly created and copied files is now in File Operations / Copying Options.
Use Tab key to switch source/destination in dual-display Listers is now in File Displays / Options.
Clipboard image paste format is now Miscellaneous / Advanced: clipboard_image_paste.
Allow docking of Listers is now in File Displays / Border.
Path completion options are now in Folders / Folder Behaviour.
Changing configuration mode (Private vs. Shared) is now done via the Preferences dialog's File menu.
Removed the Miscellaneous / Options page.
Windows Integration option to add Open in Directory Opus to folder context menus is now only enabled if Explorer Replacement is disabled. (If Explorer Replacement is on then the menu item has to be added and the option does nothing.)
The default toolbar's old View Mode menu has been turned into a menu-button. The button part provides a quick, convenient way to toggle between Details and Thumbnails modes. The menu part provides the same menu as before, with the other view modes. You'll need to reset your Menu toolbar to defaults if you want to pick up this change.
Updated the Raw plugin with support for several new cameras and the new version of DNG.
Added the “Initial key” column in the Music category.
Fixed problem when synchronizing with the root of a library.
Fixed unnecessary query of target folder when dragging a file over a non-active folder tab (prevents powered-down drives from spinning up and blocking the user interface).
Fixed problem with metadata for WMA, AVI and font files not working correctly in libraries.
The “My Computer” free-space bar-graphs were broken/invisible on some versions of Windows.
Fixed problem with file timestamps not being copied correctly (or rather, copied and then reverted back to the current time) when copying files across a network.
Improved file change update speed. (Should improve perceived responsiveness of functions like Rename, Copy, etc.)
Fixed problems with file selection changing, focus being lost, or focused item not being visible, at the end of an inline rename operation.
The BitLocker password prompt was not being triggered properly for locked, fixed drives (only for removable disks).
In Thumbnails mode, the shift-select starting point was not updated when a new file was pasted into the folder.
Creating a shortcut by dropping a server (e.g. \\SERVER) from the Network folder to a local folder now works.
Multiple delete commands on a button now display a separate confirmation dialog for each command.
Fixed a bug where the “Unknown file types” file type could incorrectly affect a shortcut pointing to a network share.
The right-click drag&drop menu displayed for items from the Network folder did not dismiss correctly when clicking outside of the menu.
Fixed bug with drops to folder tabs for system namespace folders (e.g. the recycle bin) not working correctly.
Archives plugin updated to handle command-line syntax change in WinRAR 4.20.
Fixed problem where the owner of a file was not correctly copied (assuming the option to do so was on in Preferences).
The left folder tree was a pixel or two too thin after swapping the left and right sides of a dual-display Lister.
cbr and cb7 extensions are no longer excluded from the Archives filetype group. (You can still remove them manually if you wish, e.g. so that double-clicking those formats opens them in a dedicated Comic Book viewer.)
Set COLUMNSTOGGLE buttons that specified the column position and width did not correctly appear as checked when the column was turned on.
Fixed flickering selection background if you dragged a folder from outside of Opus and then moved it over itself in an Opus window which was displaying its parent folder.
When saving a layout, the current layout's name was not used automatically if the layout had been loaded via the Settings->Lister Layouts menu.
Double-clicking a softlink to an exe file now works correctly.
Fixed the text/hex viewer blocking deletion of files, or triggering a UAC prompt, in some circumstances. (Files larger than 2MB, not using the recycle bin.)
Fixed problem with Comic-Book Thumbnails not working in libraries.
Fixed right-hand side of breadcrumbs path field not always repainting properly when Lock the Toolbars was toggled.
Nested archives now work, as well as nested archives work in Opus at all, within archives handled by the Multi-Format Archives plugin. If you double-click a nested archive it will be extracted to temp, and you'll then open the temp archive. Any changes to it will still be thrown away, the same as archives nested within zip files. (This is about things like zip files inside rar files. This is unrelated to *.tar.* nested archives which the plugin has always explicitly supported, treating them as a single unit and allowing updates.)
{filepath|nopath} now works for files as well as folders. In most cases you'd simply use {file} to get just the name, but {filepath|nopath} is useful if you need folder names to have a backslash at the end, which doesn't happen with {file}.
The quick filter (filter bar / FAYT) now supports patterns beginning with ~ (to negate) even when partial machine is enabled (e.g. ~.exe will show all but .exe files).
Fixed 'dopus_changeprocessor' crash a couple of people saw while copying files to slow devices.
Fixed Windows 7's Set as Desktop Background menu item crashing when used within libraries.
Fixed unnecessary delay in the My Computer folder before information appeared for some drives.
Improved empty/non-empty drive detection.
Fixed the right edges of file icons being clipped if themed item selections were disabled in file-displays without background images when certain fonts were used in conjunction with ClearType anti-aliasing where file names began with certain characters which the operating system would draw significantly to the left of where Opus actually requested the labels to be drawn.
Fixed long delay when opening certain Zip files for the first time.
Fixed problem with 7z, RAR and other non-Zip archives below directories with names starting with spaces.
Fixed intermittent problem when deleting files open in the viewer via certain plugins. Opus did not always wait for the plugin to close the file before attempting to delete it. (Opus still won't wait forever, so if the plugin takes a very long time to respond then you may still see an error message or UAC prompt, but you should no longer see them under normal circumstances.)
Skipping files should no longer throw out the progress time-remaining estimation.
Document fields like Author, Subject, Title and Comments now work correctly for PNG images.
In "List" mode, when using visual styles to draw selections, it was possible to click in between two items, incorrectly deselecting them.
Shortcuts that are set to Run as Admin through Properties->Shortcut->Advanced... now correctly run as Admin when double-clicked in an Opus Lister.
Go GROUPEXPAND/COLLAPSE buttons now activate/deactivate correctly.
Improved the intelligence of the Select RANGE command (it would select incorrect items if duplicate indexes/ranges were specified).
Copying a file in a sub-folder from a library in FlatView mode with the "recreate path" option now works .
Fixed crash in advanced filter control that could occur if the focus was on a child window (E.g. a text field) and a new filter was selected from the drop-down (http://resource.dopus.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16831).
If an MP3 file had both an ID3v1 and an ID3v2 tag, but strings like title/album/artist etc were only in the ID3v1 tag, they would be lost if the tags were changed (http://resource.dopus.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16861) .
Fixed "Select SIMILARBASE" not working if the total length of the filenames was too long, and removed length limits on wildcard expressions in general.
Creating a new layout via the Lister's Settings menu now triggers an immediate update of the jumplist, in case the jumplist is configured to show layouts.
Fixed missing ampersands in labels of buttons created by dragging files to the toolbar when the filenames contained ampersand characters.
Fixed progress dialog's "From" and "To" folders showing the top-level source/dest paths while copying first directly below the first sub-folder. (http://resource.dopus.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16297 )
Fixed temp-file extraction loop/crash when going into nested archives both handled by the Archives plugin (e.g. RAR within a RAR).
Fixed display error that could occur if an existing file was replaced/modified, the file display was grouped, and the "don't sort new files" option was turned on.
Fixed crash that could be caused by extracting a folder from non-zip archives 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 bit in the 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.