Copy and Paste
Copy-and-paste (or cut-and-paste) is possibly the simplest method of moving
files around. Select the files you want to copy or move, choose the
Copy (Ctrl+C) or Cut
(Ctrl+X) command from the Edit menu, navigate
to the target folder, and select Paste (Ctrl+V).
Moving files using the clipboard is implemented in almost all file managers the
same way, although Opus does extend this functionality in a few ways, which it's
worth being aware of.
- Although these functions use the internal Clipboard command to initiate them, when you
paste files into a Lister, the actual file copy or move is implemented
"behind-the-scenes" using the internal Copy command. This means that features like
the copy queue are
available for clipboard operations just like they are when copying via the toolbar
buttons. You can control the queuing using the various arguments for the
Clipboard
command.
- If the clipboard contains text or graphics data, you can paste that in a
Lister as if it were a real file. Opus will create a new file and write the
clipboard data to it automatically. By default, text data will be written
to a file called Clipboard Text.txt, and graphical data will be
written to a file called Clipboard Image.jpg. You can modify the
format that graphics data is saved in (Bitmap, GIF, PNG or JPG) using the
clipboard_image_paste option on the Miscellaneous / Advanced page
in Preferences. The name of the new file can be controlled using the various
arguments for the Clipboard command.
- The ADD argument for the internal Clipboard command lets you
add selected files to any that are already on the clipboard. For example, you
could copy a few files from one folder, a few from another folder, and a few
from a third folder, and then paste them all into the destination in one go.
To make use of this functionality, you would need to create a new toolbar
button or hotkey that runs the Clipboard COPY ADD
command (or assign this to a hotkey - for example, Ctrl+C
runs Clipboard COPY by default, so you could assign this to
Ctrl+Shift+C). See the section on Customize for information about creating your own
buttons and hotkeys.