Operations Toolbar
This toolbar contains commands relating to file and folder operations. The
top-level buttons (Copy Files, etc) provide quick access to the
most commonly used file functions, while the drop-down menus attached to those
buttons contain more complicated or less-frequently used commands related to
their parent button (so, for example, the drop-down menu for Copy Files
contains Copy As and Duplicate
commands as well).
Most of these buttons require one or more files or folders to be selected
before they are available. They also generally use the Source and Destination concept - the
Copy Files button will copy all selected items from the current
source file display to the destination. In a dual-display Lister the destination is always the
non-active file display; in a single-display Lister, another Lister (if there is
one) will be the destination. If no destination file display or Lister is
available, Opus will prompt you to select a destination folder.
- Copy Files: The parent button will copy selected files and
folders to the destination folder. The drop-down attached to this button
contains the following additional commands:
- Copy As: This command lets you provide new filenames for the
copied files - either one at a time, or for all selected files as a batch
using a wildcard.
- Duplicate: This command makes copies of the selected
files in the current directory (that is, the files are duplicated in the
same location, they are not copied to the destination). You must provide new
filenames for the duplicated files and folders.
- Update All: This command copies selected files to the
destination if they either a) don't exist in the destination, or b) exist
but are newer than those in the destination (see Copying Updated Files for more
information).
- Update Existing: This command copies selected files to
the destination only if they already exist but are newer than those in the
destination (see Copying Updated Files for more
information).
- Send To: This sub-menu contains the system
Send To menu that lets you send selected files and
folders to various destinations. Using this drop-down menu is equivalent to
right-clicking on the file and selecting from the Send To context
menu.
- Copy Filter: This command toggles the recursive copy filter on or off in
the current Lister.
- Move: The parent button will move selected files and
folders to the destination. The drop-down menu contains the following
additional commands:
- Move As: This command lets you provide new filenames for the
files as they are moved - either one at a time, or for all selected files as
a batch using a wildcard.
- Rename: The parent command lets you rename selected files
and folders using the Advanced Rename dialog. The drop-down
menu contains several examples of how the raw Rename command can be "scripted"
to perform specialised renaming tasks:
- Capitalize Words: Capitalizes the first letter of each
word in the filename, lower-cases all other letters.
- Make Web-safe: Makes filenames "safe" for use on
websites, by removing any characters that can cause problems in URLs
(anything other than "-", "0"-"9", "a"-"z", "A"-"Z", ".", "_", "]" and "+"
is removed).
- Number Files: Inserts an incrementing number before the
names of selected files. This function is implemented as a VBScript rename script, and so
provides a good example of a more complicated rename function.
- Time-Stamp Names: Appends a date- and time-stamp
to the names of selected files.
- Underscores to Spaces: Replaces any underscores in
filenames with spaces.
- New Folder: The parent command displays a dialog that
lets you create a new folder in the active file display. If you are currently
in the File Collections
root folder, a new collection will be created, and if you are currently
in the Libraries root folder, a
new library will be created. The drop-down menu contains the following
additional commands:
- New Archive: This command creates a new archive (you will be prompted
for the archive type and any options applicable to the archive format).
- New Text Document: This command creates a new empty
text document (.txt file) in the current folder. This is
equivalent to right-clicking on the file display background and choosing
New -> Text Document from the context menu.
- New: This sub-menu displays the system
New menu, that lets you create new files of various types.
- New Dated Folder: Creates a new folder in the current
file display with the current date and time as its name.
- Move into Dated Folder: Creates a new folder using the
current date and time, and automatically moves any selected files and
folders into it.
- Delete: The parent button will delete all selected files
and folders. By default the recycle bin will be used to provide an undoable
delete if possible, although this can be modified through Preferences. The following additional
commands can be found in the attached drop-down menu:
- Secure Wipe: This command deletes all selected files
using a secure delete
algorithm, which makes it extremely difficult (if not impossible) for anyone
to recover the deleted information.
- Remove From Collection: When used within a file collection, this
command removes all selected items from that collection. If you use the
parent Delete command on collection items, the real files
and folders are deleted - use the Remove command to remove
them from the collection without deleting the actual files.
- Delete Filter: This command toggles the recursive delete filter on or off
in the current Lister.
- Archive Files: The parent command lets you add all
selected files and folders to a new archive in the current folder (you
will be prompted for the archive type and parameters). The drop-down menu
contains the following additional commands:
- Files to Separate Archives: Adds all selected items to
separate archives (one archive per selected file or folder). This command
will create ZIP files by default; you can change the archive format used by
editing the command (e.g. change Copy ARCHIVE=single to
Copy ARCHIVE=.7z,single to use 7zip by default).
- Files to Destination Archives: This is the same as the
parent Archive Files command except that the new archive
will be created in the destination.
- ZIP And Email Files: Adds selected items to a ZIP
archive and sends it via e-mail to a recipient (you will be prompted for the
e-mail address).
- Extract to Folders: Extracts the contents of any
selected archives to new folders named after the extracted archives (e.g.
the contents of Pictures.zip would be extracted to
a new folder called Pictures).
- Extract to Destination: Extracts the contents of any
selected archives to the destination folder.
- Extract to Destination Folders: Extracts the contents
of any selected archives to new folders in the destination.
- Properties: The parent button displays the system
Properties dialog for all selected items. The drop-down menu commands are:
- Attributes: Displays the Change Attributes &
Times dialog which lets you modify the attributes and
date/time-stamps of selected items.
- Description: Displays the Set Description dialog
that lets you assign a description string to selected items.
- Edit Metadata: Displays the Set Metadata dialog that
lets you edit the metadata for any selected files.
- Set Label: This sub-menu lets you assign a label to
selected files and folders. Labelled files can be shown in different colors
and/or font styles. Use the Favorites and Recent / File and Folder
Labels page in Preferences to create and edit your
labels.
- Slideshow: This button launches a slideshow of all selected image files. If no
files are selected, all image files in the current folder will be displayed.
- Administrator
Mode: This button turns on Administrator Mode in the current
Lister (Windows Vista and above only).