Archive Context Menu
Opus can add items to the context menu for files and folders that lets you
access its archiving capabilities. This page lets you choose whether such items
are added, and which ones.
Use the Enable Archive context menu option at the top of the
page to enable or disable the context menu support. The list of options below
that is grouped into five sections:
- Add to Archive
The options in this section will
add context menu items that invoke the Add to Archive dialog box for the selected
files. The Add to Archive dialog lets you choose the archiving format to use,
so you really only need one option from this section selected. The format you
select here will be the default when the dialog box opens, so you can turn on
multiple formats in order to have a quick way of invoking the dialog with the
format already chosen.
- Add to Named Archive
The options in this section
will add context menu items that immediately create archives in the specified
format. The name of the new archive will be based on the first selected item.
You won't have any way to control archiving options using these commands - the
archives are created immediately.
- Archive and Email
These options add context menu
commands that archive the selected files and send them automatically as an
email (using the settings on the Email page).
- Extract
These options add context menu commands
that let you extract archive contents.
- Extract from archives: When you right-click on a file
in a format that Opus recognizes (or drag and drop such a file with the
right mouse button), Opus will add context menu items to let you extract the
archive contents to the current folder.
- Convert to Self-Extracting Archive: When you
right-click on a Zip file, Opus will add a command that lets you convert the
file to a self-extracting archive. This is
only available for Zip archives.
- Options
This section contains options that affect
the archive context menus.
- Add single folders as sub-folders of new archives:
Changes what happens when you right-click a single folder and choose one of
the Add to Named Archive context menu commands. When on,
the folder itself will be included in the archive, with the folder's
contents below it. (e.g. Folder.zip/Folder/File.txt) When off, the
contents of the folder, but not the folder itself, are added to the
archive. (e.g. Folder.zip/File.txt) When zipping multiple folders,
or when creating archives via something other than the Add to Named
Archive context menu commands, any selected folders are always
included at the top level of the archive. In particular, note that the
Add to Archive context menu command is not affected by this
option.
- Cascade context menu items: If this option is turned
on, the archive commands that Opus adds to context menus will be displayed
in a sub-menu instead of on the top level of the menu.
- Display context menus in Explorer as well as Opus: If
this is turned on then the context menu items added through this page will
also be shown when you right-click on files in Explorer. If turned off, the
context menus will only be shown in context menus within Opus.
- Display icons in context menus: Adds icons to each
context menu item.