Progress Indicators

These options control the progress indicators that Opus displays when copying or moving files, or for other file operations.

• Count files in folders before copying: The way file systems work is that you can only find out how many files a folder (and its sub-folders) contain by reading the folder contents and counting the files. Unfortunately we need to do this if we want to provide an accurate progress indication when copying folders. You might select a single folder that contains 10,000 files but unless Opus had counted its contents it would only see it as a single item. This option lets you control whether Opus counts files in folders before copying or not. Counting files can slow down the copy operation slightly, depending on the number of files involved and what drives you are copying from. You can choose to enable counting for only some drive types, all drives or none.
• Count files in folders before deleting: Similar to the option above, this controls whether Opus counts files in folders before deleting them. This only applies when not deleting to the recycle bin, as Windows displays its own progress dialog for recycle bin deletes.
• Delayed progress indicators: This option is used to stop Opus displayed progress indicators for very quick operations. The indicator for a function won't open at all if the function finishes within the specified time (in milliseconds).
• Hide progress indicators from taskbar when jobs bar is visible: When the jobs bar is visible, progress indicators will no longer show a "footprint" on the taskbar, and won't appear in the Alt+Tab window list. This means that when progress indicators are minimized they will only be accessible from the jobs bar. If the jobs bar is closed and there are hidden progress indicators they will automatically be displayed on the taskbar again, so there is no risk of "losing" a job.
• Minimize progress indicators: If this option is turned on then progress indicator dialogs will be automatically minimized when they open. Depending on the state of the previous two options, this might mean that the only indication of a new job is a new button appearing on the jobs bar, and so Opus will display a small arrow animation pointing to the newly created jobs bar button to provide feedback that the operation was successfully started.
  • Only when the jobs bar is visible: Progress indicators will only be minimized if the jobs bar is displayed - if not, they will open in front of the Lister as normal.
• Show speed graph in file copy progress indicators: If this option is on the progress indicator will display a graph representing the transfer speed over time.
• Show percent complete in progress bar titles: Opus will display the overall percent complete for a function in the title bar (on XP / Vista this means you can minimize the progress indicator and still keep an eye on the progress in the taskbar - on Windows 7 the progress is displayed directly in the taskbar icon and so this option isn't as useful).
• Slide animation when queued jobs begin: If on, and a progress job completes while another job is queued behind it, the old job will slide off the top of the progress dialog as the new jobs slides on the bottom. This adds a slight delay between jobs, and can be turned off if undesired. (Regardless of this setting, the slide animation is automatically suppressed if using Remote Desktop or if client-area animations are disabled system-wide.)

Jobs bar
 

These options control the optional jobs bar, which provides a way to monitor and control file operations in the background.

• Always display the jobs bar: The jobs bar will always be shown at the bottom of Listers, even when no jobs are running.
• Display the jobs bar automatically when starting a new job: If this is enabled, the jobs bar will open automatically when an operation that displays a progress indicator opens. If you don't have the jobs bar opening automatically you can still show it manually using the Set JOBSBAR command.
  • Show in all Listers: The jobs bar will be displayed in all existing Listers, not just the one that started the job.
• Resize Lister to display the jobs bar: If this is turned on then the Lister will be resized vertically to accommodate the jobs bar when it's displayed (and its original size restored when the jobs bar closes). This is only possible if the new size fits on screen - for example, if the Lister window is maximized it can't be resized and in that case the jobs bar will take space out of the from the existing window.
• Same size buttons on the jobs bar: Turn this option on to make all buttons on the task bar the same width - if turned off, they will automatically size to fit their contents. You can also specify a Fixed size in pixels.