Preferences / Miscellaneous / Privacy: Central place to clear or turn off various suggestion and history ("MRU") lists based on previous actions and files.
Preferences / Launching Opus / Startup / Backup open Listers automatically: Periodic backup of open windows and tabs, in case of crash, power-cut, etc.
The simple audio player (
Play command) has wider format support.
Create Folder dialog has a popup suggestions list, generated from previous folder names. Displays automatically when typing. Push Ctrl+Space to force it to open.
Added tool to securely erase empty space on a hard drive.
Command: Delete ERASEEMPTYSPACE – Optional args are drive letter and number of passes, e.g.:
Delete ERASEEMPTYSPACE D:,passes:2
Custom titles/labels for Listers, viewers and folder tabs can now hide sections when all tokens inside are empty:
Add "%!" around optional text.
Example: %!%T - %!Directory Opus – If the %T expands to nothing, the result will be "Directory Opus" and not " - Directory Opus".
Buttons/toolbars in Preferences and various other dialogs now add labels to buttons when there is room. Dynamically switch to icon-only buttons if window too narrow.
Faster startup on systems with very large File Collections. (Initial load will be slow, converting the data into a new format which makes subsequent loads much faster.)
Listers remember how they were opened, adding the information to the status info/padlock tooltip (same place the Folder Format info is shown). Can be useful for tracking down external triggers that open unwanted folder windows.
Added option to set the maximum number of undo entries (Preferences / File Operations / Options).
You can now generate a "toolbar glossary" which lists everything on the default toolbars and menus (and a few other things) in two languages, side-by-side. This can be useful if you need to know the name of something in another language when searching the manual or help forum.
Stored Queries can now set the various options for the different search engines via a popup menu.
Added high DPI versions of custom mouse cursors, and replaced some icons with high-DPI or vector versions, for better scaling/antialiasing.
When pasting image or text data into a new file, the "Clipboard Image.bmp" or "Clipboard Text.txt" filenames can now have a YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS datestamp prefixed for natural sorting by date/time. (Preferences / Miscellaneous / Advanced [Behavior]: clipboard_datestamps).
Added user interface for sending crash dumps. Accessed via Help menu, or
Help CRASHDUMPS command.
Added commands to the Lister menu (accessed by clicking the main window icon):
"Show Default Toolbars" and "Reset Default Toolbars", to help in situations where no toolbars are visible.
Revived "Listers" sub-menu, when more than one window is open. Lets you select other Listers, as well as tile, cascade, etc. the windows.
"Undo Tile/Cascade" to put windows back where they were after a tile or cascade.
Command: Set LISTERCMD=UndoTileCascade
Separators in the Favorites list can now be turned into named headings, which are displayed in the Favorites menu.
When you add a new separator in Preferences, Opus will ask you for the text for the heading. Leave it blank to create a traditional separator.
Right-click or double-click on an existing separator/heading to edit it.
You can now specify the default PowerShell executable (Preferences / Miscellaneous / Advanced / powershell_exe). For example, to make commands which open PowerShell use PowerShell 7 instead of Windows PowerShell.
DOpusRT.exe /cmd (used for running Opus commands from outside of Opus) has a new, clearer syntax, allowing future expansion in a cleaner way:
/cmd by itself is unchanged
/cmd:viewer – new way of saying /vcmd
/cmd:active – new way of saying /acmd
/cmd:active,thisdesktop – Looks for the active Lister, but only on the current virtual desktop.
The old /acmd and /vcmd still work, to avoid breaking existing things, but we recommend the new syntax for new things.
Windows saved and re-opened across restarts now remember their original layout names, if any.
Option to automatically check for and install updates to your certificate. (Can be on demand via Help > Licence Manager, or on a schedule.)
Config backup names now include the time (not just the date), and backups include sub-folders of /iconsets.