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Copying, Moving and Deleting Files
The most fundamental feature of a file manager is its ability to let you move files around. Opus provides several ways to copy and move files from one folder to another:
- Copy-and-paste: This is the traditional method on Windows of moving files around using the clipboard.
- Drag-and-drop: Again, fairly standard on Windows; using the mouse to drag files from one folder to another.
- Toolbar buttons: Several default toolbar buttons let you copy or move selected files.
Other file copying-related features include:
- The copy queue function, which lets you queue multiple file copy operations to avoid disk thrashing or bandwidth contention.
- Files can be renamed as they are copied, either one at a time or using wildcards.
- When filename collisions occur, the replace dialog lets you quickly choose what you want to do.
- Powerful features for synchronizing the contents of two folders (including remote FTP sites).
- A filtering system that lets you selectively copy the contents of folders
Deleting files is also a part of the basic file management tool set - Opus also provides a secure delete function to securely erase data.
More:
Copy and Paste
Drag and drop
Copying using the toolbar buttons
Copy Queues
The Jobs Bar
The Confirm File Replace Dialog
Copying Updated Files
Filtered Operations
Deleting Files