If you have those options set to "Open the Listers that were open when the program as last closed", that is what will happen when the program is launched in those ways. If you want the Default Lister to be opened, set those options to "Open the Default Lister".
I'm note sure what relevance your reference to Explorer has given that it doesn't have any of this functionality.
Also, I keep deselecting the Video Codec column, but it keeps reappearing.
I cannot figure out how to save my layout changes so that they are reflected when I relaumch Opus.
I set to open default lister and that doesn't work either.
I need a step by step on how to change the lister layout and save it so that it always comes up when I launch Opus.
This should be a common task. Is there somewhere, say in the user manual, where this is explained?
the reference to Windows Explorer is that all one need do is click on folder options, view, and apply to folders. What might be the corresponding instruction for Opus?
I think part of the confusion is because you're not trying to set up L layout, you're trying to set up the default Folder Format.
Layouts and Folder Formats are two different things.
Here's the guide on how to set up the default folder format: Folder Formats: Quick Guide
the link to default lister is the one that I started with. I cannot figure this out. I need a step by step 1, 2, ... on how to change my layout and save it so that it comes up with the saved layout when I relaunch Opus.
My reply above has a step-by-step guide.
I went through the whole procedure in the folder formats: quick guide, as you suggested. It still doesn't work although the codec column did not reappear (which is what I wanted). The size keeps shifting back to what it was before I made the changes.
The size of what?
If you mean the size of the columns, you need to turn off the Auto-size option on the Display tab in the Folder Options dialog.
See gpsoft.com.au/help/opus10/de ... ptions.htm for more information.
i unchecked the auto-size option. This did not help. The columns still resized when i relaunched Opus.
please advise.
If you make any changes you have to save them if you want them to become the defaults.
In other words, refer back to the Folder Formats: Quick Guide and re-do #1 and #4.
I have made a good attempt at this.
It appears that I am not capable of understanding how to get this done.
Thank you for trying to help me.
I have made a good attempt at this.
It appears that I am not capable of understanding how to get this done.
Thank you for trying to help me.
Another user has recently had similar difficulty with getting this sort of thing worked out to his satisfaction... going to refer them here to your thread and ask you both to report back in your own topics with screenshots of your own settings from the following 5 pages in Preferences:
It still doesn't work for me.
I adjust the size with my mouse. (Is there more to do with this to let OPUS know the new size?) How is one supposed to know?
How may I make Opus recall the size (width) of the fields in the lister layout?
I would love to use this product more. I understand that there is a great deal of functionality that might be useful to me, but I cannot understand all the menus, boxes to be checked, unchecked, saved, applied, .... The user interface is just too complicated for me, and there is no easy step-by-step explanation about how to do something that ought to be very simple, as it is in Windows Explorer (which took less than 3 minutes to figure out for default folder layout-- I already have about 3 hours in this and I am nowhere).
If you're responding to my last post - then I don't really understand why you would even say "It still doesn't work for me"... since I didn't suggest you actually change anything, just asked for you to post screenshots of your own current settings. Why not post your own settings from the Prefs pages that I asked you to post and we can help from there?
In addition to posting your own screenshots, I'd also ask you to post screenshots of how you setup the lister to look the way you want it - and then another screenshot of the lister showing what happens and what is NOT to your liking when you launch Opus again (along with confirmation of exactly how you're launching Opus - i.e. double-click on desktop, shortcut on desktop, tray icon, etc - since launching Opus in different ways can be configured to have a different result).
Let's be specific... if you don't know what one of our questions mean exactly - ask us to clarify instead of spending alot of time trying to figure it out on your own and just getting frustrated. We can help... but need our exact questions answered instead of partially answering in the middle of re-asking the same questions about how to fix it. We have to learn what's wrong to know the right things to tell you to change. Screenshots are our friend...
It may be a "sucking eggs" suggestion, but I often see messages from people who say that they do not know how to create screenshots.
The easiest way to do this is to get the window you want to grab in the foreground, press "Alt+Print Screen", then go into DOpus and "right click" "paste".
Then give the file an appropriate name and upload it here.
Another too that you can use is the "Snipping Tool" that comes with Windows. That also has a "window grab" mode.
Like I said, possibly a lesson in egg sucking but it is surprising how many people have not stumbled upon "Alt+Print Screen".
