Refresh folderalias.oxc

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Hi There
I have written a script to edit the folderaliases.oxc to change a particular alias.
My script only works when I shut down Opus and start up again i.e. After this file is reloaded.
Any idea how this may be automated?
Thanks....

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You could incorporate the restart into your script I guess :
"C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopusrt.exe" /restart
Other than that I don't think there's a way to force the file to be reloaded.

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Thanks Steve. At last disapppointment with Opus. It had to happen sometime...

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Does it have to be an alias? You could set an env-var instead and use that in most of the places that aliases can be used.

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Thanks Leo. Let me read up on those things. I dont know much about environment variables. I presume you mean OS environment variables of the kind in the screenshot...

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Those are the ones. Each process has its own private copy of the variables so you can set/change them for just Opus if you like, or for the whole system (although many apps will not notice changes made to the global variables after they have started).

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This thread has excited from me a separate evironment variable and alias how to post here.....
[url]Environment varible as an alias]