The announcement on the main GPS site references the following: Version 9 has a new Licence which allows a registered user to also install the program on one personal laptop. This is the first I have heard of this. Does it mean that we can install DO on our desktop, laptop, and USB drive with just one license? That's pretty generous.
D.
(BTW, is "licence" the Ausie spelling?)
Actually, it's the correct spelling.
License is the U.S. spelling.
Zippo
In British English, licence is the noun and license is the verb. I suspect it's the same "down under".
But more on topic, how much will the upgrade From V8 to v9 cost, I wonder?
On the preview of DO9, there is mention that with the one license, the user will be allowed to create a portable version of DO. How will DO know if i plug in a 2nd USB key and tell it to create me another portable version? What happens if i lose my key?
As others have mentioned, I cannot wait for the release of DO 
"A USB export Licence will be required for each USB flash drive a cost of AUS$10.00 per Licence per device."
This comes out to about $8.25 USD per USB license. I'd gladly pay that a couple of times to have it both on my thumb drive as well as a USB external drive that I take with me on trips.
Yes and no:)
Each main computer must be licenced separately as does each USB Key. After representation we decided to add ONE personal laptop as a extra privilege.
With a SINGLE Licence, you can install on ONE machine (of any type); a DUAL licence TWO machines (of any type); a FIVE licence FIVE machines (any type) and so on.
With ANY Licence you get ONE personal laptop free. ('Personal' defined as owned by the Opus licence holder.)
USB key export is a separate Licence and EACH physical key requires a separate export Licence at AUD$10 each.
If you lose you USB key you will need to write us a pleading letter:)
[quote="greg"]USB key export is a separate Licence and EACH physical key requires a separate export Licence at AUD$10 each.
If you lose you USB key you will need to write us a pleading letter:)[/quote]If I upgrade my USB thumb drive from a 1gb to a 4gb and give the 1gb to my wife, as I recently did, do I need to purchase a new USB license even though the old thumb drive no longer contains DO? As these things get cheaper and cheaper, replacing them with something bigger in RAM and smaller in size becomes increasingly easier. Is there a way to export to USB and then import it back to use it on another thumb drive?
D.
in this case you can re-use your licence.
A few quick questions before I install DO9:
1- I don't want to lose my DO8 settings. Is there any way to import them?
2- Can D8 and D9 live in the same computer, or you have to uninstall D8 first?
3- is the source code viewer plugin working?
Thanks
PS: I;m a registered member of this forum and still get a capcha to post! That's ridiculous. I'll never post again if you make me jump through hoops like this. Will use mail support.
Your Opus 8 settings will be imported automatically. (I think I mentioned it briefly in my guide, not sure.)
You can't have both installed so you should make a backup of your Opus 8 config if you think you might want to go back. When you install Opus 9 it offers to make a backup of your Opus 8 settings for you as a precaution.
It works fine, but it won't work in USB mode unless Jamie updates it.
I think it only happens on your first post.
It's not ridiculous - since I added it all spambots have been stopped dead here - it's not be going anywhere. It only happens on your first post and is hardly 'jumping through hoops' - it's just typing a couple of letters/numbers - sheesh.
I didn't see anything mentioned about this in the preview, but will there be a search field in version 9? It's the one thing I think Explorer in Vista does well, especially the filters you can apply to the results.
There's the filter field which does more or less the same thing if you're searching for filenames. (Stick a FlatView button next to it and you can make it recursive.) Neither are new in Opus 9 though.
I've already tried that but it's just not the same, it's supposed to work like the Find panel does just simpler. The filters on the columns of the search results are very handy, and although you can acheive similar results using the filters in Find, the Explorer search is much more convenient when you want to do a quick simple search for something.
Opus might hook into Vista's search functionality in the future, but it won't initially (unless everyone wants to wait even longer for the first release or GPSoft run out of things to do between now and the release date ).
Out of interest, what types of things do you search for within columns? Which columns, typically?
I'd second the request.
As we all know, search (in all mediums) is a very pervasive technology that is driving a noticable segment of the tech industry and economy. I'm certainly not requesting that GP deliver a solution since there are so many solutions out in the market already (MS WDS, GDS, X1, Copernic, et al).
But I'd prefer (my two cents) an option to completely bypass DO's built in FIND feature and always use my underlying index instead (I use X1). One reason I use X1 over the others (Copernic comes close) is that I can restrict my initial search results by any field that is displayed. So the results pane lists the filename, type, date, folder path, etc. I could envision using that same feature in DO9 quite a bit.
I've used the Filter field quite a bit and it's good at what it does. But to have it find a file (and it can only filter based on the file name) in my harddrive, I'd have to flat view the entire thing. That clearly isn't a workable solution.
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DO9 looks sweeet. I missed the free upgrade by about 3 months but don't really care! !!!
I don't use the search column filters as I don't use explorer
But I can think of situations where they will make searching quicker and easier. Obviously you can achieve the same in DOpus using the filters but it presumes you know exactly what you're looking for in the first place, you just don't know where it is. With column filters you can more easily whittle down the results until you find what you're looking for.
I would be happy with just a search box that uses the Find panel without opening it for now, but hooking into the Vista search (or others as nate_dawg suggested) would be a far richer solution.
Google Desktop Search was mentioned. Opus 8 already interfaces with that.
So PugFish, you'd want a field you can type any text into and Opus would hide all files where none of their column contained that text? That kind of thing?
(I don't actually know how the Vista search stuff works for anything other than filenames as I never thought to try putting anything else in. If I put in 16x16 will it find me all 16x16 icons?)
Sorry, I presumed you knew what I meant by the search column filters!
In Vista Explorer, the header of each column has a little arrow on the right side, and if you click it you get a little menu to filter all the files and folders by. You can make it only show files starting with a range of letters, or only show files that were created yesterday, or only show Winzip files etc. and this can be done with any column. It will fill the menu with only the details of the items in the current folder, so it's easy to tick the ones you only want to see.
It's basically like the filters in DOpus, but you can filter on anything and it's quick and easy to use.
And as this filtering works in any folder, it also works on search results which I think is the handiest use for them. For example you have a folder with subfolders full of pictures, and you want to find a certain one but you vaguely remember the name and when it was created. You do a search for all jpg files and get a big list, use the column filters to show all files starting with A-H, and all files older than 3 months. With just a few quick clicks you've shortened your list of results.
You can do this with DOpus already, but it means opening find, setting up the filters, searching, maybe changing the filters and searching again etc.
This new search stuff is the one thing I think Explorer is really good at, and i'd love to have something simularly as quick and easy to use in DOpus.
Apologies in advance if this is answered somewhere and I missed it, but are all features of DO9 going to be supported on XP?
Edit: Sorry, I do realise that UAC is a Vista only feature, but are there other features DO9 is introducing that we on XP will have to grit our teeth with envy over?