Hi everybody!
What i'm planning to do, if possible, is access scattered files inside collections using html.
For example we have a file called "example.pdf" inside "office" collection.
and i would like to open it using a statement such...
example
Is there any way to achive it?
cheers
marco
I don't think you can do this directly, but collections are stored in pretty simple XML files (under /dopusdata/Collections) so it should be possible to write some javascript (or whatever) which extracts the required paths from them and have that as part of the HTML.
The location of the file(s) are user dependant, so in my case the file is stored under c:\office\help\example.pdf and for other user it can be d:\path\otherpath\example.pdf. (multiply that for some hundred files).
The solution was that every user used the same name collection no matter where them files reside.
Anyways, thanks a lot for the answer Leo 
cheers
marco
I have achieved some success using Link Shell Extension and Visual Subst.
Next is automatic synchronization of real folders with virtual one, but i'm not used to it.
Leo can you point to the right direction if it is not too much asking?
EDIT:
On VF will reside files only, not folders
cheers
marco
**The two programs are freeware, below are the links if case someone is interested.
ntwind.com/software/utilitie ... subst.html
schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshel ... llext.html
I'm not really sure what you want to do so don't know what to suggest.
FWIW, Opus can create links/junctions by itself; no need for the shell extensions.
My bad 
Please forget about html part and Link Shell Extension
Using now the MAKELINK argument of COPY command
The idea is to copy all files recursively, (only files) as harklinks (softlinks under vista/w7), to a destination folder.
Given as source:
c:\help\a\b\1.txt
c:\help\b\2.txt
c:\help\c\d\e\3.txt
Destination folder:
c:\textfiles\1.txt
c:\textfiles\2.txt
c:\textfiles\3.txt
If a file already exists in destination folder then skip it.
I've made a button with command Copy MAKELINK=hardlink WHENEXISTS=skip under WinXP
and works ok for non existing files, but when one exists i doesn't skip it, i creates a new one
and (1) is added, example c:\textfiles\1(1).txt. So i'm probably missing something.
Also what i don't know how to do, is recursively copying only files from multiple directories to just one.
Hope i made myself understandable this time. 
Thanks for "still" reading
cheers
marco
Hi, I've been a Directory Opus user since the Amiga and I think this is my first time posting to the forum. I noticed this thread was the only one to mention "automatic synchronization" which is something I am particularly interested in. I now have two external HDs at home as well as a network drive at work, so I am not sure I will remember to regularly synchronize files. It is already hurting me since our network drive is down at the moment.
Is this feature in development?
Until then, would it be possible to launch a Windows scheduler task to do this... say once an hour? I've never done any scripting with Opus.
Thanks,
Adam
Opus is good for doing things interactively but if you want automatic, background file syncing then you're better off using a backup tool rather than Opus.
For example, you wouldn't really want Opus's progress dialogs popping up out of the blue due to a schedule task. Most backup tools have scheduling and other features that will make life easier, too.