For the default folder format on my local hard disks, I removed the Attributes field, since I don't need this information.
Every time I restart DOpus, it will restart with the last tabs that were open. I run DOpus automatically when Windows starts. From time to time DOpus or Windows may crash. When I restart the computer, DOpus wouldn't start on my usual tabs, but on the last open folder (the one that I worked on only once, not my usual ones, is this another bug?). Now, when it starts, it shows the default factory folder format, which includes file attributes, that I don't want.
So, it resets the displayed fields to the factory default (it doesn't consider my settings) and still show the file Attributes. I have to manually go through the tabs and choose Folder Formats / Reset to Custom, so that I have Attributes hidden and my settings to be respected.
Additional information about my configuration:
I have content detection turned on. I usually run only one instance of DOpus with the same set of saved tabs, but from time to time I ask another piece of software to locate some files on the disk, which in most cases would open a new DOpus window with one tab (some other software open Windows Explorer; is this a bug?). When I finish with that folder, I close this new window and keep my usual DOpus window.
(If you already have, have a look at the Advanced version of it for more details, e.g. about using the format lock to find out where a format came from.)
Thank you, Leo.
I went through that again and, for as long as I remember, this is what I have done previously.
Nevertheless, I did it again and I will let you if this helped or if the problem arises again.
2 differences to that article: I don't have the Custom format in the Folder Formats; and I enabled content detection again, since I find it very useful (but I looked through Music / Images / Videos / Documents folder formats so that they don't have the attribute field set).
As I said, I followed your guide and this seems to have solved the problem. However, it looks like this removed the formats for the search results and the duplicate collections. I had to reconstruct them manually.
When I view folders in flat view, the column Location should appear automatically. But, as far as I remember, DOpus has stopped showing it since I followed this reset procedure. And I can’t find any method to put it back, unless I restart with new settings. Any tips on how to show the Location column automatically when you view a folder in flat view ?
Thank you, leo. For some unknown reason, all the default formats were disabled in my configuration. And the integrated preference filter didn't show the flat view was there. As a suggestion, I think it would be a good idea if the filter could find items in this list, too (it can find styles, why couldn't it find folder formats?)
When you save a format "for all folders" I think it turns off all the defaults now (otherwise it wouldn't really affect all folders; it confused people in the past when it didn't turn them off).
The prefs filter won't find styles by name. It doesn't currently search any list that can contain user-defined names (like styles and folder formats), mainly due to the potential for those names to contain things that would confuse the filtering code.