I'm new to directory opus. I have a big media collection and it's impossible to manually organize it. It seems to me that the most useful sorting for my collection is according to the files most viewed/opened. The more I view/open a file, the more it must be valuable to me, and it should be sorted like that. In this way I can more easily organize my collection according to popularity: frequently used, rarely used, never used. Is that possible ? I have not found it in the documentation.
Where the information are stored?
voidtools Everything has a native "run count". Thanks to its seamless integration with Opus, you can access and even edit this counter.
Then via scripting, you can increase the counter each time you open a file in Opus, and also create a custom column that show those values, and group them using ranges.
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I think in the metadata of the file
They are metadata (data about other data).
Question remains where they are stored.
You can enable NTFS Accessed time by command:
fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 0
(requires Administrator privileges)
and then use Accessed column n DOpus to sort items.
It is disabled by default in most installations of Windows, because enabling it decreases disk performance. If disabled it usually contains the same value as Created and is not updated.
The accessed timestamp isn't very useful, since files are opened all the time for other reasons (e.g. to read metadata or thumbnails from them).
Unless you only care about when a file is double-clicked (or opened in some other way) from within Opus, a "play count" value would need to be maintained by every tool that can open one of the files you want to keep a count of. Most media players won't do that.
If it's only for things opened via Opus, a script could keep track of the data somewhere, but I think it would be complicated to make that work well (e.g. keeping counts after a file is moved or renamed, although you might be able to stash them in NTFS ADS for that).
Thank you Leo. I'm not looking for a perfect counter. If there is any way that I'm able to organize my collection without a manual intervention, then that is already a big improvement for me. I don't know much about all this. No special "tag" could be used as a counter in the file metadata itself (read - incremented - written for every open) ? If it's lost or incorrect due to a move or rename, I can live with that.
Thank you Konrad_Klar. If you ask where they are stored, I suppose that you mean in the file itself, in Opus or another tool. I thought that it might be possible to create a new tag for each file and increment it. But it all seems more complicated than that. If you say last accessed, this does not really seem to be a counter. Is that correct ? That would be less helpful for organization my collection. I appreciate your feedback.
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