I'm not sure I am using the right terminology. Is there a way that the FTP icon can be displayed in the Folder Tree? As a former user of PowerDesk, the folder there had an icon for FTP that one could expand similar to how one can expand a folder or a drive. Once expanded, the FTP sites appear in the Folder Tree and can be navigated similar to navigating any other folder.
In Opus, I can start FTP on a site and directories appears in the File Display panel. It would be nice to be able to have the FTP Icon and Site Names in the Folder Tree as well.
FTP sites can't appear in the folder tree at the moment but I hope this is something we'll see added.
Opus 9.0 added support for expanding zip files in the folder tree, and (if I remember rightly) the ability for VFS plugins in general to add items to the tree, so FTP might be next. Maybe there's some technical reason why it hasn't been added yet, or maybe there just wasn't time for 9.0. Fingers crossed.
Hi there,
So I gather this means there is no way to see a tree of the folders on the FTP server the user has connected to?
I am not wanting the FTP root to appear as a branch in the main OPUS folder tree (although that would be kinda neat), but to simply have some/any kind of way to display the folder tree of the FTP site I am connected to --- I imagined DO would produce a new FTP related folder tree entirely separate from the main Explorer/DO folder tree when I am viewing an FTP server.
Am I right in understanding that DO can't display an FTP server's folder tree in any way whatsoever?
Yes, I also got used to using ExplorerPlus and having FTP in the Folder pane. I expected the same operation in DOpus, and was surprised to find that it worked differently.
I would also like to see a tree view of my FTP site in the Folder pane and navigate it just like it was a network drive. Right now, it feels rather clutsy. I am still getting used to how DOpus works. It's really powerful, but works quite different than ExplorerPlus, which I thought was really intuitive to use.
Opus does not currently display FTP folders in the Tree pane. Since Opus is highly multi-threaded and you can have as many file display Listers open as you wish, all to FTP sites as you wish, we found that adding the FTP directories to the tree imposed restrictions and performance issues on the FTP connections we were not happy to accept. This also means greater performance since all the FTP folders are cached once you have visited them so moving around the site is very quick because it does not require a full re-read of the remote folder.
However we do have plans to reconsider this if we can get it to work to our exacting standards for a future version.
Do note that with the ability to open multiple folders, Tabs, Folder Tabs and even Saved Layouts, plus the ability to add FTP sites as buttons directly to a toolbar or menu, personally, I don’t really see not having a ftp in the tree as any serious disadvantage. It just a different way of working.
I also would very much like to see the FTP folder tree, as Explorer Plus did. Explorer Plus also had a very convenient feature that allowed FTP access just by clicking on the FTP root; this made using FTP very handy, and I'd like to see this in Opus as well.
