Way back when Windows changed to showing folders with half the content, I changed to DOpus. I now have a new computer, new Windows 11 and possibly a new version of DOpus. I want to be able to see the thousands of files using thumbnails created by the image labeled folder.jpg within the folder, without the containing folder image. Can I still do this? If so, please point me in the right direction.
And also, one of the folders I was using as a test now has a large green check underneath it and I have no idea what that means.
Ok, I do scrapbooking. I have files with anything from 10 to 200 images, mixed .png and .jpg in each file. Included with these images is a preview of everything included with that file, labeled, usually, as a folder.jpg. If it’s not - I change it.
With the version of DOpus I was using, the preview image showed as the thumbnail in the directory, which made it very simply to know which file I needed for the project I was working on.
Even though I purchased DOpus 12, I’m not sure I was actually using that one. I may have been using the older version that I had because I couldn’t figure out how to do this. My very old laptop finally reached the point that I couldn’t use it anymore and I have a new one with new programs and would really like to be able to work easily.
You probably want to turn off the option to use the Windows Shell for folder thumbnails, so that Opus renders them itself. That will give you a better view of the folder.jpg than you get from Windows, at least on Windows 11 where Microsoft made some strange choices about how they render folder thumbnails.
In Opus 13, that's configured under Preferences / File Display Modes / Thumbnails / Folders. From memory, it was in a similar place in Opus 12 (maybe under the parent Thumbnails page, if there isn't a separate Folders page below it).