Customize: right-click on files "context menu"

[kgibbs]

Can the context menu shown when right clicking on files and folders be customized in opus?
Thanks

[abr]

In the options you have the file types menu. You can customize items under the "files & folders" entry. It´s in the middle tab.

[JohnZeman]

FYI in addition to what abr said about context menus for files and folders, you can also customize the Opus context menus that appear when you right click in other areas by going into customize mode and selecting the Context Menus tab.

[kgibbs]

For most software today, the efficiency of right-clicking to access an appropriately customized menu is, for whatever reason, lacking and next to impossible to reasonably circumvent. Finally discovering a way to control, even a secular part of this, is an exhilarating experience to say the least. Somehow, I feel like I've found an Achilles' heel in the mecca-software-giant, kingpin arena. I could only hope this idea becomes infections and proliferates throughout the entire software industry. And, while I'm wishing... how about the same control for all of the antiquated small open/save dialog boxes and similar that never seem to improve over time from upgrade to upgrade!

Thanks for this feature and to those giving advice how to use it "life just got easier!"

[Leo]

You can also use Opus to tidy-up most of the context menu items added by other tools, although it requires some poking around unless you just want to hide everything by default:

Tip: Organise and Speed-Up Context Menus

Tips to rearrange the context menus you see when right-clicking files. There are a few ways you can tackle the problem, depending on how much you want to hide/show. (Re-written Nov 2023.) Hide particular handlers (Opus 13 & above only) Settings >…

[kgibbs]

How about "Open in Opus"? Everything already does, so I only need "Explore"
Thanks

[Leo]

You can't get rid of the default verb (it's what happens when you double-click).

[nrshapiro]

My file context menu for JPEGs is quite long and I can't find where it's listed to edited it using the above, at least in 2023. Can I cull this, and add more important items to this? The main problem is software that added it's subitems (though they don't appear on Explorer's context menu).

And I'd love to add the image rotate commands...especially 180 degree rotate, since I've been doing a lot of scanning of my deceased mother in laws photos and there's so many it's too much of a chore to position them before scanning.

Thanks in advance.

[Leo]

@nrshapiro

Can I cull this, and add more important items to this?

See Tip: Organise and Speed-Up Context Menus

@nrshapiro

(though they don't appear on Explorer's context menu)

Even if you click "Show More Options"? (Assuming Windows 11, which has two layers of context menus where the first layer hides most of the items.)

@nrshapiro

And I'd love to add the image rotate commands...especially 180 degree rotate

Add menu items which run Opus commands like this:

Image ROTATE=180 HERE REPLACE PRESERVEDATE
@nodeselect

(Similar rotation buttons are on the default Images toolbar, but they'll also work fine in file context menus.)

[nrshapiro]

Thanks Leo! In all the years I've been using DO, I never customized the context menu since generally, I found the defaults fine. But that worked splendidly and I think I may look into DO functions even more. DO is the best. Thanks!

[HoopyDoopyDo]

Hello!

In the options you have the file types menu. You can customize items under the "files & folders" entry. It´s in the middle tab.

I cannot find the 'files and folders' option. But, ah: Settings -> File Types ..? That seems right. But, at that point, things seem to get complicated. I would like to add a 'duplicate' option, i.e. an option to duplicate a file (any type of file, but perhaps not directories) directly, which is to say, without copy-and-then-paste. I'd appreciate some help.

[PassThePeas]

@HoopyDoopyDo

I cannot find the 'files and folders' option. But, ah: Settings -> File Types ..? That seems right.

That's the place.

@HoopyDoopyDo

I would like to add a 'duplicate' option, i.e. an option to duplicate a file

I miss time right now, but if you can make a button that does that (probably using Copy DUPLICATE) that works:

• When the File Type menu is opened, double click All Files
• This opens a dialog that has a context menu tab
• Add an entry with the code that works in the button (should be Copy DUPLICATE).

EDIT: It looks like the Copy DUPLICATE gives you a dialog in order to rename the copy. I could not find something that automates a copy (to clipboard) and paste (from clipboard) which handles automatic renaming.
Sounds doable with a script (implementing the auto rename for the copy) ... maybe with evaluator.

[jinsight]

@HoopyDoopyDo

These commands in a button should do what I think you want.

@disablenosel
Clipboard COPY
Clipboard PASTE

Renaming should be automatic:

[Leo]

This does something similar without losing what you already have in the clipboard:

Copy DUPLICATE HERE PATTERN * AS * WHENEXISTS=rename

(Also works without DUPLICATE, FWIW, but I prefer to keep it so what it does is more explicit.)

[HoopyDoopyDo]

Thanks all! With your help, I managed to get what I want - thusly.

1. Settings -> File Types .. -> All Files -> Context Menu -> New.
2. Change the 'New Action' text to 'Duplicate'.
3. Put Copy DUPLICATE HERE PATTERN * AS * WHENEXISTS=rename into the text box.
4. Press 'OK'. (One does not need to close the 'File Types') menu.

I note that at least one file manager (namely Linux's 'Nemo') has a 'duplicate' option by default. (Or rather, if I remember correctly, Nemo has a range of context-menu items that one can enable/disable via tickboxes.)

[lxp]

@HoopyDoopyDo

at least one file manager (namely Linux's 'Nemo') has a 'duplicate' option by default.

I know another one

[HoopyDoopyDo]

Say what? I did not need to create a custom command after all?