After the Dopus update (to 12.33) I started experiencing this odd behavior where I'd notice the Dopus icon in my lower (open apps) windows bar (but I didn't open Dopus), and when I viewed it found that Dopus had opened a new viewer pane for every drive I had mounted (both local & cloud, around 12). I manually closed them. Eventually I witnessed this spontaneous action happen in front of me. I wasn't doing anything (reading a news web page) when Dopus suddenly on its own opened a window in front of my browser view and proceeded to open 12 windows. This is now happening about twice a day. So Im routinely having to manually close all these windows Dopus keeps opening on its own. I didn't experience this odd behavior in 12.32. Can I roll-back 12.33 to 12.32 ?
(PS: I'm a licensed pro user with multiple "xxx@goodbot.com" registrations)
It's unlikely to be something caused by the update, as the update only had minimal changes.
It's more likely something else is asking for those folder windows to be opened.
If you turn off Explorer Replacement in Opus, do you then get File Explorer windows opening instead? If you do, that tells you the problem is outside of Opus.
Maybe you have > preferences > Opus start > open external tabs in a new window turned off for some reason? If i remember correctly this can lead to the effect you described.
It would still only happen if something was opening folder windows, and would just change whether they opened a window or a tab.
Hmm, ok, it was just an idea.
OK... I changed the setting to turn OFF Explorer Replacement. So now it's a waiting game. I'll give it 24 hours... but lately it seems like it's been happening more like every hour or two. I'll give it 3-6 hours before I next report back. If this switch stops this behavior... then we're looking at a Dopus issue?
I should also note that Win10 is lately on an out-of-control twice weekly major upgrade schedule lately... I lose my PC for the 30 minute update twice a week now... so the latest update there may have also introduced this problem.
Anyway... I'll give this a few hours.
Stay tuned...
OK... it's about 24 hours later... and the errant behavior is absent: No process has spontaneously opened 12 File Explorer windows on my desktop.
From this point I can try one or two things: either turn the Explorer Replacement option back on and give this a few hours... or leave this option off, but open one or two Dopus directory listings and leave them open down in my task bar.
I'll try this later option now, and give it a few hours (or a day)... again... stay tuned!
I've had 2 Dopus windows open on my Win10 PC for about a day now, and I have not re-experienced the errant behavior.
I'll now turn the Explorer Replacement option back on and give it a day.
Stay tuned...
I turned the Explorer Replacement option back on, and the errant behavior returned.
Again, while I'm at the desktop essentially doing nothing (reading a browser window, or reading a Word document), suddenly Dopus opens a new small window and then proceeds to open a new window for every drive (local and cloud) that I have mounted in my Win10 desktop environment (12). This is happening seemingly randomly 2 or 3 times a day. The last time it happened, as the windows were opening it looked like there was a fleeting notation in the bottom left hand portion of each window referencing the path of the executable opening the window (and it wasn't obviously dopus).
I'm suspecting some third party app in my environment (having something to do with managing or monitoring my mounted drives - besides Dopus) is assessing the state of my mounted drive environment several times a day and in this routine is inadvertently kicking off this window-opening behavior in Dopus.
Does Dopus build and maintain a log of these window opening actions? If not normally... would it be possible for me to get a specially built exe that does this so that we can capture the info of what app in my environment is causing this behavior?
Very strange, as it’s not something we display.
What was the path?
There isn’t a log of how windows were opened, but we’re going to add something that will give some information on that soon.
The info in the lower left corner was going by very quickly as the new small windows were quickly opening on top of one another. The last window the info was on the screen for less than a second. All I could catch was that this was a long file path, and the item at the right-hand end was a cryptic filename/app that wasn't Dopus.
Maybe you can build in a switch option in the settings to capture and record this info into a log file for such diagnostic purposes as this.
In the meantime, I'm wondering if I ran a generic background process to capture and log record everything happening in Win10 whether this might catch our culprit. I'm not sufficiently into Win10 development stuff, so I don't know of such a tool off the top of my head.
Maybe Bard or Bing could help with this...