Drag and drop file collections to external application

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Hi,

I have a folder structure such as: \decade\year\day\ and then a lot of photos and videos within each. I'd like to upload most of these files to an FTP server - so I wanted an easy way to exclude just a few files.

So I created a file collection ("2007") with multiple sub-collections (per day). Then I started removing some files from the sub-collections. Then I was hoping to drag and drop the file collection (or a list of sub-collections) to another FTP program (Smart FTP more specifically) and that the folders/files would get uploaded.

Apparently, other applications are not aware of a "DOpus File collection" so the operation didn't work. (I was hoping the collections would be read by the destination application through some virtual-filesystem-magic).

So the questions go:

  • Should this be possible DOpus, and if yes - how do I do it?
  • If not, any recommendation on how to do this?

Thanks,
Atli

ps. I'm using Smart FTP as opposed to the built-in dopus FTP because it's a lot faster for me (multiple threads running at the same time seems to utilize the bandwidth more efficiently, don't know why). Also easier to retry/resume the upload if I shut down the computer.

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Drag the files within the collection, not the collection itself.

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Thanks, but I wish to maintain the "folder" structure, i.e. year\day*.jpg
Not just upload a flat file list.

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In that case you can't use collections since other programs don't know about them (and Opus has no real way to tell other programs about them).

Using real directories containing NTFS links to the files is one alternative if you want to avoid having duplicate copies of the data. (NTFS links, not shortcuts.)