Export Folder Aliases Feature Request

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Would it be possible to have option to export Folder Aliases from the Preferences / Frequently Used Paths / Folder Aliases panel in a .csv format? and\or a Copy Aliases button\context option? such as the hotkey panel has.

i would be helpful to have a text format as reference for some other softwares.
e.g. with listary i use the batch add to match my dopus alaises

dopus_2024-06-26_12-51-00PM_2035x869
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thanks
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You can find them in /dopusdata\ConfigFiles\folderaliases.oxc, although it's an XML format rather than CSV, it'd be about as easy to process into the format you need (based on the screenshot).

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ha! was just looking at this file in Notepad++, try to figure out how to copy or convert it to a simpler table.

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Scripts can enumerate the aliases via the DOpus.aliases property, so you could write a simple script to output the list in any format you want.

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E.g.

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var csv = 'item,item.path\r\n';

for (var e = new Enumerator(DOpus.aliases); !e.atEnd(); e.moveNext()) {
    var item = e.item();
    var line = item + ',' + item.path;
    DOpus.Output(line);
    csv += line + '\r\n';
}

DOpus.SetClip(csv);
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There's LibreOffice Calc that can convert an XML file into a spreadsheet:

  1. Open your LibreOffice Calc
  2. Go to main menu Data > XML Source
  3. A dialog appears > press Open Folder button there > open the XML file
  4. The dialog will show you the summary of the content of the XML file

open xml file in libreoffice calc
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  1. The result is the data from sitemap. xml is added to your sheet
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Thank @lxp I'll check it out

Alas I'm no good at scripting. After 4 years of dopus I'm just figuring out it's internal > command set and how to apply them to buttons. Feeling like a power users. :rofl: thanks to v13 auto intellisense suggestions that starting to make sense. Loving it too

And at @Itisi I ended up opening the .oxc in Excel, was able to copy the list out of a table in just a couple seconds. .... I noticed in ur screen shot the file address has neon/home in it... Are you some running dopus on KDE Linux? I have that in this computer as well. If dopus, everything and a decent music player worked in linux i would have dropped windows a few years ago. Lol. kde is great.

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@lxp this is great! its get the built in shortcuts as well, the folderaliases.oxc only contains user defined list. thank you!

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@xavierarmand I got all this from a "how-to" article out of my PKM. Researched it a while ago (last year?) and made note of the procedure. So the screenshot isn't mine. Otherwise same here: if I could run some essential programmes on Linux (I use a dual boot machine) I also would have left Windows behind ...