Favorites with Hierarchical Menus

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Hello,
I have used QTTabBar for many years but I am relatively new to Directory Opus.
One aspect of QTTabBar that I miss a lot and, out of habit, I still look for is the Hierarchical Menus that QTTabBar has on some many places. Here is a link to their manual were it shows this feature:
https://qttabbar.wdfiles.com/local--files/documents/subfoldermenu.html

One excellent place were would be really helpful to have it on Directory Opus is on the Favorites pull-down menu. This would not only give access to the Favorites, but to all the nested folders and files under that Favorite.

Thank you for your consideration,

--rico

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Something similar, which might do what you need, is the Go FOLDERCONTENT command which can generate menus of folder content, including recursively.

There's an example here:

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Hi Leo,

Thank you very much for the prompt response and I am sorry I did not find these options before I posted.
I tried two of the solutions and they are very good, but I have a couple of comments:

  1. Start Menu Button: It does work well, but instead of going from the Start Menu item to the contents of that item, it first shows an item called target and then displays the cascading contents. Something like this:
    Start Mentu/Documents/target/Personal Documents/....
    Is there a way to remove the item target?

  2. Cascading Context Menus: It works very well on all folders in the listers. But, if I try to use the Cascading Context Menu on the Favorites button on the "Toolbar/File Display" (I think this is what it is called the toolbar right above the listers) I get:
    Cascading Context Menu ---> Function (The name of the function created under the Cascading Context Menu)
    And stops there, just with the name of the Function.

Please let me know if there is a solution for these minor issues. Again, thank you very much,

--rico

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Hi Leo,

I forgot to mention that my Windows 11 Start Menu is modified and I am using Open-Shell:

That could be the reason for the item target in the cascading menus.
Regards,

--ricardo

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Do you have Target folders in your start menu if you look at it on disk?

Go FOLDERCONTENT simply displays what's in the folders, so if it's showing extra folders, they probably exist on disk (unless something unusual is happening).

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Hi Leo,

I just removed some personal information from these screen prints.

  1. Directory Opus Start Menu button:
    Directory Opus Start Menu Button
    Directory Opus Start Menu Button548×569 28.5 KB
  2. Open-Shell Start Menu:
    Open-Shell
    Open-Shell692×450 90.2 KB
  3. I find the word "target" (as in a simlink or shortcut) in the properties for the items on the Open-Shell Start Menu:
    Properties

But, if this is only particular to my configuration, then I don't think you should put more time into this, and thank you anyway for all your help.

--rico

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Type /start into the path field in Opus and see what's actually in the directory and subdirectories.

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Hi Leo,

It seems that I get the correct objects, without the "target":

start
start906×481 54.3 KB

Thanks,
--rico

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The "target" folder was under "Documents", but you're one level up from there, so we can't tell from the screenshot.

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Hi Leo,

Sorry, I missed that point. And you are right, to my surprise there is a shortuct "target" under all the items in the Open-Shell Start Menu.
When I remove that "target" shortcut, the the Open-Shell Start Menu keeps the item but looses its destination, it looses the "target" for the item's shortcut.

start2
start2822×689 72.8 KB

I will just ignore the "target" items when I am using Directory Opus Start Menu button.
Thank you very much!

--rico

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Hi Leo,

I found a solution for the "target" item showing up in the path. I deleted all the shortcuts in the Start Menu directory and recreated them using the symlink command "mklink".
The symlinks don't have the "target" item in the path.
Regards,

--rico