I have directories filled with RAR Archives (RARs & PARs). I would like to be able to collapse similarly named files into a tree structure. For example:
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Archive1.part01.rar
Archive1.part02.rar
Archive1.part03.rar
......
Archive1.rar.par2
Archive1.rar.vol000+19.par2
Archive1.rar.vol019+19.par2
......
I could imagine a command utilizing REGEX, which would hide all volumes of a rar file, which do not contain not "part01" in the name.
I suppose, your main goal is to have a clean view of your rars, so this would be quite convenient. Since the other files are only hidden, you could open, as ususal, those files by clicking the "part01" portion.
My directory is constantly filling up with RAR files and it would be too much work to keep moving them into sub-directories.
Furthermore, an autoextract program is constantly running to extract the files and it is easier if all files are in the same directory.
IMO it would be better to get those programs to create/work with the folder structure you want. Changing those programs would be very easy. Making Opus collapse similarly-named files into groups would be much harder.
(Some download tools already work that way, too.)
Still, if you want to request the feature, ask GPSoftware. I just think it would make more sense to create the files/folders as you want to see them than to change the way reality is displayed in the file manager. (And since it'd require regexps to define what "similarly named" means and how to generate the name of the "single item" representation of the stack of files, I don't think many people would use/understand the feature, which makes it a tough sell.)
[quote="abr"]I could imagine a command utilizing REGEX, which would hide all volumes of a rar file, which do not contain not "part01" in the name.
I suppose, your main goal is to have a clean view of your rars, so this would be quite convenient. Since the other files are only hidden, you could open, as ususal, those files by clicking the "part01" portion.[/quote]
I would like to be able to click on the + to expand that particular RAR set; In this way, I could quickly see if there were only RAR files, if the set appears complete (or parts were missing) and also if PAR files were present.
(And since it'd require regexps to define what "similarly named" means and how to generate the name of the "single item" representation of the stack of files, I don't think many people would use/understand the feature, which makes it a tough sell.)