The context menu for the file type in Directory Opus was altered when the default application for that file type was changed.
Do you mean additions to the context menu made in Opus? There’s a way to get those back if it’s them.
Changes to other menu items are down to how they are registered and the way Windows works. File Explorer should usually show the same changes for those menus.
Yes. I was referring to the additions made in Opus.
Here's how to get those back:
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First, add an item to the context menu for the type the normal way.
(Doesn't matter what it is. This just makes it easier to find which file to edit.) -
Next, put
/dopusdata/FileTypesinto the path field and push return. -
If you sort by Modified date, the type you just added an item to should be at or near the top.
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You also need to locate the file for the old type. It will usually have a name that includes a name for the type (e.g. the type name or extension like "jpegfile", or something like "CompressedFolder" as a synonym for archive files) and sometimes also the program that was handling it (e.g. "7-Zip.bz2" is the file type when 7-Zip is handling .bz2 archives).
If you can't work out which one it is, the files are all in text format, so you can look at them or do a text-content search for something that was in the commands.
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You might want to inspect the new type file in the viewer panel to see if there's anything in it you want to preserve (e.g. things added to the new type since the change).
If there's nothing in it that you want to keep, move it somewhere else and then copy the old type to the same name as the new one.
If there are things you want to keep, it makes things a bit more complex, but not too complex. The data in the two files will need to be merged. If you're not sure how to do that, the easiest thing is to zip both files and attach them here, and we can do it for you.
Leo,
Thank you for the detailed post and all work fine.
DZLi
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