Folder Tab for a CD doesn't change name if CD is switched

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Does anyone else experience this?

Put in a CD.
DOpus automatically comes up with the contents.
Right click on the folder tab, select 'Eject'
Put in another CD.

Folder contents will refresh, but the folder tab will show the first CD volume name.

Thanks,
Paul

2

Do you see the same thing if you open an Explorer window showing My Computer?

Windows in general has problems noticing that CD labels/icons have changed, though there are ways to fix it I think. (Something to do with autorun/autoplay settings, if I remember correctly.)

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I second that observation. Windows is the issue. You just have to hit too often.

I have just tried a couple of DVDs in DOpus. It spotted the change without problems.

But there is a good chance that I do not understand the original question.

4

Explorer correctly updates the CD label in My Computer. I tried a couple of CDs, each one was correctly updated in My Computer and the ones that had Autoplay on them fired off the Autoplay in Windows.

Hitting F5 in DOpus has has no effect. The contents of the lister are correctly updated when the CD changes, however, the tab label not is whatever the bar that shows the current drive and folder name is called. The DOpus Title bar is not updated either.

I've checked the Settings for 'cd', but couldn't find anything that might effect this.

5

This was also a pet-hate of mine. You have to use the inbuilt command

  • "Go ROOT=collapse"

eg. via a button to alleviate this issue. Possibly you can also integrate this into a folder of drive context menu.

"Go ROOT=collapse" is also your good friend when any drive becomes unseemingly long because you have tons of directories expanded!

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What does "Go ROOT=collapse" actually do? As I have a few spare minutes at hand:

You have expanded numerous directories, eg.,

  • C:\Program files\Java\jrle_1.43_en\bin\languages...
  • C:\Doc & Settings\Administrator\Application sttings\Mozilla\default....
    etc., etc.

You now can click on the icon for drive C:, then it only shows C:, but as sooon as you expand it you get again all subdirectories that you expanded half an hour ago. Theoretically tou now can click on all expanded directories to collapse them individually, which is tedious and you'd be probably better off to open a new lister.

If you use the "Go ROOT=collapse" command once you click on C:\ again, you will only see the fist level directories, and no longer all the sun-directories you have lost interest in long ago.

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I don't see any problem with CD icons on tabs, as you can see in the video below. I do see the icon in the breadcrumbs Location field not changing, though. Maybe the two things are connected. I've reported that to GPSoftware.

nudel.dopus.com/posts/cd_icon_eject.swf

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@ leo

There is a nasty habit with DOpus which was already the case w. V. 8.x. If you replace the CD/DVD the treepane retains the folders of the old CD, only the filepane refreshes. F5-ing does not help much either. If you click on the obsolete folder on the left you gety an error message, but no resolution of the issue. All old folders are retained.

If you drive-collapse, that sorts it out. Then the drivebar also does no longer use the old autorun.inf determined CD/DVD icon - but it does not replace it with a new one either after media have been replaced..

The Go collapse method is a workable workaround. The drive-icon on the drivebar is cute, but not mission-critical.

Chjeers, Gromax.

9

@leo,

I noticed in your video that the CD label wasn't visible. When it is, do you see my problem?

Paul

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Where should I make the CD label visible? Are you talking about the Folder Tabs or something else?

I don't see that problem at all. If the folder tree is unlocked (the icon next to the tree's close button) then when I eject the CD the subdirectories vanish from the tree and I end up in the drive letter. If the folder tree is locked the same thing happens but I end up in Computer instead. In both cases, inserting a new CD refreshes the tree correctly.

Here's a video:

nudel.dopus.com/posts/cd_icon_eject_2.swf

What's your F5 key set to run? (Settings -> Customize -> Keys.) If it doesn't have something like REFRESH=tree or REFRESH=all then I think it will only cause the file display to be refreshed.

I don't have that problem either. People who have had that problem in the past have turned out to have general problems with their machine not detecting when CDs change, which sounds like what you are seeing.

If you open both Opus and Explorer and point them both to Computer (or My Computer if you're on Win2k or XP), then insert/eject CDs, do the drive labels and icons update in both programs?

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Folder tabs. In the last video, your folder tabs have (D:) * on then until you select a sub folder. On my computer, they hold the cd label.

Speaking for my problem, Explorer correctly recognizes the switch and changes everything. For DOpus, the File Pane changes, but not the Folder tabs.

12

Is this fixed in 9.1.1.0 for you?

13

No. The folder tab still doesn't update.

I added and attachment that shows the following sequence.

Put in a CD with Label Feb 12 2007
Eject CD
Put in a Delphi CD

The end result is the screenshot.

0614642e0ed103e49acc7f1c310193f74fd96d36.JPG809×695 67.5 KB

14

Strange. :frowning: Which version of Windows are you using?

15

XP SP2

16

Is it any different if you turn off the XP burning support in Preferences?

17

Sorry, no.