# Four questions from an Opus newbie

**URL:** https://resource.dopus.com/t/four-questions-from-an-opus-newbie/4534
**Category:** Help & Support
**Created:** [August 22, 2007, 7:22am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/four-questions-from-an-opus-newbie/4534 "2007-08-22T07:22:38Z")
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### Author: ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 7:43am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/four-questions-from-an-opus-newbie/4534/2 "2007-08-22T07:43:17Z")

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> 1. Is it possible to customise the folder name and navigation icons at the top of each folder pane? I would really like to have the icons (for back, forward, up, etc.) on the left and the folder name on the right.

There's no way to do that.

You can change the colours, whether/when hot-paths are enabled, and turn off some of the buttons but you can't swap the path and buttons around.

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> 2. Is there a special procedure for duplicating a file within a folder? I assume copy and paste works but I thought Opus might have a clever way of doing it.

Opus has a Duplicate command which, if you're using the default toolbars, is the right-click action of the Rename button.

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> 3. When a file is duplicated within a folder, is there a way to specify the format of the name of the duplicated file, like there is for shortcuts? I can't bear the 'Copy of' format because the alphabetic sort doesn't allow the duplicate to sit next to the original.

When you run the Duplicate command you'll see a dialog with the old and new filename. If you type over the new filename then what you enter will be used for just the first file that is being duplicated; however, you can also type a wildcard into the old name, and a different wildcard into the new name, to tell Opus how to name all of the files being duplicated. For example:

Old Name: _._  
New Name _\_copy._

would Duplicate these files

Blah.txt  
Moo.jpg  
Zuma.png

to these new files

Blah\_copy.txt  
Moo\_copy.jpg  
Zuma\_copy.png

If you want a button that you can press to duplicate the selected files in a particular way without any prompts or typing then you can sort-of do that now, although there's a restriction that means the new names can only add text to the start of end of the filename. (I noticed this recently and have filed a feature request asking for it to be made more flexible.)

You can make a button which runs this command

Copy DUPLICATE AS \*\_copy

and it will duplicate the files by appending "\_copy" to their names. Unfortunately that will mess up their extensions, but if you just want a way to quickly create a backup file then it does a good job. If you do want to duplicate to create backups then even better, perhaps, is to include the current date in the new name, like this:

Copy DUPLICATE AS \*_backup_{date|yyyy-MM-dd}

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> 4. When a file is deleted the file representation (icon and filename) remains in place.

This shouldn't happen but does sometimes. Have a look at this FAQ to troubleshoot the problem and let us know if you find anything:

[[Changes to folders are not being detected](http://resource.dopus.com/t/changes-to-folders-are-not-being-detected/1786/1))

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