Is is possible that I can configure Directory Opus to only allow drag and drop with right click?

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That is, I want to disable drag and drop with left mouse button, but still allow right mouse button to do drag and drop.
Is this possible?

Thanks!

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Settings > File Types > All files and folders > Events.
Remove all of the various Drag-and-drop functions.

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Thanks for the reply! Tried this; but this disables right mouse button drag and drop too. Is there a way to only enable right click drag and drop?

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You're right, that was unexpected! It shouldn't do that.

We'll look at improving this but in the mean time, set the base Drag-and-drop command to Set NOOP. This will stop anything happening when you drag and drop with the left button, and allow the right button drag to work as normal.

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This is perfect! Yeah this does what I wanted exactly. Thank you!

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Hi @Jon sorry to bother you again here. I found that the Set NOOP action only prevents left click drag and drop within Directory Opus operations - like, if I drag and drop to a folder it is correctly blocked; but for example if I drag a file and drop onto a Zip file (and my Zip default goes to WinRAR) it still will do the update archive action.
Any possibility to stop that from happening too?

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There's a Preferences option for that:

  • Preferences / File Displays / Mouse / Allow drag and drop onto files and folders
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Thanks @Leo - This works. Now right click is harder to handle (requires holding Ctrl to work when drop onto file or folders) but at least it works. Thanks!

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In the next beta removing the actions completely will still allow right button drag & drop.

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