I updated from 11.17 to 11.18 yesterday evening before powering off the PC, but after booting the machine this morning, I find that when I click the ">" at the left-hand end of the path field at the top of the lister window, I no longer see "Desktop", Downloads", "Documents" etc as choices that can be selected. I still see them as selectable options under "This PC" in Windows Explorer, but when I choose "This PC" in a DO lister window, all I see are hard disk drives and network locations. Couldn't see anything in Preferences which would change this. Other operations in DO appear to be working as before. See attached screen shot. Any suggestions? OS is Windows 10 Pro x64.
Windows 10 added links to those folders under This PC, which in turn caused them to appear in the bottom half of that menu in Opus. The bottom half of that menu is meant to be a list of drives, so we now filter them out.
Windows 10 has cluttered the folder tree with links to the same folders in multiple places, seemingly at random and incongruous with the other things the same tree branches have always contained. (Sometimes not the same folders, but related folders with exactly the same names as each other and only some of the same content, just to confuse things even more.) We filter out those additions as most people have found them unwanted and confusing.
If you want quick access to some or all of your libraries, that can be configured in Opus by various methods, depending on how you want it to work. e.g. You could add them to the top of the * (favorites) menu just to the left of where you're clicking, or could add a button or two to go directly to particular places directly on the toolbar next to the * menu.
What I fail to understand is why someone wouldn't want their libraries in plain site.
I can't speak for the rest but I move those directories to alternate drives since cramming video and music files on your SSD makes little sense. Any Windows reset is easier to handle under these terms and I would be hard-pressed to change.
I'm back to 11.17 without much hope of an upgrade on the horizon.
There are loads of places you can put a list of libraries for even easier access than in that menu. You can put them in the * menu next to the location field, or even have buttons for individual libraries right on the toolbar so you don't need to open a menu at all.
While we're open to adding an option for this (if people requesting it link their accounts), when we made the change we assumed nobody wanted the extra folders cluttering up the list of drives, since they don't really belong there. (Also because they had not been there for more than a few weeks, and they've traditionally been accessed via other places, we assumed -- wrongly -- that nobody would be too used to accessing them from there.)
We also feel it's confusing the way Windows 10 has put multiple folders with the same name in nearby places in the tree. (They aren't always exactly the same folder, to confuse things further, even though they have the same names.) What Windows 10 has done to the folder tree is a mess, in our opinion, and we've tidied it up a bit, while Opus was already providing better alternatives for the things Microsoft seemed to be aiming for.
Explorer is a mess now:
Compare to the similar tree branches in Opus:
We're adding a way to put the extra folders back into the breadcrumbs drive list. This will first appear in Opus 12.0.8 beta, which should be out in the next couple of days.
Adding mycomputerfull to the field's arguments:
Changes the result from this:
To this:
(Which folders are actually added depends on the version of Windows you're using. The option just tells Opus not to filter out the extra folders.)