Modifications to Descript.ion files with Copy, Move, Delete,

Help & Support
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Hello Dopus,

It's wonderful that Dopus 8 supports the very old Descript.ion folders and their contents.

Preferences > Folders > Options Tab -> checkbox "support 'descript.ion' file comments system"
And the sub checkbox that controls the descript.ion folder's visibility in Dopus.

I'm wondering if this feature can be easily updated in a future release to modify and/or create descript.ion files
that in theory would result from a Copy, Move, Delete ( on the fly, without a Dopus restart ) or Rename.

I've had mixed results with Delete. It worked once , but with older entries it didn't.

Of course a button could be made to this. One would only need a command line program to accomplish the text file alterations.

It would be far better though if it was simply supported .
Even very old versions of command processor replacements such as JPSoft support this .
However, this is a different world, and I'm still very surprised and happy to see that it's there!

John Zehman posted this button to create Descript.ion files while ago.

[DOpus.ButtonInfo]
Name=Descr.
Icon=159,9999999
Flags=402,0,0
Color=0,a0a0a0
Tooltip=Enter your own description for selected files
Func1=SetAttr DESCRIPTION

Oh Yes, Porcupine is dead.
He chewed up too much camping equipment,
made too much noise during the night,
and some ignorant Redneck shot him.

                           Racoon  :opusicon:
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What are you talking about?

The descript.ion files update here whenever I rename, copy or delete a file.

You do need to turn on:

Preferences - File Operations - Copying(1) - Preserve the description of copied files