The back and forward buttons on my mouse take me through the previous folders I was in. Is there any way to change this behavior and have my mouse back button go up a directory? I basically want my mouse back/forward buttons to move me up and down the directory tree rather than moving me through folders I previously viewed. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Go to Settings / Customize / Keys, locate the entry for Browser Backward and change the function to Go UP.
Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately your suggestion doesn't seem to be working properly. First I went and changed the Browser Backward function from "Go Back" to "Go Up" and that works. When I press the back button on my mouse it moves down one level in the folder tree, but now my forward button doesn't do anything at all. So I tried changing the Browse Forward function from "Go Forward" to "Go Down" (seemed logical since changing Go Back to Go Up worked), but doing this gives me an error since Go Down isn't a valid command. I went back and changed to just "Go" which is a valid command, but my forward button still doesn't do anything. It seems if I change the behavior of the back button on my mouse, it completely breaks the forward button for some reason.
You can only go forward if you've previously gone back. You could try changing the command to Go UP BACK which combines both behaviors.
I'm not sure how a hypothetical "Go Down" command would work, unless all your folders only have exactly one sub-folder in them.
I tried changing the Browse Backward behavior to "Go UP BACK" and the back button on my mouse works fine, but I still cannot go forward at all. Clicking the forward button on my mouse does nothing if I make any modification so the Browse Backward behavior.
Example; I go to C:\blah1\blah2\blah3\blah4\blah5 and I press the back button on my mouse. It goes to the blah4 folder, but then I press the forward button on my mouse and nothing happens. If I press the back button again, it goes to blah3 and so on, but the forward button does NOTHING, not matter what folder I'm in or how many times I've pressed the back button on my mouse.
Forward only works if you have gone Back before.
[ol][li]You go directly to C:\blah1\blah2\blah3\blah4\blah5. This is the first folder you have gone to, so there is no folder to go Forward or Back to.[/li]
[li]You then go up to C:\blah1\blah2\blah3\blah4. Back will now take you to the folder you were in in step 1: blah5. You still can't go Forward, as you have never gone Back.[/li]
[li]If you click back, you'll be back in blah5, and Back will no longer do anything as you're back in the first folder you went to. Forward will now take you to blah4, as that's where you were before you clicked Back.[/li][/ol]
It sounds like you actually want your other mouse button to Go Back, not Go Forward, if you want it to take you from blah4 back to blah5 in step 2.
I thought I was pretty clear on what I was trying to do... All I want is for the back button on my mouse to move backward (down) the directory tree and for the forward button on my mouse to move forward (up) the directory tree. Is this not possible to achieve?
You have a folder with two sub-folders in it (A and B ). Which sub-folder would you go into if you move "down" the directory tree?
Neither? If you're in a folder with 2 other folders in it and you move backward (down) the directory tree, you would just go back to the parent folder of the folder which had folders A and B in it. Maybe you meant to say which sub-folder would you go into if you move forward (up) the directory tree? It should go forward to whatever folder you came from previously. If you weren't in either folder A or folder B previously, then it would have know way of picking which one to go to. But as it is, it won't go forward to any directory no matter what I do.
No, you have the meanings reversed. Down the directory tree means getting deeper into the folder heirarchy, Up means going higher. You can go Up until you hit the desktop and can go no further. There's no limit to how far down you can go, it's just that Opus has no way of knowing which folder you want to go down into.
Sorry, I guess I did have them backwards, but you still get the idea of what I was trying to do. The normal behavior is to go back to the previous folder you were in if the back button on the mouse is pressed, and to go forward to the next folder (based on history) when the forward button on the mouse is pressed. I only modified the "go back" behavior to not use the folder history, but simply move up the directory tree. What I don't understand is why this completely breaks the behavior of the forward mouse button. It should still be able to see the "history" of me moving up the directory tree using the back button on the mouse and be able to move forward through the folders. But this is not the case and I have a feeling there's no way to get it to do what I want.
If you change the "backwards" function to Go UP and the "forwards" function to Go BACK does it do what you want?
Yes, that works! Thank you so much. It still does a couple of weird things, but it's doing what I wanted now! Where did you find the Go Back command? It's not listed on the drop down menu of supported Functions.