I add a lot of new folders when searching for images and videos and they end up mixed in with a lot of other existing folders which makes them hard to locate.
The folders are added automatically with a downloader such as Bulk Image Downloader which assigns a new folder with a new name. The names vary all over the place so I usually do not know which folders are new and which are old until I manually view them all one by one.
If I add only one new folder, Opus will often automatically go to that folder which is very nice. But, if I move the cursor to another area I lose track of that folder.
I would like the last new folder created to be a different color then change to the normal color when another new folder is added. Having the new folder a different color will make it stand out and very easy to locate.
To take this one step farther, it would be nice if ALL newly added folders were a different color and stayed that way until I did something specific such as clicking on a folder reset color icon or something like that.
It also would not hurt is the newly added folders also blinked to better catch my attention.
Is any of this currently possible
Could it be added as a new feature to a future release of Opus
[quote="DocLotus"]New Folders in Different Color and Blinking
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An option to highlight new directories wouldn´t be bad, but this should be an option in the folder settings for some places & not necessarily global. For instance, i use lots of folders with date, it would be nice in certain folders, if the most recent folder could be automatically shown in a predefined color/bold.
But an option to make folder blinking sounds a bit to far fetched to me. As for me, this would annoy me (the blinking when a folder is just left i find as very useful, though)
The Relative Age column might help here. Or just sort the folder by date? There's also an option that adds new items to the end of the list instead of sorting them into the list (like Explorer does, or at least did in some versions).
I think relative age operates JUST on 'modified' date... which for a folder will cha nge if contents directly below it are added. So the relative age column wouldn't always show the 'newest' folder. Might be nice for relative age fields based on any of the date criteria (create, modified, access). But maybe 'last modified' folder works ok for doc?
Relative age, dates and etc are not the answer (for me).
Let me explain why.
When I am adding new images (or videos) the view is in Thumbnails and not Details.
If I was in Details view, finding the most current folder would be less of a problem but still not as easy to find as I would like.
The cell pointer is usually already on one of the folders and the dates for each file is showing but not the dates for each folder which is what I want.
1: I have to click on the Parent folder.
2: I than have to sort the Details view by date.
3: After finding the newest folder I then have to click on it.
This is a THREE step process. With the newest folder in a different color, all I need do is to look and it is instantly visible; no Parent required, no sorting of the date column, no clicking on the folder. One step instead of three.
But, I am in Thumbnails view when importing new images. The cell pointer is usually already on one of the folders and the dates for each file is NOT showing.
1: I have to click on the Parent folder.
2: As I am in thumbnails mode I than have to change it to Details view in order for folder dates to show up.
3: I than have to sort the Details view by date.
4: I than have to click on the newest folder.
5: Depending on my Opus settings, I than have to change back to thumbnails view.
This is a FIVE step process which I would have to repeat with each newly imported image folder. With the newest folder a different color, all I need do is to look and it is instantly visible; no Parent required, no changing to Details view, no sorting of the date column, etc, etc. One step instead of FIVE.
I hope you can see the advantage to someone like myself of having the newest folder in a different color/and/or bolded. It saves a LOT of time jumping back and forth just to get something simple done that a color would take care of.
This would of course be a user definable option but it might make sense to have it turned on by default.
