Pasting a file in the clipboard from another app

Hi,

I use a remote desktop sharing tool to connect to the remote desktops of other machines. This tool uses the Copy/Paste system as a means of transfering files from the remote desktop to the local machine. When I paste a file into a lister which already has a file of the same name Opus pastes the new file without prompting to "Replace the existing file .." - it renames the pasted file with a numeric extension eg filename (1).pdf. Since I have to keep pasting the same file many times a day from the remote machine is there a way to make Opus prompt to overwrite each time?

Thanks

Mark

You could try using the COPY FORCE command.

What command are you running to paste the file into the lister? I wouldn't have thought any default config from Opus would even result in the behavior you're seeing. I could be wrong though of course...

I'm using Ctrl-V to paste the file into the lister - looks like I need to edit the command for Ctrl-V.

I have tried changing the default code for Ctrl-V to "Clipboard PASTE FORCE" but this does not seem to work?

EDIT: I just noticed that Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V do prompt for file replace but only if the Ctrl-C was done on a file in Opus - if you try Ctr-C'ing a file from say Windows Explorer then pasting into an Opus lister you dont get the file replace dialogue!

Not true for me, I get the prompt if I Ctrl-C in Explorer and Ctrl-V in Opus. Ctrl-V is defined as Clipboard PASTE.

I am running into the same problem; did anyone come up with a solution?

It may depend on which app you are pasting the data from, and how that app has put the data into the clipboard.

When copying a file via the paste buffer I am not prompted to overwrite; but instead the file is copied to an alternate name. The dpopus application I am copying/pasting the file into is running on a remote machine (mstsc).

I use to be able to force the overwrite; by typing the ctrl+shift+v. I have looked through the various menus and looked at modifying the key association; but no look so far.

Pasting into or out of Remote Desktop will probably behave differently to normal file copy & paste operations, since the file data is transferred in a very different way (the actual file contents may be pasted, rather than the target being given a list of filenames that it can copy itself; at least, I think it works something like that).

I don't remember Ctrl-Shift-V ever being an Opus hotkey but I might be wrong.