Apologies if this has has been asked before — surely it has! — but I couldn't find a thread.
Is there any way to save a lister with folder aliases instead of absolute paths?
I can set up aliases and use them easily enough, but is there any way to have a saved lister open up with (say) /myaliasedfolder in the lister instead of C:\Users\Me\Documents\SomeSub-Folder\AnotherSubFolder\MyActualFolderThatICreatedAnAliasFor?
If we're talking layouts then there are a couple of ways to achieve it.
The most general one is to save the layout and then find it in /dopusdata/Layouts. It'll be an XML text file and if you edit it you can change the pathstring line to use an alias instead of an absolute path. Only problems with that is you have to dig into the XML (but it's very simple) and you have to re-do it if you save over the layout.
If it's a single-window layout then you could also create a button which opens the layout but goes to a specified alias instead of the one in the layout:
Go /home LAYOUT="Music Albums"That doesn't have the disadvantages of the first method but it also doesn't let you change what happens with things like the list of layouts in the desktop context menu.
Fantastic news, Leo! I've been moving applications all over the computer since migrating to Vista on my main machine, and this will make life much easier until I figure out where everything will live.
Two questions:
Will the changes stick if I edit the file with Opus running? (I guess I can try it and find out.)
Is there a place where I can edit the icons used on Opus toolbars? (I.e., so that I can pull icons from /myaliasedfolder/browser1.exe instead of C:\Users\Me\My Browsers for Testing\Browser1\Browser1.exe?) I wonder if this will work if I edit /dopusdata/Buttons ... ? 
Yes, at least it works with layouts.
I'm not sure but the icons are defined in the /dopusdata/Buttons files which you've already found so just try it and see what happens. You'll need to close the toolbar, edit the .dop file, then re-open the toolbar.
Yes, at least it works with layouts.[/quote]
I tried it and discovered that the changes do stick, even with Opus running when you make the edits.
This is a real life-saver, with me moving things around like mad in Vista ... . 
I'm not sure but the icons are defined in the /dopusdata/Buttons files which you've already found so just try it and see what happens. You'll need to close the toolbar, edit the .dop file, then re-open the toolbar.[/quote]
No luck so far. The changes seem to be retained even when the files are edited with Opus running (just like with the listers), but I don't think Opus knows how to read the aliases from these files to find the icons. No worries, though — I can always create an internal icon set and pull 'em from there! 