Quick folder moving (folder indexer)

Hi all,

Before...
I have been using Total commander for 7 years and I configured it to work only with the keyboard. It is much faster as long as you learn the shortcuts you have design.

I'm evaluating DO and, honestly I love it. I'll propose to my company to move to DO.

Now to serious thing.

I miss a fast way to move to any of my folders inside my folder structure. I would like to have something like a folder indexer that later gives me the oportunity to move fast to another folder.

Let me explain.

I'm in a folder called "A", and I want to go to a folder called "B". "A" and B" can be allocated wharever in my the folder structure.

Imagine now that this indexer exist and I have associated it with "Ctrl+i".

So I type "Ctrl+i". It apears a window requesting for a string. As I type the folder destination name, suggestions appears below (may exist several folder with the same name). When the right folder is type (or selected among the suggestions using the arrow keys), the lister moves to that path, or opens it in a new tab depending on configuration.

What do you think. I do not thing it is possible now (or at least i do not know how to doit easyly).

For me, and I thing for lots of developers will be very usefull.

Regards

So if you have these folders on your computer

C:\Meow\Isabel
C:\Meow\Clyde
C:\Meow\Pip

C:\Woof\Isabel
C:\Woof\Clyde
C:\Woof\Pip

and you were in C:\Meow\Isabel, then pushed Ctrl-I and typed "Pip", you'd want to be offered a list with C:\Meow\Pip and C:\Woof\Pip as the choices?

If I've got the idea right then the problem I can see straight away is it requires Opus to store and keep an up-to-date list of all directories on the machine which it doesn't do right now.

Hi,

Yes, that't the reason I was talking about an index. You know, like "Copernic desktop" does with files. As long as DO is resident in the system it can keep updating the index table.

But may be it is not necessary to index all the hard drive but the tree in some given path by the user.

Do you know any way of doing this directory change (without the suggestion) in the current version?

Regards

The problem is how to keep the index updated when Opus isn't running. :slight_smile:

At the moment you can make hotkeys which take you to any path but there's nw way, without interfacing with external commands or scripts, to go to a path by searching for a name; the full path has to be specified. (Or a relative path, like "....\blah")

Hi,

I would like to have something like "launchy" does with the exec files, but with the folders DO. Even with files would be nice.

Regards

It's a good idea to explain what programs do if you want features from them added to Opus. :slight_smile: Presumably Launchy is like QuickSilver on OS X and/or the Start Menu in Vista where you can type parts of things and it finds the matches.

Maybe Opus could tie into the indexing system built into Vista (and available on XP as Windows Desktop Search) to get this information without the unwanted overhead of having its own indexing service.

Have a closer look at Launchy's directory index feature, it does exactly what you are looking for.
(Right click Launchy window -> Directories -> Add folder(s) of which subdirectories should be indexed -> Add ".directory" under "File Types")