Retaining Item in File Collection

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Hello,

I would like to be able to retain an item in a file collection even though the "target" file is deleted. I know that sounds crazy, let me explain...

First, I'm a software developer and I keep a file collection of every file (exe, dll, etc) that I need to deploy a particular app. When I want to deploy an app to our production environment I simply do a copy of the file collection to the app's production auto-update folder.

The problem is I want to use a batch compile utility that will recompile/link about 20 app's. One of the first thing this utility does is delete the final exe file since it is going to be re-made during the process. This, of course causes all of my exe's to be removed from my file collections even though the exe is re-created automatically within a few minutes. So the next time I go to the collection to copy the set of deployables the exe is gone which is obviously completely unacceptable.

Is there a way that I may be missing the tell a file collection to be "static" unless manually changed. Then if a file is in a collection but missing from the disk and you try to do a copy or whatever on the collection you could get an error at that time.

Thanks! - Kelly

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You could try changing the value of the collection_change_delay field in Preferences / Miscellaneous / Advanced. This value (in milliseconds; seconds * 1000) controls how long Opus waits before removing a file from a collection when it is deleted or renamed outside of the program. It's designed to stop files being removed when they are replaced with a "safe save" operation in something like Word, but if you made the value high enough it should work for you in this case as well.

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Jon,

Cool! - That is exactly what I was hoping for but just couldn't find it. Now as long as it can be set to a long enough period life will be good again. :slight_smile:

Thanks! - Kelly