Shared Folder Icon

Help & Support
1

Is it possible to have Opus display an icon for a shared folder such as explorer does; folder sitting in a hand?

2

Opus should do that automatically. Refresh the folder if it's only just been shared and the icon hasn't changed yet (though that should be automatic as well).

3

I'm afraid it doesn't work, although it does show up as shared in Windows Explorer. If it is of any help i'm using the 64bit version of Windows XP with the 64 bit version of Dopus. See screenshots.

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4

I have tried a few things to get this to work. Doing a vanilla install of Opus displays the shared folder icon as it should. However, when I load my saved preferences the shared folder icon does not display in the lister anymore, so it's obviously something to do with my settings. Wish I could find out which one has affected it though!

Any ideas on what might do this?

5

Sussed it, at last. It was the "Show arrow overlaid on shortcut icon" option that I had overlooked, mainly because I didn't figure it could affect shared Folder icons.

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6

Good catch! I didn't realise that either.

In light of that I think the option should be renamed and moved to somewhere else. I've added this to the list of suggestions for a Preferences Tidy-Up (presumably in the next major version of Opus) that I'm maintaining here:

resource.dopus.com/viewtopic.php?t=9128

7

Interesting... this has also bitten me in a different way.

I've been looking at an issue for a co-worker where we've had some difficulty with some tools we're using in a data migration and couldn't quickly tell what was happening. Why were we having problems with "certain" folders etc...

The details of the problem aren't important so much as, I didn't tumble to what was "different" about the problematic folders until I saw a screenshot of the other persons view from Windows Explorer... at which point two things popped out:

  1. The folder had the "Offline" icon
  2. The folder had the "O" attribute in the Attributes column

So the distinct icon wasn't visible in Opus for the same reason as the hand / shared folder icon mentioned here (i.e. 'show arrow overlaid on icon' was DISABLED).

However that plays out (and I imagine Opus "should" be able to still whack the arrow overlay without affecting the other special folder overlays - at least Explorer with help from TweakUI seems to be able to)... but I'd have hoped Opus would report the "O" flag in it's Attributes column for compatability with Exploder...