View thumbnail and save folder format

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Hi, I'm a newbie here. I try make dopus behave like explorer. I set all my drive (C: D: E: etc) to view in details format and I want to create view thumbnail + save folder format (not save for all sub-folders) in a single button. And I want to create another button for clear folder format ( for this folder only). How could I do that? I hope somebody can help me, thanks.

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To save the current settings for the current folder (but not sub-folders), without showing any additional dialogs:

Set SAVEFORMAT=folder

Or, if you also want to update/replace the formats stored within Layouts, Tab Groups, etc. for the same path:

Set SAVEFORMAT=folder,replace

I don't think there is currently a way to delete a folder's format entirely via a command (only via the UI), but you could achieve something similar by resetting it to the default and then saving that as the new format for that folder:

Set FORMAT=!default
Set SAVEFORMAT=folder

However, you'd end up accumulating a lot of unnecessary formats that way. We can add a way to delete formats via commands if you need that.

The commands above can all be combined with commands to turn thumbnails on and off, of course:

Set VIEW=thumbnails
Set SAVEFORMAT=folder

(Edit: Actually, the last command doesn't work, but we'll provide a way to do this in the next version. See below.)

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Thanks for your reply, Leo. Personally I don't want set format to default and save folder format, as I said in the first post, I already set my drive C: D: E: F: etc to view in details, what I need is command to clear folder format (For This Folder). I wish there is other way to clear folder format, rather than open folder format dialog anytime I want to delete/ clear folder format.

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In the next version, we'll make it so you can do this via the following commands.

  • Switch to thumbnails mode, and save it for the current folder:

    Set VIEW=thumbnails SAVEFORMAT=folder

  • Delete the current folder's format, and re-evaluate the current folder based on the remaining formats:

    Set SAVEFORMAT=folder,clear
Set FORMAT=!folder

(It's important to do the first one as a single, combined line, and the second one as two separate lines. Otherwise things happen in the wrong order.)

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Thanks Leo for your support, I will wait to the next release.

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Beta 12.18.3 is out now and has this addition.

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Thank you John for the confirmation, I'll try it now.

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All of these commands work perfectly in Dopus 12.18.3 Beta. Now I can set view details and thumbnail in Dopus behave like in explorer. Many thanks for this update.

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