Visual indicators for aliases, favorites, and smart favorites

I wanted a quick way to see which files and folders have been aliased, favorited, or smart-favorited, to improve organization. For example, knowing which folders are aliased makes it easy to return to them using GoScripts.

To achieve this, I settled on a script column with a button that toggles the column on and off.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<button backcol="none" display="label" hotkey="shift+A" separate="yes" textcol="none">
	<label>Toggle Alias</label>
	<icon1>#newcommand</icon1>
	<function type="normal">
		<instruction>Set COLUMNSTOGGLE=&quot;scp:AliasHighlighter/Aliased(0)&quot;</instruction>
	</function>
</button>

Version History

V1.0 – 21/09/25

V1.1 – 06/11/25

V1.3 – Latest Update

  • Upgraded based on advice from @PassThePeas: the script now reads DOpus.aliases, DOpus.favorites, and DOpus.smartfavorites directly from the API.
    Added new commands:
  • Alias.AddSelected – Add alias for selected folder(s)
  • Alias.RemoveSelected – Remove alias(es) pointing to selection
  • Favorite.AddSelected – Add selected file/folder as favorite
  • Favorite.RemoveSelected – Remove selected favorite(s)
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Interesting and good work! It works well for a given directory. Wonder if it could be tied in with Everything search and/or flat view to get a list of all applicable folders... Maybe next iteration. :wink:

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Thanks :).

If you press F5 to refresh after switching to flat view, it should show you aliased files within all folders within the display.

Upgraded to version 1.3

be great if it somehow worked in thumbnail mode. thumbnail overlays perhaps?

I just did a quick review of the Dopus Docs and there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way of doing this, but happy to be corrected :slight_smile: