Im trying to create a button to quick-zip stuff & I need to zip many dirs. Problem is I dont want opus to use the first folder as the default name but rather the name of the folder that contains the dirs/files im zipping. I would also like it to delete the source files once the zip is done if possable. basically just like you can have winrar do if you create a profile of Zip&Delete when complete. Im sure its probably too simple to do and thats why I cant seem to figure it out..LoL...
thank you' SkyG'..
By the way, on that note is it possable to have a button to do the same command(s) winrar does in the right-click context menu of opus?
Cool..The first button works just great. The only thing missing is if it's possable to make it not prompt to create and just go ahead and do it fully automaticaly?
As for winrar it's like this. I have winrar setup with a default profile of files "Zip and Delete". Now in Opus when you rightclick selected folders&files the only context menu choices are "add to ???.zip" ...??? being the name of the source folder. Or the option to "add to filename" in which case a window will open prompting for a name. I like this button you shared with me other than the window prompt. I would prefer a fully automated way in both 'opus button' method or a 'winrar in opus' button if you can share that as well.
Many thanks..
Peace' SkyG'
It's often desirable to zip up the contents of a single directory without including the directory itself in the the zip as an extra level, but in cases like this I can see why you'd want it to be different, so I've asked for a way to make the Copy ZIP command work the other way when needed.
I think it would also be more consistent: when you use the Copy ADDTOZIP command, you can already add the directory itself in the zip as an extra level...
@nofilenamequoting
Copy ZIP CREATEFOLDER="{sourcepath$|nopath}" HERE
Delete QUIET[/quote]
Great! Thanks alot for the quick help. Sorry for the reply delay but I was away last few days.
So I see from the bottom of the thread that a feature req to have relative paths be either optional or default in zipping files. Honestly I often wondered why Opus did not have that feature since almost all other zip apps and file managers do. Anyway, it would definately be a useful feature and hope it gets added to the next release. Again, thanks for the help.
SkyG'
About an hour after I requested the feature I got a confirmation that the feature had been added to the code for the next release. How's that for service?
As is often the case, the reason it wasn't there already was simply that nobody had asked for it before.