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Install Directory Opus

A complete replacement for Explorer, with far more power and functionality than any other file manager available today.

Install with winget
winget install --id GPSoftware.DirectoryOpus
Upgrade
winget upgrade --id GPSoftware.DirectoryOpus
Uninstall
winget uninstall --id GPSoftware.DirectoryOpus

About Directory Opus

Directory Opus is a complete replacement for Explorer, with far more functionality than any other file manager available today. With a flexible user interface and unbelievable configurability, you can tailor Opus to streamline your workflow. - Dual panes, dual trees, multiple tabs. - Filter, sort, group your folders. Label and rate your files. - Queued file copies. Powerful batch renaming. Full archive support. - Find your files. Locate duplicates. Synchronize backups. - Assign tags and descriptions. Convert images...

What's new in 13.23

Image viewer enhancements The internal viewer is now GPU accelerated, giving much better performance when viewing large images. New options for the standalone viewer and viewer pane let you disable this and drop back to GDI rendering if needed. Other improvements include: - When selecting an area in the viewer (e.g. to copy it to the clipboard or crop) a magnifier now appears near the mouse cursor making it easier for you to position the selection. When the magnifier is visible, you can: - Hold the Ctrl key down to slow the mouse cursor speed - Nudge the mouse position with the keyboard cursor keys - Zoom the magnifier with the mouse wheel - The selection rectangle now has grab handles so you can edit it. - The standalone viewer now has a zoom slider on its toolbar (factory reset toolbar to get it in existing configurations, or drag it from Customize / Default Toolbars). - When the viewer is zoomed using the mouse wheel it now tries to keep the same position in the image relative to the mouse position (so e.g. you can zoom in on a specific feature). - When GPU acceleration is enabled the viewer can now show a checkerboard background instead of a solid color. Enabled via Colours and Fonts / Directory Opus Colours / [Other Colours] Viewer. - Added command for Checkerboard background to the viewer's Background Colors menu (reset the toolbar in the standalone viewer to get the new command). - The standalone viewer now allows the viewed image to be saved (rather than save as) if it's been rotated/flipped. Previously "Save" was only available if the image had been cropped. - The...

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Version history

Version Updated Notes
13.23 Unknown Image viewer enhancements The internal viewer is now GPU accelerated, giving much better performance when viewing large images. New options for the standalone viewer and viewer pane let you disable this and drop back to...
13.22 Unknown No notes
13.21 Unknown Preferences - Added File Displays / Options / Preserve group expansion state on refresh option. - Added Colours and Fonts / Directory Opus Colours / Shadow in thumbnails mode option. - The histogram in the standalone vie...
13.20 Unknown Preferences - Added File Operations / Renaming Files / Allow rename into other directories option. Allows you to disable the feature in inline rename where files can be moved to other folders. - FAYT Quick Keys can now b...
13.19 Unknown No notes
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13.15 Unknown Preferences - Added Preferences / File Displays / Mouse / Double-click group headers to expand/collapse option. By default single-clicking a group header selects its contents, and double-click expands/collapses it - but...
13.14 Unknown Thumbnails mode - The filetype icon overlaid on thumbnails now scales with the thumbnail size rather than being fixed to the small icon size. - Moved the thumbnail overlay settings to their own Preferences page. - Added...
13.13 Unknown Folder Tab Drag & Drop - You can now drag folder tabs out of the tab bar to create new windows for them (like in a web browser), without having to drag them to the Windows desktop. - When dragging a folder tab out to ope...
13.12 Unknown Preferences - Added Assume UTF8 filenames option to Zip & Other Archives / Zip Files, to help with Zip files which store filenames using UTF8 despite not setting the flag in the archive to say they're doing so. - Added L...
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