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This statement (or similar) commonly appears in advice proffered on various forums.

When we make a new gallery it is saved by defaut in \Program Files\Opus ...\Galleries\.

Blindly following this advice results in losing these galleries. I cannot believe that I am alone in creating new galleries or modifying existing galleries, but I find the inadvertent loss of these galleries significant.

An obvious and easy temporary solution is to include in this advice a reminder/warning to save the Galleries subdirectory to a location outside the Opus directory structure.

A better solution might be to allow us to permanently save custom galleries to a folder that is not part of the Opus directory structure, and to include provision for this new directory to be recognised by Opus as a default custom gallery directory.

Hi Ray,

Same goes with the "Background.ini" file in Opus' root directory. An extensive amount of work can be done cutomising backgrounds (which lets us save our own Presets). Once you uninstall, "Background.ini" is deleted. I now always do a backup.

DW QUESTION: Could this be looked into as well for the next version? As an experiment I ran Control Panel and went to uninstall, and used the "Custom" option... I could not find "Background.ini" in the list? When we need to do a clean install of Opus, can we use the "custom" option, and it will just leave the tagged files on our hard disk, but still completely uninstall Opus from the registry?

Hi,

Thank you for your enquiry.

One possible solution would be for Opus to create a set of user data folders in the default Documents directory (similar to the approach used by Paint Shop Pro 9). However, this could throw up issues on corporate networks (where users do not necessarily have write access to the My Documents directory). We would therefore need to provide a way of relocating or disabling these user folders as desired.

I have added this to our suggestions list and will ask our developers to investigate further.

Kind regards,