Digital Workshop

You probably want the latter, which will be everything. The workspace section won't contain toolbar positions.

Hi Lar,

Since switching to W7, I've changed our backup program to Comodo. It has a great feature whereby you can selected a custom registry branch and save this as a script.

It makes it really easy to save the Opus settings and restore.

It works with W7 and is FREE!

Mack

Hi Lar,

Yes they do an internet security suite - it the reason I know them, my previous AV / Firewall combo didn't like W7.

It's an odd program - much more involved than a lot of others and yet seems to cut out the hype that surrounds a lot of security programs. I recommend it on the principle that you like to learn but have a lot of control once you get your head around the program.

Their backup suite is excellent for a free program. What attracted me was that after you define a job, you can export it as a script which is distinct from the program and can be easily added to start menu, desktop, etc. I did have the thought of changing my Opus short cut so that it also called one of these scripts to create an incremental backup of imps.

Mack

I switched to Comodo recently due to AVG having indexing issues and hogging resources...
Comodo Internet Suite has a good firewall and antivirus.
The Comodo backup app works well.
If you want file sync and versioning, then AllwaySync is a good app to use, it's free for personal use.
FreeFileSync is another good one.

cheers
Paul

What's the .impetus for that?

Comodo sounds good. Thx. Besides the registry, I do want to back up other things for Opus. I have started using Galleries more heavily, and also have created custom colour palettes. If left over in the c:\Program Files directory path, these would not get backed up (ie., I tend to forget about them).

So I just started to store these under the C:\...Users directory where I tend to do more backups.

Sidenote: I found that when using OpusScript External Files for scripts... I cannot put these in with 'Script Templates' that Opus itself uses. (well, can put them there, they just are not seen when trying to pull them up as a 'template'). So I have started copying my REUSEABLE script objects... into the Gallery. It works! So another reason for attention to backups.

I posted about this in "Wishlist" and found (what a surprise) a couple of people saying "My toolbars always stay put."

My toolbars NEVER stay put on any machine I've run Opus on. Evertime I open Opus I have to drag them off the workscreen back to the second monitor.

I looked at this thread and the registry entries, but cannot really identify anything in the registry entries specifying toolbar coordinates.

Is there, and if so, where?

Dave

Dave, here is an example from my installation.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Digital Workshop\Opus Professional 7\Toolbars60.32-Bar12
( screen capture of one toolbar key set )


I don't know how Windows would handle application configuration when spanning multiple monitors.

BTW your profile is conspicuously missing info about system and environment.

Thanks Mack and Paul.

Lar's right,

Without system information it's blind shooting. I do remember your wish though, as I had the same problem with the changing of resolutions while Opus was open. Never really use the tools on a different screen.

However, since the Opus 7.0 release, I've checked both of these problems against an Nvidia and ATI card under both XP and W7 and have had no problems.

@Lar - you can added MS' own sync toy to that list - it works well and was my first choice before I discovered Comodo - which does have it's own sync feature that I've yet to try.

Regards,

Mack

Don't know what sysinfo would have to do with it. I run Opus on 4 installations here and it behaves the same on all of them. They range from a Dell M6400 64bit laptop to a dual Xeon 64 bit developer workstation and everything in between, and the toolbars shift to precisely the same overhang onto the workspace monitor with the Main view on top of them in the same place everytime it is started. Also, at least one of them is replaced for one reason or the other every few months. Toolbar situation is ALWAYS the same.

The only thing they all have in common is Windows XP.

However, I'd never considered some reading might be assuming a single monitor. Of course they don't move there...where would they go?

I'd mentioned in the "Wishlist" that it would also be nicer if they were "sticky" to each other like Photoshop and a few others. I arrange Photoshop the same way I do Opus and it always stays nicely together and in the right places.

Thanks for the help.

Dave
PS - I'd already examined my registry entries and like those shown above here, there are no coordinates, only docking info. Windows keeps up with toolbar info on all programs that allow toolbar relocation. Programs like Opus, Visio, Photoshop, etc. that have a lot of toolbars are very difficult and inefficient to run on single monitors except very large ones at 1800X1600 or so. I insist that all my developers work at 1:1 on everything and you just can't do that on a single monitor very effectively.

As you feel that nothing about your system would cause this, then I suppose the only two remaining possibilities are that either Opus is broken or human error.

Given that in your lack of system information you fail to mention the Opus version you are using it's impossible to know whether this is the case although we can deduce that both Opus 6, or update of, plus Opus 7 do in fact function as expected on a variety of hardware and software.

Mack

Mack, if I were an authority I wouldn't be asking the question...

Logically, it would seem the system is unrelated in that I've seen it behave precisely the same way over at least 10 machines over a number of years in versions 4-7.

Hardly a major beef, just an annoyance. Like my questions...

Dave

Here is a picture of how Opus opens on all the dual monitors I've ever used it on...which is quite a few.

Each time, I have to drage the menu bars over and arrange them on the second screen.

Like I said, not a show stopper but something of a pain.

Dave

PS - Well, I'd have like to attach that picture, but for some reason it's not going. Only a 348k png, so it isn't size, but once I browse to it and click the lower "Add Attachment" button it just disappears. Tried a jpg with the same results. Always worked fine in the past.

No time to mess with it now.