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Review: Directory Opus Light is heavy enough for most purposes |
December 04, 2012
Directory Opus is an extremely powerful and flexible Explorer replacement. Directory Opus Light is slightly less powerful and flexible, but still really good. I’ve had some bad experiences with “Light” versions of software that are so limited as to be nothing more than teaser ads for their higher-powered siblings. Directory Opus Light handily avoids this trap, perhaps because it’s not a free program (at $30 AUD, it is less than half the cost of the Pro version, which costs $70 AUD), and thus needs to be worth paying for. Short answer: It is.
The installer includes both Light and Standard versions, and users can freely flip between them during the trial. To compare the feature differences, see our review of Directory Opus Standard 10.
Directory Opus Light creates a lister, or file/directory viewer. This lister can be configured in a variety of ways: single pane, dual pane, directory tree, dual directory tree, viewer pane, and so on. You can save favorite configurations and switched the lister to them at any time. Each file pane can contain multiple tabs, each tab showing a folder. Files can be dragged from tab to tab to copy them, and each tab can be sorted or viewed independently
In addition to this, each tab has a filter option, so that you can quickly reduce the files shown to only those matching a criteria, such as “*.pdf”. The filter toolbar can be shown or hidden with a single key press.
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2018322/review-directory-opus-light-is-heavy-enough-for-most-purposes.html
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