Opera has released version 9.50 with a significant change that royally screws some Irfanview users.
Many Irfanview users select images from the Opera cache, copy them to a new directory, and then look at the directory thumbnails with Irfanview to see if there are any they need to review again or possibly keep.
To do this, you must be able to identify the images in the cache to avoid opening Irfanview in a cache directory and having to go though thousands of useless nonimage files. This requires a full function file manager to sort and select on name, date, extension, and size.
This process saves time over individually saving and naming files when you see them on the internet.
Opera has removed the file extensions from the files in the cache. You can't distinguish an image file from a css file in cache. None of the ways around this problem are as quick as selecting files by extension and size and all involve hours rather than minutes.
This change also makes difficult finding video files.
See comments about this change at the my.opera.com desktop browser forum:
"v. 9.5 disk cache (file extensions and fragmentation)'
"Why I Went Back to 9.27 - Opera browser"
Apparently Opera didn't know that anyone used the cache file extensions. Opera users who use the extensions need to tell Opera that they indeed do use them.
Anyone can register and post at the above forum.
Please forward.
Many Irfanview users select images from the Opera cache, copy them to a new directory, and then look at the directory thumbnails with Irfanview to see if there are any they need to review again or possibly keep.
To do this, you must be able to identify the images in the cache to avoid opening Irfanview in a cache directory and having to go though thousands of useless nonimage files. This requires a full function file manager to sort and select on name, date, extension, and size.
This process saves time over individually saving and naming files when you see them on the internet.
Opera has removed the file extensions from the files in the cache. You can't distinguish an image file from a css file in cache. None of the ways around this problem are as quick as selecting files by extension and size and all involve hours rather than minutes.
This change also makes difficult finding video files.
See comments about this change at the my.opera.com desktop browser forum:
"v. 9.5 disk cache (file extensions and fragmentation)'
"Why I Went Back to 9.27 - Opera browser"
Apparently Opera didn't know that anyone used the cache file extensions. Opera users who use the extensions need to tell Opera that they indeed do use them.
Anyone can register and post at the above forum.
Please forward.
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