DirectoryOpus is a community-maintained, MIT-licensed Chinese-language manual for the Directory Opus Windows file manager, written as Markdown and published through a GitBook mirror for Chinese-speaking users who would otherwise have only the official English help.

What it is

The repository is a documentation project rather than a piece of software. Its content is Markdown, navigated from a SUMMARY.md table of contents and mirrored to a GitBook site that supports AI search, and the README describes it as one part a personal summary of experience with Directory Opus and one part a supplement to the Chinese DOpus ecosystem; it is explicitly still being written. The project carries the MIT licence, 584 stars, 26 forks, no open issues and a topic list of directory-opus, file-manager, pim and windows. The program it documents is the Windows file manager developed by GPSoftware.

The problem it addresses is a documentation gap around a paid, closed-source tool. Windows File Explorer, the README argues, is not strong on functionality and falls short of most third-party file managers, so anyone who depends heavily on the file system for organising data has a real efficiency stake in choosing one. On Windows the well-known third-party options are Total Commander, Directory Opus and XYplorer, and Directory Opus is characterised here as easy to learn, tightly integrated with the system and powerful — but its official manual is in English. This repository covers file windows, tabs, columns, file operations and the command language in Chinese, and a companion Greasyfork user script named Directory Opus 中文手册 redirects the F1 help key from the official English manual to the corresponding Chinese page.

Key capabilities

• The manual explains the 文件窗口 (file window) and its parts — file list, folder tabs, status bar, toolbar and folder tree — noting that every component except one file list can be removed, and covers themes such as Arc Dark Theme.
• It documents the file list views (详细, 列表, 缩略图, 小图标, 大图标, 平铺, 增强模式 and 平面视图) and the column system, including built-in metadata, computed columns such as 子文件数 and MD5, type-specific columns for image resolution, video duration and frame rate, and custom columns through scripts and Shell column handlers.
• Labelling is covered in depth: custom colours, file and status icons, bold, italic and underline styles, pinning files to the top, automatic assignment through label filters, plus the extended attributes 描述, 标签 and 评分.
• 即时查找 (instant find) is described across its modes — find, filter, wildcard and range selection, path and tab jumps, and CLI execution through the >, ? cmd and | WSL prefixes.
• Source-and-destination operations are documented with their shortcuts: Copy to destination on Ctrl+1, Copy As on Ctrl+Shift+1, Move on Ctrl+2 and Move As on Ctrl+Shift+2, with the dual-pane and single-pane behaviours explained.
• 高级重命名 (advanced rename, Ctrl+3) covers wildcards, recorded macros, regular expressions, sequence numbers, metadata fields, JS/VBS scripting and saved presets.
• The 命令 scripting language is explained with worked examples using directives such as @keydown, and the manual shows how commands and JScript or VBScript back toolbar buttons, menu buttons, hotkeys and file-type events, alongside per-type mouse actions, context menus and info tips.

Who uses it and how

• Chinese-speaking Windows users who organise data primarily through the file system and want the Directory Opus reference in their own language while working.
• Users of the Greasyfork 中文手册 script, who press F1 inside Directory Opus and are taken to the matching Chinese page instead of the English manual.
• Readers evaluating third-party file managers against Total Commander and XYplorer, for whom the README's section on why to use one at all frames the trade-offs.
• People running bulk file work: batch renaming large sets with regular expressions, metadata fields and saved presets, or moving files into a fixed destination folder with Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2.
• Customisers who build toolbar buttons, hotkeys and custom columns and need the command and scripting reference to hand.

Getting started

Read the manual at the GitBook mirror, https://chaoses-ib.gitbook.io/directory-opus/, which supports AI search, or browse the Markdown sources in the repository from SUMMARY.md. Directory Opus itself is downloaded from GPSoftware with a 30-day trial that extends to 60 days after registration.

How it compares

This repository does not compete with the file managers it describes; it sits beside the official English manual and supplements it for Chinese readers, with the discontinued Kancloud and FastGit mirrors showing how the hosting has moved. Among the tools the README discusses, Total Commander is described as the best known with the advantage of a Chinese ecosystem and XYplorer as also widely used, while Directory Opus is positioned on ease of learning, system integration and feature depth.

When to use it — and when not to

The README states plainly that the documentation is still being written, so some areas will be thinner than a finished reference, and the project ships no software of its own — it is a manual, not a file manager. Readers should also note that Directory Opus is commercial, and that from version 13 it uses an annual upgrade subscription: updates are free until the subscription expires, after which the earlier version remains usable. Anyone looking for an open-source or free file manager, or for English-language documentation, will not find their answer here.

@keydown:none   // 如果没有修饰键被按下
Copy            // 复制选中文件到目标目录
@keydown:shift  // 如果 Shift 被按下
Copy AS         // 以指定名称（弹窗输入）复制选中文件到目标目录