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Shutdown/Hibernate computer when Opera completes transfers

Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:09:46 AM

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Opera Shutdown was created using AutoHotkey to shutdown/hibernate computer when Opera completes transfers. Size is 203 KB and installation is not required.

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Opera Shutdown

When there is a transfer, Opera title bar will contain Transfers XX:XX - Opera and this will change to Transfers - Opera when transfer completes. OperaShutdown.exe will check periodically for this change and will show the following dialog box when transfer completes. If there is no response from you during timeout period, it will shutdown/hibernate computer.

Opera shutdown/hibernate confirmation dialog
Confirmation dialog

  • OperaShutdown.exe will beep and run in background.
  • You must keep transfers tab in Opera active.
  • To close OperaShutdown.exe at any time use keyboard shortcut, Win+X. Opera Shutdown will beep before exit. To change exit keyboard, open OperaShutdown.ini and change the value for Exit Shortcut. See this to know modifier symbols to define hotkeys.
  • If you use other than English language, open OperaShutdown.ini and change the value of Trigger Text to <Transfers as in your language file> - Opera.
  • To shutdown instead of hibernate, open OperaShutdown.ini and change the value of Hibernate to 0.
  • To close Opera without system shutdown/hibernate, open OperaShutdown.ini and change the value of Test to 1 and in Opera disable confirm exit in Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Browsing

Changelog

Date Changes
Jul 31, 2010 Updated for Opera 10.
Mar 14, 2009 Added option to change exit keyboard shortcut.
Mar 12, 2009 Added option to close Opera without system shutdown/hibernate.
Jan 24, 2009 Added option to hibernate.
May 17, 2008 Initial release.

Formatting tools with animated smilies in My Opera quick reply/comment/reply to PMUseful opera:config (Opera Preferences Editor) entries

Comments

MrPingouin Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:16:30 AM

Hmm, I'll say, yes why not, but do you really have common case in which you use this tool ? smile

Tamil Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:30:48 AM

Do you want to run your system all night when you download a large files at night?

MrPingouin Saturday, May 17, 2008 12:00:00 PM

Well, maybe I'm too much a geek for this kind of consideration smile
You mean, I'd have to turn off my computer ? why ? smile

MrPingouin Saturday, May 17, 2008 1:03:39 PM

LOL smile
ok, I have said nothing, apologies smile

Tamil Saturday, May 17, 2008 1:07:27 PM

Preacherkpow Saturday, May 17, 2008 2:27:32 PM

Cool thing. I've used soft which checked network activity, and if it's low for some time shutdowns system.

Is there something like this for linux?

Tamil Saturday, May 17, 2008 2:30:10 PM

Originally posted by kpow:

Is there something like this for linux?

I don't know. sad

MrPingouin Saturday, May 17, 2008 2:32:27 PM

bah, just open a console and "sleep XXX && halt" smile

Anonymous Saturday, May 17, 2008 11:46:44 PM

Midnite writes: Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This is in my function wish-list for next Opera versions.

Joel Nothmanmoo Sunday, May 18, 2008 12:49:39 AM

How about the Hibernate equivalent?

Tamil Sunday, May 18, 2008 11:03:03 AM

Originally posted by moo:

How about the Hibernate equivalent?

Tried but is not working. confused

Manny CalaveraMannyCalavera Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:25:28 AM

Thank you so much, great work!

Anonymous Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:42:31 AM

Felipe writes: Thank you so much. Greetings from Chile.

Charles SchlossChas4 Saturday, January 24, 2009 6:01:16 AM

very cool

Anonymous Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:04:02 AM

bokivaol writes: Are there this option for Linux (Ubuntu)

Tamil Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:06:59 AM

See this comment.

Anonymous Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:36:46 AM

Anonymous writes: where do I find the OperaShutdown.ini file?? I want to edit it so it will shutdown instead of hibernate.

Tamil Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:39:52 AM

Run OperaShutdown.exe once and it will create OperaShutdown.ini in same location of OperaShutdown.exe

nukie Friday, March 6, 2009 9:30:06 PM

Tamil, how about adding another option to simply exit Opera after transfer finished? Most of the time I only want Opera to exit after transfers, not shutting down/hibernating the system...

Tamil Friday, March 6, 2009 11:35:53 PM

Okay, I will add it.

nukie Friday, March 6, 2009 11:48:03 PM

Thank you very much, it'll make our life so much easier smile

Tamil Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:47:13 PM

I uploaded new version implementing your request. See post for information. smile

nukie Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:00:12 PM

Cool Tamil, will try it right away smile You're da man, bigsmile

Anonymous Friday, March 5, 2010 11:25:55 PM

Anonymous writes: this is good but what if my network speed goes down at night? lets say speed goes to 0.3 kb/s (it often does) it will run whole night anyway

Anonymous Friday, March 19, 2010 11:54:24 PM

Anonymous writes: Hey, nice program! Could you publish the source code plz? I would like to be able to tweak it to my needs. TIA

Tamil Sunday, March 21, 2010 10:24:09 AM

Could you publish the source code plz?

http://www.friendpaste.com/1hleOupaSVNrFQILQVbYUD

Pavel Kutáčarxeiss Wednesday, May 12, 2010 7:08:34 PM

Hi, it's cool program but in Czech language useless, because Downloads contains diacritic and then it isn't working. So I did a instruction how you can use it in other language where is diacritic in title
http://my.opera.com/arxeiss/blog/shutdown-opera-when-transfering-done

Tamil Thursday, May 13, 2010 2:27:47 AM

up

IKoke Sunday, June 20, 2010 2:46:19 AM

up

banana For you

Tamil Friday, June 25, 2010 10:43:58 AM

Bruce Shadrackbruceshadrack Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:32:23 AM

Hi Tamil,
When you install Opera Shutdown/Hibernate, where do you drop the OperaShutdown.ini file?

In the Opera Folder or one of the many subfolders?
Help needed please.
Bruce

Tamil Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:38:27 AM

OperaShutdown.ini will be created automatically inside OperaShutdown.exe directory.

Bruce Shadrackbruceshadrack Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:54:54 AM

Great, but where do you suggest that I locate the OperaShutdown.exe directory?
In C:\Program Files\Opera perhaps. This is where I have dropped the ini file but it still does not appear to work.
You need to indicate what location specifically to locate the file. You give no clues in your blog.
Thanks.

Tamil Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:00:07 AM

Where did you place OperaShutdown.exe file? When you run OperaShutdown.exe it will create OperaShutdown.ini automatically there.

Bruce Shadrackbruceshadrack Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:42:21 AM

How will the ini file work to control an Opera shutdown or hibernate if it is in another folder other than Program Files\Opera?

Are you suggesting that you execute the file anywhere on the C drive or in some specific location?

More help required please. confused

Tamil Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:54:08 AM

Originally posted by bruceshadrack:

Are you suggesting that you execute the file anywhere on the C drive

You can execute OperaShutdown.exe from any drive but OperaShutdown.exe & OperaShutdown.ini should be in same directory.

Anonymous Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:32:23 PM

Anonymous writes: Is it works in Opera 10?

Bruce Shadrackbruceshadrack Thursday, July 29, 2010 8:55:52 AM

Yo Tamil,
Your OperaShutdown.exe program sux, big time. It will not work for me at all no matter what I do with it. I have deleted it and dumped it. Not worth the effort trying to make it work. It should work but............................
Bruce - Over & Out........furious

Tamil Saturday, July 31, 2010 3:55:22 AM

Is it works in Opera 10?

yes

Originally posted by bruceshadrack:

It will not work for me at all no matter what I do with it.

Transfers is changed to downloads in Opera 10. I have updated OperaShutdown.exe and will work now.

Juan M. Araújojmaraujo Tuesday, October 5, 2010 11:21:06 AM

It didn't work for me. sad I changed the Trigger Text string to "Descargas - Opera" (as it appears in spanish) but it didn't work.

Tamil Tuesday, October 5, 2010 11:35:48 AM

Did you restart OperaShutdown after changing trigger text?

Juan M. Araújojmaraujo Friday, October 8, 2010 1:45:32 PM

Oops, I'm not sure if I did. I'll check again. Thanks, Tamil. smile

Anonymous Saturday, December 18, 2010 5:27:39 PM

Anonymous writes: is it possible to get this in the form of an opera 11 extension? would be great. :)

Tamil Saturday, December 18, 2010 6:07:10 PM

I don't know.

Juan M. Araújojmaraujo Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:07:33 AM

Just an update on my latest comment: OperaShutdown worked fine after a program restart. Thanks, Tamil! wink

One last thing. Can I make a suggestion if you ever update OperaShutdown? A tray icon to know that the program is running would be great.

Thank you, again.

Tamil Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:53:24 AM

Originally posted by jmaraujo:

Can I make a suggestion if you ever update OperaShutdown?

I may update if there is an issue.

Originally posted by jmaraujo:

A tray icon to know that the program is running would be great.

I released the source code and comment or remove the following line in OperaShutdown.ahk file. 
#NoTrayIcon

Anonymous Monday, April 11, 2011 9:04:19 PM

Anonim Ex writes: Im looking for this many times! Great job!

Anonymous Wednesday, April 20, 2011 1:11:30 AM

Endriu writes: This REAAAALLY should've been integrated into the browser years ago... ;-/

Anonymous Tuesday, August 9, 2011 5:24:32 AM

Anonymous writes: Question, could AutoHotkey be used to display the transfer details "Downloads 09:21 (3)" for example, somewhere fixed outside of opera?

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