I've just installed Win 7 64 bit. My computer has a multi drive reader installed. In WinXP, the Dopus drive toolbar showed only drive H: which was the SD card drive and the only one I used. I had obviously customized it but I have obviously forgotten how.
Now, the toolbar shows only 2 of the 4 drives, G: H: and does not show I: J:. By disabling all those drive letters in Device Manager, I have managed to assign the SD reader slot to drive T: and this duly appears on the drives toolbar. Ideally, I'd like to get rid of the G: and H: icons, leaving me displaying only the drives I use.
Can Dopus do this? I seem to recall it could. If possible, I could then re-assign T: to H: which is the drive used in all my scripts. As it is I cannot do this because H: is assigned to the CF drive which I do not use.
It may be that I am confused (what's new!) and what I want can only be done in the OS. But anby thoughts would be gratefully received.
Do you want to hide specific drive letters all the time (even if they are non-empty), or do you want to hide all empty drive letters?
You can do either (or both) by editing the "Go DRIVEBUTTONS" command that's on your toolbar in Customize mode where the list of drives appears outside of Customize mode.
Another useful tool for this sort of work is USBDLM, which can set persistent drive letters for tools according to device ids and all sorts of other attributes. The install is simple and portable, basically just a small collection of scripts and a service. It goes on every personal system I own.
Yes, I've done that. It required some jiggery pokery since I have a network drive which was getting a nuisance because I use several removable disks for my image work catalogues and storage and they interfere with the letter drive mapping assigned to the NAS.
So, I've set the NAS to an IP address outside the auto-assign scope of my router which means it stays at that letter no matter what I attach, set the drives toolbar to show only the drives in use and with labels only. And then monkeyed about to assign the drive letter to my needs as you describe. Then the folder tree base is set to current drive. I had to bite the bullet and get all this sorted out some time - with a bit of help here, I have now done so and have a very neat basic DOPUS layout.
I hadn't realized how easy the button customization was - I shall use it a great deal more now.
I find the biggest problem with DOPUS is that the scope of its customization is so great the old brain clogs up Also, often I know what I want to do but don't know the terms to describe it. Glad to have finally got to grips with the buttons though.
Also, often I know what I want to do but don't know the terms to describe it. Glad to have finally got to grips with the buttons though.