I use VHDs for a range of things, and I've noticed that I cannot mount them under DO without elevation, but it works fine from explorer.
Is there any configuration I can do to remove the need for elevation? Switch to explorer each time is painful.
Thanks
Leo
April 17, 2019, 1:36am
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How are you mounting them? e.g. What are you clicking or running to do so.
Simply double-clicking on them.
When I right-click, "Mount" is the default action, and there is a shield icon next to it.
Under explorer, the default action is also "Mount".
I did a bit of digging, and with a non-admin account, both explorer and DOPus request elevation when mounting VHD files.
With an administrator account, explorer somehow bypasses the elevation prompt..
Note that this is Windows 10 1809 (17763.437)..
I didn't think it used to do this, so I rolled back to an older version of DOpus but that didn't change the behavior. It might be n
As a test, after highlighting the VHD in DOpus I pressed '>' and typed explorer "{filepath}"
The VHD mounted silently, and a DOpus window opened showing the mounted volume.
It would be nice to remove the elevation prompt, but this is a work-around for now.
Thanks
Jon
April 17, 2019, 3:51am
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Explorer benefits from a system whitelist of Microsoft applications that are able to bypass UAC requests. Unfortunately Microsoft chose not to allow third-party software to also benefit from this whitelist.
Why does that not surprise me.
On an unrelated note. If I mount a bitlocker encrypted image, but do not unlock it, trying to right click on the drive icon produces the following;
This makes it impossible to unmount without switching to explorer... It also crashes DOpus of course.
Let me what if there are any logs I can send you. (Dopus 12.14 on Windows 10)
Regards
Jon
April 18, 2019, 2:30am
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Thanks for the report! We've fixed that for the next update.