Environment variables - path to USB drive

[joeyeti]

Hi,

could somebody help me with pointing to USB drive from TotalCommander? Is there an environment variable for USB drives - eg %something%?

How can I point to the USB drive?

Joe Yeti

[Sheepdog]

If you want access the USB-Drive where you TC Installation resides you cann point to this program dir with %Commander_path% as soon as TC is started.

If you think of something else you should explain a bit more in detail what for you need to access the USB Drive. Maybe someone has an idea how to realize.

sheepdog

[joeyeti]

I have Total Commander on USB in a subdir, not in the root dir of the USB...

But I am referring to adding a shortcut on Toolbar for an App and setting the path to relative (to the USB - on which this App resides).... So that I am able to run this Toolbar Shortcut whether the USB is F:\, X:\ or D:\......

Example:

I have say Notepadplus.exe in %USB%\Install\Notepad\

What would be the relative path for this App?

Thx.

Joe Yeti

[Sheepdog]

Lets say your Totalcmdexe is in f:\totalcmd\totalcmd.exe then the path to your App should be:

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%Commander_path%\..\install\notepad.exe

or when the path is f:\program files\totalcmd\totalcmd.exe then you must use:

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%Commander_path%\..\..\install\notepad.exe

Hope that helps.

sheepdog

[joeyeti]

Yea, great.

It works!

Thx to you both...

Anyway, if somebody would know, if in Windows a USB identifier variable exists (like %CDROM% or so), please post it here (although it is little offtopic )

Joe Yeti

[Sheepdog]

Y
Thx to you both...

Oh you already know that UI'm multiple

sheepdog

[joeyeti]

Why did I think there were two people answering me????? Hmmmm?????????

[ghisler(Author)]

There is no %USB% simply because there can be more than one USB drive at the same time! For example, one of my USB harddisks has 4 partitions, and shows up with 4 drive letters when plugged in...

[Hacker]

Christian,
Could there be a %COMMANDER_DRIVE% (eg F:\) variable in 7.0 as has been requested in the past? It would solve these ..\..\..\..\ workarounds.

TIA
Roman

[Sheepdog]

Could there be a %COMMANDER_DRIVE% (eg F:\) variable in 7.0 as has been requested in the past? It would solve these ..\..\..\..\ workarounds.

Uuuuhh, yes please sir , yes please sir.

support++

sheepdog

[ghisler(Author)]

Good idea, I will add it to my to do list for TC 7 (that's higher priority than wish list).

[Tsunulukai]

Could you also consider adding a related command line parameter option for the "/L" or "/R" Switch that could point to that drive ?

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Eg : totalcmd.exe /L:%COMMANDER_DRIVE%

This one might not work as the %commander_drive% is not set untill TC is started... But something similar would be very nice !

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totalcmd.exe /L:!COMMANDER_DRIVE

[Sir_SiLvA]

Could you also consider adding a related command line parameter option for the "/L" or "/R" Switch that could point to that drive ?

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Eg : totalcmd.exe /L:%COMMANDER_DRIVE%

This one might not work as the %commander_drive% is not set untill TC is started...

as your above code starts TC ur code would work.
Proof: Windows+R, <path to tc>totalcmd.exe /L:%Commander_Path%<enter>

[Tsunulukai]

Are you sure the variable %xxx% is not remplaced by its value before system starts the program ? If not, then your right... But if it is... It won't work

[Sheepdog]

Are you sure the variable %xxx% is not remplaced by its value before system starts the program ? If not, then your right... But if it is... It won't work

Yes.

sheepdog