View Prev. Versions of Folders in TC (Network Drive)

[vo]

At work I have my piece of our common Network Drive, that only I can see, and that drive is being backed up every so and so. (it's WinXP case)

So, I go to the drive button right click>properties>"Previous Versions" tab and there I can see when the drive has been backed up.


When I select a certain date/time and click "View" I can see the folders/files the way they were organized at the time, which is nice, but the thing is I don't want to see them in Win Explorer.


The problem is that I don't know how to view those files in TC in order to compare the content of that folder with the current files/folders.

If I just copy the path it doesn't work, since the backed up locations end with date and time in brackets e.g.

G:\My Doc (Sunday, September 16, 2012, 4:14 PM)

and when I copy that in TC it throws me to

G:\My Doc

which is the current location/content.


So, is there a way to see the previous version location/content of the snapshot of the Network Drive in one side of TC in order to compare the content with the current file/folder status? Is there actually a way to get the valid location and have it shown in TC?


I hope you understood my point.
LMK if you need any clarification.


Thanks,
vo

[HolgerK]

http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=153815#153815

HTH
Holger

[vo]

Thanks HolgerK very much. There is just one (big) catch, and that is I don't have the permission to access regedit I tried to access it in different ways but nothing. It's always "Disabled by your admin".

If there is the other way I would be very grateful if you could post it. If not - thanks anyway.

Cheers!

vo

[HolgerK]

You can always:

- open the shadow copy in explorer
- copy the path from explorer path bar to clipboard
- paste the path into TC's path bar (cm_editPath)

I don't have the permission to access regedit

Oh those admins

At your own risk (editing the registry is always a little bit dangerous)!

There is as TC file system plugin you can use to edit (at least the current user path of) the registry:
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/registry.html

- Install the plugin (double click the downloaded zip archive inside TC)
- go to network neighborhood (drive button [\] )
- enter the folder "Registry" (it's the file system plugin)
- navigate to "Registry\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Folder\shell\"
(if one of the directories does not exist, simply create it with <F7>
- Create additional sub-folders <F7> "Open in Total Commander\command"
- inside the "command"-folder double click "-add value-"
- Name:

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(default)

(keep the type as string)
- Value data:

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"c:\Tools\totalcmd\totalcmd.exe" /O  /T /R="%1"

of course, you should adapt the path "c:\tools\totalcmd\" to you local TC installation.
- Don't tell this your admin

Regards
Holger