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Allow specifying entries on USB drive by drive NAME

Posted: 2013-11-14, 00:08 UTC
by angussf
It would be wonderful if we could specify that we wanted TC to save directories on portable drives by drive NAME instead of by the changeable drive LETTER. For example, when I attach my phone to the computer, it may get different letters depending on what other portable drives are active. But its USB volume name is constant (e.g. DEFYXT). When I save a drive with Ctrl-D, I'd like to specify DEFYXT:\podcasts instead of F:\podcasts (for example).

I know I can simulate this with USBDLM but not if I'm running TC in portable mode on different computers where I don't have USBDLM installed.

Posted: 2013-11-14, 08:18 UTC
by EricB
Maybe this will help for development? The portable program USB Disk Ejector is able to eject a drive by it's name (not volume label, but real device name like "SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro"). The code is open source and available on the website:

http://quickandeasysoftware.net/software/usb-disk-ejector

Seems to me that only the code for identifying the device is needed for integration in TC.

Regards, EricB