Windows Annoyance

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:49 pm

Alright, this is driving me nuts.

At work, we have a really giant tree of files we have to navigate through. Some of the files I need to get at are six to seven layers deep. In Windows Explorer, I set up bookmarks to quickly jump from directory to directory.

My question, is it possible to have these bookmarks show up in Open and Save As dialogs? Or, equivalently, to create your own "My Documents" / "My Music" / "My Whatever"-type shortcuts?

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:06 pm

not that I'm aware of.

My biggest disappointment in XP was not being able to drag my favourite folders into the icon panel on the left side of the save/open dialogue.

Stupid %^$%*^% Microsuck.

I guess they want and expect that EVERYTHING you do is ALWAYS inside My Docufreakingments.

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:27 am

Actually, there is. Sarah Lane did a "tip" about that on "The Screen Savers" a few weeks ago.

click me

There are a TON of tips there. Click me.

KtheC' · Post by **KtheC'** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 3:33 am

Hey Mobi, If I am reading you correctly you want your favorites folder on your start menu?
TweakUIXP does this. If this isn't what you wanted, sorry.

DigiJo · Post by **DigiJo** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:07 am

hmm probably the "subst" command is helpfull here, it creates virtual drives.

start ->run-> cmd

for example:

subst z: c:\programms\devtools\project1\textures\doghouse

would create a virtual drive "z:" with the content of the folder \doghouse on c: and all its subfolders for easy navigation.
you can remove the virtual drive with subst z: /d
of course without losing any content, the folder stays physical on the c-drive in its path. saving to z: would save the file physical in c:\programms\devtools\project1\textures\doghouse then.

of course you can create a batchfile with serveral subst-commands for your fav-folders and run it in autostart.

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:43 pm

Kinda' silly that one should have to dig into the registry to make what should be a simple change. What the heck is this - BSD?

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:46 pm

MD-2389 wrote:Actually, there is. Sarah Lane did a "tip" about that on "The Screen Savers" a few weeks ago.

Or Just get TweakUI from Microsoft and make life easy...without using regedit

Places Bar under Common Dialogs is what you will edit

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:43 pm

BUBBALOU wrote:Or Just get TweakUI from Microsoft and make life easy...without using regedit

Places Bar under Common Dialogs is what you will edit

Unfortunately, if you actually LOOKED at the options you're given, none of them are relevant to what Sol wants.

The only selectable items are:
Desktop
Favorites
My Documents
My Music
My Computer
My Pictures
Network Neighborhood
History
Recent Documents
Shared Documents
Shared Music
Shared Video

There is very little room for customizatin here. Sorry, he's stuck with messing with the registry.

BitSpit · Post by **BitSpit** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:57 pm

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:28 pm

MD-2389 wrote:Unfortunately, I put my hoof in my mouth again, and failed to FOLLOW directions contained in TweakUI and this is relevant to what Sol wants.

You type the PATH

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:31 pm

BitSpit gots it right

noting that if your apps don't use the right open dialog, its all a mute point anyways.

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:33 pm

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:21 am

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:09 pm