Ability to copy optical drive directly

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blazarian
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Ability to copy optical drive directly

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I am archiving 300 CDs and DVDs at the moment and it is a bit pain without the ability to just drag and drop the optical drive to a destination location and get it copied.

To just copy a media to a destination, I have to currently:

1. Make sure, that the left pane is selected
2. Select a optical drive from the tree view
3. Select all the items in it
4. Copy them
5. Select the right pane location
6. Create a new folder
7. Rename the folder to same as the source media name
8. Hit enter 2 times to end up inside it when the folder name is given
9. Paste the contents to it

I would instead prefer:

1. Drag and drop the media from the tree view to the second panes destination folder

highend
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Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly

Post by highend »

Is this a request for the free version?

If not: Dragging drive letters from the tree is a dangerous process -> A feature that will probably never be fulfilled...
But, scripting is easily able to handle such things, e.g.:

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    $src = get("drives", 5, <crlf>); // 5 = CDROM
    end (!$src), "No CDROM/DVD drive(s) found, aborted!";

    $sel = $src;
    if (gettoken($src, "count", <crlf>) > 1) { $sel = popupmenu($src, 6:=<crlf>); }
    end (!$sel), "No CDROM/DVD drive selected, aborted!";

    $dst = get("drivename", $sel, 0);
    if (!$dst) { $dst = "drive_" . substr($sel, 0, 1); }
    $dst = get("path", "i") . "\" . $dst;

    copyto $dst, $src, , 2, 0, -1;
    focus "PI";
    goto $dst;
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blazarian
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Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly

Post by blazarian »

Thanks for the fast reply.
If not: Dragging drive letters from the tree is a dangerous process -> A feature that will probably never be fulfilled...
Why it is dangerous operation to copy a optical media directly? How that e.g. differs from an ISO creation process where you "just image your optical drive directly to a destination"? Want to know here, because can't figure it out. I would agree when talking about large volumes (HDD or such).
Is this a request for the free version?
What do you mean by this? What difference this makes it being dangerous?

Thanks for the script! But I don't understand its syntax at this point -- would have to research that one before using any.

highend
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Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly

Post by highend »

My comment regarding "dangerous operation" was for all drive letters in the tree, not specifically for optical drives.
But regarding them: 25GB+ BD -> Smaller sized destinations (ram disks, sd-cards, usb-sticks)
What do you mean by this?
That it doesn't make sense to make feature requests for the free version. Out of support since years.
But I don't understand its syntax at this point
It does exactly what you've asked for, giving you a list of connected cd/dvd drives (or if only one is present, that one is used), copying it's content to a folder in the inactive pane and switching into it...
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Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly

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Wait a second... by free you mean trial... and if trial is "the free version", it has whole different feature set than the licensed version? :o If that is true, then the trial is very misleading, but I think that I am getting it wrong here.

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Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly

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You are getting it wrong^^
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Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly

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Thank god. But now I have no idea what even is the free version. :biggrin:

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