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
Ability to copy optical drive directly
Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly
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.:
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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Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly
Thanks for the fast reply.
Thanks for the script! But I don't understand its syntax at this point -- would have to research that one before using any.
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).If not: Dragging drive letters from the tree is a dangerous process -> A feature that will probably never be fulfilled...
What do you mean by this? What difference this makes it being dangerous?Is this a request for the free version?
Thanks for the script! But I don't understand its syntax at this point -- would have to research that one before using any.
Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly
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)
But regarding them: 25GB+ BD -> Smaller sized destinations (ram disks, sd-cards, usb-sticks)
That it doesn't make sense to make feature requests for the free version. Out of support since years.What do you mean by this?
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...But I don't understand its syntax at this point
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Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly
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? If that is true, then the trial is very misleading, but I think that I am getting it wrong here.
Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly
You are getting it wrong^^
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Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly
Thank god. But now I have no idea what even is the free version.
Re: Ability to copy optical drive directly
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