looking for a drive letter bar

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xyply
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looking for a drive letter bar

Post by xyply »

I often find myself deep in the folder structure and then it is quite annoying to navigate to another drive letter.
I added drive letters to my favorites but then I need to open the favorites menu, go to the favorites folder and select the favorite which I do not regard as a quick link.
Is there a way to get a bar which shows all available drive letter so that I can change to another drive with a single click?

highend
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Re: looking for a drive letter bar

Post by highend »

What about a popup menu?
Could be invoked via a keyboard shortcut, e.g....

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    $drives = "";
    foreach($drive, get("drives")) { $drives = $drives . "$drive;;$drive|"; }
    $drive = popupnested($drives);
    if ($drive) { goto $drive; }
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Re: looking for a drive letter bar

Post by xyply »

That is not the solution I was looking for.
Currently I am using idoswin pro which is not as feature rich as xyplorer but is much easier to configure, has some essential features I miss in xyplorer and has a cleaner GUI as shown in the attached picture.
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Re: looking for a drive letter bar

Post by highend »

There is no standalone drive bar (apart from modifying your toolbar).

Other possibilites
- The "All Drives toolbar (Group)" toolbar button
- A script that changes your main toolbar against a drive buttons bar (and toggles it back)
- A tweak (still no drive bar but easy to reach)
CEA_TreeRightClickOnWhite=2

Right clicking on empty space in the tree will show you only drives
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I also came from a Filemgr with a Driveletter-Bar, and I am now using the Catalog to navigate to my favoreite drives or folders.<Also the Driveletter-Button is quite useful - although I must admit I wished it would be more responsive (seems to scan drives whenever clicked...). And I realize it adds an extra click...
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xyply
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Re: looking for a drive letter bar

Post by xyply »

Thanks for pointing me to that solution which I think I can adapt to.
It is an extra click but a lot better than the favorites approach.

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Re: looking for a drive letter bar

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What's wrong with the toolbar button called "Drives"?
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Re: looking for a drive letter bar

Post by SkyFrontier »

Toolbar properties aka 'customize toolbar', scan for 'all drives (group)' button via live filter box, add it, be happy - no extra clicks!
Check out down for other drive button options, too - they can be heavily useful for certain drives' arrangements.
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Filehero
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Re: looking for a drive letter bar

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And yet another option:

Expandable Drive Button (script-based toolbar modification). I recommend to read that thread from start.

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Re: looking for a drive letter bar

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MBaas wrote:I also came from a Filemgr with a Driveletter-Bar, and I am now using the Catalog to navigate to my favoreite drives or folders.<Also the Driveletter-Button is quite useful - although I must admit I wished it would be more responsive (seems to scan drives whenever clicked...). And I realize it adds an extra click...2017-04-05_08-33-37.png
This screenshot looks weird (the icons). What's your display settings?

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Re: looking for a drive letter bar

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This screenshot looks weird (the icons). What's your display settings?
Thanks for asking - I always forget to complain ;-)

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Re: looking for a drive letter bar

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Fixed the icons.

Multi-monitor stuff is harder. Later.

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Re: looking for a drive letter bar

Post by kunkel321 »

It has occurred to me lately that much of my Tab area and Breadcrumb Bar area could be used for drive and bookmark icons...
I realize that these areas are reserved for other things (like tabs and breadcrumbs!). Still though, with computer monitors getting wider and wider all the time....
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Re: looking for a drive letter bar

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Fixed the icons.
Great, thanks! :appl: Looking forward to that update .-)
Multi-monitor stuff is harder. Later.
No worries, I can wait till tomorrow 8)
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