Compression PFA for Comics/Manga

[akovia]

First off, Outstanding App!

I never thought I'd find a simple solution to my quagmire until I discovered Portable File Associations. This is probably obvious to most here but it made me so happy I figured I'd share anyway. I have a good bit of Manga and use an app called CDisplayEx which is a freeware comic/manga reader. If you are not familiar with the format, it is basically a bunch of pictures that are compressed with either standard compression formats (zip,rar,7z,tar,etc..) or other less common proprietary formats. (cbr,cbz,cbt) Those of course are not a problem as they are naturally already associated correctly.

Until now I always had to R-Click > Open With .. while browsing with a file manager, or else they would be opened with 7Zip. Browsing from within the app is even more cumbersome and I wasn't about to associate all common compression formats with my manga viewer so I just lived with it. My manga is stored in 2 locations on different drives with one drive holding my archives and the other is my recently downloaded. Both are in "Manga" sub-folders which made it a cinch to create a PFA that works perfectly.

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?:*\Manga\*.zip;?:*\Manga\*.rar;?:*\Manga\*.7z>C:\Program Files\CDisplayEx\cdisplayex.exe

It did take a bit to figure out the correct syntax but now it works like a charm. I doubt there would be many that would have the exact same needs, but if you commonly use two different programs to access the same type of content and and can separate the content by folders, this could save a lot of R-Clicking.

I can think of another one I might make for myself. I commonly use ACDSee for browsing images, but use use The Gimp for editing. If I sort images that need editing into a specified folder I can same myself even more mouse clicks.

Something like this:

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?:*\Edit\*.jpg;?:*\Edit\*.bmp;?:*\Edit\*.png>C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\bin\gimp-2.6.exe

Damn I love this.


Now if I could get some nested folders in the Catalog Tree. I guess that should go in a different thread. Anyway, much gratitude for the awesome program!

Akovia