grouping

[sgeva2001]

I have many directories which are spread in many location.
I want to group them together as one directory so I can sort and act on their files (Branch View , Visual Filters ...)
Similar to library in win7 .

thank you
Shaul

[Marco]

Will be possible with Virtual Folders.

[grindax]

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[admin]

Several recent programs like the new SkyDrive client, the Google Drive client, etc. put entries underneath Favorites in WE to conveniently access cloud storage. It would be nice if these same entries under Favorites were displayed in XY in addition to WE in my opinion.

The real location of Win7 "Favorites" is %USERPROFILE%\Links.

[grindax]

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[admin]

Several recent programs like the new SkyDrive client, the Google Drive client, etc. put entries underneath Favorites in WE to conveniently access cloud storage. It would be nice if these same entries under Favorites were displayed in XY in addition to WE in my opinion.

The real location of Win7 "Favorites" is %USERPROFILE%\Links.

Thanks. And I know I can add them manually by adding them to the catalog, for example. But for convenience it would be nice for all the Win7 features to be visible in their own sections in XY by default. The side effect, for Favorties at least, is that it will also be noob-pleasing. Other things, like HomeGroup and Libraries, I'm not so sure can just be added to the catalog.

What/Where is "in their own sections"?

[grindax]

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[admin]

I think I'll begin with implementing some other ideas that have a higher noob-pleasedness-per-coding-hour ratio.

[sgeva2001]

Will be possible with Virtual Folders.

It is not possible today or any workaround?
I do not find "Virtual Folders" in the menu.

thank you
Shaul

[admin]

Will be possible with Virtual Folders.

It is not possible today or any workaround?
I do not find "Virtual Folders" in the menu.

Well, the menu does not contain items from the future. Or maybe it does, but they are not visible (yet).

The following shows how to view several locations in one list using ";" as separator and various switches as you please:

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    + Name Search (Find Files and Branch View): Added switch "n" to 
      force a non-recursive search (overwriting the Include Subfolders 
      checkbox). 
      Notes:
      - The absence of the "r" switch (= recursive search) is in many 
        contexts sufficient to force a non-recursive search. The 
        explicit "n" is only needed when the ":flat" switch is given as 
        well, because Branch Views are recursive by default.
      - In a Multi Branch View this switch will also suppress listing 
        the top folders of each branch.
      Examples:
      Identical non-recursive single location searches:
        E:\Test\a\? /
        E:\Test\a\? /n
      Identical non-recursive multi location searches:
        E:\Test\a\;E:\Test\b\? /
        E:\Test\a\;E:\Test\b\? /n
      Non-Identical Multi Branch Views:
        E:\Test\a\;E:\Test\b\? /:flat         = recursive
        E:\Test\a\;E:\Test\b\? /n:flat        = non-recursive

[sgeva2001]

Yes this is a very good solution.
I hope it will remember all the long dir list I include in the location window.

thank you very much
Shaul

[admin]

Yes this is a very good solution.
I hope it will remember all the long dir list I include in the location window.

thank you very much
Shaul

I think it will. Unless it's larger than 2GB of characters.

Curious: how many folders are you adding to that list?

[sgeva2001]

Her is the list (but I have to add 20 folder):


D:\RECORD\A_AZRECHIT_YAEL;D:\RECORD\A_BRUIT_SHLEMA_YAEL;D:\RECORD\A_YAEL;D:\RECORD\A_YAEL1;D:\RECORD\AYAEL1;D:\RECORD\B_GIGA;D:\RECORD\B_GIGA_BET;D:\RECORD\B_LBIRUIT_OFERA;D:\RECORD\B_LIBRUT;D:\RECORD\B_LIVE_LIBRUIT_OFERA;D:\RECORD\B_NOI;D:\RECORD\DR_NOI;D:\RECORD\DR_NOI_Before;D:\RECORD\Ezrachit;D:\RECORD\Ezrachit_New;D:\RECORD\GIGA_BET;D:\RECORD\GIGA_BET_new;D:\RECORD\Giga_Bet_Neww;D:\RECORD\GIGA_BETT;D:\RECORD\KUSP's Ask Doctor Dawn Podcast;D:\RECORD\L_BRUIT;D:\RECORD\Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy;D:\RECORD\Mike Tech Show Podcast;D:\RECORD\OFERA_new;D:\RECORD\Ofera_New_New

[Stefan]

Her is the list (but I have to add 20 folder):

Here is an script to collect current selected folder(s) to an list.
Maybe that help a bit to collect the folders.
No human error detection right now, i.e. will also collect files.

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"Add current folder(s) to list"
  global $pCollection; perm $pCollection;
  $pCollection = $pCollection . get("SelectedItemsPathNames", ";") . ";";
  if (strlen($pCollection) > 2147483648) {echo "2GB string length reached";}  // ;-)
  text replace($pCollection, ";", ";<crlf>");

"Show / Modify List..."
  global $pCollection;
  $temp = replace($pCollection, ";", ";<crlf>");
  writefile("%tmp%\xycollectionlist", $temp);
  run notepad "%tmp%\xycollectionlist",,1;
  $temp = readfile("%tmp%\xycollectionlist");
  $pCollection = replace($temp, ";<crlf>", ";");
  text replace($pCollection, ";", ";<crlf>");

"Remove current folder from List..."
  global $pCollection;
  $pCollection = replace($pCollection, "<curitem>;");
  text replace($pCollection, ";", ";<crlf>");

"Copy List to clipboard"
  global $pCollection;
  copytext $pCollection;

 

[admin]

I posted a button snippet with a similar function somewhere. No time to look for it now.