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looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 13:16
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?
Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 13:36
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; }
Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 14:20
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.
Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 14:32
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
Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 14:40
by MBaas
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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Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 14:45
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.
Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 14:47
by RalphM
What's wrong with the toolbar button called "Drives"?
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Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 15:05
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.
Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 15:34
by Filehero
And yet another option:
Expandable Drive Button (script-based toolbar modification). I recommend to read that thread from start.
Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 16:27
by admin
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?
Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 17:21
by MBaas
This screenshot looks weird (the icons). What's your display settings?
Thanks for asking - I always forget to complain ;-)
I have a laptop with a 3840 x 2160 Display running with a factor of 250%. Secondary monitor is 1920 x 1080 @ 100% and moving XY from 1 to 2 is a PITA ;-)
Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 20:41
by admin
Fixed the icons.
Multi-monitor stuff is harder. Later.
Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 21:01
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....
Just a thot.
Re: looking for a drive letter bar
Posted: 05 Apr 2017 21:26
by MBaas
Fixed the icons.
Great, thanks!
Looking forward to that update .-)
Multi-monitor stuff is harder. Later.
No worries, I can wait till tomorrow
