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Posted: **06 Oct 2021 22:35**

Hello,

I am new to XYPlorer. I am looking to solve a problem I have.

I would like to be able to open PDF documents with two different programs, based off the file path. The situation at hand is I work for a company that has a site to site VPN to our factory in the country of Belgium. I am in the United States. So when I open a PDF from Belgium in Foxit it loads choppy. If I open in Google Chrome, it loads nice and fast.

So I would like to open files from a shared drive (mapped network drive) in Chrome and local files in my windows default.

Any ideas?

Posted: **06 Oct 2021 22:56**

Save the attached .xys document in your XYplorer scripts folder (use the same name)
Open it with a texteditor and adapt the mapped drive letter and the path to chrome

Open pdf.xys

Create a CFA (Customize File Association) entry at the top of the list:
"Open pdf" pdf>::load "Open pdf.xys";

Posted: **06 Oct 2021 23:49**

Thank you for the prompt reply.

Not to be difficult but is it possible to map more than one drive letter to open the special way? I have 6 drives that I would like to do this with.

Thank you so much!

Posted: **06 Oct 2021 23:54**

Why didn't you say that in the first place?...

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    $mapped = <<<>>>
F:
G:
H:
X:
Y:
Z:
    >>>;
    $chrome = "path to chrome\chrome.exe";
    end (exists($chrome) != 1), quote($chrome) . <crlf 2> . "not found, aborted!";

    $drive = gpc(<curitem>, "drive") . ":";
    if (regexmatches($mapped, "^$drive")) { run """$chrome"" ""<curitem>"""; }
    else { run """<curitem>"""; }

Posted: **07 Oct 2021 00:04**

Because I am not smart. Sorry.

The first code worked but this one is giving me a script error.

Posted: **07 Oct 2021 00:10**

Remove the // Drive letter... comment on that line

Posted: **07 Oct 2021 00:52**

Thank you so much!!!

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