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Cyril N. Alberga
I asked this question on the "newuser" group with no relevant response.
I am re-posting it here, either for some help or for a suggestion as
to where would be the most appropriate place to ask.
CNA
I have several external hard drives which I use on more than one system.
They do not get assigned to the same drive letters from one time to
the next. I wish to use shortcuts to refer to some of the files on
these drives, and it was suggested that I use environment variables,
e.g. %PictureDrive%:\2006 Marqueses\At Sea\South Seas Party 01.jpg
I have created (by hand) shortcuts to files on the disks, set the
environment variable, and hand-modified the shortcut, replacing the
drive letter by %PictureDrive%.
Is there any way to create such shortcuts without the hand massaging?
Is there any way to have the appropriate environment variable set (and
if need-be, created) when I plug my external hard-drive into Aunt
Tilly's PC when I visit and wish to bore her with some pictures?
Thanks for any suggestions
Cyril N. Alberga
PS as an alternative, is it possible to address a device by its volume
name, such as (in this case) "PICTURES"?
I am re-posting it here, either for some help or for a suggestion as
to where would be the most appropriate place to ask.
CNA
I have several external hard drives which I use on more than one system.
They do not get assigned to the same drive letters from one time to
the next. I wish to use shortcuts to refer to some of the files on
these drives, and it was suggested that I use environment variables,
e.g. %PictureDrive%:\2006 Marqueses\At Sea\South Seas Party 01.jpg
I have created (by hand) shortcuts to files on the disks, set the
environment variable, and hand-modified the shortcut, replacing the
drive letter by %PictureDrive%.
Is there any way to create such shortcuts without the hand massaging?
Is there any way to have the appropriate environment variable set (and
if need-be, created) when I plug my external hard-drive into Aunt
Tilly's PC when I visit and wish to bore her with some pictures?
Thanks for any suggestions
Cyril N. Alberga
PS as an alternative, is it possible to address a device by its volume
name, such as (in this case) "PICTURES"?