USB with Fixed Drive Letter

[Bob Day]

I have an external USB drive that I store pictures on as well as keeping
pictures on my internal drive. I use Adobe Photoshop elements (v3.0) to
manager them.

The problem is the Photoshop catalog of pictures looks for a specific drive
letter for the pictures to be on. And, depending what else I have going on,
the drive letter assigned to the USB drive when I turn it on is never
consistent. This creates the problem that although Photoshop catalog has
the correct path and pic name, it cannot find it because the drive letter is
different than when the picture was stored there. This makes for a lot of
manual finding of pictures.

Is there a way to fix the drive letter, for example, everytime I turn on a
particular USB drive it is assigned the drive letter Z:

Any other ideas

Bob

 

[Nepatsfan]

I have an external USB drive that I store pictures on as
well as keeping pictures on my internal drive. I use Adobe
Photoshop elements (v3.0) to manager them.

The problem is the Photoshop catalog of pictures looks for a
specific drive letter for the pictures to be on. And,
depending what else I have going on, the drive letter
assigned to the USB drive when I turn it on is never
consistent. This creates the problem that although
Photoshop catalog has the correct path and pic name, it
cannot find it because the drive letter is different than
when the picture was stored there. This makes for a lot of
manual finding of pictures.
Is there a way to fix the drive letter, for example,
everytime I turn on a particular USB drive it is assigned
the drive letter Z:
Any other ideas

Bob

Go to Start -> Run and enter diskmgmt.msc in the Open box.
In the lower pane, right click your USB drive and select
"Change Drive Letters and Paths" from the menu.
In the box that pops up, hit the Change button.
In the "Change drive letter or path" box, change the assigned
drive letter to Z.
Click OK twice.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[Guest]

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
May help..
Cheers
j;-j