AutoHotkey: Refresh the treeinfo.wc of certain drives

Scheduled refresh

You got some real huge disks and want to refresh the treeinfo.wc overnight, thus you need a program you can put into the scheduler.

This script uses the code for the cm_gotodriveX command to switch to all drives you want to refresh the treeinfo.wc. So you may add some drives or alter the driveletters. The 2063 code means 'open Drive c:\', 2064 means 'open drive d:\' and so on. In my example the trees of drives c:\ d:\ e:\ and i:\ are refreshed.

;start Totalcmd.exe
run "Your\Path\to\\totalcmd.exe" 

;wait until TC-window has opened
WinWaitActive, ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD 

{
;open a new tab
PostMessage, 1075, 3001, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD
;open drive c:\
PostMessage, 1075, 2063, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD
;wait until the filewindow is read
sleep, 1000
;Open the treewindow
PostMessage, 1075, 500, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD
;refresh tree
send {F2}
;close the treewindow
send {Enter}
;wait until the window has closed
WinWaitClose, ahk_class TCHANGETREEDLG 

;open next drive
PostMessage, 1075, 2064, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD
sleep, 1000
PostMessage, 1075, 500, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD
send {F2}
send {Enter}
WinWaitClose, ahk_class TCHANGETREEDLG 

;open next drive
PostMessage, 1075, 2065, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD
sleep, 1000
PostMessage, 1075, 500, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD
send {F2}
send {Enter}
WinWaitClose, ahk_class TCHANGETREEDLG 

;open next drive
PostMessage, 1075, 2069, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD
sleep, 1000
PostMessage, 1075, 500, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD
send {F2}
send {Enter}
WinWaitClose, ahk_class TCHANGETREEDLG 

;close the Tab
PostMessage, 1075, 3007, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD 

;make TC active
WinActivate, ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD
;and when active
WinWaitActive, ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD
;send the Close TC command
PostMessage, 1075, 24340, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD

}




return

Save this script with extension *.ahk (e.g. refresh.ahk), install Autohotkey and call the script with Windows scheduler.

You may remove all lines beginning with a ";", because these are only comments to understand what the script does.

Refresh treeinfo files by hotkey

Use this script if you want to refresh the treeinfo files when pressing a hotkey, Ctrl+Alt+r in this case.

 ~^!r::                                                    ;Ctrl+Alt+r hotkey
 IfWinActive, ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD                         ;check if TC is active
 {
   drives = cdefgjk                                        ;drives you want to refresh, lowercase letters only!
   If drives is not lower                                  ;error interception
   {
     MsgBox, The variable "drives" may contain lowercase letters only, edit please!`nScript will exit now. Byebye!
     Exit
   }
   PostMessage, 1075, 3001, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD       ;open a new tab
   Loop, Parse, drives                                     ;parse drives variable
   {
     Transform, drive, Asc, %A_LoopField%                  ;driveletter to ascii conversion
     drive += 1964                                         ;add 1964 to get cm_GotoDriveX
     PostMessage, 1075, %drive%, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD  ;open drive
     PostMessage, 1075, 500, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD      ;open the treewindow
     WinWaitActive, ahk_class TCHANGETREEDLG               ;wait till it appears
     Send, {F2}                                            ;refresh tree
     Send, {Enter}                                         ;close the treewindow
     WinWaitClose, ahk_class TCHANGETREEDLG                ;wait until it has closed
   }
   PostMessage, 1075, 3007, , , ahk_class TTOTAL_CMD       ;close the tab
 }
 Return

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