Managing of Removable Drives in TC 7.0

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Managing of Removable Drives in TC 7.0

Post by *maxmula »

Hi,
I'm using TC 7.0 Beta 2; I often use removable drives such as USB pendrives, MP3 players, and a card reader that I use to download photos from my digital camera.

If I move the mouse cursor onto the drive buttons, drive names are shown for hard disks and CDs, but not for removable drives (only "Removable drive" is displayed instead for all of them).

I don't know if this is due to my system configuration or to the program code, it's not so annoying to me actually, since I use to connect 1 or 2 USB drives to my PC, but it would be great to know the volume name associated with the drive I'm pointing, instead of clicking all unit letters every time to discover which is the one i can use...

This could be a very annoying problem especially for those users who own multi-format card readers: most of them create one drive letter for each card format they support (i.e, CF, SD, MMC, etc. etc.), and I saw somewhere for sale a 14-in-1 unit... :shock:

Hope my post is useful!

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MAx
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Here my TC7 actually already does show the volume label for USB sticks and memory cards - but you have to make sure that the [DriveHints] section for the drives is empty.

And for memory cards in a multible card reader the volume label is NOT updated for the drive buttons when the card is removed/replaced - it first get's updated when either a CD/DVD drive or an USB stick is changed, or the drive combo box is opened.
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Post by *maxmula »

Hi there,
I've made some little investigation, it seems to be related to the fact that I use to run TC as my "system shell" :) : I launch just after my PC boots up and keep it almost always running.

As soon the program starts I correctly see drive labels for my pendrive and CF reader (provided that any flash card is plugged in).
It often happens that my system goes in standby or hybernates: when it resumes, labels are lost (even if I didn't remove any USB peripheral).

Maybe a periodical/on_demand scan of the drives detected as "removable" could help?

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MAx
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