With the portable version of A Note I made, (in the Beta Forums) everything's working almost as perfectly as could be. There is, however, a couple questions I have. I have them in the beta post as well, but I don't think many people have looked there. They are:
1.Is there a way to copy a whole folder of settings from Application Data to the
portable device without it taking up to thirty seconds?
2.All the times I tried to make the script delete the folder "A Note" under Application Data, it won't do anything. I figured there's some reason because it's program settings and files, so I just renamed it, then deleted it, but for the next release, I would like to have it just delete the folder, is there a way to force it too?
Number one is much more important to me. Go download A Note and check out the source if you don't know why either. Please help me out, thanks in advance.
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Rename "$APPDATA\Blah\" "$EXEDIR\Data\backup"(note: may not work; just off the top of my head)Delete /REBOOTOK "$APPDATA\A Note"- Tells Windows to delete on next startup if it can't be deleted now.----
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Number one is what it is already doing.
Number two is not a possible solution, as I have to delete that folder, and then rename the local settings to same folder.
I really need number one, cause the renaming will be fine I suppose, I'll post the script in a few minutes.
Edit: Here's the source, when I first rename the portable settings to the local spot, transfer is quick, but when I rename back at the end, it is much slower, maybe I have that line in the wrong area. Source.
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On line 231, shouldn it be
instead of
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And in line 248, did you try what Ryan suggested?
"Rename" instead of "CopyFiles /SILENT"??
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If I do what you suggested, it will put the A Note Folder inside of a folder named A Note in APPDATA, then the settings wouldn't be found.
And for the other one, if you're talking about the REBOOTOK thing, nope, because I need to rename "A Note Backup" "A Note" and I can't renamed the backup to the original is the portable settings are still their.
If that makes sense.
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Actually. The renaming seems to be working quicker, and if I rename, and it doesn't work, I don't have to worry about deleting a folder that doesn't want to be renamed. And then I don't have to rename it to A Note Delete, I'll try it out, I think I may have already tried this though.
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That's cause Windows has the rename function built in to the kernel itself (or something similar). During a rename, the physical information stays in the same place, just the pointer is changed. The copy operation actually makes a physical copy, which takes longer.
At least, as far as I can remember.
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So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I see, well, yea, I'll give the renaming a shot.
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