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March 4, 2008 - 12:40pm
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@Ryan McCue, help with RDTools

I seem to be having a permissions or something issue with RDTools on 32-bit Vista Ultimate SP1. RDTools seems to create the SendTo shortcuts just fine, but it cannot remove them. This is strange. I have to investigate a little further what's going on and if it is a problem with permissions or not.

Some strange behavior in general though, if I type 'sendto' in the run box in Vista, I get an access denied error. But I can navigate to the directory and delete what I want just fine. I'm sure this is all related.

Any ideas what's going on? Just a strange change in Vista maybe and RDTools can't work on it?

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March 4, 2008 - 12:46pm
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I

think that I can tell you. The reason is that when you head to the sendto folder in Explorer you are actually being sent down a symlink to some other location, although you can´t tell. However it seems that the run box doesn´t support the symlinks. The way to solve this is do to a search of the system to find out where the files in the SendTo folder are and set the program up to use that location.

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March 4, 2008 - 1:03pm
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SendTo

"search of the system to find out where the files in the SendTo folder are"

In XP its this:
C:\Documents and Settings\tclark\SendTo

I assume in Vista it's something like this:
C:\Users\tclark\SendTo

Tim

Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?

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March 4, 2008 - 2:26pm
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Thanks

Tim, I would have searched myself, but as I was posting from a Nokia n800 not only was I on the wrong OS (Linux), but the wrong architecture too (ARM) Smile

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March 4, 2008 - 7:38pm
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Well, you would assume that,

Well, you would assume that, and that's where Vista would kick us in the nuts.

C:\Users\tclark\SendTo

is a JUNCTION with the hidden and system attributes that actually points to -

C:\Users\tclark\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

I think the junction is the problem. Why it doesn't work from the run box is beyond me, as well why you can add files, but not delete them. I checked Ryan's source, and it expands variables to

C:\Users\tclark\SendTo

I'm not sure what to do about this yet. Is Ryan around? I'd like to get his thoughts.

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March 4, 2008 - 8:26pm
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Ewww

The Start Menu is there too.

It looks like 

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

or the User Shell Folders key both point to the right place, so that might be a way to handle it, rather than just hunting for it. I'd guess that key would work on most other versions too.

MC

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March 4, 2008 - 10:01pm
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There's a funny message at

There's a funny message at the top of that branch that says

!Do not use this registry key

Use the SHGetFolderPath or SHGetKnownFolderPath function instead

Not sure what that means exactly.

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March 4, 2008 - 1:54pm
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Ok, so why would that allow

Ok, so why would that allow RDTools to create the shortcuts, but not remove them?

I'll have to look at Ryan's source and see what I can see.

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March 5, 2008 - 12:50pm
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Fixed

Ok, fixed it. I tested on Vista last night using the correct SendTo path, and RDTools works correctly.

So I thought I'd do one better and actually figure out how to use the SHGetFolderPath function. Here's the code for AutoIt3 (what RDTools is written in) -

$hwndOwner = ""
;$nfolder="CSIDL_SENDTO" using integer value of 9 (0x0009) below
$nfolder = 0x0009
$hToken = ""
;$dwFlags="SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT"
$dwFlags = 0
$pszPath = ""
$sendto = DllCall("shell32.dll", "int", "SHGetFolderPath", _
				"hwnd", $hwndOwner, _
				"int", $nfolder, _
				"ptr", $hToken, _
				"dword", $dwFlags, _
				"str", $pszPath _
				)

I'm going to post an updated binary and source for those that want it.

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March 7, 2008 - 9:02pm
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Note:

I didn't write it, I only host it.

"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."

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March 8, 2008 - 12:17am
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Yeah, I finally figured that

Yeah, I finally figured that out. Feel free to grab the updated EXE and update your hosted version.

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