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June 10, 2006 - 3:52pm
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"Relative" Paths for Shortcuts on Portable Drives?

Hi,

I have my portable applications in a "Program Files" folder on my Thumbdrive.

I have shortcuts to these programs in the root directory, but these only work on computers where my thumbdrive has the same drive letter.

Is it possible to make a "relative" path to these applications, so that my Shortcut links will work no matter what the drive letter is? If not, any other tips for quick startup of applications?

Thanks,
chris.

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June 10, 2006 - 3:58pm
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Nope

Shortcuts require full paths.

All the launchers for the portable apps can be placed in multiple directories. Take PortableFirefox.exe for example. You can place it in the directory above the PortableFirefox directory. My personal recommendation is to create a single PortableApps directory in the root of your drive and place all the app directories in there. Then take all the launchers (PortableFirefox.exe, etc) and move them to the PortableApps directory. For all the apps released here, they all support this configuration.

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December 16, 2006 - 10:32am
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Does that work (with )for the suite, too?

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June 12, 2006 - 2:48am
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MyDrive should do this

Hi.
Mydrive from http://www.1way.ws/MyDrive.html should do this.
I didn't test it yet.

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December 16, 2006 - 12:42am
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Where?

The web site is down, does anyone know where it can still be found?
LOL I just caught the irony! A program for relative paths and the path to it is broken! Blum

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December 17, 2006 - 11:25am
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not any more...

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December 17, 2006 - 10:43am
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Try it anyway. Windows will

Try it anyway. Windows will automatically try to find the target using the drive letter of the drive in which the shortcut is placed.

Vintage!

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December 17, 2006 - 6:14pm
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*shock horror*

You do realize this is an old topic Shock
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December 18, 2006 - 5:37pm
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This might be an old topic but

Using Autoit I was able to make an exe to launch AutoStart and a vbs file which includes the following:

Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
arrPath = Split(Wscript.ScriptFullName, "\")
strdriveletter = arrPath(0)
set colVolatileEnvVars = objShell.Environment("Volatile")
colVolatileEnvVars("phd") = strdriveletter

This script sets whatever drive as "phd", and my shortcuts are "%phd%\documents\music" with the "". This does work for me.
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December 19, 2006 - 9:52am
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Quickly calling up your apps

1. After you have plugged your portable drive (say H:, but it doesn't matter) into the host computer, open "My Computer" and drag the icon corresponding to the H: drive to the "Start" button in the taskbar. Then press Start and you will see that H: appears in the Start menu and you can follow the resulting cascade menu to your selected application just like Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> .. and all the rest. No scripting required, no special skills, no drivelabel dependencies.
or
2. Download PStart currently v.2.09 as advertised on this site and use that. It is really really neat. As before, no scripting, no skills (well, no special ones), no dependencies.

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