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TrueCrypt problem

Submitted by azjerry on July 14, 2006 - 11:53am

I use several batch files on my USB drive. One starts Pstart and mounts a TC drive. When I exit PStart the other unmounts the TC drive, kills any processes that might be running off the drive and unmounts the USB drive.

On my XP SP1 PC at work all is fine. But on my XP SP2 PC at home the batch files freeze on the TC commands to mount/unmount. If I kill the cmd window (killing the TC) command, the TC drive does eventually showup/go away.

The mount command is
\TrueCrypt\truecrypt.exe /v p:\TrueCrypt\truecrypt /lQ /q

and the unmount command is
\TrueCrypt\truecrypt.exe /dQ /q

Any id

Automatic Drive Letter Selection

Submitted by pjoseph on July 14, 2006 - 2:07am

Greetings,

I use a portable 80Gig USB drive where ever I go. When I plug-into someone else's machine, I run an initialization batch to setup the drive letters, enviroment vars, path settings, etc, the way I like. Then, on departure, I have a shutdown batch to put everything back.

A common setting that I have read about, including in this forum, is a batch to allow you to select the Drive Letter of your portable. This is then set to an enviroment variable for use with portable apps.

I didn't like having to always enter the drive letter, so I wrote an automatic method using the DEBUG utility to generate an errorlevel equal to the drive letter. I then substitute drive letter P: for that drive. (I haven't ever had to deal with a system that already used P:, or if it did, I didn't need access to that drive.)

Close programs on exit, help required

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Submitted by rogerslurchers on July 11, 2006 - 3:45pm

Hi,

I have searched the forums but...

I am completely new to any sort of programming and have managed to make a batch file (which will launch on hitting "enter" when I insert the USB drive on XP SP2 computers) to start PStart to launch my apps, Cryptainer mobile (seems rather like TrueCrypt and as I had a paid for version so can have containers bigger than my 1Gb drive I am using this)with my apps encrypted on it and CruzerSync (which came with the Sandisk Titanium drive) to carry Outlook emails and folders of data from My Documents at home.

However, I would like to close any open apps and the above with one click so I can exit my drive.

Newbie Query

Submitted by daleholden on July 8, 2006 - 4:45pm

Hi

I have just a quick query in the root of my USB i have the list of Portable Applications that i loaded from the application suite.

But when i have updated the different applications the .exe files dont work. I did try to create a shortcut which works on my main pc but when i go onto another machine the usb gets another drive letter so the shortcut does not work. How can i create a .exe file in the root that works because ifi i copy the exe file over from the new update it does not work??

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