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Include apps from both drives

Jimbo
2008-01-22
2013-04-25
  • Jimbo

    Jimbo - 2008-01-22

    Hi,

    thanks for a great menu!

    would it be possible, when working with a Truecrypt drive, to also include the apps found on the host drive in the menu, so that you don't need to store two copies of them on the flashdrive?

    Jim

     
    • Ben Andrack

      Ben Andrack - 2008-01-23

      I would appreciate an automatic feature for this case too!

      Never the less, you can add these shortcuts manually at the moment.

      See Forum: Help
      Topic: Additional shortcuts $HOSTDRIVE$
      http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1917335&forum_id=751407

      Greetings,
      Ben

       
    • Jimbo

      Jimbo - 2008-01-23

      Yeah... I tried it that way at first - I even went as far as scribbling up a little perl script that built the correctly formatted .ini entries to auto add all 18 of my host drive apps as shortcuts. It worked wonderfully, and I had a complete set of apps listed.....

      Until I ran it without the TC volume mounted, at which point, the menu listed all the apps on the host drive, PLUS all the shortcuts, so I had every single one of them twice.

      So, I'm afraid that one isn't a usable solution. :(

      Hence my request for it to parse both folder trees.

       
    • Christopher Litsinger

      I've classified the duplicate shortcuts as a bug, which I'll correct in a day or so.

       
      • Jimbo

        Jimbo - 2008-01-24

        Excellent, thanks :D

         
    • Thomas Jahn

      Thomas Jahn - 2008-01-30

      I would love to see this  listing of apps for both drives as well. I did not understand from the above, is this not officially possible to have at least an option if not default behavior to ...
      A. if truecrypt is bypassed, only parse source drive (default as of 1.2.1.0)
      B. if truecrypt is enabled, option to parse both drives or only truecrypt drive (default to truecrypt only)

       
    • Nick Glorioso

      Nick Glorioso - 2008-02-11

      I hate to be a 'me too' poster, especially since this is my first SF.net posting, but if having more people helps build priority for this feature, then I'm for it! I use my geek.menu drive for the normal Portable Apps stuff (Thunderbird, Firefox, Pidgin, OO, etc), but I also have some apps (both paf.exe and others) that I use for repairing computers (CCleaner, ClamWin, FileAssassin, etc). I'd like to keep the repair apps (no personal information required, etc) on the unencrypted drive to run on broken machines without having to decrypt, and still have the option to run those utils though geek.menu on computers I've mounted my TrueCrypt drive on.

      Thanks again for all your hard work on making this a very friendly and useful tool!

       
    • Christopher Litsinger

      No need for any more me-toos, this will be added to the next experimental track.

       
    • Christopher Litsinger

      Completed as of 1.3.0.0 experimental release

       
      • Jimbo

        Jimbo - 2008-04-09

        Testing 1.3 now - and so far, it seems perfect!

        Thanks again! :D

         

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