Find Paths Of Substituted Drives?
Sep 7, 2010
I'm in need of a way to find the original path of a substituted (Virtual) drive, set with the subst command.
Start -> Run -> type "cmd"
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subst l: c:\scripts
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This create a virtual drive that points to c:\scripts\
in .net an easy way to get all the drives on the computer is using the Drive property of My.Computer.FileSystem. However, this will give you the current substitued name of the drive. Is there a way to find the original path?
I get the path of the virtual drives mapped to network folders using WNetGetConnectionA of mpr.dll, However, this only resolves mapped network drives.
I currently don't have away to find the original path of LOCAL virtual drives.
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Aug 3, 2010
SPECS: Visual Basic 2008 - SP1/2, Framework 3.0.3.5, Windows XP Pro, SP3? trying to wright code for checking for existing files but what has me stumped is the (WHAT IF PART) of it witch in fact is what I want to see. What im saying is can I find a file without knowing where it is on all drives? Or how can i find a folder if I dont know where they installed it to.
Example: I know that C:Perfect World International <--- is the default location where my game installs but what if I installed it on D:Perfect World International; or rather on drive G or H. How would I test to see if it exist without making a bunch of nested If statements to test every drive for it.
this also applies to files like: D:Perfect World EntertainmentPerfect World Internationalelementelementclient.exe is there a way to find these files to see if they exist. I know that Perfect world international does not use the program files to put there program files in as you see above. so Envirnment variables I think cant be used correct me if I'm wrong. BUT I know the registry of a computer keeps some stord information as to where these applications are installed to like (References App Data).
What I'm trying to do is use this to tell the user in a Label that the game is installed in this path but I know in some circumstances the game is not installed on drive C: or D: or even in this directory some users can install it in there own directory such as C:PWI. and as such the file elementclient.exe can even be in C:PWIelementclient.exe. So to sum it all up can this be found useing some sort of code to find the file and folder and return them both in 2 difrent labels like this
Game Is Installed In: C:Perfect World International
Game Client Name: elementclient.exe, C:Perfect World Internationalelement
Game Found On Drive: C:
ETC.
I'm thinking and keep thinking that this can be done in many ways but as for environment variables I'm stumped. But perhaps windows registry may play a role in doing this but I myself don't even know where this stuff may be found; and even more how to apply it to code.
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Dec 22, 2009
I want to simply find out if a folder exists or not in available drives on the client machine. user will simply pass a string eg:
searchfolder
C:TestFoldersubfoldersearchfolder
C:TestFoldersearchfolder
C:searchfolder
[code]....
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May 19, 2010
If there an easy way to get a completed SQL statement back after parameter substitution? I.e., I want to keep a logfile of all the SQL this program runs. Or if I want to do this, will I just want to get rid of Parameters, and do the whole query the old school way, in one big string? Simple Example: I want to capture the output:
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May 8, 2010
I want to display all the drives and folders , and user can select the file also
i got this code from one of forum, but it is showing all the files but not folders and directives
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I'm trying to get a list of current hard drives (that part is done), but then go through the list one by one and remove those that have no size (dvd drives for example). I'm sure this is horribly wrong (4 errors are shown in the list). Could someone give me a hand?
Here is what I have so far:
ComboBoxHD.Items.AddRange(System.IO.Directory.GetLogicalDrives)
Dim dInfo As New System.IO.Directory
For Each drive As System.IO.Directory In dInfo.GetLogicalDrives()
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Nov 12, 2009
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Display Size Of Logical Drives
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Jun 21, 2010
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Sep 13, 2009
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Apr 18, 2010
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Apr 22, 2011
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Mar 10, 2010
I am writing a program and want to run the program from the cd drive rather than installing it. What I want to know is how can I work out someones cd drive path, and code it to the rest of the file location so that I wont get errors. Also where would I put this code. So my hard drive path is
C:Moonshine
Obviously users drive letters change, hence my problem.
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Jan 24, 2012
In VB.NET, how can I search all hard-drives (regardless of whatever a machine has C, D or more) for specific file types (for example .mp3)? I want the file path to be return along with the file size.
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I am writing a program in VB 2008 and need to search for SD Card Slots and monitor them. When a card is inserted I want to check for a files and folders and make a button active to upload the data. I take it this needs to be working in the background as I want to be able to perform other functions while monitoring fo the drives.How would I do this and can you check if a removeable drive is SD/MMC, CF, MS, etc?
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I need any kind of script that will search through the network drives for a txt file called "Don'tDelete.txt" There is one drive the "U:\" drive and on there is 100 different folders with the "Don'tDelete.txt" file in it. Now every "Don'tDelete.txt" is different. I need the script to find these files, combine them all together into one new txt file locate in the "U:\Newfolder" so later on I can drop the new txt file onto my flash drive.
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I configured access control list for the local drives using System.Security.AccessControl
I need to configure it for removable drive .
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What would be the best way to go about doing this?
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I use the following code to look at the first 10 drives, list them in a listbox, and display each drive size when the listbox item is clicked.The issue I'm having is that "my computer" tells me my USB drive is "L" and my DVD drive is "E" but when I run my project, the USB seems to be listed as "E" and the DVD drive is something else.
I try to write a file to the selected drive - the USB drive in my list "E", it gives the device is not ready error, like I'm trying to write to the DVD drive with no DVD in the drive.
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Apr 11, 2012
how can i map network drives using visual studio 2010?I would like to map multiple servers when running my program.
i.e
X:\ip or servername
Y:\ip or servername
would be automatically mapped into my computer when i run my program.
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Jan 29, 2010
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Nov 3, 2010
Im beginer for programming vb. show list folder on drives. for example, I have a form (listbox and button). If I click the button, the listbox will show list folder on drive C.
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loping application to make bootable USB drive, for that i wants to format usb drive.but I couldn't find any way for the same.I got solution that suggests use of SHformatdrive(), but how can i include that function.I am using VB 2010 (VS2010). Is there any different way
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