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@Mouser - I accidentally discovered that it seems possible to load two instances of FARR simultaneously, or at least, end up with two FARR icons in the system tray.  Should it trap that?

yep, on my todo list.

Wait!  Please make it an option to have multiple instances if you do "fix" it.  I run FindAndRunRobot.exe locally on my systems but have FindAndRunRobotUSB.exe autorun from my utility program flash drive for portability.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias sharing
« on: June 01, 2007, 07:48 AM »
this sounds quite intriguing, i'll have to try it and see how it works since i've never used ff keywords.

Here's a list of the default Quick Searches that use keywords.  Of course you can also add your own keywords to just bookmarks or other personal quick searches.

The script may require a little tweaking with the sleep timers.  I just put that together last night and dialed them in to work on my laptop.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias sharing
« on: May 31, 2007, 11:28 PM »
I've got a new one.  I really wanted FARR to support Firefox bookmark keywords so I created an AutoHotKey script to add it in conjuction with an alias.

Here's the AutoHotKey script:
SetTitleMatchMode 2
Ifwinexist, - Mozilla Firefox
WinActivate
Else
{
Run,"D:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
winwait, - Mozilla Firefox
winactivate
}
Sleep 25
SendInput ^t
Sleep, 250
SendInput !d
Sleep, 25
counter = 1
Loop
{
inputParameter := %counter%
If inputParameter !=
{
SendInput %inputParameter%{space}
counter++
}
Else
Break
}
SendInput {enter}
return

And here is the FARR alias:
1000>>>FireFox Keyword>->Firefox Keyword $$1|d:\scripts\ffkw.ahk $$1>+>ffkw (.*)

Modify path and names to suit.  This also works for keyword searches, e.g. ffkw wp [wiki search text].

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There we go!  So I give credit for the Loc alias to justice.   :Thmbsup:

That was only three threads down too.  Sorry, I was tired.

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Here's mine.  Nothing special, but a it's a few shortcuts I use regularly throughout the day:

rdp [computer name or IP] - Starts a remote desktop connection to the typed system.
rdpc [computer name or IP] - Starts a remote desktop to the console of the typed system.
vnc [computer name or IP] - as above, but VNC connection.
cm [ditto] - Starts Computer Management remotely connected to the typed system.
ev [again] - Starts Event Viewer on the typed system.  Normally I just use Computer Management but this is nice to have for a cleaner tool.
loc [filename] - starts a Locate32 for the typed file.
r [executable] - is the equivalent of putting something in the Run dialog.  Not really faster than Win-R but it is consolidated this way.

The Loc and I think the R alias aren't my idea but were forum finds that I can't remember who to give credit for now.

TXT extension added to get through forum attachment filter.

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Thanks for the quick fix!

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Badabing.  Working as designed now.
Here's what I did:
Exited the previous alpha
Installed the new build
Restored my INI files
Launched FARR

My AppData directory has the myAliases.alias file and FARR lists my custom aliases after selecting the drop down.

Man, in that short amount of time I was lost.  I kept having to stop and rethink how to VNC or Remote Desktop to a machine.  I can't believe how dependent on FARR I am now.

I'll CC this to your email too.

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Nope, no alias files or directories in the AppData location.  The ConfigDir.ini file still doesn't affect the Vista redirection either.

I can't modify any alias files through FARR right now if that's what you mean as the only one showing up is the read-only Core1.

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Just fired up the new version.  It did not keep my existing aliases however.  This is on Vista which forces the FARR ini files to be kept in the AppData tree if that matters.

First thing I did was rename the AppData\DonationCoder directory and copy my INI files to the FARR program directory.  My launch history and all was kept but not my aliases. 
Then I tried deleting the new AppData\DonationCoder directory and the FARR program directory INI files I originally copied over.  Then I restored my original AppData\DonationCoder directory.  The behavior was the same both ways.

[Edit]
So the GUI doesn't seem to currently have an easy way to create new alias files.  I created an alias file manually in MyCustom and restarted FARR but it didn't detect the file or give me a way to add it either.

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Great review.  I briefly looked at ZuluPad, but right now I'm using WikidPad.  It's portable and FolderShare works great for keeping it synced among my computers.  Did you look at WikidPad too?  And if so what swayed you to ZuluPad?

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i only used download managers back in the days when i had ISDN
who needs a download manages in the times of 6+ mbit DSL ?
haven't used one in years

Beware myopic logic  ;)

FDM works great for me and allows me to resume, throttle, or pause downloads.  It has a set of profiles to allow me to easily download to different locations.  And it frees me to close my browser as needed rather than having the download as a child process.

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Great post.  I'll comment on the RAID not being a backup.  The main point for most home users is that you can't recover accidently deleted or corrupted files from RAID (luck with undelete/recovery utilities notwithstanding).

For us in-shop, RAID became too problematic as you multiply your failure points.  Typical motherboard on-board RAID controllers might be good for joining a couple of disks and giving some illusions of performance gain, but for actual RAID member recovery they are really weak.  Even high-end commercial RAID enclosures have issues as they get older.  We've had a few that have dropped another member drive while restoring a newly added replacement drive and ended up losing arrays.  Restoration is really taxing on drives.  Now we only use RAID for performance and large data volume.  It's not even a consideration in our backup regime other than the fact that setting it up for parity and hotspares might save us from downtime.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Portable mode?
« on: May 01, 2007, 12:48 PM »
The compatibility mode doesn't seem to be a very good workaround.  Every time I exist FARR it seems to clear the compatibility mode checkbox.  Then on next launch it's back to using the AppData location again.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Portable mode?
« on: May 01, 2007, 12:22 PM »
I replied via email.  Looks like you already beat me to what I thought was my awesome workaround.  Indeed, setting it to WinXP SP2 compatibility mode will keep all the changes in the local program directory.  I don't think there is any other way to keep it from happening.   

I don't understand how other portable applications are supposed to deal with it though.

Whoa.  So I just checked it with XYplorer and without running in compatibility mode the INI changes are actually kept locally.  Even the copy I'm running on my workstation has its changes local without using the AppData VirtualStore.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Portable mode?
« on: May 01, 2007, 11:36 AM »
Posting the pertinent stuff I emailed for anyone else's information:

So those are the steps I followed.  I think I see what the problem is though.  While that will work for the load, if I make any config changes to the USB version it writes to the VirtualStore and that will blast my local FARR config.  This is probably what you're expecting to happen already though.

One option would be to only make config changes on an XP machine or to do it manually by editing the INI file.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Portable mode?
« on: May 01, 2007, 11:16 AM »
That didn't get it either.  I killed all FARRs, deleted the FARR directory in the VirtualStore, then launched the FARR on the USB drive and even with the INI in the same folder as the application it still created a new INI in the VirtualStore.

Huzzah Vista!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Portable mode?
« on: May 01, 2007, 09:55 AM »
Oh, disregard my PM reply then.  I am running v2.  But yeah, I did copy the entire folder contents over.  I assumed that once I made the changes to the USB copy that its local INI would get the current change.  However, now I just realized that FARR stores the INI in the Application Data tree and not local (I'm on Vista).  I copied that to the directory on the USB drive and restarted FARR but it's still reading the one in Application Data.  Do I need to use a commandline switch or something?

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Find And Run Robot / Portable mode?
« on: May 01, 2007, 09:22 AM »
I'm attempting to run FARR as a launcher for apps on a USB flash drive.  I'm already running it on my workstation and I'm trying to run two different configurations.  The local one will be for all my local stuff and the roaming copy will use a different hotkey and only search for apps on the USB drive and %startmenu%.  This way I can plug my USB drive into any system and FARR will autorun.

I thought I had this working, but it seems to be only temporary.  While both copies were running I had set different options for the portable copy but the next time I insert the flash drive the USB copy of FARR has the same options as my local copy.  How is it finding the other INI file?

Is there an option I'm missing to force portability?

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I didn't make it apparent in my post, but as I'm sure you've found out already, the keywords are just a user-defined alias.  Firefox doesn't do any sort of smart matching or automatic generation.

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I'll confirm both that it's fixed in general but the license key popup is cut.

This release seems to be quite a bit snappier too.

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Very cool plugin.  Is it possible to add bookmark keyword searching too?  For example using Firefox's keywords typing "LH" in the address bar opens www.lifehacker.com.  FarrFox doesn't seem to see the keywords though.  Even better would be the ability to give keywords priority.

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I'm seeing the Vista truncated statusbar as well.  As a little additional info though, the window is still truncated if the statusbar is hidden.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a254/Liquidmantis/statusBar.jpg


http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a254/Liquidmantis/noStatusBar.jpg


[Edit] Switching from Aero to Vista Basic didn't make any change.

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