topbanner_forum
  *

avatar image

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
  • Thursday March 28, 2024, 11:31 am
  • Proudly celebrating 15+ years online.
  • Donate now to become a lifetime supporting member of the site and get a non-expiring license key for all of our programs.
  • donate

Author Topic: Fave Folder hotkey utility  (Read 8608 times)

MilesAhead

  • Supporting Member
  • Joined in 2009
  • **
  • Posts: 7,736
    • View Profile
    • Donate to Member
Fave Folder hotkey utility
« on: December 27, 2009, 09:48 PM »
I found that very often I was opening the same target folder for drag & drop operations. I wrote a small hotkey utility in AutoHotKey so that I can move folders to this target folder directly from the source without drag & drop. Also as a convenience you may hotkey on the desktop to just open the Fave Folder. By default the target is Documents but you may change this using the Tray Icon Menu.

The idea is to move folders with large files on the same partition via a Windows directory entry reassignment. Moving to a different partition is not prevented but unless the files are small I'd use Windows Drag & Drop or some command line copy function instead.

Also the selections for hotkey move must be folders only. Otherwise an error will be generated. For moving a mix of multiple files and folders use drag & drop. If there is an error during the move, a dialog pops up telling you which folder had the problem, then the loop continues if more than one folder was selected.

Here's the page for download:

Hotkeys


« Last Edit: December 28, 2009, 11:29 AM by MilesAhead »

mouser

  • First Author
  • Administrator
  • Joined in 2005
  • *****
  • Posts: 40,896
    • View Profile
    • Mouser's Software Zone on DonationCoder.com
    • Read more about this member.
    • Donate to Member
Re: Fave Folder hotkey utility
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2009, 09:54 PM »
where's the download? the smiley links to smiley page..

MilesAhead

  • Supporting Member
  • Joined in 2009
  • **
  • Posts: 7,736
    • View Profile
    • Donate to Member
Re: Fave Folder hotkey utility
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2009, 11:31 AM »
where's the download? the smiley links to smiley page..

Sorry.  The link pasted as plain text.




sajman99

  • Supporting Member
  • Joined in 2006
  • **
  • Posts: 664
    • View Profile
    • Donate to Member
Re: Fave Folder hotkey utility
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2009, 01:33 PM »
Thanks MilesAhead. This is small, useful, and simple to use software. Topmost Toggle is a keeper as well. :Thmbsup:

jdd

  • Charter Member
  • Joined in 2005
  • ***
  • Posts: 214
    • View Profile
    • Donate to Member
Re: Fave Folder hotkey utility
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2009, 06:55 PM »
MilesAhead, you might be interested in this similar, cool app as well.

http://www.autohotkey.net/~Vifon/Magic%20Folder/Magic%20Folder.html

MilesAhead

  • Supporting Member
  • Joined in 2009
  • **
  • Posts: 7,736
    • View Profile
    • Donate to Member
Re: Fave Folder hotkey utility
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2009, 09:11 PM »
Thanks MilesAhead. This is small, useful, and simple to use software. Topmost Toggle is a keeper as well. :Thmbsup:

You're welcome.  I'm glad someone has use for it.  Unlike the usual marketing cliche', this one I really did program just for myself.  Even using ReOpen it was a pain opening the target folder then the source when the target was the same one like 80+% of the time.  :)




MilesAhead

  • Supporting Member
  • Joined in 2009
  • **
  • Posts: 7,736
    • View Profile
    • Donate to Member
Re: Fave Folder hotkey utility
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2010, 02:06 AM »
Fave Folder updated to v. 1.2.0.2

Just added a few sanity checks.  Source and Target must be on the same drive. Checks to prevent move of C:\ into C:\temp and that type of thing.  Note that it is only meant to be used with local drives.  Network paths are not supported.

See first post for link.