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Thank you CWuestefeld, I knew of that option too. Unfortunately, while I dont use the device itself often, and i DO use SD more than the others, i DO use atleast 3 of the 4 ports. I use the SD slot for most things, the XD slot for my older fuji camera, and the CF slot for programming my m0n0wall router that boots from a CF>IDE drive for silence.

Also, even if the SD card was the only one you need, this way works better, because your STILL not taking up one drive letter for 3 months while you dont need it. You may still want to try this program out, because it DOES take away the letters until the exact second you need them. you can even assign default drive letters if you have any particular favorites :)

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THANK YOU (sorry for caps) I cant tell you how much I have been looking for this thing.

Ironicly, i think I've seen that page before, it looked familiar. In any case, this is EXACTLY what i wanted. I tried it a couple times, and it is quick enough to assign the drive letter, that autoplay (the stripped down autoplay that windows does for usb drives) runs perfectly, and says the right drive letter. also when ejecting it disappears nearly instantly.

thank you so much for this link, even better that its freeware... i might just donate the 12 dollars he wants for business use :)

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Hey,

 I used to have a toshiba laptop with a built in card reader (but i believe this is how most builtin card readers function) which would not show up until you inserted a card in the slot. With a single slot, especially on a laptop this isn't entirely useful, but I've searched all over for this functionality on a desktop media reader. I have bought 3-4 of them already (not just for this reason, for more reader types, speed, etc) and none of them do it. They all assign a drive letter continually.

 My current multi-reader has 4-5 drive letters assigned to it ALL the time. When you add this to the 8 or so hdds, dvd drive, virtual drives, network drives, etc... its a fustercluck to say the least *chuckle*. I only use my media reader once every couple months, and when i do, its usually for a single port. There is no reason I should give up 4-5 drive letters, and clutter my "my computer" with these unnecessary items.

 First, does any software exist that would remove the drive letters from selected usb drives (wouldn't want this for usb stick / removable hdd) and mount it (yes, i know, not really a windows term) whenever there was a disk inserted? If not, would anyone be interested in coding this?

 One possible way (though i would prefer a better way if anyone knows one) would be to mount each of the drives to a directory thats out of the way. Then have some application scan each directory and mount it to a drive letter if its got something in it. This is not a preferred method, since this would require the card to have at least one file on it. So the card would not work directly out of the packaging when purchased.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Aliases for tracking packages
« on: January 09, 2008, 03:09 PM »
looks good

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Alias sharing
« on: January 09, 2008, 04:03 AM »
This was posted to another topic already. I modified it to make it more spiffy (thats a technical term :).

Somone from the other thread mentioned it would be good to post it here too; so here is a package tracking alias. It searches ups, fedex, dhl, and usps AND will (let me know if it doesn't) parse the tracking numbers automatically, so the alias prefixes are optional.

EDIT: forgot the file... must be tired
EDIT: new version, has icons thanks hamradio

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Aliases for tracking packages
« on: January 08, 2008, 06:12 PM »
hey, heres a new version, due to this bug(?), i was unable to do this the RIGHT way (notice $$1$$2) but, it does work. This alias package does virtually identically to the originals but it now only has one alias line for each shipping provider (instead of one with regex, and one without)

if you downloaded version 1.1 i posted a few posts up, then it is functionally identical and you only need to download it if you want to :) if you dont have 1.1, get 1.2

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Find And Run Robot / Re: bug in regex processing? or bug in my regex?
« on: December 30, 2007, 05:25 PM »
yes, it should, except you missed the earlier (?: that IS an opening parrenthesis for the OR, but it is a special one to prevent capturing/recording the information found (ie, so you will capture "1Z1", NOT "ups 1Z1" in the string ups 1Z1)

a little easier if you break it up (yes i know it would not work like this, but it does make more sense)

^(?:
  ups (.*)
|
  (1Z.*)
)

make more sense now? it at least does to me, but i could still be wrong

EDIT: oh, and btw, if you reverse the regexp, they reverse... 1Z works, and UPS does not... added colors too

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Find And Run Robot / bug in regex processing? or bug in my regex?
« on: December 30, 2007, 04:57 PM »
This is related to the shipmenttracking.alias i updated last night (this morning). Before i posted the alias file, i tried to combine the keyword based, and regex based regex's together into one single regex to simplify future updates (if ups, etc changes their check url)
the regex for ups that i believed would work (and kinda does) is this

^(?:ups (.*)|(1Z.*))
-regex

my understanding, is that this regex should return either, but not both (.*) or (1Z.*) as $$1. However look at the results of what it does, and feel free to test

$$1=1Z1
-ups 1Z1
see, this works... it detects the first one works, then skips to the end of the (?:)

$$1= | $$2=1Z1
-1Z1
this one does not work. It appears that each time it processes a ()  that does not lead with (?: that it counts up one variable. It seems it does this irregardless of matching. This first (.*) gets counted as 1, even though it does not match (seen by the null return of $$1), and should be ignored (correct me if i'm wrong), then it procedes to check the other half of the (?:) . It does return a match, but instead of returning a match on $$1 like it should (again, correct me if i'm wrong), it returns it on $$2. making it very difficult to make one alias work for both of them


if there is another way to do this, or if i am using the incorrect syntax for the regexp, please let me know...

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Aliases for tracking packages
« on: December 30, 2007, 05:02 AM »
i noticed, the paste function does not accept multiple items with the same name, so reposting with .alias file

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Aliases for tracking packages
« on: December 30, 2007, 04:27 AM »
wanted to help out... this is basicly the same alias file, but i have included dhl, as well as regex's for the non-ups shippers.

giving credit where credit is due: i borrowed the missing url's and regexp from the track package plugin for firefox. though, I could have found the information easily, and i doubt the devs care. :) but to be nice, you might think of installing it if you use firefox, handy little tool.

1000>>>usps>->usps $$1 | http://trkcnfrm1.smi...iry.do?origTrackNum=$$1>+>^usps (.*)
1000>>>usps>->usps $$1 | http://trkcnfrm1.smi...iry.do?origTrackNum=$$1>+>^(\d{20,})$
1000>>>ups>->ups $$1 | http://wwwapps.ups.c...PSHome&tracknum=$$1&AgreeToTermsAndConditions=yes&ignore=&track.x=39&track.y=16>+>^ups (.*)
1000>>>ups>->ups $$1 | http://wwwapps.ups.c...PSHome&tracknum=$$1&AgreeToTermsAndConditions=yes&ignore=&track.x=39&track.y=16>+>^(1Z.*)
1000>>>fedex>->Fedex tracking $$1 | http://www.fedex.com...=y&tracknumbers=$$1>+>^fedex (.*)
1000>>>fedex>->Fedex tracking $$1 | http://www.fedex.com...=y&tracknumbers=$$1>+>^(\d{12,19})$
1000>>>dhl>->DHL tracking $$1 | http://track.dhl-usa....asp?ShipmentNumber=$$1>+>^dhl (.*)
1000>>>dhl>->DHL tracking $$1 | http://track.dhl-usa....asp?ShipmentNumber=$$1>+>^(\d{10,11})$

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Find And Run Robot / paste command great, lacking special whitespace
« on: December 16, 2007, 12:16 AM »
hello,

i have been playing with the beta with the paste command for a while, it is great, unfortunately there are some bugs with using special whitespace (tab, newline, etc) I can only assume this may effect some special characters as well, but perhaps not.

I have tried every variation of \t \n \r\n etc, none of these work... I then tried to copy and paste directly into faar's config window a tab, it was read as a space. another possible fix would be to use (or optionally allow) "s or {}s around the text being pasted. to avoid confusion with pasting "s, it may be best just to use the special char escape sequences... your call


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Find And Run Robot / bug with some characters such as [ and ]
« on: November 10, 2007, 10:26 PM »
hello, I have a number of directories which begin and end with [ ] brackets which seem to show up in results when they match, regaurdless of whether they are set in pattern scoring as -9998. I also tried with ? instead of the [ ] chars as well as with \[ \] none of these characters have been accepted, i believe that farr is trying to execute the code cause its wrapped in []s

incase it matters, i'm using farr2 with pattern scoring using modifier keywords and modifier keywords in the search folders section as well

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unfortunately... no :)

from testing, it APPEARS at first glance to do an "eject" this is not exactly what the original application does, however it may be one step it does.
your application (minimum on vista, would have to test on xp later to confirm) takes the filesystem offline, but the drive letter remains enabled on pc
while this may be a good option for cd drives, (i noticed you list those too... so might wanna leave it as a right click option) and while it probobly would WORK for usb drives (though, not quite as clean) it does not work whatsoever on fixed disks (hotswappable sata drives) which require you to "uninstall" the drive from device manager, program may require a admin account after its fixed

thanks for trying, hope you can fix it... i was so excited till i noticed the problem :)

btw, the link on the name goes to idlerun, the download link goes to removable ;-) might wanna double check your copy/paste :)

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i only quickly skimmed the page, but it said something about being able to be run from usb drives, through temporary directories, similar to u3 i would imagine... but as i said i skimmed, might have misunderstood

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The Removedrive tool listed on that site, appears to do what i want it to (although i have not yet tested it, will do soon) except only half way.

the options it accepts to select the drive are the "friendly name", "drive letter" and "mount point"

the first is far too broad, i purchase nearly identical hardware every upgrade... so most of my drives i use for hotswap, may at one point be identical to an existing non-swap drive

the second would ALMOST work... but i would not trust it to run without verifying drive letters are correct, however perhaps the snack could simply be a script/program that detects the drive it is run from, and gives a prompt to eject or remove it. however this is a half-way fix, because to link to it, i would probobly have 3-4 shortcuts, aswell as potentially having to update them or have them eject the wrong drive in the future due to letter swapping as described in the same link.

I do think it would work best as a simple taskbar icon with a context menu which lists drives based on a config file with bus number, target id, lun (essentially, what port it is plugged into), to be extra safe, perhaps a sanity check in config with volume label expected, or even you could do it with device serial number and there should be no duplicates, ofcourse the interface should show friendlyname/label/size/driveletter (or some of them) not the hard to identify serialnumber


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there was a similar request on this post but the person asked for a reason that was already fulfilled by the existing builtin tool.

the builtin tool (im sure your all familiar so i'll be brief) has a little green icon in the system tray; when single clicked, lists removable drives and when clicked, they will be "safely removed". It also has a double click window which imho is less useful and more prone to mistakes, so i dont care if it has this; but it could be added if the coder wants.

this tool for the most part works perfectly, for removable hard drives and flash drive sticks, which plug into usb, or firewire; it OFTEN works on sata hard drives, but this depends on drivers for the card/chipset in question. the reason it does NOT work right is this: (going on half speculation) the driver coding team, must impliment SOMETHING which allows windows to know that this device is allowed to be safely removed. before you jump on me saying that some sata controllers simply do not support hotswap, i must stop you right there, please continue reading.

i have a asus m2n32-sli deluxe motherboard. it comes with two onboard sata2 controllers, one with 6 ports internal, and one with one internal, and one external. the 6 port device runs on the nvidia chipset; the other runs a SiI 3132 chipset. both of these controllers DO support hotswap, which i have confirmed with the KB on their respective sites. however, the SiI site says this in their documentation

http://12.24.47.40/al/12/106/10744.htm (this url is linked from SiI site, confirm if you wish, siliconimage.com then support, knowledge base, it puts you on a page with 12.24.47.40 ... then search for "hot plug", the title is called "SATA: Hot Plugging Drives Under Windows 2000/XP"
This feature is not explicitly highlighted in our current drivers, but all SATA controllers from Silicon Image do support hot plug capability. To remove a drive from a powered up system, do the following:

    * Enter the Windows Device Manager (through Control Panel or right clicking on My Computer and going to Properties)
    * Go to Disk Drives and find the disk you want to remove
    * Right click on the desired disk drive and select Remove/Disable
this works, of course, but it is annoying to do all the time for my hotswap bay, which is hooked up to the SiI plug, the app i would love if somone coded, would either be able to detect all sata and removable drives, and correspoding drive letters, and when clicked, allow that procedure to be done

however i would much prefer if it was customizable (might be outside of scope of this site) to have a include only or exclude list so that i could say... list only usb drives, and the one sata2 port i use for hotswap... and not the other 6 ports as most of my drives are the same model, and its sometimes hard to differenciate between them

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