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Author Topic: Network access?  (Read 6868 times)

NinJA999

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Network access?
« on: January 04, 2009, 09:35 PM »
Hi,

First off, let me say that I love FARR.  I use it religiously--I think the last time I touched my Start Menu was before I installed FARR (not even remotely kidding).  I use it for EVERYTHING.  I especially like how I can quickly navigate to a folder:
Type: C:\Pr
Tab: C:\Program Files\
Type: C:\Program Files\Fin
Tab: C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\
etc.
This speeds up my workflow greatly.
One feature FARR seems to be lacking, however, is the ability to access other computers/servers on the network.
I have a couple of computers, between which I often transfer files.  I can access one computer from another by opening windows explorer and typing \\computer2 or \\computer2\somefolder\, etc.
However, when I try to do this in FARR, it does not work.  This makes me sad, because I can do virtually everything else in FARR, but to browse another computer/server, I must do it in the much slower Explorer.
Is there something I am missing?  Or can I request this feature?


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Re: Network access?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2009, 02:42 PM »
I've seen this request a couple of times already, but I just don't have the need for something like that and thus didn't take a better look. But now I have an idea: basically this could be done easily with a plugin. Set the regex to "\" and a plugin could easily access network folders.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

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Re: Network access?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2009, 05:09 PM »
Its even doable with the new fscript getObject function by using the wmi class Win32_Share.
I would love to have this feature too.
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Re: Network access?
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2009, 06:07 PM »
Whoa... I didn't know you could navigate folders with FARR. Looks like I haven't messed with it nearly enough. In that case...

+1 for network browsing :up:

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Re: Network access?
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2009, 08:05 AM »
The feature has already been asked however. I doubt that it FARR include it natively soon. However, if someone what to implement it as a plugin it could be done faster.
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Re: Network access?
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2009, 12:19 PM »
IIRC: it actually *has* been in FARR, but was disabled because having UNC paths in your FARR history would cause slowdowns, especially if the network share is temporarily unavailable.

For your leisure:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=13840.0
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=13812
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« Last Edit: January 06, 2009, 12:21 PM by f0dder »

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Re: Network access?
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2009, 02:15 PM »
well, an easy solution would be to *not* add UNC paths to the launch history, right :)?

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Re: Network access?
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2009, 02:22 PM »
well, an easy solution would be to *not* add UNC paths to the launch history, right :)?
IMHO that'd be a satisfactory solution, yes :)
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Re: Network access?
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2009, 04:45 PM »
well, an easy solution would be to *not* add UNC paths to the launch history, right :)?

Or simply not attempt to load the file's icon. If it were to just blindly assume that if it worked last time, it'll work again, then it could put the reference into the history list without trying to validate it.