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Relative Paths?
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laffin_boy Posts: 14
18/12/2014
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Hi Gianluca,
When I built my flashdrive SyMenu ended up in a folder here:
flashdrive:\F_Apps\System\File_Sys\SyMenu\SyMenu.exe
and I put a link at the root of the drive which had the following path:
I:\F_Apps\System\File_Sys\SyMenu\SyMenu.exe
But today I plugged my FD into a Win 8 computer and started SyMenu. The computer found SyMenu and then re-wrote the link to the F: drive so that when I plugged the FD back into my own laptop I had to repair the link in order to start SyMenu.
So is there a way to write a relative path to SyMenu so that the shortcut works regardless of what drive letter it gets assigned?
laffin_boy.
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
18/12/2014
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It is a behaviour more related to Windows than to SyMenu. I didn't know that Win8 repairs the broken links automatically and I don't know how to solve the problem with a Windows shortcut. I think that the Windows shortcuts don't support relative path.
Anyway I had the same problem as yours and the solution I personally adopted for my flash drive, raw and old school but working, is to create a simple .bat file in the root containing this command:
start SyMenu\SyMenu.Admin.exe
In your case naturally change the command with:
start F_Apps\System\File_Sys\SyMenu\SyMenu.exe
If you don't like the bat files you can use a cmd file (same syntax) or better a little exe file with whom you can change the icon too.
Let me know if the solution works or if someone has a better idea.
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laffin_boy Posts: 14
19/12/2014
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Gianluca wrote:
create a simple .cmd file in the root containing this command:
start F_Apps\System\File_Sys\SyMenu\SyMenu.exe
Works great!!
Thanks once again.
laffin_boy
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