SingleDrive
Jeff Key
December 10, 2003
Updated December 13, 2003
I've been acquiring new hard drives over the years as I rip more CDs, take more photos, etc. As you can imagine, it gets harder to keep track of what is where, what's worth keeping, what's not, etc. I finally lost it a couple days ago and wrote something to create a single virtual drive. It's nothing fancy like a file system driver, but simply a Windows Explorer-like app that shows any number of drives and network shares as a single entity.
“Features”
- Display all of your local and network hard drives in a single view.
- Search.
- Delete files/folders. (Local files sent to the recycle bin, remote are deleted.)
- View file/folder properties.
- Open files.
- That is all.
Code that might interest .NET developers:
- Sending files to the recycle bin with P/Invoke
- Showing a file/folder property sheet with P/Invoke
- Getting file icons with P/Invoke
- Getting file types with P/Invoke
- Getting the name of a logical drive with P/Invoke
- This was a quickie, so please pardon the source
Changes in v0.3:
- Added "Open Containing Folder" option to find results dialog
Changes in v0.2:
- Added Find
- Changed status bar to mimic Windows Explorer's
- Other minor things
Download (Requires the .NET Framework. It was compiled on v1.1 but should work on v1.0.)
Source (v0.2)