Map Folder or Directory to
Drive Letter for Quick and Easy Access
Have you worked with folders that are hidden deeper inside the system and found it really troublesome to access it?
Yeah I know; there is pretty simple solution for this problem but unfortunately on S60 devices it is impossible to create a handy shortcut to specific folder or move it to the desktop or at any other convenient location.
The good news is that now it is possible even on the Symbian S60 devices, just released FCA’s software allows you to define any drive letter that is not currently used to represent a physical drive as a virtual drive.
MapDrives is a small system tool that allows you to associate the most accessed directories with virtual drives. A virtual drive is basically a shortcut to a folder that is usually hidden deeper inside the system. Of course virtual drives are not a necessity, it's only there to save you time.
Instead of having an icon for the shortcut (virtual drive), you will see a drive icon with a letter when you go to default or preferable some 3rd party file manager like X-plore after you’ve created the drive. The concept is the same as mapping network drives. Only difference is it maps local folders instead of network shares.
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Instructions:
It uses E:\MapDrives.txt to know the mapping, for example, following line:
V=E:\videos\
will create drive unit V: that points to E:\videos\
To unmap a drive, just chnage the string to: V=
Although unmapping seems not to work very well. No idea why.
Remember:
The drive unit must be 1 capital letter.
The source path must end with "\"
If the source needs permissions, then you need to use CapsOff (or similar) all the time.
You can't map the default units Z: C: D: or E:
The utility of this program lays in two areas:
To allow easy access to the folder c:\sys\bin\ in symbian, the libraries are searched in the order C: , Y: , X: , ..., D: , B: , A: , Z: so you can replace a library with another one.
It is not supposed to work for programs loaded from ROM, but sometimes it does, which allows to fool the system. I recommend doing this in E:\b\ and NOT in E:\a\
To use it you need to sign with DiskAdmin capabilities (because program calls RFs::SetSubst), which probably you don't have. Alternatevly you can use the hack to disable capabilities-checking before running the program.
After running, the program exists inmediatly with no message whatsoever. After this, you can enable capabilities-checking again.
Quelle:neoman
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Und wo ist die Quellenangabe zum englischen Original?
Zitat von snake411
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