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eSata interface + Ext HDD File Arrangement Settings
fohfoh:
The Esata interface thingy I purchased for about 20 bucks on newegg because the archaic piece I'm using for storage and my HTPC ran out of Sata slots.
It works well. Seriously for sure faster than usb. Issue being that you can't hot swap it.
TifaLockhart:
Since i'm on the topic of External Hard drives, there has also been something which has always eluded me. One thing about external hard drives is, i like to arrange the files (not in alphabetical order) or any of the default arrangements but in order of which i have watched and havent watched, whether they are ova's, movies or tv series and the order of the download. The thing is whenever i swap the usb slots to use for the external hard drive, the arrangements gets jumbled up and i'll have to arrange them back again. This does not happen if i do not change the usb slots used for that specific hard drive. The drawback is my external hard drive cant be ported around or if i would like to swap the 2.0usb for a esata cable, i fear the files would get mixed up again.
For a long time i have looked for a solution and have been wondering if it's possible to save the folder preferences of the files in the external hard drives into the drive itself rather than rely on the OS's folder preference settings on remembering the folder's position by the usb ports.
Basically, i'm trying to look for a way to save the folder view cache on my external hard drive so it will always remember the way i arrange my files in my hard disk regardless of where i open my external drive on.
Lupin:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on April 30, 2011, 10:29:13 PM ---It works well. Seriously for sure faster than usb. Issue being that you can't hot swap it.
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You need motherboard support for hotplugging.
--- Quote from: TifaLockhart on April 30, 2011, 11:13:32 PM ---Since i'm on the topic of External Hard drives, there has also been something which has always eluded me. One thing about external hard drives is, i like to arrange the files (not in alphabetical order) or any of the default arrangements but in order of which i have watched and havent watched, whether they are ova's, movies or tv series and the order of the download. The thing is whenever i swap the usb slots to use for the external hard drive, the arrangements gets jumbled up and i'll have to arrange them back again. This does not happen if i do not change the usb slots used for that specific hard drive. The drawback is my external hard drive cant be ported around or if i would like to swap the 2.0usb for a esata cable, i fear the files would get mixed up again.
For a long time i have looked for a solution and have been wondering if it's possible to save the folder preferences of the files in the external hard drives into the drive itself rather than rely on the OS's folder preference settings on remembering the folder's position by the usb ports.
Basically, i'm trying to look for a way to save the folder view cache on my external hard drive so it will always remember the way i arrange my files in my hard disk regardless of where i open my external drive on.
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Save a text file containing the filenames in the order you desire in the root of your drive. Read the help of the command dir for the correct combination of parameters to get the list you want. Then dump the output of that command to a text file whenever you use it (dir <parameters> <location> > order.txt). You can try saving the line on a batchfile so you only need to execute the script to generate the list.
TifaLockhart:
--- Quote from: Lupin on May 01, 2011, 01:52:24 PM ---
--- Quote from: fohfoh on April 30, 2011, 10:29:13 PM ---It works well. Seriously for sure faster than usb. Issue being that you can't hot swap it.
--- End quote ---
You need motherboard support for hotplugging.
--- Quote from: TifaLockhart on April 30, 2011, 11:13:32 PM ---Since i'm on the topic of External Hard drives, there has also been something which has always eluded me. One thing about external hard drives is, i like to arrange the files (not in alphabetical order) or any of the default arrangements but in order of which i have watched and havent watched, whether they are ova's, movies or tv series and the order of the download. The thing is whenever i swap the usb slots to use for the external hard drive, the arrangements gets jumbled up and i'll have to arrange them back again. This does not happen if i do not change the usb slots used for that specific hard drive. The drawback is my external hard drive cant be ported around or if i would like to swap the 2.0usb for a esata cable, i fear the files would get mixed up again.
For a long time i have looked for a solution and have been wondering if it's possible to save the folder preferences of the files in the external hard drives into the drive itself rather than rely on the OS's folder preference settings on remembering the folder's position by the usb ports.
Basically, i'm trying to look for a way to save the folder view cache on my external hard drive so it will always remember the way i arrange my files in my hard disk regardless of where i open my external drive on.
--- End quote ---
Save a text file containing the filenames in the order you desire in the root of your drive. Read the help of the command dir for the correct combination of parameters to get the list you want. Then dump the output of that command to a text file whenever you use it (dir <parameters> <location> > order.txt). You can try saving the line on a batchfile so you only need to execute the script to generate the list.
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From what i can comprehend, i can do the ordering of my folders by creating a text document with the ordering of my files in it saved to the root of the directory with the aid of some Dir command parameters (which i have no clue what they are or how to derive them), i can also do sort of a script to allow it to auto generate the ordering of new files being added into the drive?
Freedom Kira:
Not exactly. AFAIK, Lupin's suggestion is to use the Dir command, which lists the contents of a directory, to create a text dump of the contents of a directory in the desired order (default is alphabetic, but you should be able to tweak it a bit using parameters). In short, use the command to create a text file containing a list of the files/folders you have in a directory.
Then, you can just open this text file and see your files in the desired order.
The script is just something you can run by double-clicking it, which makes your life easier by saving you from typing out the whole command every time you want to create the text dump.
So, if it wasn't clear enough, this won't do anything to actually reorder your files. It'll just give you an alternative way to view your files, in which the order of the files is changed to your liking.
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