Always asking for portable media drive

Claymore1746 · Post by **Claymore1746** » 2003 Jul 21, 15:14

It seems that if I ever use removable media that creates a drive letter (as in USB drives, memory sticks, etc.) every time thereafter the program warns me that this (temporary) drive is not present, and I have to click OK to access the program. On my system I get this same window twice. Maybe this is the same as those users who have inserted a floppy in the A: drive and get a similar notice.
Any way out of this annoyance?

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Jul 21, 15:56

the double warning is a side-effect of the debug version
in the final release you'd only get the warning once
however i can't see how you can avoid it altogether

Pilot · Post by **Pilot** » 2003 Jul 29, 10:37

I don't see why it couldn't be avoided. Regards to developpement or the behaviour it shoud have ?

If it is the second, we could have a bool registry tweak 'no-message-for-that-missing-drive' and then it would go to desktop or any default directory we may specify.

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Jul 30, 05:49

for most of these messages windows is responsible
i can't control them

Pilot · Post by **Pilot** » 2003 Jul 30, 09:19

ok

I was afraid the problem was at that level...

But for removable media, isnt it possible to check whether the drive is ready before trying to access its contents ? Maybe it would slow every access, so this would be done only for media known to be removed.

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Jul 30, 10:29

this is already checked in a number of situations but its too much of a hassle and drag for non-removable processing to expand it to more places

i suppose it's up to the user to make sure that a removable bay isn't empty -- or "pay the price" which is not too much anyway