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A Tip: Multiple disks or partitions

Posted on: Thursday 9/21, 2006;  10:50 AM

In a new section of the web site for A WorkLife FrameWork  I have put some pointers on how to set up A WorkLife FrameWork  when you have multiple disks or partitions.  You can go here for this, or read it here:

You use the Directory Browser to navigate around the directories of your file system to find a directory to select for opening Diaries from or creating Diaries within. However, if you have multiple disk drives and/or multiple partitions of your drives it is sometimes laborious to navigate from one drive to another using the "Move Up One Directory" and the other buttons on the Directory Browser.

On Macintosh OS X you can, in fact, move continuously from one disk or partition to another. By clicking on Move Up One Directory repeatedly you will eventually get to the root directory called "/". Then, within this directory you will see listed a directory called "Volumes." In this directory you will see all of your disks and partitions. Then choosing any one of these by clicking on the button with its name on it will place you in that disk or partition at its root level. You can then click on the "Add to Favorites" button to add it to your favorites area. In this way you can easily navigate to that disk or partition in the future.

On Windows the process is slightly different because you cannot continuously navigate from one disk or partition to another in the say way as on OS X. In this case you will need to add the drives associated with the drive or partition directly to your Favorites area using an undocumented function from A WorkLife FrameWork. This function is called AddDirectoryFavorite.

AddDirectoryFavorite is not yet documented, but it is publicly available. It is one of the many functions and parameters that will eventually be documented (about 600 out of 1200 exposed functions and parameters total), but the philosophy with the product has been to expose as many functions and parameters as possible. This lets me, and ultimately the user, write add-ons and applications with the product that can be of use.

Now, to add, say, and E drive to the Favorites area of the Directory Browser you would simply execute:

Of course you should have loaded A WorkLife FrameWork prior to executing this.

Of course you might want, instead, to use AddDirectoryFavorite to place a higher level directory in your Favorites field. But once you have executed AddDirectoryFavorite["E:"], for example, you can navigate to the directories you prefer using the Directory Browser and place them in the favorites field by using the Add to Favorites button. Then, if you wish, you can go to the low level directories "E:" and delete it from the Favorites field using the Remove from Favorites button.

On Macintosh OS X you can also use AddDirectoryFavorite to add a drive directly. Suppose you have a drive called "OtherDrive." Then you would add that drive to the Favorites field of the Directory Browser by executing

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