Select drive by letter

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Select drive by letter

#1 Post by BitEater » 26.02.2014, 07:27

Hello,
in the old FreeCommander it was possible to change the drive by pressing Alt-F1/F2 and then entering the drive letter. It seems that is not possible in FreeCommander XE. Or have I overlooked the appropriate setting?
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Re: Select drive by letter

#2 Post by alf5000 » 26.02.2014, 08:35

Try
Alt+F1
Alt+F2
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Re: Select drive by letter

#3 Post by joby_toss » 26.02.2014, 13:38

Or change them here:

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Re: Select drive by letter

#4 Post by BitEater » 27.02.2014, 07:58

alf5000 wrote:Try
Alt+F1
Alt+F2
Sorry, was an error in my message. I tried Alt+F1 and Alt+F2 which activates the drive dropdown list. But within the list, I could not select the drive by pressing its drive letter. This was possible in the old FreeCommander.
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Re: Select drive by letter

#5 Post by Timon » 27.02.2014, 11:51

NOT confirmed. Without any problems I can select drive by pressing its drive letter within the list.

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Re: Select drive by letter

#6 Post by horst.epp » 27.02.2014, 14:34

Not confirmed on x64 FCXE build 653 Donor
I can perfectly select the drive with its drive letter inside of the ALT F1/F2 menu.
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Re: Select drive by letter

#7 Post by BitEater » 27.02.2014, 16:40

I see that the first letter of each drive entry is underlined. But they are listed like this:
(C:) Sys
(D:) Data
\\ (H:) home
\\ (P:) Projects

I think the drive letter should be underlined to be the correct hotkey within the list.
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Re: Select drive by letter

#8 Post by joby_toss » 27.02.2014, 16:47

Mine looks like this:

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Re: Select drive by letter

#9 Post by BitEater » 28.02.2014, 07:12

The tab caption also looks strange:
With activated "Show drive char in tab caption" it looks like this:
N:(N:) Storage (\\servername\directory)

Any idea what is causally wrong here?
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Re: Select drive by letter

#10 Post by joby_toss » 28.02.2014, 14:09

These are my current settings:

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Try them and see if it helps.

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Re: Select drive by letter

#11 Post by BitEater » 28.02.2014, 14:35

joby_toss wrote:These are my current settings:

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Try them and see if it helps.
I am not sure what I should change in this settings and which effect that should have...?!
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Re: Select drive by letter

#12 Post by Marek » 28.02.2014, 18:32

I see that the first letter of each drive entry is underlined. But they are listed like this:
(C:) Sys
(D:) Data
\\ (H:) home
\\ (P:) Projects

I think the drive letter should be underlined to be the correct hotkey within the list.
What is your Windows version?
Could you show us or send me directly the screenshot from the Explorer view of the drives?

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Re: Select drive by letter

#13 Post by BitEater » 03.03.2014, 07:24

Marek wrote:
I see that the first letter of each drive entry is underlined. But they are listed like this:
(C:) Sys
(D:) Data
\\ (H:) home
\\ (P:) Projects

I think the drive letter should be underlined to be the correct hotkey within the list.
What is your Windows version?
Could you show us or send me directly the screenshot from the Explorer view of the drives?
I am using Windows 7 Pro 32 Bit. When you say, you need to know how the Explorer view look like, I remember that I have used a tool (don´t know the name at the moment) which sets the drive letter to be at the front of the drive labels. So I think this could be the reason for the problem?!

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Re: Select drive by letter

#14 Post by ralfso » 03.03.2014, 13:42

Maybe you can find your "tool" for showing drive letter first in one of these answers:
https://www.google.de/search?num=100&ne ... tter+first
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Re: Select drive by letter

#15 Post by BitEater » 03.03.2014, 13:46

ralfso wrote:Maybe you can find your "tool" for showing drive letter first in one of these answers:
https://www.google.de/search?num=100&ne ... tter+first
I am sure I can find the tool, but I still want to have the drive letters first in Windows Explorer.
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