Senior DriveScan feature Needing Vacation or Retirement
Does anyone really want to recurse through NetHood?
Sunday, December 11, 2005 by MistressDaiyu | Discussion: Life, the Universe and Everything
Hello all...
After ObjectEdit, DriveScan is the ObjectDesktop component that
I invoke the most... however...
Drivescan does one thing that puts me in the position of spending
a few minutes to prepare to use it before actually using it. Namely,
if I scan a drive that contains user profiles, each of which will have
a NetHood folder, it will recurse into any reachable directories for
which it finds an alias lingering there in NetHood. So, I have to open up
that profiles (or Documents & Settings) folder first, go into each Nethood,
and delete any shortcuts I find there. Woe unto me if I forget, for
Windows will sometimes cheerfully put a network alias to the
drive being scanned inside a Nethood folder on that same drive....
....leading to a DriveScan that never completes. I have some control
over this on my own workstation, and could enfore it with Group Policy
for the whole org. But, my users, and myself included, find the Nethood
aliases useful (FrontPage 2003 stores shortcuts to web sites there).
I would be really grateful if at sometime in the not too distant future,
a Stardock developer could spend a little time placing this behavior under
control of a configurable option. As a cheaper alternative, maybe a DriveScan
Lite could omit the recursion into any place linked to by a shortcut.
Any chances of this outside slim and none?
Best regards,
-doug quebbeman
After ObjectEdit, DriveScan is the ObjectDesktop component that
I invoke the most... however...
Drivescan does one thing that puts me in the position of spending
a few minutes to prepare to use it before actually using it. Namely,
if I scan a drive that contains user profiles, each of which will have
a NetHood folder, it will recurse into any reachable directories for
which it finds an alias lingering there in NetHood. So, I have to open up
that profiles (or Documents & Settings) folder first, go into each Nethood,
and delete any shortcuts I find there. Woe unto me if I forget, for
Windows will sometimes cheerfully put a network alias to the
drive being scanned inside a Nethood folder on that same drive....
....leading to a DriveScan that never completes. I have some control
over this on my own workstation, and could enfore it with Group Policy
for the whole org. But, my users, and myself included, find the Nethood
aliases useful (FrontPage 2003 stores shortcuts to web sites there).
I would be really grateful if at sometime in the not too distant future,
a Stardock developer could spend a little time placing this behavior under
control of a configurable option. As a cheaper alternative, maybe a DriveScan
Lite could omit the recursion into any place linked to by a shortcut.
Any chances of this outside slim and none?
Best regards,
-doug quebbeman
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