DiscMounter 0.1

[Husaini HB]

yo can you send me the flashdrive icon? also, my preferences have been saved, so far, it still says it can't save them, but when I click okay, my settings are updated.

Here you are Daz344

black_appleb.zip

[Daz344]

sweet now if only the icons stayed the same once I removed the flashdrive, and then inserted it again.

[Sranshaft]

Unfortunately the icon is decided by Windows. DiscMounter does not decide which icon is used. This is shown when a cd is inserted that contains an icon of its own (ie. a drivers disc for my wife's Samsung phone displays the Samsung logo). There isn't anything, that I know of, that can help remedy this situation at this time. I'm apologize for this but it's currently out of my hands.

[Husaini HB]

sweet now if only the icons stayed the same once I removed the flashdrive, and then inserted it again.

My icon is remain the same ( still with that icon I've chosen) if I pull out the flash disk and put it again,but you have put in the same usb port with the last time that flash disk in

[ethereal]

i cannot set preferences, so i did them directly in .ini file, if i set display icon to right, then icon disappears all the way. .any solution.

[passerby]

When I set the preference.I got an error message.I can't set anything.

please help me. I use XP SP2

[Tribis]

This program is a good idea. But the actual program is kinda broken.

The preferences never save because it gives an error for that. It moves icons that are below and above a drive icon around.

It creates two files on the desktop for one drive. One of the files not being anything.

I really dont want to spend the $10 on deskmount... so I hope this program gets better.

[dave164]

Kinda broken for me as well, if i set the settings it doesn't save, if i close to the taskbar and then double click on the icon i get the error message attached

On top of that if i set it to show hard drives and external devices i get a nice empty file on the desktop called Drive C and it doesn't do anything..

Also if i right click on the program at all i don't get the menu. I really like the concept of the program, but i hate how it works.

David

[Sranshaft]

Kinda broken for me as well, if i set the settings it doesn't save, if i close to the taskbar and then double click on the icon i get the error message attached

On top of that if i set it to show hard drives and external devices i get a nice empty file on the desktop called Drive C and it doesn't do anything..

Also if i right click on the program at all i don't get the menu. I really like the concept of the program, but i hate how it works.

David

That error is a "Drive not ready' error and should be easily fixable. I will try and get a few minutes to do a couple bug fixes in the near future. As for the icon coming up blank, this is not DiscMounter's fault. DiscMounter does not choose which icon is displayed - Windows does.

[sage08]

Sranshaft, great work on DiscMounter. I would really like to see some bug fixes. I'm running Vista x64 if you need someone to test it. Thanks again and nice work.

[Tardio]

Thanks and good work ! This app is reallly good

A new version will be avaible soon ? maybe with more option, more optimized ?

Edit => I've a problem, i've an external 2"5 hdd in USB, in Preferences i've been activated Removable, but the hdd appear looks like a "Fixed" but if I activate the Fixed option, all of my HDD are added on my desktop.

Can you fix it ?

I think an option where we can choose what drives we need on the desktop, or the reverse, that can be cool.

[sage08]

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On top of that if i set it to show hard drives and external devices i get a nice empty file on the desktop called Drive C and it doesn't do anything

...David

Hey, I found sort of a solution to this same problem. I found that it struggles to make shortcuts on the desktop of drives that don't have drive labels. Flash Memory Cards, Flash Drives, all kinds of things like that. Just adding a simple drive label makes it happy for some reason. Hope this helps.

[Sranshaft]

Thanks and good work ! This app is reallly good

A new version will be avaible soon ? maybe with more option, more optimized ?

Edit => I've a problem, i've an external 2"5 hdd in USB, in Preferences i've been activated Removable, but the hdd appear looks like a "Fixed" but if I activate the Fixed option, all of my HDD are added on my desktop.

Can you fix it ?

I think an option where we can choose what drives we need on the desktop, or the reverse, that can be cool.

When I release an new update I'll add a drive selector feature to it.

Hey, I found sort of a solution to this same problem. I found that it struggles to make shortcuts on the desktop of drives that don't have drive labels. Flash Memory Cards, Flash Drives, all kinds of things like that. Just adding a simple drive label makes it happy for some reason. Hope this helps.

Ahh, thanks Sage for that bit of information. I haven't had time to check it out but that does seem like that is the most likely problem. I'll have to find some time and add in a check for that.

Thanks again for possibly narrowing down the problem and I'll release an update as soon as I can.

[Tardio]

Thank you

[sage08]

Just reformatted my HD. Any news on an update? The save settings thing is pretty goofy : ).

[sage08]

Does anyone know how to make it stop moving the icons around?

Never mind - I redownloaded it and then edited the config file again and for some reason it worked this time.

[Tardio]

No news about a new version ? ^^

[Sranshaft]

Not at this moment, sorry. I've been really busy with work lately and what free time I get is stretched between spending time with my wife and prepping movieClerk for a release.

[Tardio]

Ok, no problem, your life is more important

[WACOMalt]

Thanks for this program. Aside from it's bugs it brings one of My most missed features of Linux and OS X.

[sage08]

Found a great alternative that seems pretty solid. Does the same things as DiscMounter, but without the errors and while leaving my icons where they are.

Desk Drive

http://blueonionsoftware.com/deskdrive.aspx

[schmrom]

Found a great alternative that seems pretty solid. Does the same things as DiscMounter, but without the errors and while leaving my icons where they are.

Desk Drive

http://blueonionsoftware.com/deskdrive.aspx

Nice found, but I think the link to DeskDrive was already somewhere around on AS

[sage08]

That would have been good to know a while ago.

[Sranshaft]

I've taken a look at the coding for DeskDrive and it's basically the same thing I'm doing only without some of the other features - icon saving, cd renaming, etc. Not sure where all the issues you guys are running into are coming from. I see from the comments it's mostly a settings window problem and the icons being moved.

You can turn off the icons moving to the right feature and as for the settings window throwing up errors, I can't really debug for that as I've never encountered that error no matter what I throw at DiscMounter. Sorry, if it doesn't work for some people but that's the way it is sometimes.

I'm glad those of you who have run into problems or simply don't like DiscMounter have found an alternative!

[sage08]

Sranshaft, the problems i was having were mostly with the errors being thrown up all of the time when trying to save settings. It would throw an error and it wouldn't save the settings and that is a big problem. I found an XML file with the settings stored in it and found that i could edit that and make some changes. That fixed the icons from moving to the right. But some of the settings in that file didn't seem to matter. It would still shuffle my icons around on the left side of the screen. I have had these same issues on every computer i have installed it on. I am using Vista x64 and have used it on Vista 32-bit as well. I have given myself full permissions to the folder and run it as an administrator so that i wouldn't have UAC problems, but that didn't seem to help. Another problem that i mentioned some time before was that the icon that appeared on the desktop was broken if the drive you inserted didn't have a drive label. This is common with flash drives, SD cards, etc.

I don't know what the differences in our systems are, but you're right, that's the way it is sometimes.