Force file links to open in explorer

[Ki1ian]

Hi,

Is it possible to force file links to open in a new explorer window.
At the moment a link to a network drive using
file://///server/share/folder/path/name opens up a new tab in Firefox
and you can't do much except open files (I need to be able to drag and
drop to other folders).

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Kilian

[Daniel Baird]

You might have some luck with Lyall Pearce's launcher:

http://www.remotely-helpful.com/TiddlyWiki/LaunchApplication.html#LaunchApplicationPlugin

I think you should be able to launch explore.exe directly.

Cheers

;D

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[Ki1ian]

Thanks Daniel,

I've been able to launch explorer.exe but I can't get the arguments to
work.

I've tried loads of combinations of <<LaunchApplication "Open Folder"
"Folder" "explorer.exe" ["/root,C:\folder" ...]>> (which produces the
message "path '\...]\' does not exist")

But haven't found the right one.

:s

On Nov 3, 12:43 pm, "Daniel Baird" <danielba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might have some luck with Lyall Pearce's launcher:
>

> http://www.remotely-helpful.com/TiddlyWiki/LaunchApplication.html#Lau...

>
> I think you should be able to launch explore.exe directly.
>
> Cheers
>
> ;D
>
> On 11/3/06, Ki1ian <kil...@gilbertweb.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > Is it possible to force file links to open in a new explorer window.
> > At the moment a link to a network drive using
> > file://///server/share/folder/path/name opens up a new tab in Firefox
> > and you can't do much except open files (I need to be able to drag and
> > drop to other folders).
>
> > Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Kilian--

> Daniel Bairdhttp://tiddlyspot.com(free, effortless TiddlyWiki hosting)http://danielbaird.com(TiddlyW;nks! :: Whiteboard Koala :: Blog ::
> Things That Suck)

[BradleyMeck]

I modified the LaunchApplication plugin at :

http://bradleymeck.tiddlyspot.com/#LaunchApplicationPlugin

If you use that version of the plugin just type in the folder address:

<<LaunchApplication "OpenFolder" "Folder..." "file:///C:/">>

[Ki1ian]

Works a treat! Thank you both very much.