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Posted by: rick.ca
« on: June 30, 2012, 10:25:38 pm »

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Users running PVD on more than one PC and with different drives must be quite common.

PC's under the user's control can be configured to always use the same drive letter for the portable drive PVD is on (using Windows Disk Management). Otherwise, use Replace folders in file paths to change the drive letter references.
Posted by: Roy22
« on: June 30, 2012, 09:20:20 pm »

Would there be any way to add this as a future feature?  Users running PVD on more than one PC and with different drives must be quite common.
Posted by: nostra
« on: June 30, 2012, 07:40:01 pm »

No, as I said: the paths are saved as absolute paths and also always handled as such
Posted by: Roy22
« on: June 30, 2012, 05:50:46 pm »

Will PVD by default, eg if no file path is given, seek video files in the same folder as the database file resides?  Just wondering if I could keep a copy of it alongside videofiles in whichever portable drive I used?
Posted by: nostra
« on: June 30, 2012, 12:39:48 am »

You can't use relative paths in thie path field, but you can use "Prefrences -> Folders -> Replace folders in file paths" feature to temporary switch the drive letter.
Posted by: Roy22
« on: June 28, 2012, 07:38:40 pm »

I know this question has been asked in one way or another before, but I just want to be clear before restructuring some disks, folders etc.

Movies stored on removable drives may obviously have different paths (ie drive letters) depending on which USB drives are plugged in, the order they're plugged, and which laptop/PC I might be running PVD on.  A file path beginning 'F:\video\...' might appear as 'G:\video\...' when plugged into another machine.

How to I ensure PVD can always find the films to play etc, or do I have to manually search for & replace drive letters as I move between different PCs?