02-10-2003, 02:51 AM -
I am running NT4 SP6.
Upon further investigation and much disk thrashing it appears that the problem is with Drag and Drop not working as expected.
If I drag & drop (left or right button) any fixed or mapped drive to TLB it will always create a virtual folder of the the C drive. I would expect it to always create a shortcut to the drive.
If I drag & drop a folder into TLB it will create a shorcut without the .lnk extension. Adding the .lnk extension makes it a valid shortcut.
So that it doesn't get lost in the discussion there is also the following problem:
If I have a shortcut to a mapped drive (or folder on a mapped dirve) that isn't connected (doesn't appear in My Computer) it won't work in TLB. Specificaly I get a dialog with the following message:
"The drive or network connection that the shortcut '<share> on <server>.lnk refers to is unavailable. Make sure that the disk is properly inserted or the network resource is available, and then try again."
However, if I right click on TLB and select "open" and click on the shortcut in explorer it will create the connection and open up the directory.
Upon further investigation and much disk thrashing it appears that the problem is with Drag and Drop not working as expected.
If I drag & drop (left or right button) any fixed or mapped drive to TLB it will always create a virtual folder of the the C drive. I would expect it to always create a shortcut to the drive.
If I drag & drop a folder into TLB it will create a shorcut without the .lnk extension. Adding the .lnk extension makes it a valid shortcut.
So that it doesn't get lost in the discussion there is also the following problem:
If I have a shortcut to a mapped drive (or folder on a mapped dirve) that isn't connected (doesn't appear in My Computer) it won't work in TLB. Specificaly I get a dialog with the following message:
"The drive or network connection that the shortcut '<share> on <server>.lnk refers to is unavailable. Make sure that the disk is properly inserted or the network resource is available, and then try again."
However, if I right click on TLB and select "open" and click on the shortcut in explorer it will create the connection and open up the directory.