Mapping templates on my thumb drive under the NotesData directory.
January 12 2010 09:03:55 AM
Call me paranoid, but I just don't like leaving my development tools and notes templates that I've built over the years on personal time, or at other jobs on my current work computer. I still need access to them though, as I have built up quite a little knowledge base for myself. Paltry by other people's standards I'm sure, but important to me nonetheless. It's not that I don't trust others that I work with, as I'm the only developer here. It's just a really political environment, and you never know when they'll be sending the 'box brigade' around to pack someone up and toss them out.I usually keep these templates on a separate thumb drive and just navigate out of Notes Data to access them. It's been a pain, but nothing worth spending any time thinking about. It occurred to me that on all my servers that I simply map the external san drives as a subdirectory under NotesData when I need more space for something. Regular old shortcuts don't do the trick in Windows, but maybe you could map a drive to a subdirectory. I've been running windows for years and never even bothered to try. Lo and behold, you can and it's fairly pain free.
1. Create a new subdirectory on your computer under your NotesData directory.
2. Right-click on My Computer and select Manage from the menu.
3. Click Disk Management on the left under the Storage category.
4. Right-Click the drive you want to map to the directory you previously created and select Change Drive Letter and Paths. A box should open, and then you click the Add button.
5. Select Mount in the following empty NTFS folder, and use the Browse button to navigate to your folder.
6. Click OK when needed to navigate out of the dialog boxes. Verify in Windows Explorer that the contents of your thumb drive now show up in your new NotesData subdirectory.
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