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Virtual Folder: Interesting tool at Bits du Jour today
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Posted by Ken
Mar 20, 2009 at 03:13 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>So you can use VF to create a single V: drive and, before starting work, making a
>virtual project folder within that drive; this way UltraRecall will always be
>pointing to V:\PROJECTS no matter where you are.
>
>In other words, VF is a sort of
>graphical interface to Windows ‘junctions’ (
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524 ) or symbolic links. (Though as far as I
>know Windows does not support junctions to directories on remote shares as VF claims
>to do).
>
>Hope this makes things more clear (to me as well by the way; I admit to have been
>baffled myself at first).
Thank you for the follow-up, Alexander. As you are moving files/folders between several locations, have you ever considered a service like Drop Box or Box.net?
—Ken
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 20, 2009 at 03:32 PM
Yes of course; I use NomaDesk http://www.nomadesk.com
However, the speed limitations of internet data transfer mean that such services are not very useful for maintaining a library of, say, large PDF files such as downloaded papers—which is exactly what I would have UltraRecall and similar programs pointing at.
Posted by Zhenheng Dai
Mar 25, 2009 at 02:17 AM
Hello everyone,
I?m the author of Virtual Folder and thank you for your attention to the program.
I write this program according to my own needs. Just as I wrote on the homepage, I use many file management tips to keep my files well-organized, but there are still a lot of inconveniences. For example when I build a website for a product, I have to get into the directory “D:\web\product\working\company1” first to create a web page, then open “G:\product\company1\team2\product5\introduction” for the text and “E:\picture\icon\arrow\gif” to insert some images, etc. It may drive me crazy if I have to repeat this all day long. So I write Virtual Folder to keep all the files/folders I need to use together.
What?s the difference between a shortcut and a virtual folder? First, virtual folder is more intuitionistic. Let?s continue the above example: just open the virtual drive and all the sources you need (images, text, flashes, etc)are listed there, this would make your work more organized. Secondly, a virtual folder can be opened directly at where it is, and this keeps the tree structure of your project, but shortcut needs to do a “jump” which would make me confused sometimes. Thirdly, virtual folders can be opened in any program (even in the command line). And in some cases, you have to type the path, you can just type “Z:\webpage” instead of “D:\web\product\working\company1”, a shortcut can?t do this for you.
Just as Alexander said, Virtual Folder is still at an early stage of development, and I?ll become very excited whenever talking about the new version. It will allow users to create multiple virtual drives, map not only folders but also files in the virtual drive, and you can create folders in the drive to organize the virtual files/folders. These features make it possible to create a virtual drive as complex as the drive C if you really need that :-) , and you can completely reorganize your files according to your current needs. Get all the things done in a virtual drive! It?ll be released before May since there is still a mountain of work to be done. The program will convince you then!
PS: I need a new name for the coming version because of the change of main features. Could you please give me some suggestions?
Best Regards,
Zhenheng Dai
http://www.virtualfolder.net
Posted by Zhenheng Dai
Mar 26, 2009 at 01:01 AM
Sigh, it seems that this forum doesn’t support unicode. I edited the post in Word and copied it here, then all the quotation marks become question marks :-(
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 26, 2009 at 09:34 PM
Hello Zhenheng,
(I assume that in Zhenheng Dai, Zhenheng the ‘first’ name and Dai the surname, after googling a bit. If I am mistaken please do tell me so :-)
Regarding the program name; I would personally keep the original name because I find that it is very descriptive of what the program does; I would simply put it in plural, i.e. Virtual Folders. Yes of course you can also have ‘virtual files’ but the folders are probably the most useful feature.
If you do want to change, I would suggest that you at least keep the ‘Folders’ component, e.g. Magic Folders, Folder Magic, Folderspace, Folderscape, Work Folders (perhaps making W: the default virtual drive letter), V-Folders, vFolders, Folder Power, Snap Folders…