Monthly Archives: December 2010

Converting filepaths when moving to a new computer

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Don Robinson

How to get different types of file and folder paths to put hard coded paths in documents, such as installation files and Rake build files. Continue reading →

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Latest review of DDFileCatcher – 5 stars

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Don Robinson

DDFileCatcher has been around long enough now to have gained a lot of awards from download sites. One of the first was from Shareware Junkies, the world’s oldest shareware site.

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Improved way of inserting hyperlinks in documents

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Don Robinson

In September, I wrote about how to use DDFileCatcher to put a file list with hyperlinks in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Calc, and HTML documents. Hyperlinks would display the filename, filepath, MP3 track title or filestem. For each of the four … Continue reading →

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Short MSDOS-type folder and short forward slash folder added

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Don Robinson

Short filepath is already a file property available with DDFileCatcher. An example is: C:\PROGRA~1\ROBINM~1\DDFILE~2\ddfc400.exe. Short filepaths can be useful in MSDOS batch files for calling external programs that do not understand long Windows filepaths, or to prevent having to put … Continue reading →

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