[Offtopic] USB drive manager

[Dr Paul Chandler]

USBDLM does much much much more than Deskdrive.  It's worth checking out.

> I must compare it with the one we are using, :-) I suspect yours works
> across different users on the same computer.
>      http://blueonionsoftware.com/DeskDrive.aspx
>
> Turning off autorun.inf is good .. We moved our CDROM drive letters to X:
> on
> our college network to free up as many drive letters as we can at the
> lower
> end for USB devices etc.
>
> Regards Roland
>
> 2009/11/14 Dr Paul Chandler <paul.chandler at une.edu.au>
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I gave myself a little scare yesterday by mislaying a memory stick.
>> Nothing worse than losing data like that.
>>
>> So I applied myself to sorting out and automatic backup - everytime a
>> stick goes in, it's backed up to the HDD.  You may not want to manage
>> your
>> files that way, but it suits me.
>>
>> In the process, I discovered one of the coolest pieces of software I
>> have
>> seen in a long time - the USB Drive Letter Manager:
>> www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
>>
>> Using this, you can activate a process (eg copy) when a memory stick is
>> inserted [as programmed on the host computer, not the autorun.inf on the
>> stick], lock a stick to a particular drive letter, and even mount it to
>> a
>> virtual folder (eg c:\_USB\DeviceID) rather than a drive letter.
>>
>> Anyway, it's the sort of product that I wished I knew about when I was
>> managing disk images in schools, so I thought I'd send it around.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Dr Paul Chandler
>> Research Fellow
>> 'Multimedia grammatical design and authoring pedagogy' (Kahootz)
>> project,
>> School of Education, University of New England
>>
>> located at Australian Children's Television Foundation
>> 145 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, 3065
>> e-mail: paul.chandler at une.edu.au
>> Ph: 0400 198 187
>> Fax: (03) 9419 0660
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>>
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>
> --
> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
> http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au
>
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-- 
Dr Paul Chandler
Research Fellow
'Multimedia grammatical design and authoring pedagogy' (Kahootz) project,
School of Education, University of New England

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145 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, 3065
e-mail: paul.chandler at une.edu.au
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