Re: MS Access

On Mon, 8/12/2024 10:10 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:16:19 -0400, Paul wrote:
 

On Mon, 8/12/2024 4:38 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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Or better still, use a more modern OS that allows for more descriptive
names.
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The volumes have labels and letters.
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My C:\ drive has a label of "W11HOME".

 
But you can’t use that to refer to your files, can you?
 

In a GUI oriented system, when am I referring to files that way ?
The user is supposed to be using the mouse.

Power users resort to command line, and they know the mapping
from their own W11Home and C:\users\username.

I use %userprofile% all the time, instead of C:\users\username.
You can define your own environment variables if you want. There's
a panel for that. You can redefine %temp% that way.

   cd \               # Return to root level of partition, C:\ perhaps
                      # I'm doing this now, just so I can demonstrate that this works.

   cd %userprofile%   # Home directory of my account, this variable works in Command Prompt

   cd /d %userprofile%  # This works better so a "cd \" step is not needed.

The purpose of reviewing the disk layout with Disk Management,
is so you know the "current mapping", like if you just plugged
in your backup drive, and you had not forced a letter on it.
If my backup drive was forced to T:\ , then the next time I plug
it in (and it has a serial number), the ENUM is remembered and
it will be T:\ again. There can be conflicts with already assigned
letters, and there are tools for handling that better. But generally
speaking, users select higher drive letters for the transients.
You don't make your backup drive D: , because it is highly
likely you would eventually have a problem by doing that. T: is safer.

You also don't put optical drives down low. They go in the middle of
the letters.

But on my archive machine (almost all letters used), there is no
room for clever assignments any more.

   Paul