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simple question but causing headaches? Henrootje 05-09-2006
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Posted by Henrootje on May 9, 2006, 7:42 pm
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Probably a simple question to most of you but I have been googling,
searching, trying, reading, swearing and cursing for two hours
now..............

Can I (and if yes, how) open a folder on my computer from a html?

I have a CD that has a folder /texts.
I would like a link to that folder so that it opens in Explorer so that
I can copy files from it.
I can get it to open in a kind of webpage but then I can only click one
file at a time. If I were to be able to open that folder with explorer
I would be able to select multipleof those documents and copy them to
my harddrive.

It sounds so simple but how do I do this?????


Posted by ironcorona on May 9, 2006, 11:40 pm
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Henrootje wrote:
> Probably a simple question to most of you but I have been googling,
> searching, trying, reading, swearing and cursing for two hours
> now..............
>
> Can I (and if yes, how) open a folder on my computer from a html?
>
> I have a CD that has a folder /texts.
> I would like a link to that folder so that it opens in Explorer so that
> I can copy files from it.
> I can get it to open in a kind of webpage but then I can only click one
> file at a time. If I were to be able to open that folder with explorer
> I would be able to select multipleof those documents and copy them to
> my harddrive.

file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/user/my%20documents/ [change as
appropriate]

Remember to use the %20 instead of space. Microsoft lets their file
names have spaces in them but no one else does. Quite annoying.

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Brian O'Connor (ironcorona)

Posted by ironcorona on May 9, 2006, 11:42 pm
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ironcorona wrote:
> Henrootje wrote:
>> Probably a simple question to most of you but I have been googling,
>> searching, trying, reading, swearing and cursing for two hours
>> now..............
>>
>> Can I (and if yes, how) open a folder on my computer from a html?
>>
>> I have a CD that has a folder /texts.
>> I would like a link to that folder so that it opens in Explorer so that
>> I can copy files from it.
>> I can get it to open in a kind of webpage but then I can only click one
>> file at a time. If I were to be able to open that folder with explorer
>> I would be able to select multipleof those documents and copy them to
>> my harddrive.
>
> file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/user/my%20documents/ [change as
> appropriate]

And I should probably mention that you should just treat it like any
other URI so to create a link to it

<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/user/my%20documents/">My
Documents</a>

--
Brian O'Connor (ironcorona)

Posted by Henrootje on May 11, 2006, 2:32 am
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That works like a charm. In Internet Explorer.........
Firefox opens it as a kind of HTML page...

Nop prob, the receivers will all be using Internet Explorer and I'll
put a warning in the text that they should open it with Iexplore


Posted by ironcorona on May 11, 2006, 4:51 am
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Henrootje wrote:
> That works like a charm. In Internet Explorer.........
> Firefox opens it as a kind of HTML page...

Yes. Internet Explorer and the Windows Explorer are very integrated (if
not the same thing) so IE has a way to graphically mark up information
in your own computer and give it all that file manager functionality. I
*think* Konqueror can do the same thing.

There's no reason that FF couldn't do it too except for the fact that
it's a browser. not a file manager.

ps. you should quote the relevant text when replying to a posting
http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/

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Brian O'Connor (ironcorona)

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