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Mount opendrive as drive letter

Vikram Vamshi

January 10, 2012 05:37

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Originally from ticket #3258.

Hi,

I am new to opendrive and wanted to know if I could map a drive letter in windows to the opendrive storage.

Just like a local SMB fileshare.

Thanks

Hi Vikram,

I would like to clarify on what your question is but the way we understood your question can be answered by the following:

If you are new to OpenDrive, it would be best to download the OpenDrive Drive Application, this should be the solution to the drive letter you are looking for.

also, please check some open items that you might need to be aware of:

http://support.opendrive.com/entries/20758888-saving-directly-to-the-drive-windows

We hope this helps!

Hi,

I did download the OpenDrive drive application. But as I had stated

earlier, I was looking for a drive letter or even a folder mount point so

that I can access the files via a script or a batch file.

For example the path 'Computer\OpenDrive\My Documents' is not accessible

from my batch file.

Please let me know if you are need any further clarification.

Thanks

Vikram

Hi Vikram,

Thanks for clarifying.

The Windows version of the OpenDrive drive app is currently not accessible as a USB storage drive so it will not mount as an F:\ drive. It is accessible as a virtual systems folder. The MAC version is built that way though.

I would however like to mention that the developers told me that your request is actually in the roadmap of development for the windows version.

Let us know if we can be of further assistance, thank you for sharing your feature requests with OpenDrive!

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9 comments

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  Sam Nitzberg March 06, 2012 22:00

  DRIVE LETTER ACCESS IN WINDOWS WOULD BE PHENOMENAL!  Please add me to the list of people requesting this.

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  Marcelo Vieira de Souza March 22, 2012 18:52

  http://dn32.opendrive.com/folders?NV84OTE5Nl8yc0VyYQ

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  Marcelo Vieira de Souza March 22, 2012 18:52

  DRIVE LETTER ACCESS IN WINDOWS WOULD BE PHENOMENAL!  Please add me to the list of people requesting this.

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  Fedor Netreba April 19, 2012 13:46

  i am closing my account and payments today because it is no such feature.

  opendrive wrote on their site that "The application appears on your computer like a traditional drive" ( http://www.opendrive.com/features/online_storage/?lang=en)

  But it's not a drive, it's only a virtual folder and i can't use it like a target link in external software.

  I will search for another solution which will be able to offer this feature.

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  CC Visser June 06, 2012 22:11

   

  It would be interesting and useful to have OpenDrive's online storage available as a drive, which can be accessed as easy as a USB drive, but at the speed of an internet connection, of course.

  However, such a feature seems to be sometimes not without additional problems. I've used already quite some online storage systems the last few years and online storage systems that provide drive access ( by means of a Windows drive letter ) are often based on systems like

   

  Windows:

  CBFS ( callback filesystem )

  Dokan

  others

  or :

  SMB / CIFS over VPN

  Mac OS:

  MacFUSE

  or similar systems.

  It looks like proven technologies, that is, solutions based on concepts that already exist for quite some time, like SMB / CIFS over VPN, turn out to be more stable, less problematic. In addition File system in User Space, FUSE-like Mac OS and Linux solutions look more robust than their Windows counterparts. No need to say that non-drive-letter based bi-directional rsync-over-ssh like solutions seem to be the most robust one, a concept which is often ( more or less ) used in client-side online storage software.

  I have to say that I don't know whether mentioned problems are because of Windows, the Windows FUSE-equivalent, or the FUSE interface implementation that's part of the online storage client software.

  In short, it would be nice if an OpenDrive Windows "drive-letter" access feature does not result in less stable client software ;-)

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  Babu James June 22, 2012 08:40

  when are you giving this?

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  Doug Gilbert January 11, 2013 22:46

  I would like this too.  I like to use 3rd party sync program but drive letter is needed.  For large number of files, Opendrive seems not to be accessed directly but files go to local location on drive C for later sync to the "real" Open Drive.  Would be nice if all this behavior is explained.  Robocopy GUI with MIR option trying to mirror local folder to Open Drive does this.  It doesn't "mirror" to the "real" Open Drive but instead goes to drive C: local location for later sync.

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  Mário Castelão April 06, 2013 19:27

  Awaiting for this also

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  Admin April 19, 2013 07:50

  OpenDrive now offers WebDAV extension and you can mount OpenDrive as network drive by using URL:  https://webdav.opendrive.com.

  More details are available at:  http://www.opendrive.com/api/webdav

  Thank you for your patience.