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RESCAN refreshes only current drive (at least under OS X)

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First post, by emendelson

Posted on 2011-08-14, 23:53

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This question is probably not relevant to games, so I don't expect the DOSBox authors to spend any time on it. But I hope other interested users may be able to help.

Under OS X (I haven't experimented with other platforms), the RESCAN command seems to refresh only the directory of the current mounted drive, not of any other mounted drives.

So, if I have one directory mounted as C: and another as drive D:, and I enter RESCAN when the current directory is C:\, the directory of D: is not refreshed. In order to refresh the directory listing of D:, I have to do this:

d:
rescan

(Rescan does not seem to take any parameters, so this does not seem to work: rescan d:)

Is there any way to rescan all mounted drives from the command-line (I want to be able to rescan from a batch file)?

Thanks for any help or advice.

Reply 1 of 8, by Dominus

Posted on 2011-08-15, 01:06

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Ctrl-f4 I think

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Reply 2 of 8, by emendelson

Posted on 2011-08-15, 02:01

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Dominus wrote:
Ctrl-f4 I think

I think that works, but I can't figure out a way to put it into a batch file.

Reply 3 of 8, by Dominus

Posted on 2011-08-15, 04:25

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Sorry, didn't read the batch file part. But if you have it in a batch file, I don't see much of a problem to change drives.

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Reply 4 of 8, by emendelson

Posted on 2011-08-15, 12:02

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Dominus wrote:
Sorry, didn't read the batch file part. But if you have it in a batch file, I don't see much of a problem to change drives.

I should have added: I don't know in advance which drive letters are mounted - the user can mount any one at any time.

The answer seems to be to write a batch file that looks like this, but set up to work with every drive letter:

if exist d:\nul then set drv=d
go :scanit
....
:scanit
%drv%:
rescan

A real batch expert could set it up with a "for each" loop and save a lot of space.

Is there any hope that a patch or future version would make RESCAN work like Ctrl-F4?

Reply 5 of 8, by Qbix

Posted on 2011-08-15, 12:20

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yeah, I've added extending rescan to my to do list.

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Reply 6 of 8, by emendelson

Posted on 2011-08-15, 12:28

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Thank you!

Reply 7 of 8, by Qbix

Posted on 2011-08-15, 18:13

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Try the following patch:

rescan /all
rescan d:

are supported

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Reply 8 of 8, by emendelson

Posted on 2011-08-15, 20:25

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Well, that was fast! Thank you. It works perfectly.

I thought I would have to wait months or years for this. Thank you again.

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