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• Automatically Navigate To a Folder Based On Clipboard Contents

  jimerb > 2021-10-02 06:36

  Suggestion:
  
  Let's say you have a folder called:
  
  C:\Cars
  
  And you've copied "Toyota" into your clipboard.
  
  You hit a shortcut key that is mapped to C:\Cars and has an option turned on to be sensitive to the clipboard.
  
  Presto, you're taken to:
  
  C:\Cars\Toyota
  
  If it doesn't already exist, it creates it for you.
  
  Now you can save your file where you want it.
  
  I create folders all the time based on what's in my clipboard.  They are in a series of parent folders.   This would save me a lot of time.
  
  Hope you'll consider it.

• RE: Automatically Navigate To a Folder Based On Clipboard Contents

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-10-02 08:34

  Hi jimerg,
  
  This could do done with the exiting QAP features and, for #2, some batch file coding. I'm leaving today for 2 weeks and could not elaborate on this now but here are the headlines:
  
  1) use placeholder {Clipboard} and create a folder favorite with location "C:\Cars\{Clipboard}"
  see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/tag/placeholders/
  
  - create a batch file that checks if the folder exists and creates it if it does not. The batch would receive the folder to check as parameter. Add an "Application" favorite with the location of this batch file and enter "C:\Cars\{Clipboard}" (keeping the double quotes) in the parameters field.
  
  If you need help creating this type of batch file, maybe other users could jump in until I'm back.
  
  Good luck.
  
  (I'll move this thread to the "Support" section).

• RE: Automatically Navigate To a Folder Based On Clipboard Contents

  joeNOR > 2021-10-02 12:20

  Here is one possible example.
  
  ifexist.cmd
  

  Code:

  @echo off

if EXIST %1 (
     echo The %1 folder exists
) ELSE (
     mkdir %1
     echo %1 folder created
    )
)
pause

  
  Call it from a QAP favorite with "C:\Cars\{Clipboard}" as parameter.
  
  Regards,
  joeNOR
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