Find a drive with a specific name/Find CD Drives

 

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The first function will search your drives and return the drive letter of the drive with the name specified. Use like this... mydrive = findDriveNamed("MyCD")If no drive is found it returns "" The second function returns a lit of all the CD drives on a system. Call like this... CDdrives = findCDDrives()

on findDriveNamed whatName   drives = drivesToList()   repeat with x = drives.count down to 1     if baDiskInfo( drives[x], "Name" ) = whatName then       return drives[x]       exit     end if   end repeat   return "" end on findCDDrives   cdList = []   drives = drivesToList()   repeat with x = drives.count down to 1     if baDiskInfo( drives[x], "type" ) = "CD-ROM" then       add cdList, drives[x]     end if   end repeat   if cdList = [] then     alert("No CD Drives found or no discs loaded.")   else     return cdList   end if end on getBehaviorDescription me   describe = "The first function will search your drives and return the drive letter of the drive with the name specified.  Use like this..." & return & "mydrive = findDriveNamed(" & quote & "MyCD" & quote & ")" & "If no drive is found it returns " & quote & quote & return & "The second function returns a lit of all the CD drives on a system.  Call like this..." & return & "CDdrives = findCDDrives()" & return & "Both require the freeware fileXtra - free with Dir 6.5 and 7"   return describe end