Winmount: Need Help W/ Batch File!

Hi! I have WinMount on two computers, but on one, it doesn't work properly: I can't mount an archive file. So, I'm using a batch file to decompress a file, use SUBST to mount the folder as a drive, wait until I'm done then recompress if necessary and clean up. The batch file follows:

Code:

@echo off
::echo %1
echo Mounting your WinMount drive now...
::Change the path in the next line to the one of your WinMount installation:
md "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount"
md "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount\%~n1"
"C:\Program Files\WinMount\WinMount.exe" -E %1 "-o:C:\MyPrgs\WinMount\%~n1"
subst z: "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount\%~n1"
pause
subst /d z:
choice /m "Save modifications to WinMount archive?"
if errorlevel 2 goto exit
"C:\Program Files\WinMount\WinMount.exe" -C "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount\%~n1" "-o:%~1"
:exit
rd /s /q "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount\%~n1"
pause

The problem is that, when I use it, I get an extra folder in the path, meaning the path contains an extra entry of the same name. What am I doing wrong? Is there a way to get WinMount to work properly, so I don't need this file? BTW, how do I run Explorer from a batch file?

 

md "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount" remove this line
md "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount\%~n1"

explorer
or a specific directory
explorer "C:\Users\YourName\Documents"

 

I don't understand why I have to remove the first md or how it would work. Thank you for the tip about Explorer, though.

 

I'd prefer to mount using WinMount rather than extracting the contents of archive files and redirecting the folder to another drive. Any troubleshooting tips?

 

Wouldn't having it twice make 2 directories?

 

Maybe WinMount is recompressing the folder created by the batch file instead of its contents. But when I added "\*.*" to the recompression line, WinMount gives me an error. The help didn't help either.

 

md "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount"
md "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount\%~n1"

Yes

Xrobwx71

Is correct The second line deliberately creates a folder named after the archive. Then this line mounts the archive into that folder:

If WinMount itself creates the mounted contents as a folder, that can result in the unwanted extra directory.

If your goal is to have the archive's contents appear directly as Z:\, without the extra archive-named folder, the script should be adjusted so the temporary mount directory isn't nested under %~n1.

I can rewrite the whole batch file to do exactly that while preserving the save modifications prompt.

Try this
@echo off
echo Mounting your WinMount drive now...

:: Temporary WinMount directory
md "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount" 2>nul

:: Mount archive
"C:\Program Files\WinMount\WinMount.exe" -E "%~1" "-o:C:\MyPrgs\WinMount"

:: Map the mounted directory to Z:
subst z: "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount"

pause

:: Unmap Z:
subst /d z:

:: Ask whether to save modifications
choice /m "Save modifications to WinMount archive?"
if errorlevel 2 goto exit

:: Save modifications back to the original archive
"C:\Program Files\WinMount\WinMount.exe" -C "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount" "-o:%~1"

:exit
rd /s /q "C:\MyPrgs\WinMount" 2>nul
pause

The important change
The original creates:

C:\MyPrgs\WinMount\
└── MyArchive\
└── contents...

The revised version mounts directly into:

C:\MyPrgs\WinMount\
└── contents...

So when you access Z:, you should get:

Z:\
├── file1
├── file2
├── folder1
└── ...

rather than:

Z:\
└── MyArchive\
├── file1
└── ...

I also changed %1 to "%~1" so an archive path containing spaces is handled correctly.

 

Thank you. I plan to try your suggestions today. I'd really like WinMount to work properly, though.

 

I prefer to decompress the archive file to its own folder but not add the extra folder to the path when recompressing the archive file. BTW, I usually don't use ">nul" as I like the information.