Hello
I have a number of individual hard drives which are not permanently mounted on my PC at all times (not enough physical drive bays nor connection slots on my MB). I use a USB hard drive docking station when I want to access any particular drive - drives inserted into the docking station show up as normal hard drives (with drive letters) in Windows. I have a dedicated drive assigned to my cycling videos which I record during my rides. This is one of the external drives; to use it, I insert it into the docking station.
The problem is that these drives are not assigned the same drive letter each time they are inserted - one time a drive may be assigned the drive letter F: and the next time it may be assigned the drive letter G:
This can be problematic - for example, Virb Edit is set to automatically look at (for example) a folder on drive F: (which usually contains all my cycling clips). But sometimes this drive is G: or H: or even something else instead - and Virb Edit complains that it cannot find my clips. I then have to specify a 'new' clip location in Virb Edit.
To get around this, I have also assigned this hard drive a dedicated folder name (which does not change no matter which drive letter is assigned to the drive). The 'shortcut' to this folder name has its root in C: drive. Virb Edit uses this folder name to download clips from my Virb Elite. Problem solved.
However, sometimes - after a longer ride where I have recorded a LOT of video data - my Virb Elite has more video data than the space available on C: drive, and Virb Edit complains about this (even though the clips are not downloaded to C: drive at all). I must download a selection of clips at a time to the drive dedicated to this. My Virb Elite has a 64Gb memory card.
It's not a critical problem, but is there a workaround for this too - so that I can download all clips (no matter how many / large they all are) all at once; I'd like to just start the process and go and do something else while it's busy downloading, without having to come and interfere with it every so often?
I happen to be using Windows 7 x64.
Any suggestions?