Re: Enumerating Partition Roots

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:16

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Gerry O'Brien wrote:

>I'm trying to enable applications to search system wide for data on
>startup in the event that the user has moved the data from its last
>known location. This includes mapped network drives.

>I'm stuck with getting the appropriate pidls and their IShellFolder
>bindings for the roots of the local and mapped drives.

Including mapped drives, GetLogicalDriveStrings should work.
Then you could use the  FindFirstFile  APIs on each of the returned
strings.
OTOH, if you want to search the entire network, not just mapped
drives, then you are (probably) going the right direction with pidls.

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