[MEL] Open an explorer window of an other drive

[Nyro]

Where Maya is installed doesn't matter, there are no restrictions other than those set by your user or group policy.

When you say running 'system("explorer D:")' doesn't work, what exactly do you mean?

Try running 'exec("explorer D:")' and see if you get a result other than 0 (0 meaning success).

[Froyok]

Thanks for your response ! :)

What I'm saying is that Maya open a folder, but the one I want.
Every folder I try to open which are located on my C: drive is a success. However, when I try to open a folder located on my second drive, named "D:", I get the "My Documents". It's always the same.

I tried :
exec("explorer D:")
It works (I get 0), because the explorer is launched without any problem, but not where I want (it's not the folder I asked).


This morning, after the reboot of my computer it seems that
system("explorer D:")
works and open my drive D: folder (which was not the case yesterday), however, if I try to open any folder located on this drive I get the same problem as before : it opens my "My Documents" folder.


[EDIT] Haaa, I think I found why it's not working : I was not using the double "\\" (double backward slash).
Since I was calling a system command I didn't thought that the path have to be like that.

[Nyro]

Could you please post the exact code you use in each example and cleary explain the result?

e.g.:

system("explorer D:");
// Result: Opened "C:\Users\User\My Documents"
or
system("explorer D:/myFolder");
// Result: Opened "D:\"

[Froyok]

As I just edited in my post above : I wasn't using the double backward slash (-> \\ ) and that was the problem.
I don't know why I didn't think about sooner... :p

[Nyro]

I thought so:

in Maya, always use forward slashes (/) to delimit folders in pathnames.

Make use of the following commands when dealing with system paths if you need a specific format:

toNativePath(string)
// Convert from '/' to '\\' path formats on Windows, otherwise does nothing. Use this proceedure to convert pathnames retrieved from Maya to more Windows-like backslash-separated pathnames (note that most Windows system calls do handle forward slashes as path-delimiters).

fromNativePath(string)
Convert from '/' to '\' path formats on Windows, otherwise does nothing. This procedure can be used to try to unify path data to use the forward slash character (a safer and more cross-platform way of handling paths, since the forward slash is what Maya uses internally to separate path names).

[Froyok]

in Maya, always use forward slashes (/) to delimit folders in pathnames.
My path was already using it, since it was a path that I get from a fileDialog2 command.

toNativePath(string)
// Convert from '/' to '\\' path formats on Windows, otherwise does nothing. Use this proceedure to convert pathnames retrieved from Maya to more Windows-like backslash-separated pathnames (note that most Windows system calls do handle forward slashes as path-delimiters).
Thanks ! It's exactly what I was looking for ! :)


Thanks for your help !