Thinapp CD volume label support?

[Sobac]

It there a way to add support for CD volume labels?

Apps which rely on volume labels work fine with "conventional" virtual CD/DVDs since they have volume labels,  but I can find no information on giving Thinapp virtual CD drives a volume label.

I have added the .iso and a copy of Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM control panel to my folder, but using that workaround requires Administrator rights to write to System32 besides greatly increasing the folder size. It's also inelegant and little better than a full install.

Instead of unmounting and mounting various virtual CD drives to choose what I need (many automotive service manuals originally designed to be used in a CD tower) I'd prefer to package each of them and greatly reduce the hassle.

What sayeth the hive mind?

[pbjork]

Sorry to say, but ThinApp do not virtualize the label of a virtual drive, only the content, type, drive letter and serial.

[Sobac]

Thanks for the quick response.

If anyone out there has a workaround do share it. Being able to add a label would be highly useful.

[Cievo]

I don't think there is workaround, because it's CDFS thing and not OS thing.

Have a nice day,

[Sobac]

The inability of Thinapp to import label data isn't an OS problem when many other programs import and manipulate label data just fine and have done so for many years.

It is easy to build .iso images with any volume label you like (though some software has a character limit) in Linux and Windows.

The problem with Thinapp that there is NO volume label import option at all. That existing and readable info is not imported from the .iso image or CD/DVD when creating a Thin virtual drive, which is a Thinapp omission.

A conventional install will search virtual drives for a volume label.  and load their data accordingly. You can install software from a conventional virtual drive to CREATE a Thin application, but Thinapp won't copy the volume label attribute even though it copies everything else required to create its virtual drive. That omission makes the drive useless for applications seeking volume label data.