Convert path to URL?

[pjbw]

I am looking for quickie app into which I can paste a Windows 7 file path and which converts it to a URL.
Very simple: prefixes the path with file:/// and then changes all the \'s to /'s.
(Easy to edit the paths but life's too short).
Are there any suggestions?

 

[UsernameIssues]

It sounds like you currently put a path to a file into the OS clipboard (perhaps using shift-right-click from within Windows Explorer) and then paste/modify that info into the address field of a browser - correct?

Does the path that you start with contain a mapped drive letter or is it a UNC connection? Do you need the app that you are looking for to handle both local/mapped drive paths and UNC paths?

Are there quotation marks around the original path?

Most browsers already convert \ to / and they will handle a mapped local, mapped and UNC paths as is.

 

[pjbw]

It sounds like you currently put a path to a file into the OS clipboard (perhaps using shift-right-click from within Windows Explorer) and then paste/modify that info into the address field of a browser - correct?

Does the path that you start with contain a mapped drive letter or is it a UNC connection? Do you need the app that you are looking for to handle both local/mapped drive paths and UNC paths?

Are there quotation marks around the original path?

Most browsers already convert \ to / and they will handle a mapped local, mapped and UNC paths as is.

I use Thunderbird email client and can Save an email as .eml.
Then in PowerDesk file manager I select the file and Edit, Copy Path as Text.
I then paste this text path into the Notes pane of 'Handy Address Book' against the relevant contact.
HAB doesn't know about Windows paths but if in HAB I prefix the path with 'file:///' and change the back-slashes to make it a URL it goes blue and I can click on it to open the .eml file in my default Opera browser.
From there I can paste the relevant text back into HAB under the relevant URL.
This is very readable and useful.

However I was brought up with Unix and my file paths are often very long; no Libraries, no My Documents, etc. and so editing the paths is tedious.
There must a way to automate this. I do like HAB for managing contacts; maybe something completely different is called for...

 

[UsernameIssues]

A few lines of scripting via AutoIt should do what you want:

$var = StringReplace(ClipGet(), "\", "/")
$var = StringReplace($var, "c:", "file://")
ClipPut($var)

You can edit the "c:" part as needed.

You can run that script via an OS shortcut key...
(assign it something like Ctrl-Alt-c for convert)
...or you can add code that lets it run all of the time - converting the info in the OS clipboard when you press some key or key combo.

Personally, I would leave the script as a text file and run it like that. If you would rather compile it, see the info just above and below the last video in this post.

 

[pjbw]

Apologies for late acknowledgement.
I am working through AutoIt and it does look as if it will do the job.

 

[DAC324]

Hello,

this task can be solved a lot easier with "Copy UNC Path". That's indeed a great tool.

Kind regards,

DAC324

 

[UsernameIssues]

Hello,

this task can be solved a lot easier with "Copy UNC Path". That's indeed a great tool.

Kind regards,

DAC324

How does that tool create a URL?