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Hello, I have an mp3 player that when plugged in to a "Windows" computer gets identified as "Other" of type "Portable Media Player", instead of "removable disk", and doesn't get assigned a drive letter. Is there any way for autoit to recognize this device? The built in function 'DriveGetDrive( "all" )' does not detect it. Thanks.

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That device is not presenting itself as a removable drive to the host, so it's fairly consistent that Windows can't access it as a drive.

You might find code to deal with USB at low level from AutoIt, but be prepared to a non trivial task.

Some digital cameras do so as well, but most smart devices have a software or hardware switch to decide how they behave (drive or media stuff).

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That device is not presenting itself as a removable drive to the host, so it's fairly consistent that Windows can't access it as a drive.

You might find code to deal with USB at low level from AutoIt, but be prepared to a non trivial task.

Some digital cameras do so as well, but most smart devices have a software or hardware switch to decide how they behave (drive or media stuff).

I'll start digging around in the help file, while I'm doing it anyone have any starting points for low level usb access?

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Try the forum search as I seem to recall having seen something in this domain, possibly in the example scripts forum.

Best of luck!

This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.
Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe here
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PCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta.

SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.
SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.
An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.
SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)
A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!
SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt)

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