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Capturing File copy/delete/rename thru Shell Extension or other means..
There is a shell extension interface ICopyHook which gets called when there is copy / rename / delete operation on the FOLDERS (and PRINTERS). By implementing this interface you could deny / allow these
operations on the file system thru Shell (Explorer or Common dialog boxes ).
Question :
I would like to do the same for the FILES too. I didn't find anything in the Shell extension though. How to do this with any other apporach ? Want to do this in the User space.
operations on the file system thru Shell (Explorer or Common dialog boxes ).
Question :
I would like to do the same for the FILES too. I didn't find anything in the Shell extension though. How to do this with any other apporach ? Want to do this in the User space.
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Thanks Madshi for the response.
I was looking for the specific feature of Shell extension in ICopyHook . The copy - paste . If this operation is performed on a folder shell calls into the Icopyhook handler if present. I wanted a similar for files too possibly thru Shell. Else any other way . At driver leve it would not serve the purpose for me.
I was looking for the specific feature of Shell extension in ICopyHook . The copy - paste . If this operation is performed on a folder shell calls into the Icopyhook handler if present. I wanted a similar for files too possibly thru Shell. Else any other way . At driver leve it would not serve the purpose for me.
You could possibly hook the API SHFileOperation system wide. Would that help? That's no easy task, though...
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If I can hook to the SHFileOperation and get called for all file operations ( copy,cut-paste in perticular)(without effecting system performance) that would be great. Any idea how I can hookup to it ? I'll go thru the docs in the mean time. Thanks.
Ehm, well, not for copy/paste itself, but for the following file operations. Do you really need to hook the copy/paste itself? In that case it gets *very* complicated. You could try to hook Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V + Ctrl-X and the menues, too. But that's really ugly... :-( For what purpose do you need this stuff? Is there really no other way?
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Yup that would be really ugly. But your previous comment of hooking upto ShFileOperation made me think if there is a way I can intercept SHFileOperation() call by shell and override it. The purpose is to avoid stuff getting copied from my file system to anywhere else.
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Regards, Madshi.