Flashdisk Directory File Management - Datalogic Joya User Manual

Use and Functioning

FlashDisk Directory File Management

All of the Windows Embedded Compact 7 system files reside in RAM
(volatile memory) except for the FlashDisk directory, which resides in
FLASH (non-volatile memory).
Therefore the contents of the FlashDisk directory are persistent even
if the mobile computer is rebooted or the battery pack is changed.
You can save your more important files that you don't want to lose
due to mobile computer reboot, in the FlashDisk directory or create a
sub-directory within FlashDisk.
Even though the Windows Directory resides in RAM, it often contains
files or sub-directories created by the user or by installation
programs that you don' t want to lose at re-boot. To keep these files
persistent it is necessary to copy them to the directory
\FlashDisk\Windows.
This directory doesn' t exist originally (only FlashDisk exists), and
therefore it must be created. At the next cold boot, before activating
the shell, Windows Embedded Compact 7 will copy the contents
including all sub-directories of \FlashDisk\Windows to \Windows.
Likewise, to maintain files that must be run at Windows Embedded
Compact 7 startup, (i.e. .exe, .lnk, .vb, .htm, etc.), it is necessary to
copy them to the directory \FlashDisk\Startup.
This directory does not exist originally (only FlashDisk exists), and
therefore it must be created. The applications programs will be run
after any type of re-boot (both software and cold boot).
However, since file system persistence is performed after the
"\FlashDisk\Startup" folder execution, for those programs which
depends upon the DLLs and resources copied from
"\FlashDisk\Windows" to "\Windows" during the cold-boot, the
"\FlashDisk\Windows\dl_startup" folder is to be preferred to
execute programs and applications, since the execution follows the
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