Quick recovery without Sandboxie Control

[U ser]

For everyday use and forced apps I never have Control running in the background so the immediate recovery dialog never shows up. I can live with that. However when using the command-line delete the potential recovery items are gone without a message. So the files are best recovered before any deleting takes place.


When I save a lot of files immediate recovery won't be that convenient anyway because the dialog shows up for every single file. That leaves the quick recovery feature. It's much faster, all files are listed and can be recovered with one click. Now if that quick recovery dialog could be configured to start (initiated by Sandboxie service/driver) after the last program in a Sandbox closed, it would be perfect.




I would use a command-line to start the quick recovery if there was one as an alternative if you think my suggestion will not work.


Overall I think the whole recovery part of Sandboxie could be improved and made more seamless for the user but that is probably already on your to-do list so I won't bother you with more requests (for now).

[tzuk]

Quick Recovery is just copying files from sandbox folders to corresponding folders outside the sandbox. What you write implies that you are comfortable with the command line, so I suggest that you write a batch file to do this copying yourself.

[U ser]

Is there a command-line to bring up this window?



Maybe you are thinking of something specific here but I cannot come up with anything how a batch file would help me or would be an alternative to the requested feature. Could you give me a little hint? I do not want to blindly copy over all files but have some automation without going through these steps every time: 1) Start Control 2) Bring up the Quick Recovery dialog 3) Hit recover 4) Exit Control.

The key here is that there is no way of having files recovered in realtime or at least after closing the last program (not deleting the Sandbox) without the GUI.

[tzuk]

I did mean to suggest automatic "blind" copying of all files from a particular folder inside the sandbox to a particular folder outside the sandbox.

Is there some good reason that you don't want to leave Sandboxie Control running? Leaving it running will save you steps 1 and step 4, and since you're going to interact with Quick Recovery dialog anyway, a couple more mouse clicks to invoke it, that doesn't seem like a big thing to me.

[Mike]

However when using the command-line delete the potential recovery items are gone without a message.

Tzuk, even for those of us who keep Sandboxie Control running, the ability to call Right-click -> "Delete Contents" from the command line could be useful for batch files.

For example, every time I update a Firefox extension or preference, I need to recover and delete 5 web-browsing sandboxes. Because I don't want to blindly delete/recover, and Sandboxie Control doesn't show which sandboxes are already empty, this currently requires at least 15 mouse clicks. Not a big deal, but it would be nice to automate this in a batch file that would invoke "Delete Contents" for each sandbox. (And ideally, sandboxes with no files to recover would be deleted without asking, perhaps if a /Q switch is supplied.)

[tzuk]

OK, next version of Sandboxie I plan to focus on enhancements to Sandboxie Control, so I will consider adding some command line options there.

[Mike]

Thanks, tzuk!

[U ser]

Sounds great tzuk, thank you.

Something we could use as a trigger for those new command-line options, similar to AutoExec but instead when the last program closes? That would make one powerful feature for me.

A perfect solution for the recovery would be to show the quick recovery dialog only if there is something to recover, when called by command-line.