Pinboard on RISCOSbits Pi-Harder SSD

Traditionally loading files onto the Pinboard is done from the Boot disc. I have some user files on the SSD but when put onto the Pinboard and saved they are ignored on the next boot-power-up. What appears to be happening is that the SSD is only seen after the Boot-up process is completed. By this time Pinboard has already auto-run so the files on the SSD are ignored. Is there a way to run Pinboard (Choices.Tasks) automatically after the OS sees the SSD?

Are you not running !Boot from the SSD?

No – but that would seem to be the most sensible thing to do. I’ll look into it.

A pinboard file can be Filer_Run from anywhere, so if you save your pinboard as you want it after your SSD is seen, you could make a simple dummy application with the PinBoard file within it as !Boot and save it on the SSD.

Then this replacement pinboard file would take effect as soon as your SSD root was opened – that is, was “seen” by the filer. You wouldn’t even have to click on anything!

At one time I had separate pinboards for different activities such as programming, finance and so forth.

In those days screens were so much smaller!

I didn’t make it very clear but the Pi-Harder uses an SD card for the Boot program and utilities/programs. It also contains an SSD which is partitioned for RISC OS and Linux. There is a file in Boot.Choices.Tasks that initialises the SSD but Pinboard was running before initialisation and therefore didn’t see any of the Pins associated with the SSD. With Andy’s help it was a simple case of renaming the init file to force it to see the SSD before running Pinboard. Thanks Frederick and John for your postings.