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f0dder:
I'm trying to create a SymLink now, but it won't let me create one for a directory that already exists.-Deozaan (February 02, 2010, 09:29 PM)
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Indeed not, that would be pertty disastrous :). You can make a junction for each application you're going to install, but this is obviously going to be a bit painful.

Another example is that I keep my documents and other profile information on my D drive, but Windows won't let me remove the C:\Users\ directory, all the real data is in D:\Users\-Deozaan (February 02, 2010, 09:29 PM)
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To do this, you'd have to boot from BartPE or similar, move the folder to the destination, then create the junction. I'm not sure it's a good idea trying to move C:\Users this way, though.

Deozaan:
Another example is that I keep my documents and other profile information on my D drive, but Windows won't let me remove the C:\Users\ directory, all the real data is in D:\Users\-Deozaan (February 02, 2010, 09:29 PM)
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To do this, you'd have to boot from BartPE or similar, move the folder to the destination, then create the junction. I'm not sure it's a good idea trying to move C:\Users this way, though.
-f0dder (February 02, 2010, 09:55 PM)
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Hmm... It's something to think about. Thanks for the help!

wraith808:
Here is a shell integration for the functionality... I use it extensively.

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

lanux128:
i'm linking some of the previous DoCo discussions, might give a clearer understanding of how SymLinks work. however i'm not a fan of junctions for the reason f0dder stated in his post.

• https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=4024.0
• https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=8971.0

Deozaan:
I just tested out using Junctions to point "My Dropbox\Games\Diablo II\save" to "Games\Diablo II\save" and it appears to be working properly as far as the fact that it's the same folder and same files, unfortunately it doesn't work at all with regard to Dropbox recognizing the files are changing and synchronizing to the cloud or to other computers.

Has anyone else successfully gotten something like this to work with Dropbox?

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