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f0dder:
Such an approach would probably work, but the process of updating the links could be slow - if having a monitoring program (on the system hosting the "master folder") running at all times is acceptable, the overhead could be reduced. Keep in mind that hardlinks onlycan't reach out to remote machines, or even files on another partition. Vista introduced symlinks which don't have this restriction.

Target:
I may not have understood what it is you're asking for, but could you not leave the files where they are and setup a folder with shortcuts to the content?

it should be pretty trivial to setup a script to monitor the source folders periodically and update the shortcuts, and you could use a junction to map the folder...

of course this presupposes that all the source files are accessible to all the users....

blauand:
@f0dder
Almost did it! :)
XXCOPY  has /SG switch that gathers files into one-level directory and it works as intended.
It also has another one to copy files as hardlinks /MLH.
Then while xxcopy c:\sourcedir\nesteddirs c:\destdir /SG works nicely for normal files.
xxcopy c:\sourcedir\nesteddirs c:\destdir /SG /MLH just copy as hardlinks the files, if any, from the source dir but ignores the files from nested dirs.
But well, it's a little more progress.
BTW are you the same f0dder in osnews.com?

@target
Is it possible to do the same but instead of shortcuts, hardlinks or softlinks?

thanks both :)

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