Author Topic: Windows Shortcut transformation (Read 35810 times)

Contro · « **Reply #25 on:** February 23, 2011, 05:14 PM »

Ouwwww. That's not my spirit. I use shortcuts precisely to not duplicate file space. With seven real hard disk in my new pc I am plenty of space. Super plenty of space. I think a hard drive goes better is plenty of space. Today is easy with disks of 2 TB with variable speed.
I have downloaded the soft and try for the future.

At the present moment I need to export some information and create recopilations of real files under relative hyperlinks under one single folder. Not a dozen folders inside 7 hard disks specialized. That's is mi situation for the rest of my life, but not for the rest of the world I need to communicate.

Sometimes I need duplicate the information in one single folder to share.....

Better to share.

4wd · « **Reply #26 on:** February 23, 2011, 09:31 PM »

Here's a mostly finished version, there's a couple more things I want to do/cleanup but it seems to work OK - it hasn't formatted my drive so that's a bonus.

What's been done:

Added: A real GUI
Added: Duplicate folder tree option. It obeys the state of the Recursive copy option, ie. it'll only work on the source directory unless the Recursive option is selected. Empty folders will be copied if this option is enabled. It will duplicate the folder tree even if no shortcuts are found.
Added: Delete shortcut option. It will only delete the original shortcut if the copy was successful, (that's the theory anyway), the existing source folder structure will be left intact.
Added: About button

Thinking of doing:

Adding an option to just duplicate the folder tree. ie. Not to copy files/folders linked by a shortcut.
Adding an option to rewrite the shortcuts to point to the destination copy.
Adding a progressbar, (but don't count on it).
Winning the lottery.
Going on holiday to Tenerife

You can refresh the display by using F5 after the copy has finished.

NOTE: This program only acts upon shortcuts, (*.lnk), therefore it won't copy real files and it'll only copy the folder structure if the Duplicate folder tree option is selected.

See here.

PhilB66 · « **Reply #27 on:** February 23, 2011, 11:30 PM »

Winning the lottery.

-4wd (February 23, 2011, 09:31 PM)

Do you need beta testers?

4wd · « **Reply #28 on:** February 23, 2011, 11:47 PM »

Winning the lottery.

-4wd (February 23, 2011, 09:31 PM)

Do you need beta testers?
-PhilB66 (February 23, 2011, 11:30 PM)

If you mean by 'beta testers', someone who'll buy the tickets and then give me all proceeds of winnings, (I'd reimburse you the ticket cost - I'm not that much of a skinflint), then the answer is yes

OK, on with the perpetually evolving piece of randomly generated code: Short2Real v0.19

Since you last possibly downloaded it:

Added: Option to just duplicate the folder tree, no copying is done. Selecting this will disable the Delete and Rewrite options - makes sense once you think about it.
Added: Option to rewrite the original shortcuts to point to the new file/folder location. Only done if the copy was successful because it has to delete the original shortcut first. The Delete and Rewrite options are mutually exclusive, selecting one disables the other.

The next time you might download it:

Progressbar - still a definite maybe.

Feel free to test it out on your most prized files, files where if they disappeared you'd run around the house screaming, "I'll kill him! Honest to <bleep> I'll kill the <bleeping> <bleep>!!!"

BTW, I have no idea if this will work on a computer using strange foreign characters, (foreign as in non-English).

See here.

Contro · « **Reply #29 on:** February 24, 2011, 09:47 AM »

I'll try and comment the last version. I supposed is not problem with the english version. But I'll try with the ñ , and the tildes o accents.

If you come to Tenerife I want to know you. Tell me the date please.

4wd · « **Reply #30 on:** February 26, 2011, 03:07 PM »

Short2Real v0.20

The most suspected features have been added:

Added: Progressbar incremented for every shortcut processed.
Added: Log file that can be viewed/saved at the end of shortcut processing.
Added: Tooltips for the checkbox options.

That's it unless any

scurry out of the codework...

Contro · « **Reply #31 on:** February 28, 2011, 09:29 AM »

Ohhhh Yessss. I promised test deeply.

I am beyond many whats and returning. I have to complete the vast information project with your program.

Best Regards

As you said the program now copy directories, even empty folders. Give information about process copying shortcuts and make copy of the entire original folder any, but give election to copy or not copy the shortcuts, even rewriting. Splendid.

I understand the possibility to rewrite shortcuts not in the original folder, only in the target folder. That's the transformation.
I understand the possibility to delete shortcuts in the original folder, but for me is not interesting this thing. May be only in the case I want to transform the original folder in the target folder in the same position.
Perhaps I am confusing myself.

4wd · « **Reply #32 on:** February 28, 2011, 08:46 PM »

I understand the possibility to rewrite shortcuts not in the original folder, only in the target folder. That's the transformation.
-Contro (February 28, 2011, 09:29 AM)

This was in the case where you wanted to shift all the targets of shortcuts to somewhere else so you could delete the files in their original locations.

I understand the possibility to delete shortcuts in the original folder, but for me is not interesting this thing.

This was so you could use it like a simple backup/organisation kind of thing. eg. You could collect shortcuts to various files/folders on your drives into one folder, (without having to physically move them), then later, (say once a week/month), just run the program to copy them all to one place without doing it one at a time. The shortcuts are deleted ready for the next time you want to do it for a different set of files/folders.

I had to add the shortcut deletion anyway for the rewriting section so I made it a separate option.

One thing I forgot to do was check to see if there's enough drive space on the destination, so I think currently if you run out it'll just show up as failed copies in the log. Calculating total copy size is something I can add but it would probably slow down the operation if there's folders with lots of files. Something I'll look into.

Contro · « **Reply #33 on:** April 29, 2011, 11:21 AM »

This is just the time to test deeply. I will comment anything and enjoy everything.

Best Regards. I need to execute a lot the program this weekend.

Contro · « **Reply #34 on:** April 30, 2011, 08:43 AM »

First Scenario

Expected : don't copy the real files
Unexpected : don't find any shortcut and creates only the folder CRONO empty. This folder contains 18 real folders and six shortcuts to folders. And inside contains more files, folders and shortcuts.