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Symbolic Links in Vista - Like a playlist, but for anything!

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tomos:
a hard link of a file should clone your file
change one, both should change.

There's a few threads about it here

soft and hard links in ntfs
keeping/saving cloned files

unfortunately it doesnt work on my machine for some reason  :(

Cynic:
Would be good if there was an easier way, maybe via a context menu item or wizard hmm.
-justice (May 10, 2007, 03:37 AM)
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Perhaps this helps, it's been mentioned in other threads in the forum:
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

Hirudin:
I suggest we move the discussion on this to the "soft and hard links in ntfs" thread (linked above as well).

mitzevo:
yeap, hardlinks and related are really nice.. especially when moving around directories and stuff.. makes organizing easier.

for example i use D:\Desktop for my desktop files, so i create a file C:\Documents and Settings\mitzevo\Desktop to be a symlink to D:\desktop instead of changing the paths via the registry, etc.

I kinda agree about ms not making these features obvious, but then again only people who know what they are doing should have easy access to features like this.

Dirhael:
Yeah... but it's so easy to make one (I mean, currently the hardest part is typing the path) I'm sure it would be super easy to make buttons and toolbars and stuff. I bet someone could make one for Directory Opus using only the button editor.
[edit]Took out stuff about DO and size reporting...[/edit]
-Hirudin (May 10, 2007, 03:49 AM)
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Dopus already has support for creating symbolic/hard/soft links and junction points. What I've done is to go to "Settings -> File types", double click on "All files and folders", open the "Drop menu" tab and press new. Type a appropiate name for the action (I've named mine "Create special link(s) here...") and paste the following into the text area:
Copy MAKELINK=auto

Now you can create symlinks by a simple right-click drag-n-drop with and file or folder. About as easy as it can get :)

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