On 5/21/2018 6:28 AM, Fokke Nauta wrote:
Hi all,

I have several pc's in our LAN, under which W10 pro 64b. On all pc's I
installed an application to play music. The music files are located on
the server, but each application has its own data catalogue files,
located in C:\Program Files (x86)\xxxxxxxx\Userdata. It has always costs
me some effort to synchronize all the data files.
Recently I discovered the symbolic link. The data files are now stored
on the server in E:\Files\xxxxxxxx\Userdata. The directories in all
other pc's, C:\Program Files (x86)\xxxxxxxx\Userdata, are replaced by a
symbolic link to the Userdata directory on the server.
All applications still think they have their own directory, but they now
share a common directory on the server. All works well and I was
pleasantly surprised by this possibility. Never used it before.
It's easy to create symbolic links and junctions with the utility called
Link Shellextension. You can find it on
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinks....html#download.

I thought this might be interesting to share with this group.

Fokke

Yes, been using them for quite some time now. I first discovered their
usefulness when I ran out of space in my C: drive for userdata, and then
I just moved all of that over to the D: drive, and relinked it back to
the C: drive again. It was as if nothing had changed.

However, Microsoft doesn't support the symbolic links as much as it
should. Because it came time to to upgrade from Windows 7 to 10, it
balked at all of that. I had to go through a long convoluted process to
change the Userdata officially from C: to D: and then it finally upgraded.

Yousuf Khan