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Symbolic links
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 |
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