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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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Fokke Nauta wrote:
... 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. ... See replies to your *multi*-posted copy over in the alt.windows7.general newsgroup. Despite not multi-posting over to the microsoft.public.windowsp.general, yep, reparse points are available there, too. Reparse points (aka junctions, symbolic links) are available *ONLY* when using NTFS, not when using the FAT file system. |
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On 5/21/2018 5:18 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Fokke Nauta wrote: ... 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. ... See replies to your *multi*-posted copy over in the alt.windows7.general newsgroup. Despite not multi-posting over to the microsoft.public.windowsp.general, yep, reparse points are available there, too. Reparse points (aka junctions, symbolic links) are available *ONLY* when using NTFS, not when using the FAT file system. I'd still like a shortcut that points to two or more places instead of just one guess I should make a powershell script ... -- dale - http://www.dalekelly.org/ Not a professional opinion unless specified. |
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dale wrote:
I'd still like a shortcut that points to two or more places instead of just one So, you mean a "Library" |
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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 |
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On 5/22/2018 2:28 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
dale wrote: I'd still like a shortcut that points to two or more places instead of just one So, you mean a "Library" if that is the term -- dale - http://www.dalekelly.org/ Not a professional opinion unless specified. |
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Cool - *nix has been doing that for 30 years.
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On 22/05/2018 19:20, ray carter wrote:
Cool - *nix has been doing that for 30 years. Yes, unix and linuxes are far superior to Windows. Fokke |
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On 21/05/2018 23:18, VanguardLH wrote:
Fokke Nauta wrote: ... 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. ... See replies to your *multi*-posted copy over in the alt.windows7.general newsgroup. Despite not multi-posting over to the microsoft.public.windowsp.general, Sorry - wasn't aware of this group ... yep, reparse points are available there, too. Reparse points (aka junctions, symbolic links) are available *ONLY* when using NTFS, not when using the FAT file system. |
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On Wed, 23 May 2018 08:36:49 +0200, Fokke Nauta
wrote: On 22/05/2018 19:20, ray carter wrote: Cool - *nix has been doing that for 30 years. Yes, unix and linuxes are far superior to Windows. You wouldn't know it from using Ubuntu. The underlying parts might be superior (especially the filesystems and how they store data on a drive) but their software selections and reliability are not much better. The support system (fellow users unless you bought the Linux distribution from a company like Redhat) is also worse. |
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In article , Doomsdrzej
wrote: Cool - *nix has been doing that for 30 years. Yes, unix and linuxes are far superior to Windows. You wouldn't know it from using Ubuntu. The underlying parts might be superior (especially the filesystems and how they store data on a drive) but their software selections and reliability are not much better. The support system (fellow users unless you bought the Linux distribution from a company like Redhat) is also worse. yep. linux is great for servers or embedded devices, but for the desktop, it's awful. the software selection is very limited and the quality of what does exist is generally quite poor. |
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Doomsdrzej wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2018 08:36:49 +0200, Fokke Nauta wrote: On 22/05/2018 19:20, ray carter wrote: Cool - *nix has been doing that for 30 years. Yes, unix and linuxes are far superior to Windows. You wouldn't know it from using Ubuntu. The underlying parts might be superior (especially the filesystems and how they store data on a drive) but their software selections and reliability are not much better. The support system (fellow users unless you bought the Linux distribution from a company like Redhat) is also worse. Where does one get tech support for Windows then? Given we're all here the support system is identical despite the fact we've all paid Microsoft for their software... |
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In article , Chris
wrote: Yes, unix and linuxes are far superior to Windows. You wouldn't know it from using Ubuntu. The underlying parts might be superior (especially the filesystems and how they store data on a drive) but their software selections and reliability are not much better. The support system (fellow users unless you bought the Linux distribution from a company like Redhat) is also worse. Where does one get tech support for Windows then? Given we're all here the support system is identical despite the fact we've all paid Microsoft for their software... a microsoft store is one of the better options. where are the linux stores? |
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nospam wrote:
In article , Chris wrote: Yes, unix and linuxes are far superior to Windows. You wouldn't know it from using Ubuntu. The underlying parts might be superior (especially the filesystems and how they store data on a drive) but their software selections and reliability are not much better. The support system (fellow users unless you bought the Linux distribution from a company like Redhat) is also worse. Where does one get tech support for Windows then? Given we're all here the support system is identical despite the fact we've all paid Microsoft for their software... a microsoft store is one of the better options. This is probably a US thing. In our country - The Netherlands - the Microsoft Store is a *web*shop, not a physical store with humans. I don't think it's any different in the rest of Europe/the EU. I have never seen an ad for a (physical) Microsoft store (in contrast to f.e. Apple). A little Google search indicates that there are some physical Microsoft stores in the US. where are the linux stores? Well, for now probably more than Microsoft stores! :-) I.e. a few is more than zero. But coming back to support, the big difference is how you're treated. With Linux, you get your head bitten off and get no solution. With Microsoft/Windows, you get treated politely and get no solution! |
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nospam wrote:
In article , Chris wrote: Yes, unix and linuxes are far superior to Windows. You wouldn't know it from using Ubuntu. The underlying parts might be superior (especially the filesystems and how they store data on a drive) but their software selections and reliability are not much better. The support system (fellow users unless you bought the Linux distribution from a company like Redhat) is also worse. Where does one get tech support for Windows then? Given we're all here the support system is identical despite the fact we've all paid Microsoft for their software... a microsoft store is one of the better options. Never heard of such a thing. |
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