Comment by chmod775
7 years ago
How does that even work? Does Windows not have proper hard/soft links? Don't you maybe have to do some weird things to get around them?
7 years ago
How does that even work? Does Windows not have proper hard/soft links? Don't you maybe have to do some weird things to get around them?
Windows/NTFS has links, but they aren't used for this (and software support for them is ... iffy, which can be an issue with backup tools etc, for which they aren't just transparent). These "known folders" are roughly implemented as environmental variables containing paths to the configured folder.
Soft and hard links are only supported on NTFS formatted disks.
Soft links are supported on ReFS, but hard links are not.
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They are used for the old "My Documents" folders though, right? So why not use them here too, just as a fallback?
I think that works through the same principle, not through links.
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Links have been a feature since vista, at least
Since Win 2k; I'm using Link Shell Extension[1] that puts nice and simple GUI feature in context menus and on icons (green shortcut arrow for example or chain).
[1] - http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext...
Do they work though? I remember trying to use them in the past and never found them to function exactly right.
I use them for tons of stuff. Such as moving spotify song cache (not the same as offline storage location that you can specify in settings) so that it wouldn't use precious SSD space for cache (which was quite the inconvenience back when SSDs were very small/expensive).
It doesn't work well with applications that have a habit to remove and recreate the directory that you want to link though (for obvious reasons).
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