Comment by jki275

7 years ago

Do they work though? I remember trying to use them in the past and never found them to function exactly right.

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jki275

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).

lysp 7 years ago

I use mine for shortcuts to drives on servers.

    C:\Shares\Server01\C -> \\server01\c$

    C:\Shares\Server02\C -> \\server02\c$

    C:\Shares\Server02\D -> \\server02\d$

    C:\Shares\Web01\webroot -> \\web01\e$\files\stuff\wwwroot

jki275 7 years ago
I guess I need to relook them then. Would definitely make a few things easier in my life. I really don't want my steam directory on my main machine, being able to hard link it to an iscsi drive would be nice if that's possible.
- madhato 7 years ago
  
  Steam has the option to use a different drive, no need for symlinks. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUB...
  
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