Shortcut in Windows 7

kikloo · 01 Dec 2009

Hi,

I have Windows 7 ultimate. I have installed a app. called Xampp in c:\xampp. It has a subfolder called htdocs in which i have to place my files in order to work with the app.

Now my data is so much that i don't want to place it in there and instead i have all my data on another partition of the hard drive in a specific folder i.e: d:\chores

I want to create a shortcut so that what ever i do in d:\chores is considered done in c:\xampp\htdocs. I mean that d:\chores should act like the files etc. are in c:\xampp\htdocs.

This is easily possible in Linux but how to do the same in Windows ?

Thanks.

logicearth · 01 Dec 2009

Well first delete htdocs. Then in a command prompt, mklink /J C:\xampp\htdocs D:\chores, That will create a junction, could also use a symlink if you wanted. Or you could just configure Apache to look in D:\chores instead.

kikloo · 01 Dec 2009

Hi,

What is a difference between a symlink and a junction ?

Thanks.

logicearth · 01 Dec 2009

Not much really...NTFS junction point - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

kikloo · 01 Dec 2009

Hi,

When i am running this command: mklink /D d:\chores c:\xampp\htdocs then i get an error saying: You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation.

What to do ?

Thanks.

logicearth · 01 Dec 2009

You also have the command backwards. Xampp must come before Chores. To create Symlinks you must run the command prompt as Administrator. One reason why I used a Junction.

Code:

mklink [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] link target

Dzomlija · 01 Dec 2009

kikloo said:

Hi,

When i am running this command: mklink /D d:\chores c:\xampp\htdocs then i get an error saying: You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation.

What to do ?

Thanks.

run CMD with elevated priveledges: Click the Start Orb and type "CMD" into the search box (without quotes). In the search results, right-click CMD and select "Run as Administrator".

Try the create juntion command again.

kikloo · 01 Dec 2009

logicearth said:

You also have the command backwards. Xampp must come before Chores. To create Symlinks you must run the command prompt as Administrator. One reason why I used a Junction.

Code:

mklink [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] link target

Hi,

But i don't want to delete that folder coz it has files which are also required.

Thanks.

logicearth · 01 Dec 2009

You want your files stored at D:\chores do you not? The command you attempted to do, would have C:\xampp\htdocs as the REAL location and D:\chores would be the symlink.

Dzomlija · 01 Dec 2009

kikloo said:

logicearth said:

You also have the command backwards. Xampp must come before Chores. To create Symlinks you must run the command prompt as Administrator. One reason why I used a Junction.

Code:

mklink [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] link target

Hi,

But i don't want to delete that folder coz it has files which are also required.

Thanks.

Copy the file to "D:\chores", then follow the instruction to create the junction. As far as the XAMPP program is concerned, the original folder will stll exist. Thats the whole point of a junction.

Although a must point out that any program that forces you to use a very specific folder to store it's data (without giving you the ability to customize the location of said folder) isn't worth using at all.

What does this XAMPP program do?