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I tried mklink with both the link and target options, no success ?C:\Windows>mklink C:\Users\....\....\....\....\.....\...\<individual file> C:\1
The syntax of the command is incorrect.
I guess either what Kado has said or path has space in it.
Can you copy paste exact command here?
If this is the exact command you are entering, there's no doubt you'll get a syntax error.
It would say "You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation" if he hadn't.
Here, Jerome, why not tell us where you want your symbolic link placed, also the target it should point to. Then we'll create the command line for you.
A file link is a hard link. This from the tutorial:
Your mklink command has no switches, meaning that Windows thinks it is a symbolic link (a folder). To create a hard link you have to use the /H switch. Another error in your command, and this is quite a fundamental error, is that you have mixed the link and the target, switching their places.A Link can be so called Hard Link linking one file to a target file, or a Soft Link linking a folder to a target folder. Soft Links are also called Symbolic Links. Third link type is Junction, basically a hard link but as hard links can only link files we need to use junctions to link folders.
Here's an example of using the mklink to create a file (hard) link:
- I have an ISO file W10TP_BUILD_10166_X64_EN-US.iso stored in E:\Users\Public\Downloads folder
- I want to refer to this ISO file with a shorter link E:\Test.iso
- The mklink command I have to give, with the /H switch to tell the system I will create a hard link, and link & target in correct places:
Code:mklink /H E:\Test.iso E:\Users\Public\Downloads\W10TP_BUILD_10166_X64_EN-US.iso- The file (hard) link will now be created
That's it.
Kari
It's what you are used to use. I bet I can open the command prompt and type my command in the time I would need to start a third party tool and do the same.
Screenshot in my previous post, I didn't need a full minute to open the command prompt, give the command and make a screenshot.