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Junctions or Symbolic links are not complicated by their usage; but structuring them can be complicated.
Junctions or Symbolic links are not complicated by their usage; but structuring them can be complicated.
How can you differentiate what is a symbolic link is in explorer, looking at the icon or analyzing the properties of the file doesn't reveal anything ?
Yep. You cannot tell, through Explorer what is a symbolic link and what isn't. It's supposed to be that 'transparent'.
You can do some fancy-schmancy things with the Command Prompt or PowerShell to determine if an item is a reparse point (note the technical term for these types of links) or not. The quickest way would be to fire up a Command Line and run a Dir command on the folder the link resides in.
hi kari, thanks for the good idea with mklink to link some folder to other directory, at the first its so usefull,and i try it in my office, i create a link in a drive for other people to share my data but someday i realize that my folder isnt shyncronize anymore, i dont know why, there are many data there that have to syncronize, do you have a solution for this problem?
thanks.
hi kari, thanks for the good idea with mklink to link some folder to other directory, at the first its so usefull,and i try it in my office, i create a link in a drive for other people to share my data but someday i realize that my folder isnt shyncronize anymore, i dont know why, there are many data there that have to syncronize, do you have a solution for this problem?
thanks.
Until Kari responds, one thing that comes to my mind is you copy pasted the link and it has changed into a normal folder with the contents at the time.
I created two Directory Junctions, one being a test, which worked, the second didn't work. Do folder names with spaces have an effect on Junctions ? The error I'm getting is; cannot create a file when that file already exists. I looked to this page for help but the second attempt at creating a junction has failed three times with the error mentioned earlier in this message ?
At one point I mistakenly created a Directory Junction for a folder on my main Windows Drive that doesn't exist; can this be deleted or did Windows create a Junction out of nothing and it's simply invalid ?
Last edited by JerometheGiraff; 20 Sep 2015 at 09:48. Reason: Empty Junction Created
Yes use " at the beginning and end of paths. You can simply delete the junctions or rename them.
"C:\I got space\more space\whatever folder"