grumpyboy
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 Posted: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:09:41 Post Subject: Windows Junction Software linkmagic |
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A nifty piece of software to create Junctions in windows.
I like it because it has a GUI many others are CLI
Junctions are a useful part of the NTFS file system.
Using Junctions you can create a folder, whose contents are another folder in a separate location on your computer.
For example you can create on a new folder on “c:\accounts” then create a junction to “d:\documents\excel\accounts”.
Now when you save a file in “c:\accounts”, in reality it gets saved in “d:\documents\excel\accounts”.
Likewise when you browse the contents of c:\accounts, your browsing the contents of d:\documents\excel\accounts.
I have two folders containing games folders two drives on my pc.
So I have created a folder called “all games”, inside are two folders that been setup as Junctions, “games on g” and “games on e”.
this way I can see all my games installed simply by browsing one folder.
Yes I could use shortcuts but you cant browse the contents of shortcuts in explorer.
I also going to create a junction in a folder on my NAS server, for each of folders that currently are separate shares.
This will enable me to have one share instead of many.
http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm
www.pchelpmate.netlinkmagic
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