June 21, 2007 Re: What I do to easily switch between different DMD versions and libraries on Windows | ||||
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Posted in reply to Tomas Lindquist Olsen | Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote: > Don Clugston wrote: > >> Daniel Keep wrote: >>> Henning Hasemann wrote: >>>> "Anders Bergh" <anders1@gmail.com> schrieb (Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:45:30 >>>> +0200): >>>> >>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx >>>>> This tool lets you create directory symlinks (NTFS junctions). >>>> Cool I didnt know Windows has "already" something that comes close to >>>> "real" symlinks. >>>> >>>> Henning >>> They aren't. You need to be very careful with junctions. Firstly, if >>> you delete a junction directly, you will delete the original folder as >>> well! To make this worse, there is no way to tell from explorer if a >>> folder is a junction or not. >> A solution to this would be to change the icon while making the junction. >> Anyone changed a folder icon before? Probably just an API call to set file >> attributes. >> >>> Anders' trick is still cool, but just be very careful with it. MS >>> didn't write a tool to create junctions for a very good reason :) >>> >>> -- Daniel > > Back when I used Windows I used this shell extension which allows you to > manage links and junctions from explorer, and it changes the icons. Very > handy! > > -Tomas For working with junction points (folders) and hard links (file) in Windows I recommend NTFS Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfslinkext It's an extension to file explorer with many features, like junction icon (green arrow), hard link icon (yellow arrow), deletion detection, explorer creation, unlink, link target viewing, etc. . -- Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D |
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