The principle is simple: if you want to move a file or folder to another location without breaking anything, you can simply create a symlink from the original location to the new location. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A symlink is a special file that ` ` points to '' a hard link on any mounted filesystem. ❋ John Goerzen (N/A)
Windows "junctions" or directory reparse points, while some (such as the Winbolic site) may call them "hard links" or even hard-link-like, are not hard links, because: you can create a Windows symlink to a non-existent folder; you can break a symlink by renaming a symlink's target folder; and you can "fix" a symlink by creating a folder having the name targeted by a symlink. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Deleted 2010-01-06: strace (1) shows that ln - Tfs actually calls symlink (2), unlink (2), and symlink (2) once more, disqualifying it from this page. mv - T link (oldpath, newpath) creates a new hard link called newpath pointing to the same inode as oldpath and increases the link count by one. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For non-tree-like relationships, we also provide a "symlink" in the form of c:Entity: linksTo: called: , which works much like hasChild except that it does not imply containment. ❋ Unknown (2009)
KDESYCOCA = $KDEVARTMP/kdesycoca-custom) or change the cache-$hostname symlink in this $KDEHOME to a real directory. ❋ Fulldecent (2010)
For example: mklink/j “c: usersWillMusiciTunesiTunes Music” d: Music – This line makes a symlink that redirects from the folder c: usersWillMusiciTunesiTunes Music to the Music folder on my second hard drive. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I also use a symlink on the media server, so I'd be really interested to see if this little program could follow the link. jkrell sweatymongoose ❋ Unknown (2009)
Linux or Mac OS X only: The Command-Line Fu web site writes up a quick-and-dirty trick to move files and create a symlink in a single command — so you can move files without breaking anything. ❋ Unknown (2009)
If I create a symlink will this have any secondary effects like copying music into the wrong folder? ❋ Unknown (2009)
You can use junctions on Windows to create a symlink from My Documents to your new Documents folder. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I don't agree with the gotcha "You've got to switch where all your applications save their documents." -- if you're down with switching your documents folder location, you can probably handle setting a NTFS junction point (i.e. symlink) for the default My Documents location to just point to your new "real" location. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Then you must remove the old Users Folder from the Windows/SSD c: drive, before you can create the symlink: ❋ Unknown (2010)
Create a NTFS Junction/symlink that points to the new Users folder: ❋ Unknown (2010)
Similarly, a MUO reader suggests using a previously highlighted method for syncing files and folders outside of Dropbox — creating a symlink between your iTunes Temp Dropbox folder and the monitored iTunes folder — to streamline the process even more. ❋ Unknown (2010)
However, if there is only one matching value, we also present a symlink from the un-numbered value to the numbered directory, so for unique keys we can just use them directly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Having done that, the index tags would appear in the command line interface or the FUSE interface as directories with a rather different structure to those coming from snapshot tags: rather than containing all the dated snapshots plus a symlink called "latest", they would contain a subdirectory for each metadata key that has ever been used in the index name, type, client, archived-on, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the command prompt you will be using Robocopy NOT xcopy! to copy c:Users to d:Users, then delete the old c:Users, then make a symlink from c:Users to D:Users. ❋ Unknown (2010)