Hardlink for a directory

[Guest]

I need to install an application twice for a bilingual application,
once in English and once in Spanish. These will be in separate
directories under Program Files. They need to share a common
data directory.

I was hoping to use something like "fsutil hardlink create" but
this won't work on a directory. I doubt that creating a shortcut
will work because of the .lnk suffix.

Is there a way I can share a directory in two locations that
will be recognised by an application?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I need to install an application twice for a bilingual application,
once in English and once in Spanish. These will be in separate
directories under Program Files. They need to share a common
data directory.

Does the application support this? (i.e., being installed twice, one per
language)

I was hoping to use something like "fsutil hardlink create" but
this won't work on a directory. I doubt that creating a shortcut
will work because of the .lnk suffix.

If you can install both apps, can you not simply open up each and point them
at the common data folder?

 

[Guest]

My plan was to install them in different directory paths, i.e.

\Program Files\VendorName_en (for the english install)
\Program Files\VendorName_es (for the spanish install)

This way they are mostly self-contained. There is a data directory
in each that would need to be kept in sync. For this reason, I only
wanted one. I don't believe there is a mechanism to change this
data directory (db) in the program. It just assumes the presence
of this directory in the installation dir. A shortcut would not work
since it has the ".lnk" suffix and the application would not see the
data directory.