Windows Shortcut only better??

[kirk_]

I like to leave shortcuts on my desktop to some of the deeper subdirectories
that I use frequently. It saves me a lot of time navigating to those
directories. I usually do this for projects that I am working on instead of
moving the entire project to the desktop. When I need to save a file there,
I can click on Desktop on the left side of the dialog box, then the shortcut
to take me wherever I need to go on the system. Unfortunately, this doesn't
always work because many programs see the shortcut as a file only, and treat
it like a file, instead of going where it points.

For instance, if you are composing an email in OE, and want to attach a
file,
you have to actually navigate to that file in the attach dialog, a shortcut
WON'T take you there. In my FTP program, if I wanted to navigate to a
folder from a shortcut, double clicking on the shortcut uploads the shortcut
instead of going to the folder.

I have seen on some of my hosted Linux/Apache sites a folder that has a
little arrow pointing sideways, when you click on that, it works like a
shortcut, but someone told me that it was a "mapped link" or something like
that, I have forgotten the terminology. I always thought of it as a tunnel
to the other directory.

Is there any way to do something like this in XP?

I know in any flavor of Windows that you can map a hard drive partition to a
folder on another subdirectory tree. I have heard that there is even a way
to map a folder to a drive letter. Is there a way to map a folder to another
folder?

Thanks,

Kirk

 

[Jon]

I use ntfslink for things similar

http://www.elsdoerfer.info/ntfslink/

 

[Kirk_]

Jon,

Thank you, Thank you.

I knew there was something. This is exactly what I need.

I didn't know they were called junction points.

Thanks,

Kirk

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

You can create a folder shortcut that behaves more like a true folder via the following:

Open an explorer window to your start menu.

Open another & browse to the target folder.

Right-click the folder, drag to the Start menu folder, release the mouse button & select 'Create
Shortcut'

In a detail view, this shortcut will show a type of 'Folder' rather than 'Shortcut'

You can move the shortcut wherever you like.

 

[Kirk_]

Hey, that works pretty good too.

I installed the ntsflink program and it lets you create a junction or a hard
link.

This built in functionality in XP does everything that I wanted without
downloading anything extra. I knew that it had to be built into windows
because the MyDocuments folder that is placed on the desktop by default is a
Junction.

Thanks again.

Kirk

You can create a folder shortcut that behaves more like a true folder via
the following:

Open an explorer window to your start menu.

Open another & browse to the target folder.

Right-click the folder, drag to the Start menu folder, release the mouse
button & select 'Create Shortcut'

In a detail view, this shortcut will show a type of 'Folder' rather than
'Shortcut'

You can move the shortcut wherever you like.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

I like to leave shortcuts on my desktop to some of the deeper
subdirectories
that I use frequently. It saves me a lot of time navigating to those
directories. I usually do this for projects that I am working on instead
of
moving the entire project to the desktop. When I need to save a file
there,
I can click on Desktop on the left side of the dialog box, then the
shortcut
to take me wherever I need to go on the system. Unfortunately, this
doesn't
always work because many programs see the shortcut as a file only, and
treat
it like a file, instead of going where it points.

For instance, if you are composing an email in OE, and want to attach a
file,
you have to actually navigate to that file in the attach dialog, a
shortcut
WON'T take you there. In my FTP program, if I wanted to navigate to a
folder from a shortcut, double clicking on the shortcut uploads the
shortcut
instead of going to the folder.

I have seen on some of my hosted Linux/Apache sites a folder that has a
little arrow pointing sideways, when you click on that, it works like a
shortcut, but someone told me that it was a "mapped link" or something
like
that, I have forgotten the terminology. I always thought of it as a
tunnel
to the other directory.

Is there any way to do something like this in XP?

I know in any flavor of Windows that you can map a hard drive partition
to a
folder on another subdirectory tree. I have heard that there is even a
way
to map a folder to a drive letter. Is there a way to map a folder to
another
folder?

Thanks,

Kirk