Folder Shortcut

[Guest]

How can one make a shortcut to a folder act as a folder. What I mean is that
programs do not see shortcuts to folders as actual folders.

If for example I move the contents of folder1 to folder2 and create a
shortcut named folder1 to point to folder2 all programs come up with missing
files. Is there a way around this.

Xe3L

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Xe3L,

How are you accessing the Folder 1 (shortcut)? Via Open/Save As dialog?

 

[Guest]

No the program accesses it drectly. For example templates must be located in
one particular folder and I need to move them to a server.

Xe3L

 

[Malke]

No the program accesses it drectly. For example templates must be
located in one particular folder and I need to move them to a server.

Xe3L

It depends on the program and whether that ability was coded in. For
instance, in MS Office Options you can set default file locations where
you want, such as on a server. Maybe Corel Word Perfect doesn't let you
do this (I don't know this; I'm just using it as an example). What
program uses the templates?

Malke

 

[Guest]

Thanks I got around the issue of the templates but now my problem is with
clipart. I want to put them on a server to be accesabile to every one. The
Clip art dicussion group suggested a method but with their method I loose all
keywords for the search. So I thought of creating a shortcut instead of the
actual directory but it seems that clip organiser does not recognise it.

Xe3L