Super Shortcut? Windows Tunnel?

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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.

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
 
Doesn't really answer your question - but why not just use Windows Explorer
to keep a list of favourites?
 
Mac,

I don't understand? How does that help me solve my problem?

I am not using the explorer, I am in the windows save dialog box where I
can't access explorer favorites. Or can I? Am I missing something there? I
just looked again and didn't see a way to access the favorites from the
windows save or open dialog boxes.

It would solve most of my problem if I could add to the list on the left of
the windows open and save boxes. The list is the icon list that shows My
Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, and My Network Places.

If I could add a couple of folders there, it would help some.

Kirk
 
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