Windows Shortcut ?

[Scientific]

Hello all,

I'm trying to burn a shortcut file to CD that points to Microsoft Access
along with some other files . When Windows gets to the shortcut file a popup
window appears and it shows that MSACCESS.EXE will be burned instead of the
actual shortcut file.

The same thing happens when I try using NERO to burn the shortcut file to
CD. I have already burned similar shortcut files that point to ACCESS and
the shortcuts burned ok. Here's the target properties of the shortcut:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\Recipes\Recipe
FE" /wrkgrp "C:\Recipes"

Does anyone know why this is happening?

-S

 

[Barry Schwarz]

Hello all,

I'm trying to burn a shortcut file to CD that points to Microsoft Access
along with some other files . When Windows gets to the shortcut file a popup
window appears and it shows that MSACCESS.EXE will be burned instead of the
actual shortcut file.

The same thing happens when I try using NERO to burn the shortcut file to
CD. I have already burned similar shortcut files that point to ACCESS and
the shortcuts burned ok. Here's the target properties of the shortcut:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\Recipes\Recipe
FE" /wrkgrp "C:\Recipes"

Does anyone know why this is happening?

I expect it is a conscious decision on the part of the various burn
utility designers. CDs are used to transfer between systems and also
as backup for later recovery. A shortcut in the first case is
unlikely to be valid on the new system. If you reload the CD on the
same system where it was created, the shortcut might be valid
depending on how much time has elapsed (and other factors).

 

[Scientific]

I found the answer to my question. It seems that if the shortcut in question
already exists on the CD, (Windows and Nero) will try to copy the program
file that the shortcut makes a reference to. The only solution I could find
was to burn them to a new blank CD. Both Windows and Nero will then burn the
shortcut without prompting to also burn the program file the shortcut points
to.

Note:
I discovered that you can make updates to existing files that have been
burned to CD-R as long as the file names are the same. In some cases I have
even added new files to CD-R media, just can't remember which program I used
to do that.

Hope this helps someone else

-S

 

[ju.c]

Change your paths to variables:

%SystemDrive% = C:
%ProgramFiles% = C:\Program Files

from:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\Recipes\Recipe FE" /wrkgrp "C:\Recipes"
to:
"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\MSACCESS.EXE" "%SystemDrive%\Recipes\Recipe FE" /wrkgrp "%SystemDrive%\Recipes"

 

[Scientific]

ju.c,

Wow, thanks a million. You just saved me and others many possible CD
coasters.

-S

 

[Big_Al]

Scientific said this on 12/28/2008 7:19 PM:

Note:
I discovered that you can make updates to existing files that have been
burned to CD-R as long as the file names are the same. In some cases I have
even added new files to CD-R media, just can't remember which program I used
to do that.

As long as you don't 'finalize' the CD. I think that's the term most
burning software uses. It becomes a multi-session CD then. You
don't really update the file like a hard drive, you write a 2nd copy and
the directory is changed to point to the 2nd copy. The first is still
on the CD consuming space. Thus (for very large files) a very
wasteful process.

 

[Scientific]

Big_Al,

Thanks for the heads up. Interesting scenario which sounds about right to
me. That's a pretty clever trick though. Sounds like there's some file
hiding going on to boot. Good info

-S