Symlinks in Windows 7

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ubuntu

Khabravchane, need help.

I am running Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04 on the same computer. On both OS I use qutIM. The idea came up to organize a general synchronization of history using Dropbox, since the history format is the same.

In Ubuntu, I transferred the history folder to Dropbox without any problems, and created a symlink in the qutIM configuration folder with this command: ln -s ~/Dropbox/qutim/ ~/.config/qutim/history. Everything works perfectly, the history is saved in Dropbox.

In Windows 7, doing something similar does not work. I just removed the history folder from the configuration folder and wanted to link it from the dropbox. I thought this article would help: http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/personal/89864/ . I did everything according to the manual, created a symbolic link, but qutIM does not see the folder (contacts have no history).

How to be? When I was doing this, I didn’t even think that the method above might not work. And now it's embarrassing. :(

Answer 1

With the Junction utility from Sysinternals, you can link to a directory.

Answer 2

In FAR "Alt"+"F6" creates a symlink.

Answer 3

I have not tried it myself, but you can look at the junction points topic. For example, here:
windows7themes.net/how-to-create-junction-points-in-windows-7.html

Answer 4

mklink /D D:\newdir D:\olddir

Answer 5

So if they are on the same computer, then why involve dropbox? Mount ntfs in bootloader and make a link from $HOME to the partition with Windows.

Answer 6

Regarding the Junction utility, they correctly wrote above, but there is only a small clarification - there must be a real folder in the dropbox folder. Move it there, right-click Pick Link source, go to where it was before and right-click Drop as Junction. This is how Miranda's story syncs up

Answer 7

Maybe make a hard link (flag -H)?