On 23 March 2013 23:55, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:57:02 +0000 > Richard Oudkerk <shibt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Also, couldn't hard links be used instead of copying? (This will fail > > if not on the same NTFS partition, but then one can copy as a fallback.) > > Hard links are generally hard to discover and debug (at least under > Unix, but I suppose the same applies under Windows). >
(Slightly OT, but I think useful in this case.) That's what the Link Shell Extension < http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html> is for. Makes it very easy to work with Hardlinks, Symbolic links, Junctions and Volume Mountpoints. It gives different overlays for each to icons in Explorer (and Save/Open dialogs) and adds a tab to the properties of any link which gives details e.g. for hardlinks it displays the reference count and all the hardlinks to the same file. There's also a command-line version - ln < http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/ln/ln.html>. Highly recommended. Tim Delaney
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