Windows 10 Cmd shell supports MKLINK or you can do "New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink ..." in PowerShell (on newer Windows 10 PCs, I think starting with PowerShell v5 maybe) but the PowerShell is still a bit harder for me to remember how to use when creating Symbolic Links. Sometimes, you can cheat by creating a link in Folder Explorer that will actually function like a symbolic link, but I think that's unlikely to work on average.
https://winaero.com/blog/create-symbolic-link-windows-10-powershell/ Byron ________________________________ From: rtouz...@frontier.com <rtouz...@frontier.com> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 16:12 To: Xiphos Users <xiphos-users@crosswire.org>; rtouz...@frontier.com <rtouz...@teleport.com>; E Metsger <m...@metsger.com> Subject: Re: [xiphos-users] Need advise on using same "Personal" on multiple computers Thanks. I will try that. I discovered (by poking around with emacs) that some tool I used to transfer the files added an html extension to all the files. I have now been able to "copy-paste" a snapshot from one laptop to another. Still working on the sharing problem. (Maybe I will go back to using Ubuntu after all.) On Thursday, August 22, 2019, 11:32:42 AM PDT, E Metsger <m...@metsger.com> wrote: On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:38:07 -0400, rtouz...@frontier.com<mailto:rtouz...@frontier.com> <rtouz...@frontier.com<mailto:rtouz...@frontier.com>> wrote: > I am using two laptops both running Win 10. Xiphos is installed on both > (4.1.0) and the structure of the Sword folder looks the same. So, I > thought I could just copy the "Personal" folder from one to the other. > The copied folder ("target") would not be read by Xiphos on the second > computer. (I checked and the folder would be written to on the second > computer, but it would not read the files that were copied there, even > when I copied the entire folder from the source computer.)I even tried > copying the entire Sword folder over and Xiphos would work, but it would > not read the info in the copied Personal folder. > Is there a setting somewhere or somehow to assign an arbitrary path for > Personal--like is done for StudyPad. (I would actually like to be able > to point Personal to a location on my Gdrive so it could really be > shared between my two laptops. > Thanks. I'm not sure whether Windows 10 supports a Linux-like soft link, although it appears maybe it does?[1] If so, you can add it to your gdrive or dropbox and add a symbolic link, no problem. Good luck! [1]: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtogeek.com%2Fhowto%2F16226%2Fcomplete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ce20adc58694b471bbac908d727459130%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637021052051433721&sdata=a0rymtBSkuHiuNek5cFI%2Fig5doRQSgV0nDyoxp%2BIiPc%3D&reserved=0> -- "I would rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else." The Horse and His Boy
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