[Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7

[Doug Laidlaw]

I made this one from Linux.  I can't even see them in Windows.  They
seem to count as hidden files.

Doug.

On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:08:06 -0700
Jeff Robins <jeffrobinssae at gmail.com> wrote:

> NTFS has had symbolic links for a long time. I think since at least
> win2k, but no one used them, even MS. I don't think you could even
> make them with the normal tools.
> 
> --Jeff
> On Jul 8, 2012 7:37 AM, "Doug Laidlaw" <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > Everybody probably knows this except me :(
> >
> > Browsing my new Windows 7 installation, I noticed a lot of symbolic
> > links, identified by Linux as such.  AFAIK, this is new in Win7; it
> > wasn't there in WinXP, which I have been using.
> >
> > I have just used this advantage to get around the following problem:
> >
> > Directories with spaces can be excluded in rsnapshot, by replacing
> > the space with a ?, but a bug in rsync prevents directories with
> > spaces from being backed up at all.  In the parent Windows
> > directory, I created a symlink without spaces for the inaccessible
> > sub-directory.  I was able to create it and add it
> > to /etc/rsnapshot.conf, and the backup proceeded to completion.
> > Changing the name of the subdirectory would probably have made it
> > unusable by its Windows app.  If Windows hadn't allowed it, I would
> > have put the link somewhere in Linux.
> >
> > Doug.
> >
> >
> 
> 
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