{"id":4,"date":"2010-04-09T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T10:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2022-07-25T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:27:41","slug":"symlinks-in-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/2010\/04\/symlinks-in-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"Symlinks in Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use symlinks all the time in Linux, and they are very useful. Anyways,\u00a0I was glad to know they can now be done in Vista\/7. I had a dual boot OS, and I had Outlook on both OS&#8217;s and wanted 1 Local outlook store. I tried to change Outlooks storage of the ost file, but couldn&#8217;t easily edit the path. Enter symlink:<\/p>\n<pre>C:\\&gt;mklink \/d C:\\Users\\sburke\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Outlook E:\\Users\\sburke\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Outlook\r\n#mklink pathtolink pathtosourcetarget<\/pre>\n<p>The \/d switch is for directory.<br \/>\nLooking at the Outlook folder in Explorer, it had a shortcut icon, and going into it, kept the path correct at c:\\<br \/>\nReference: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydigitallife.info\/2007\/05\/22\/create-symbolic-links-hard-links-and-directory-junctions-in-vista-with-mklink\/\">http:\/\/www.mydigitallife.info\/2007\/05\/22\/create-symbolic-links-hard-links-and-directory-junctions-in-vista-with-mklink\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use symlinks all the time in Linux, and they are very useful. Anyways,\u00a0I was glad to know they can now be done in Vista\/7. I had a dual boot OS, and I had Outlook on both OS&#8217;s and wanted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/2010\/04\/symlinks-in-vista\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[57,5,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}