23Feb 2022 by Ajayvignesh MV No Comments

Red arrow shortcut glyph on icon in Windows

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After using the hardlink (instead of symbolic link in Link Shell Extension) I noticed this Red arrow shortcut glyph right on the source file from which I created the hardlink to other location. Strangely, Windows Explorer didn't show the hardlink indication however XYplorer showed this clearly. You may mistaken that red arrow is a shortcut but it's actually the source file. Red arrow glyph appearing on XYplorer but not in Window explorer for hardlinked source.
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02Feb 2022 by Ajayvignesh MV No Comments

Reduce Path Lengths using System Links

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Sometimes when you're working with many source files, easily the file paths can go deeper in length and causes you trouble in platforms which has path length limitations. For example, LabVIEW has only a path length of 260 characters, then it starts searching for the same file even if exists in the same location beyond the 260 char path. In such cases, it would be helpful if you can reduce the length of the path but can still maintain a single copy of source files but don't like to move around copies of source files to root directories. Solution My favorite solution for this is to use symlinks or symbolic links. The way symlinks work is pretty much like a shortcut but only that it makes some hard links to…
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