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How-To: Use Symbolic Links to Master Vista's File System

Posted 10/30/2009 at 02:06:22pm

((Symbolic links are to point you at a location which is mostly useful for file folders or if you want to only have to delete one copy of a file to free up space.))

So that means if I have a SYMBOLIC Link on my C: drive pointing to a folder on my D drive and I delete the file C: then the real file on D: will also be deleted?

If that's the case then that means with HARD Links if I delete the HARD Link on C: the real file on D: will still exist?

Which means HARD Links are most like common shortcut (.lnk) files in that their deletion has no effect on the real file and the intentional deletion of the real file just makes the shortcut not work anymore.

Am I on the right track?

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