[nfbcs] Moving Default Folders in Win 7

[Jim Barbour]

"So, what the heck is the difference between a symbolic link and a shortcut?"  Says the linux user.

Jim

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 08:45:29AM -0700, Dave wrote:
> Your looking for symbolic links. This is available as of windows vista. Use the command mklink from a command prompt. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Aug 29, 2012, at 7:59 PM, "Nicole B. Torcolini Home" <ntorcolini at wavecable.com> wrote:
> 
> > No. Data and storage files for programs don't work that way. If you have an
> > Outlook storage file, you cannot point Outlook to a shortcut to it; you have
> > to point it to the actual file. Same goes for other programs. 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> > Of Jim Barbour
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 6:42 PM
> > To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Moving Default Folders in Win 7
> > 
> > Couldn't Fred move the folders to the D drive and then create shortcuts to
> > them on the C drive?
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 09:26:59PM -0400, Fred Wurtzel wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> ok, I was fraid of that.  Sometimes I simply want life to be simple. 
> >> (smile)
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Warm Regards,
> >> 
> >> Fred
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> >> Behalf Of Nicole B. Torcolini Home
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 8:01 PM
> >> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
> >> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Moving Default Folders in Win 7
> >> 
> >> You need to go into the settings of each respective program and tell 
> >> it where to find the folders. I would copy rather than moving them and 
> >> not delete the original copy until you know that everything is working.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> >> Behalf Of Fred Wurtzel
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:23 AM
> >> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> >> Subject: [nfbcs] Moving Default Folders in Win 7
> >> 
> >> Hello List,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I have a Win 7 machine with a single hard drive partitioned into 2 
> >> unevenly divided parts (c: and D:-).  I want to move my dropbox, my 
> >> outlook message and my iTunes file folders to the other section, from 
> >> c: to d:.  I wonder if I simply copy and move the folders if Windows 
> >> will reassign the files to the new folder locations, namely Dropbox, 
> >> Outlook and iTunes will still save properly into the new folder location?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Without trying to be redundant, if Dropbox now saves files into a 
> >> folder such as c:\Dropbox, and I move the folder to now be d:\Dropbox, 
> >> will it save properly into the new folder location?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thanks.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Warm Regards,
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Fred
> >> 
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