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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7</H1>
<B>Doug Laidlaw</B>
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<I>Mon Jul 9 05:39:03 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:34:32 -0400
andre999 <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">andre999mga at laposte.net</A>> wrote:
><i> Doug Laidlaw a écrit :
</I>><i> > I made this one from Linux. I can't even see them in Windows. They
</I>><i> > seem to count as hidden files.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i>
</I>><i> msw has had symbolic links not recognisable as such by Linux for a
</I>><i> long time, by default hidden under msw.
</I>><i> What you observe seems to indicate that msw7 has migrated to
</I>><i> unix-style symbolic links.
</I>><i> Interesting. Gradually Microsoft is adopting more and more unix (and
</I>><i> Linux-compatible) features.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> (BTW, it would be easier for others to respond point by point if you
</I>><i> and others didn't top post.)
</I>
Normally I don't. But the first reply was top-posted, so I kept going
in the same direction.
Doug.
><i>
</I>><i> > Doug.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:08:06 -0700
</I>><i> > Jeff Robins<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">jeffrobinssae at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> >> NTFS has had symbolic links for a long time. I think since at least
</I>><i> >> win2k, but no one used them, even MS. I don't think you could even
</I>><i> >> make them with the normal tools.
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> --Jeff
</I>><i> >> On Jul 8, 2012 7:37 AM, "Doug Laidlaw"<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">laidlaws at hotkey.net.au</A>>
</I>><i> >> wrote:
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >>> Everybody probably knows this except me :(
</I>><i> >>>
</I>><i> >>> Browsing my new Windows 7 installation, I noticed a lot of
</I>><i> >>> symbolic links, identified by Linux as such. AFAIK, this is new
</I>><i> >>> in Win7; it wasn't there in WinXP, which I have been using.
</I>><i> >>>
</I>><i> >>> I have just used this advantage to get around the following
</I>><i> >>> problem:
</I>><i> >>>
</I>><i> >>> Directories with spaces can be excluded in rsnapshot, by replacing
</I>><i> >>> the space with a ?, but a bug in rsync prevents directories with
</I>><i> >>> spaces from being backed up at all. In the parent Windows
</I>><i> >>> directory, I created a symlink without spaces for the inaccessible
</I>><i> >>> sub-directory. I was able to create it and add it
</I>><i> >>> to /etc/rsnapshot.conf, and the backup proceeded to completion.
</I>><i> >>> Changing the name of the subdirectory would probably have made it
</I>><i> >>> unusable by its Windows app. If Windows hadn't allowed it, I
</I>><i> >>> would have put the link somewhere in Linux.
</I>><i> >>>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> You can also rename directories in msw, to remove spaces, or just
</I>><i> make shorter.
</I>><i> >>> Doug.
</I>><i> >>>
</I>><i> >>>
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