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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Symbolic links in Windows 7</H1>
    <B>andre999</B> 
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<PRE>Doug Laidlaw a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> I made this one from Linux.  I can't even see them in Windows.  They
</I>&gt;<i> seem to count as hidden files.
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msw has had symbolic links not recognisable as such by Linux for a long 
time, by default hidden under msw.
What you observe seems to indicate that msw7 has migrated to unix-style 
symbolic links.
Interesting.  Gradually Microsoft is adopting more and more unix (and 
Linux-compatible) features.

(BTW, it would be easier for others to respond point by point if you and 
others didn't top post.)

&gt;<i> Doug.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 15:08:06 -0700
</I>&gt;<i> Jeff Robins&lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">jeffrobinssae at gmail.com</A>&gt;  wrote:
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>    
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> NTFS has had symbolic links for a long time. I think since at least
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> win2k, but no one used them, even MS. I don't think you could even
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> make them with the normal tools.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> --Jeff
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On Jul 8, 2012 7:37 AM, &quot;Doug Laidlaw&quot;&lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">laidlaws at hotkey.net.au</A>&gt;  wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>      
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Everybody probably knows this except me :(
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Browsing my new Windows 7 installation, I noticed a lot of symbolic
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> links, identified by Linux as such.  AFAIK, this is new in Win7; it
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> wasn't there in WinXP, which I have been using.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I have just used this advantage to get around the following problem:
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Directories with spaces can be excluded in rsnapshot, by replacing
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> the space with a ?, but a bug in rsync prevents directories with
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> spaces from being backed up at all.  In the parent Windows
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> directory, I created a symlink without spaces for the inaccessible
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> sub-directory.  I was able to create it and add it
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> to /etc/rsnapshot.conf, and the backup proceeded to completion.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Changing the name of the subdirectory would probably have made it
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> unusable by its Windows app.  If Windows hadn't allowed it, I would
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> have put the link somewhere in Linux.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>        
</I>
You can also rename directories in msw, to remove spaces, or just make 
shorter.
&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Doug.
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>        
</I>-- 
Andr&#233;

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