Link Shell Extension
Link Shell Extension (LSE) provides for the creation of Hardlinks , Junctions , Volume Mountpoints , and Vistas Symbolic Links, (herein referred to collectively as Links) and a Folder Cloning process that utilizes Hardlinks or Symbolic Links.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
- File Explorer
- Chocolatey
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What is Link Shell Extension?
Link Shell Extension (LSE) provides for the creation of Hardlinks , Junctions , Volume Mountpoints , and Vistas Symbolic Links, (herein referred to collectively as Links) and a Folder Cloning process that utilizes Hardlinks or Symbolic Links. LSE, as its name implies is implemented as a Shell extension and is accessed from Windows Explorer, or similar file/folder managers. The extension allows the user to select one or many files or folders, then using the mouse, complete the creation of the required Links - Hardlinks, Junctions or Symbolic Links or in the case of folders to create Clones consisting of Hard or Symbolic Links. LSE is supported on all Windows versions that support NTFS version 5.0 or later, including Windows XP64, Vista and Windows7. Hardlinks, Junctions and Symbolic Links are NOT supported on FAT file systems, and nor is the Cloning and Smartcopy process supported on FAT file systems.
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Comments and Reviews
Easy to use and actively developed!
So useful to configure specific settings on computers with different folder paths.
Free and easy to use mklink tools
I was using dropboxifier earlier to sync links outside my dropbox
I haven't used link junction software that much, but I had to synchronize an excel VBA macro stored locally into dropbox
Dropboxifier didn't work since its only symlinks, so the main macro file I had was being stored in dropbox, and my local file was being "fooled" into going into the dropbox side. So my local files were outdated and dropbox was synced, which was fine, it wasn't a 1:1 relationship meaning there's only one main file here (inside dropbox)
However, symlinks failed in that there was something going on in the backend where Microsoft Excel would not reference my macro symlinks this way, so I needed something to generate a hardlink
I needed a program to make hardlinks and this one worked
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html
This utility is absolutely amazing for simplifying the whole process of using hardlinks, junctions, and symbolic links... and if you don't quite understand how they all work, Hermann Schinagl has done a very thorough job of explaining the intricacies of these links.
Highly recommended for anyone interested in using symbolic links, etc. while making it so easy, by right-clicking and dropping, choosing the type of link.
He even has gone so far as to create different looking "shortcut overlays" so that they are immediately apparent whether they are a just a shortcut or one of these types of links (using red, green. etc.).
An amazingly simple, yet powerful utility!
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