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Feature: Full support for softlinks/symlinks/junctions & hardlinks
What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?
Currently, Files can only create Windows Explorer Shortcuts/Links(.lnk files). These are nowhere near as useful as real softlinks & hardlinks.
Windows/NTDS supports both softlinks/symlinks/junctions & hardlinks: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/hard-links-and-junctions
Currently Files shows the little shortcut arrow overlaid onto the icons for files or folders which are Junctions, but the properties dialog doesn't know about junctions.
Requirements
- Be able to
+ drag and drop a file or folder to create a softlink or a harlink - Be able to <Context Click> New... to create a soft or hard link in a folder, pointing to a destination chosen by the user
- Be able to copy, rename & delete soft/hardlinks independently of the files/folders they point to
- The properties dialog will know about junction & reparse points and tell you:
- The type of link: softlink/hardlink/etc...
- The destination of the link
- Like: https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html
Files Version
Version: 2.3.11.0
Windows Version
Windows 10: 10.0.19044.1889
Comments
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To add to this, it would also be cool if we had an option to convert symlinks to real files & folders (perhaps as an option when rightclicking a symlink "realize symlinks").
To add to this, it would also be cool if we had an option to convert symlinks to real files & folders (perhaps as an option when rightclicking a symlink "realize symlinks").
More like 'break symlinks' since you want to read (...) through to the target data, and that's the phrase used in UN*X?
