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Since Copy recognizes it as a file, all the other applications can also. There must be a reason the developers of Dropbox, Google etc block it.
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It is by no means automatically recognized (so the developers of DropBox, Google, et al. are not evilly blocking it, they just haven't put in the work to special-case those files). This is a design choice by Microsoft. ... As I said, on Linux and Mac OSX (both based on unix), there are symlinks instead of shortcuts. A symlink exists at the filesystem level, a shortcut exists at the OS level. A symlink is automatically recognized as the destination file by any application code that accesses "files". A shortcut is a data file which contains a reference to the location of the file it points to, and applications that access "files", see a file with random, useless data. Windows Explorer has special code which recognizes shortcuts and opens the destination. ... That being said, Windows has moved on from the XP era, and there are utilities out there that can create links which resemble symlinks more than shortcuts. Those *should* work even for Dropbox. e.g. see the "mklink" command-line utility that comes preinstalled on Windows Vista and on. Last edited by eschwartz; 02-01-2016 at 08:15 PM. |
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I just have whatever you get with Drop box when you sign up and I think they gave me a Gb or so for using the photo thing on my phone. Not enough for ebook back up so I have to pay someone else for that. Just enough for some docs here and there.
I like how dropbox works better though, but I am not paying $120 a year for something when I only need 20 GB or so. Even up to 50. Who the heck needs a what is it, gigabite? Terra bite? I don't even know how much it is. I just know its too expensive for my needs. |
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Don't know the name of it, but there is a tool that makes using all kind of links on windows easy to use, by giving an option in the context menu in the explorer.
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It isn't as if I would think you're wrong eschwartz. The support of link structures in Windows based os'es is lousy. I came to win 9x straight from os/2 and was heavily astonished and plainly disappointed about how many features I had no longer available.
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Well I am bummed. I liked Copy because it was so easy to use shortcuts.
My Dropbox account is too small and already mostly used. |
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I spent some time checking around and I am unable to find another service that allows shortcuts.
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