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Thank you for this helpful app, but there is a case where only a shortcut (.lnk) can work:

Say I wanna keep the reference relationship between two files( SouceA, LinkB ) within a folder synced by a cloud server eg, OneDrive. If LinkB is a symbol link to SouceA, OneDrive and any other sync tools will take it just as SouceA and upload it as SourceA! Then on the cloud server, there would be only SouceA, not just a reference link LinkB. And as I tested with OneDrive, things would become worse if LinkB and SourceA share the same filename ( as your app does ): OneDrive would keep up-downloading SourceA! But if LinkB is a shortcut, this can be evitable as OneDrive just upload it as a .lnk file.

Athough shortcuts don't support relative pathname natively, I found some workarounds like https://superuser.com/questions/644407/using-relative-paths-for-windows-shortcuts and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1169556/making-a-windows-shortcut-start-relative-to-where-the-folder-is
by adding some parameters into shortcut properties.

Can these workarounds be taken into your app to create shortcuts with relative pathname supported?

(Feature Request) Add a text file in a folder in the Source Directory which contains the Destination Directory path.

The Folder structure can be such:
Folder "Symlink Trail" > filename.txt > "destination_path(s)/filename"

Each filename will have different text file, so we can see where all the symlinks for this specific file were created
This will be useful to keep track of symlinks and delete them when we delete the original files...

Further up, we can also have a function to auto delete symlinks if the file is not present/deleted in source directory.

So. I have the paths;
/documents/assets/3d models/
/documents/projects/game/assets/models/

When creating a symlink with this tool, the path I get is unable as it will be the equivalent of:
/documents/projects/game/assets/models/3d models/*.*

But I need the path to be the equivalent of:
/documents/projects/game/assets/models/*.*

I hope this makes sense as it would save me a ton of storage space not having to just copy the files over.

I have multiple folders in one path that I want to create a link for. Each time I need to navigate down the whole path. It would be nice to have the previous path pre-selected when the next folder is selected.

Otherwise, it would be helpful to set the path manually via copy&paste.

This is a great program! Thanks for making it.
I have a few suggestions to improve it's functionality.

1. When selecting folders allow it to select multiple folders at once. (right now you have to add 1 by 1)
2. Save history or allow it to import a previous script we saved (maybe importing it is easier to implement?).

It should have a textbox where you can enter the path of a directory, because if the directory is hidden, such as "c:\Users\ulise\AppData\Roaming" it does not appear.

Is it really necessary to have DLLs like these?

Hi. Nice work. Could you please make this software work in reverse to the way it currently does?
Currently the "destination path" is where the symbolic link is placed, but I want all of the "source files" to be replaced by symbolic links that point to a single 'master file' that is moved to the destination path.

I have a folder structure like this:

|- folder1/duplicateFile.png
|- folder2/duplicateFile.png

But I would like to create a structure like this:

|- folder1/linkToOriginal.symlink
|- folder2/linkToOriginal.symlink
|- folder3/original.png

This way I can have a single 'master file' and the rest can be symbolic links so I can save space!

First, its a great little app.
There is a check box to enable retaining the script file after execution. If selected, where does the script file get stored?

Hello,
I was trying to find an app/script that'd let me move unused apps/folders to my HDD when I found your repo. Tried using the release 1.2.5 but when moving anything I get a "Simlink script return with an error" :

(in the screenshot tried moving the app itself but tried with other things too)

I tried moving a folder and a file, tried moving to same drive or different drive, running as administrator. Any idea what it could be ?
Windows 11 Pro 23H2

Thanks for your help,
Côme

First of all
Thank you for create this useful tool
I only have one suggestion that a better browser window.
Current browser doesnt allow to paste path which faster to create

And maybe a drag folder/file to the folder/file source list could be really helpful

Thank you for reading this

When I try to run the executable, it is triggering a threat warning within Windows Defender.

It is giving warning for Trojan:Win32/Sabsik.FL.B!ml and I am not willing to run at this time. Likely this is a false-positive, but...

Hey,

Great piece of software, thanks.
Please would you consider adding an option to create hard links (mklink /h), perhaps by adding a tick box above/below the "retain script file after execution" and once ticked change the 'Create symlinks' button to 'Create hard links'?

See what you think.
Many thanks.

Idea?
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