TC for to create Soft/Junction Links?

[harrismail]

Hi all,

maybe this has been asked before but isn't Total Commander the perfect tool for creating soft/junction links?
It's a real pain having to open a command prompt and getting the perfect syntax to create a link from one directory to another.
Maybe one for a future update Christian?
Steve

[petermad]

2harrismail

You could check out my Extended Menus (see my signatiure) - it has options under "Misc" to make various junctions, symlinks and hardlinks (using mklink) - https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/miscmenu.png

[harrismail]

Now that looks very interesting - I shall give it a whirl.

Thanks!

[Dalai]

There is also NTFSLinks and NTLinksMaker which can be put on a button or TC's start menu. And there are NTLinks and NL_Info to view information about junctions and symlinks, e.g. in custom columns.

Regards
Dalai

[harrismail]

Brilliant - many thanks to both of you, that's sorted things out nicely.
Regards
Steve

[Mjolnir]

Using @petermad menu (clever called commands), I've create 2 buttons.
On a selected file/folder (under cursor) :
* 1st button to create either folder junction or file hardlink (no Admin rights needed) on opposite panel
* 2nd button to create folder/file Symlink (needs Admin rights) on opposite panel

Note: that I've added a ".hrd/.jnk/.sym" extension to the "link" created (my way to quickly identify it)
Note: there is no check whether the source or the destination exists...

Make Folder Junction or File Hardlink in Opposite Panel (Not on Network/No Admin rights):

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
%COMSPEC% /C
if not exist %P%N\* (mklink /H "%T%O.hrd.%E" %P%N) else (mklink /J %T%N.jnk %P%N)
%COMMANDER_EXE%,12
Make Folder Junction or File Hardlink in Opposite Panel (Not on Network/No Admin rights)
%SYSTEMDRIVE%\
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Make Folder or File Symlink in Opposite Panel (needs Admin rights):

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TOTALCMD#BAR#DATA
*%COMSPEC% /C
if not exist %P%N\* (mklink "%T%O.sym.%E" %P%N) else (mklink /D %T%N.sym %P%N)
%COMMANDER_EXE%,12
Make Folder or File Symlink in Opposite Panel (needs Admin rights)
%SYSTEMDRIVE%\
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