Total Commander

Windows Vista supports now symlinks for files too. MS calls this "File-based symbolic links".

Do any chance exists that Total Commander will support this new link type?
IMHO it's important to recognize this file link in functions
- find duplicate files
- compare by contents
- synchronize dirs
because in the case that the user deletes the original file because the user is in the false believe of duplicate file contents then all data will be lost.

Good point !
Very dangerous in case of directory junctions.
TC has to parse the whole path for junctions and resolve it.

Compare by content: show at least a warning, that you are comparing a file with itself

Synchronize dirs: mark it as link and inhibit deletion of one side only

Support+++.

Very dangerous otherwise IMO, too.

sqa_wizard wrote:Synchronize dirs: mark it as link and inhibit deletion of one side only

Maybe TC can detect here, too, if a link on one side is pointing to the data on the other side - and in this case refuse deletion of the real data.
Because deleting data (e.g. in C:\realdata) should be no problem, if the link on the other side points a copy stored somewhere else (e.g. C:\realdata2).