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Jul. 17, 2006
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This is a powerful feature that allows you to create shortcut for a master file in several locations (usually they're where the duplicate files locate in), thus you can delete all the duplicate files except the master file to save disk space with shortcut files that link to the master file.
To create shortcut, select some files (usually those files are the duplicate files that you want to delete but keep links to the master file), then right click on them, and then click 'Create Shortcut' in the pop up menu. About dialog box will show.
In that dialog box, you can select or input the master file name to create shortcut for.
The list box contains all unselected files in the files. If the unselected files are more than 20, only 20 files will be listed.
If your expected file is not in the list, you can input the full path file name in the edit box.
Master file: A master file is so-called the target file, that all new shortcut files will link to.
Example
Consider the following scenario:
You've selected three files, c:\test\abc.txt, d:\my\edf.txt, and e:\backup\ghi.txt.bak, then c:\mydocument\plan.txt is selected as the master file.
After creating shortcut, three new shortcut files, c:\test\plan.txt.lnk, d:\my\plan.txt.lnk, and e:\backup\plan.txt.lnk will be created, and all of them link to c:\mydocument\plan.txt. That's to say, if you open c:\test\plan.txt.lnk in Windows Explorer, c:\mydocument\plan.txt will be opened.
Expand remote path
This function will expand the mapped network drive to the network path.
For example, if drive z: is mapped to \\alice\sharedoc, then z:\a.txt will be expanded to \\alice\sharedoc\a.txt.
This function is useful to create link for physical server path rather than for relative network drive. Thus even you change the mapping to x:, you can still use the shortcut to access a.txt on Alice's machine.
When to create shortcut
This feature is very useful when you're cleaning duplicate files.
You can create shortcut for all duplicate files, except the original master file, then delete those duplicate file. Thus you can get back your disk space but keep the link information in each location.
Difference between 'Create shortcut' in FileCake and Windows Explorer
In FileCake, the shortcut files are created in different locations and point to the same master file.
In Windows Explorer, the shortcut files are created in the same folder that the target file in and every shortcut is created for different target file.
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