hi guys, i never used symlinks and read about it some times. my drive with audio samples got too big and i want to move it to a seperate drive where i want to store only samples but it was already annoying some years ago when i changed the drive from D:\ to F:\ and now i want to move them to B:\ (new order) but then FL Studio, all my plugins like TAL Sampler, Alchemy etc. look for drive F:\, would a symlink work here?
thx
Symlinks possible on Windows for Audio Samples e.g. in FL Studio and plugins?
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- KVRAF
- 9700 posts since 5 Aug, 2009
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35525 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
in most cases, yes, but preferably use Junction Points (a specific kind of symlink)
occasionally you'll find something that doenst play well with them, but its rare.
best tool, IMO is link shell extension. just right-click a file/folder, to pick link source, then, right-click in the target folder, drop as a junction point
https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshe ... nsion.html
occasionally you'll find something that doenst play well with them, but its rare.
best tool, IMO is link shell extension. just right-click a file/folder, to pick link source, then, right-click in the target folder, drop as a junction point
https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshe ... nsion.html
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- KVRist
- 109 posts since 24 Apr, 2021
+1 for Link Shell Extension
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- KVRAF
- 7120 posts since 22 Jan, 2005 from Sweden
In command prompt type mklink /?
MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target
/D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file
symbolic link.
/H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.
/J Creates a Directory Junction.
Link Specifies the new symbolic link name.
Target Specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link
refers to.
I used it on some samplers that did not have built choice for path to samples.
mklink comes with windows at least.
MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target
/D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file
symbolic link.
/H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.
/J Creates a Directory Junction.
Link Specifies the new symbolic link name.
Target Specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link
refers to.
I used it on some samplers that did not have built choice for path to samples.
mklink comes with windows at least.