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I have a large number (over 1G of duplicates) of duplicated files that are arranged in different directory structures. I need to keep both directory structures, but I would be happy to eliminate the duplication and replace the files in one of the structures with shortcuts to the other directory structure. Using "shotcuts" (i.e., .lnk files) to do so seems obvious, and ZTree is the obvious tool. However, there is a problem: If one tags a set of files and uses ctrl-sHortcut, there is no rename mask available in the prompt, and the created shortcuts are named with the same filename with the file extension stripped and replace with "lnk". That is probably the right default, but it works very badly when there are groups of files named xyz.TXT, xyx.DOC, xyz.PDF, etc. There is no way to indicate that both the name and extension should be kept and the .lnk added (rather than replacing the old extension). There is another problem with the renaming logic used with the nornal sHortcut command. Although it seems to accept the normal rename masks, the extension is stripped off and replaced with .lnk -- Again, this is the right default behaviour, but doesn't reasonably allow one to preserve the extension. Typing a mask of *.* doesn't work even though the default name (presented in the highlight) is just the filename with no extension. If one explicitly includes the extension in the mask, it ought to appear in the result. This brings to light a slightly different problem with the rename logic: Occasionally, one wants to change a file named abc.xyz to something like abc_xyz.PQR. There is no way of calling out the extension part of the original filename in the name part of the rename mask. | ||
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- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (732) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 16,2003 at 18:29 [Discuss]
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (680) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 16,2003 at 20:02
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (706) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 16,2003 at 20:04
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (685) - Michael Kahn - Aug 17,2003 at 04:37
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (676) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 17,2003 at 14:53
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (715) - Michael Kahn - Aug 17,2003 at 15:54
- [FORUM]Update cookie stuff (689) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 17,2003 at 16:21
- [FORUM]Update cookie stuff (681) - Walt - Aug 17,2003 at 16:26
- [FORUM]Update cookie stuff (689) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 17,2003 at 16:21
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (715) - Michael Kahn - Aug 17,2003 at 15:54
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (676) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 17,2003 at 14:53
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (685) - Michael Kahn - Aug 17,2003 at 04:37
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (692) - Juergen Hestermann - Aug 17,2003 at 01:03
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (700) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 17,2003 at 15:09
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (695) - Juergen Hestermann - Aug 17,2003 at 18:14
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (706) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 18,2003 at 03:16
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (734) - Juergen Hestermann - Aug 18,2003 at 03:46
- [Discuss/Bug] Renaming in sHortcut (719) - John Gruener - Aug 18,2003 at 04:05
- [Discuss/Bug] Renaming in sHortcut (680) - Juergen Hestermann - Aug 18,2003 at 07:00
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (706) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 18,2003 at 03:16
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (695) - Juergen Hestermann - Aug 17,2003 at 18:14
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (700) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 17,2003 at 15:09
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (709) - John Gruener - Aug 17,2003 at 03:56
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (698) - Juergen Hestermann - Aug 17,2003 at 07:01
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (692) - John Gruener - Aug 17,2003 at 07:15
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (677) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 17,2003 at 15:34
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (670) - Juergen Hestermann - Aug 17,2003 at 18:58
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (692) - John Gruener - Aug 17,2003 at 07:15
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (692) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 17,2003 at 15:27
- [Bug] sHortcut. I agree (710) - Steve Rawling - Aug 17,2003 at 15:46
- [Bug] sHortcut. I agree (717) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 17,2003 at 16:15
- [Bug] sHortcut. I agree OOPS (717) - Steve Rawling - Aug 17,2003 at 17:38
- [Bug] sHortcut. I agree (717) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 17,2003 at 16:15
- [Bug] sHortcut. I agree (710) - Steve Rawling - Aug 17,2003 at 15:46
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (698) - Juergen Hestermann - Aug 17,2003 at 07:01
- [Discuss/Bug]Renaming in sHortcut (700) - Walter Rassbach - Aug 17,2003 at 14:14
- Next build (nomsg) (666) - Kim Henkel - Aug 21,2003 at 04:21