XYplorer Beta Club

I never used folder links, like, ever. Yet recently I think I saw a use for them I could really appreciate, if there was a little option added on XY to have them to be treated as folders, pretty much.

What i mean by this is, right now - and for a reason - XY treats them as what they are, files. But I would love an option to get them treated as what they point to/stand for, folders. Meaning :
- On List, the would be up there with folders (and hidden when Hide Folders is enabled, ...)
- They would show up on Tree (with the same icon they have on List (to show it's a folder link and not an actual folder)

Of course they would behave the same, dbl-click on List or even a single-click on Tree would have XY to jump to their destination, but I'd like to see them on Tree, and use them as "one-click jump" or drag&drop copy/paste destination with more ease.

Any thoughts on that?

Isn't a junction exactly what you wish here? XY currently cannot create a junction, but that's very easy to built in. Try it with some software that can do it and see how you like it. And then you can color code your "folder links/junctions"...

admin wrote:Isn't a junction exactly what you wish here? XY currently cannot create a junction, but that's very easy to built in. Try it with some software that can do it and see how you like it. And then you can color code your "folder links/junctions"...

Well.. no, not really. Junctions are a little different actually, and I do use junctions also in fact.

With a junction, I can have two folders on two different locations pointing to the same data/content. So if I create one in "E:\Test\Programs" pointing to "C:\Program Files", when I browse to "E:\Test\Programs" I see the exact same content as in "C:\Program Files" since both point to the same data/content.

What I would have liked here, is to have "E:\Test\Programs" to be a "(jumping) link" to another folder, so that when I click it the current location switches to whatever destination it points to.

Back to my first example, clicking on Tree on "E:\Test\Programs" would eventually result in the same display on List, but I would actually have change current location to "C:\Program Files"

This sounds to me like quite a big change. Lnk files can point to other files as well as folders so this would mean that XY would first have to determine if it was pointing to a folder an then process it as a pseudo folder whilst still treating pointers to files as files!

graham wrote:This sounds to me like quite a big change. Lnk files can point to other files as well as folders so this would mean that XY would first have to determine if it was pointing to a folder an then process it as a pseudo folder whilst still treating pointers to files as files!

Indeed: Too crazy for my taste! Jumping links in the tree? Not very soon, I'm afraid...