Folder Branching

[GroverKen]

This is going to be a question which was resolved a while back in the old Cakewalk forum but I can't find it.

I have a folder on my main "C" drive which I want to move to another drive and then point to it from the original "C" drive folder, fooling Windows into thinking it's in the original location. I know it can be done because I did it before on my old computer - but I didn't hold on to the instructions. I think it was called branching but could be wrong. Can anybody out there help?

[scook]

I believe you are thinking of "Directory Junctions"

There is a command line tool in Windows called mklink.exe to do this.

To create a junction

• Move the folder to the new location
• Open a command window (it usually helps run the command window as administrator) and type mklink /j [old folder location] [new folder location]

For example, to move C:\Cakewalk Content to  E:   after moving the folder from C to E issue the command

mklink /j "c:\cakewalk content" "e:\cakewalk content"

Of course, the folder could be named anything on E:

 

There are lengthy discussions about this on the old forum using Google search for

site:forum.cakewalk.com mklink

 

 

 

[GroverKen]

Thanks Scook - that all looks familiar!

[craigb]

Yep!  I was just going to post that, but Scook beat me to it!

This works great for your Library folders too (Pictures, Documents, Videos, etc.).