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Relative Shortcuts

I'm not sure if this in the right place, but...

Anyone know how to get relative shortcuts with Windows? Is it even possible? I'm talking about:

Let's say I have a folder called IconsnightcrawlerDock icons.

I want to place a shortcut in the Dock icons folder that will take me to the nightcrawler folder, and I don't want it to be an exact shortcut because I'm liable to move the root icons folder.

I searched on Google, but not that hard. Anyone have ideas?

-NC

#228433

try .. in the path.. *shrug* .. might work

#228528

I had the same problem myself, and I came up with this solution. It is not very elegant, because Windows Explorer opens a new window. In Konqueror (Linux) it works perfectly. I use this method when I burn CD-s. It's independent of the drive letter, and works both in Windows and in Linux (although a little nicer in Linux).

Create a .htm/.html file with the following content:

<html>

<head>

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=../../relative/path/">

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

Instead of ../../relative/path you should, of course, put your relative path.

Yust this evening I wrote a WSH scripts that enables me to generate such "links" simply using right clicks in Windows Explorer. I'm going to publish it very soon on my site:

zvuk.mim-sraga.hr

So take a look in a day or too.

#233094

Thanks for the suggestion...this is kind of nagging developers, but I haven't seen it posted yet. Any plans on posting it soon?

Thanks,

-NC

#235779