{"id":833,"date":"2009-02-16T22:18:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T20:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/?p=833"},"modified":"2009-02-16T22:18:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T20:18:45","slug":"ntfs-links-list-junction-points-under-certain-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/833","title":{"rendered":"NTFS Links: List junction points under certain directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While NTFS junction points are powerful to relink files without duplicating data and\/or moving between disks, they are treated as regular directories by most of software and it may unexpectedly result in conversion of a junction point into a regular directory with implied duplication of data and disk space waste.<\/p>\n<p>This is a quick fix for the NTFS Links shell extension that allows to quickly list created junction points under certain directory, and delete if necessary. The update adds a property page Junction Points to NTFS non-UNC directory properties:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/16-image010.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-834\" title=\"Directory Junction Points Property Page\" src=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/16-image010-252x300.png\" alt=\"Directory Junction Points Property Page\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/16-image010-252x300.png 252w, https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/16-image010.png 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a quick update, so be aware (also my TO DO list):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>no Russian localization, sorry<\/li>\n<li>context menu should also be given another item Open Containing Directory<\/li>\n<li>does not work for root directories<\/li>\n<li>list items should be OLE draggable<\/li>\n<li>there should be a junction point validation feature that checks availability of substitution path and indicates result by an icon<\/li>\n<li>I should remove the mess between &#8220;soft link&#8221; and&#8221;junction point&#8221; in favor of the latter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Release information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Updated Version: 1.1.3<\/li>\n<li>Download Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog-dist\/AlaxInfoNtfsLinksSetup.msi\">AlaxInfoNtfsLinksSetup.msi<\/a> (275K)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While NTFS junction points are powerful to relink files without duplicating data and\/or moving between disks, they are treated as regular directories by most of software and it may unexpectedly result in conversion of a junction point into a regular directory with implied duplication of data and disk space waste. This is a quick fix&hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/833\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[169,183,182,168],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ntfs-links","tag-extension","tag-junction","tag-ntfs","tag-shell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alax.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}