In article <
1e0d2587-f0e8-e80a-de3e-3fc04d0c563c@invalid.nospam>, Newyana2 wrote...
On 4/6/2024 3:27 AM, R.Wieser wrote:
To apply the argument to both programs a bit of a trick needs to be used :
cmd /c for %a in ("{prog1}" "{prog2}") do %a
˙˙˙ Thanks, but what I was looking for was a way to make
a lnk file do double duty in copying a file. Maybe that's not
possible. If not then I'll use VBScripts. I tested a VBS in
SendTo. WScript.Arguments(0) gets the full path of the
right-clicked file.
˙˙ One pleasant surprise with Win10 is that it's not hard
to change icons. So I can probably set a folder icon˙ on
the SendTo menu.
˙˙˙ This is because I've set up redundant drives and I often
save articles by copying webpage text to Notepad and saving
a simple text file. The target folders are topics like security,
privacy, ideas, sample code, etc. So if I see an interesting
article about, say, privacy, I want to right-click that file on
the Desktop and send it to both privacy folders.
Interesting question: the answer to your original question is no. A link (including shortcuts, junction points, etc) will provide a further independent address pointing to a single existing location; whereas ideally you want a single address pointing to two independent locations. No such thing in Windows
(that I'm aware of!). So some sort of scripting is your only answer, as you've
already tried. (Note VBScript is being deprecated and will disappear from W11 before that long - think PowerShell perhaps.)
I see you want more than just backup, in which case I'd have plugged the invaluable File History, which seems to me to get less mention than it deserves
- I think it's wonderful!
You're wanting to copy nuggets of information to different folders. But a folder is only really a sort of "index", and that can be achieved without the risks of copying the data. (If you copy an article, and find that there's a mistake in it, you could end up with one version corrected and one uncorrected - it's something to be avoided generally.) So maybe thinking more in terms of maintaining indexes to your records might be appropriate. One way is to store the file in one place and put shortcuts in the other folders to which it might seem relevant. Or go a step further and maintaining your indexes as documents which contain those shortcuts (giving the option of adding comments). If you take that to its logical conclusion you end up where I'm happy to find myself.
I almost never store "snippets" as files; I put them in my well-structured OneNote hierarchy, where I can use formatting for emphasis, add notes, and cross-link to and from other locations in OneNote. If a file is bulky I'll identify a suitable folder (just one) and then include a link to the folder in all the OneNote pages which need it. With a nice little symbol so I can spot it easily. I think of OneNote as "the index to my life" and couldn't live without it now.
One little problem I had to solve might be of interest, given that you asked about links. I put just about everything in OneDrive, which syncs beautifully across my various devices, so I can walk away from my PC (after a quick sync check), pick up my laptop in another building, and carry on what I was doing. But MS, in its wisdom, tends to give the same MS account different filesystem addresses for the account in the \Users folder. So the links didn't work. Now, on any new device, if the original folder on my main machine is, say: C:\Users\FOO\OneDrive\Meetings
.... and the new device has my OneDrive account at: C:\Users\BAR\OneDrive\Meetings
.... I simply create a hard link C:\Users\FOO pointing to C:\Users\BAR, and hey-
presto all my links work.
Not the suggestions you'd have been expecting, I figure!
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Phil, London
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