Synchronize files in Windows or across PCs using Symbolic Links
Tue, Jan 21, 2014Check out these handy little guys…
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Very niche, but might come in handy someday. What this does is sync a file to multiple directory locations on a hard drive. i.e. same file exists in C:\Folder A as in C:\Folder B and updates both if you make changes to one or the other.
I’ve been using them a while to do a couple different things:
- Keep files synced between multiple cloud file storage services without having to modify both (i.e. dbox & gdrive). I’m in the process of trying both and don’t want to bother manually updating two files with the same changes.
- Awesome if you have a specific file you want to be synchronized across multiple computers, for whatever reason. For example, I used to have save game files that I’d want synchronized between my laptop and desktop PCs. I create a hard symbolic link from the save game file in C:\Program Files\Steam\SaveFile to my Dropbox folder and then I can do the same on a second computer… thus synccing the file across multiple computers real-time-ish.
