Feature: Full support for softlinks/symlinks/junctions & hardlinks

[dflock]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

Currently, Files can only create Windows Explorer Shortcuts/Links(.lnk files). These are nowhere near as useful as real softlinks & hardlinks.

Windows/NTDS supports both softlinks/symlinks/junctions & hardlinks: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/hard-links-and-junctions

Currently Files shows the little shortcut arrow overlaid onto the icons for files or folders which are Junctions, but the properties dialog doesn't know about junctions.

Requirements

• Be able to + drag and drop a file or folder to create a softlink or a harlink
• Be able to New... to create a soft or hard link in a folder, pointing to a destination chosen by the user
• Be able to copy, rename & delete soft/hardlinks independently of the files/folders they point to
• The properties dialog will know about junction & reparse points and tell you:
  • The type of link: softlink/hardlink/etc...
  • The destination of the link
  • Like: https://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

Files Version

Version: 2.3.11.0

Windows Version

Windows 10: 10.0.19044.1889

Comments

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[Josh65-2201]

Asking @yaira2 for approval.

[ItsCubeTime]

Asking @yaira2 for approval.

Thank you 💝

[yaira2]

Let's track these in separate issues

[ItsCubeTime]

To add to this, it would also be cool if we had an option to convert symlinks to real files & folders (perhaps as an option when rightclicking a symlink "realize symlinks").

[nordquistdave]

To add to this, it would also be cool if we had an option to convert symlinks to real files & folders (perhaps as an option when rightclicking a symlink "realize symlinks").

More like 'break symlinks' since you want to read (...) through to the target data, and that's the phrase used in UN*X?

[specurial]

Common guys :D
We need those, he post this @2022
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