What's Going on between Python and win7?
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From: Jerry Hill on 23 Feb 2010 09:34 On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:25 PM, W. eWatson <wolftracks(a)invalid.com> wrote: > So what's the bottom line? This link notion is completely at odds with XP, > and produces what I would call something of a mess to the unwary Python/W7 > user. Is there a simple solution? I know people went off on a tangent talking about symbolic links and hard links, but it is extremely unlikely that you created something like that by accident. Windows just doesn't create those without you doing quite a bit of extra work. It certainly doesn't create them when you drag & drop files around through the normal interface. > How do I get out of this pickle? I just want to duplicate the  program in > another folder, and not link to an ancestor. You need to dig into the technical details of what's happening on your hard drive. You say you "copied a program from folder A to folder B". Can you describe, exactly, what steps you took? What was the file name of the program? Was it just one file, or a directory, or several files? What was the path to directory A? What is the the path to directory B? When you open a CMD window and do a dir of each directory, what exactly do you see? You've given a pretty non-technical description of the problem you're experiencing. If you want more than wild speculation, you'll need to give more specifics for people to help you with. My wild guess: you held down control and shift while copying your program. That's the keyboard command to create a shortcut instead of moving or copying a file. -- Jerry
From: chris grebeldinger on 23 Feb 2010 13:49 Have you tried opening file explorer in administrative mode before performing the copy? I think if there isn't sufficient permissions, it does something weird like that.
From: Gib Bogle on 23 Feb 2010 13:56 chris grebeldinger wrote: > Have you tried opening file explorer in administrative mode before > performing the copy? I think if there isn't sufficient permissions, > it does something weird like that. No
From: Michel Claveau - MVP on 23 Feb 2010 15:35 Hi! > Symbolic links are available in NTFS starting with Windows Vista. No. Hardlink come with NTFS, and already exists in W2K (and NT with specifics utilities). @-salutations -- Michel Claveau
From: buggsy2 on 23 Feb 2010 16:11
"W. eWatson" <wolftracks(a)invalid.com> writes: > I noted that this search box has > some sort of filter associated with it. Possibly, in my early stages > of learning to navigate in Win7, I accidentally set the filter. > > Comments? FYI, the only truly reliable and powerful file search utility I've found for Windows is Agent Ransack (http://download.mythicsoft.com/agentran.exe) |