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Post #194805

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trip42
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STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
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Date created
21-Mar-2006, 10:03 AM

I just wanted to pass along a little discovery I made over the weekend. If this is old news, I apologize.

If you are like me, you end up doing a lot of seeding on myspleen. But the problem is, I never like the directory structure that you are bound to while seeding. For example, the Edit Droid Episode 4 torrent must live in a folder called Mysterious Mysteries - SW pre-anh. I looked into changing the torrent name and editing the torrent file, but I could never get it to work pointing to a folder that I liked better. So I always ended up with 2 copies of these things, one copy in C:\Download\BitTorrent\Mysterious Mysteries - SW pre-anh that I would use for seeding and another copy in C:\Movies\Star Wars\EditDroid - Episode IV that I would use for viewing and sharing for the xbox. But it is obviously a pain in the arse to have 2 copies of all these torrents considering the size of them. And then I found a little program called junction. It is kinda like subst but with subst you are limited to drive letters. With junction you can link any 2 random paths. So I delete the folder C:\Download\BitTorrent\Mysterious Mysteries - SW pre-anh. And then do a quick junction:

"C:\Program Files\Junction\junction.exe" "C:\Download\BitTorrent\Mysterious Mysteries - SW pre-anh" "C:\Movies\Star Wars\EditDroid - Episode IV"

And now I can have just 1 copy of the dvd in my movies folder, but the torrent can still happily seed away because it sees the files it wants in the Mysterious Mysteries - SW pre-anh folder.

Anyway, I thought it was cool. Maybe it's just me.

Junction can be found here:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html