[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 37551] LO template folder should accept anchor to a remote folder

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37551

--- Comment #3 from Heinz Repp <heinz.repp at arcor.de> 2012-07-09 20:00:49 UTC ---
Just stumbled over this bug, I think it needs clarification. There is some kind
of misconception around concerning links in Windows. In Unix based systems we
have hard links (every directory entry is one) and soft links (transparent to
applications, as application really see the linked file or folder.

Windows has both kinds of links too, or to be exact, NTFS. But they are little
known, and seldom used (except for Microsoft, who makes heavy use of it).
Hardlinks are only possible within the same file system (as in every other OS)
and only for files, not for directories. In contrast, soft links are only for
directories and can span different file systems. They are known as junctions or
reparse point.

What Windows users usually know are shortcuts, files with the invisible .lnk
extension. Those are neither soft nor hard links but hints for the Explorer
(and only for this program) which directory or file should be opened. They are
not even transparent for the Explorer itself, as shortcuts to directories are
not shown in tree view. Apart from the Explorer, shortcuts are meaningless. And
by the way: file open dialogs are in reality Explorer calls in most programs,
so they can handle shortcuts.

So what do you mean when you say you created an "anchor"? Did you create a
reparse point and it did not work? Or did you just create a shortcut and
wondered, that no program except Explorer handles it?

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