I am often creating shortcuts to folders that I later move, and that breaks the shortcuts 
Is there some way of having the shortcut path to a file or folder automatically update when the path to the linked file or folder changes?
Isn´t that possible with hard links, if you use Vista or Win 7?
I am not sure how that would work since i use Win XP?
After a quick look in the search machine it looks like XP also supports hardlinks, sort of.
Maybe you can check this tool:
Using hardlinks/junctions in XP isn't a good idea as the shell (i.e. Windows Explorer) doesn't understand them until Vista and it's easy to accidentally delete the pointed-to folder when you meant to delete the pointing-to thing.
Can´t the "alias" command (if there is one, i´m not sure) be used in a code, like RENAME... alias=
?
That would rename the folder the alias points to, not change what the alias itself points to.
You might be able to do what the OP wants using bookmarks that point to shortcuts. It depends how the folders in question are being moved.
[quote="leo"]That would rename the folder the alias points to, not change what the alias itself points to.
You might be able to do what the OP wants using bookmarks that point to shortcuts. It depends how the folders in question are being moved.[/quote]
Could you please elaborate on how to do this? I am moving the folders using dopus.
For example, I have a shortcut at
c:\myshortcuts\Shortcut to myfolder
which points to the folder at
C:\new\myfolder
I use dopus to move "myfolder" to
C:\archived\myfolder
I now want the shortcut to automatically point to
C:\archived\myfolder instead of C:\new\myfolder