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Creating a copy of a folder that is populated with shortcuts.
This was the theory anyway. We tossed the idea around but I can only envision it being done in multiple steps with several different programs to create the whole thing. There has got to be an easier way that we have just never used.
The folder is local on a shared drive. The "copy" of the folder would be on the same share-drive. But the contents of the copy would be Shortcuts linking to all the files and folders in the Original.
The purpose haas to do with people dragging full copies of the original files off to other folders on the same shared drive as no one knows how to create shortcuts. (Or they simply won't perform the extra click to do so) The master shared drive is now full of hundreds GB of duplicates
The thought was to allow the Users Read Only access to the "shortcuts only" version so they can't drag the shortcut out but would be able to drag out their own copy of it. I would not mind if they copied as many shortcuts as they wanted. Each is only 1k.
If this is a standard operation in Windows that I am simply not aware of named "virtual folders" or other, I can accept that. As long as it can be done, and someone can send me the link to instructions, everyone would be happy.
Eventually, these will all be moved to Onedrive but until then, I have to live with the space available on the fileserver.