Questions tagged [file-link]

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Filesystem links on a FAT32 formatted storage

I know FAT32, as well as FAT16/12 neither support symbolic links nor hard-links. However I came up with this idea: The FAT specification describes that every file is associated with a directory-entry. In my understanding, one could say that a…
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Cross-browser link to file on local system

I would like to make a link from a web page to a file on a local filesystem and make it work in all browsers (or at least in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome). For example, the following works in Internet Explorer:
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Why does Visual Studio only allow one link per file in a project?

I would like to have a file in several different projects of a solution, however, Visual Studio only allows one link per solution to the file. Is there a way around this? What is the issue of having several soft links to a single file within a VS…
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File URI link to local folder in IE7 not working

No matter what I do I cannot get either of these local File URIs: x x x x x x
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Using FileGetSymLinkTarget in Delphi XE5 does not return the network address to which it points

I am using Delphi XE5 and XE6 and creating a number of directory links programmatically by shelling a process that prompts elevation and uses the Delphi function: FileCreateSymLink( sLinkPath, sTargetPath ) From this point on, my use of sLinkPath…
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VS Code Markdown - is there a clever way to make links intellisense?

I've started using VisualStudio Code and Markdown as a note-taking tool - something akin to Zettelkasten. As part of this note-taking system, notes should always be linking to other notes/files. As recovering developer I start to write: [Decision…
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Create a file download link to a dynamically generated file in Google Colab jupyter notebooks

How do you get FileLink(filename) to work in Google Colab in order to generate a download link? Is there a better way than FileLink? Right now this code generates a download link pointing to localhost: import pandas as pd from IPython.display import…
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zimlet change url if it is a file link than correct link or start external program

I have a problem in browser with sent file links: file:/// instead of file:// and i would like to create a zimlet which is check links in mail and if it is a file link then change file:/// to file:// and start on click. Or start external program if…
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edge policy IntranetFileLinksEnabled enabled does not open file

Last week Edge 95 was released bringing the new and long awaiting IntranetFileLinksEnabled policy. Testing this I encounter a different behavior than expected. Having the following test html file with links on a web-server e.g. http://demohost/ and…
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The links to a file

I was wondering why every file has 1 link to itself. I'll try to be more clear. By inserting from bash the command " ls -l " you'll end up with a list of files each preceded by different data divided in columns. The number of links to a file is in…
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TYPO3 fluid: how to create link to PDF-File (no download, no display)

Being new to TYPO3 fluid I was wondering if there's an easy way to create a link to a PDF-file which is located in the filelist as you would in simple html as follows: Click here to open pdf (in a new…
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properly save file upload contents to MySQL DB to retrieve as a link

I am trying to build an upload component that saves the file information to a MySQL DB table. My first issue is that each time a user uploads a file, two entries are added to the database. My next issue is that I was to grab an uploaded file and…
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c# change file link path using regex

I have problem with regex! I want to change the filelink ""file:\\" to "file:\" but with this solution i can't because it kill all my other slashes. "file:\\mail\attach\2015_02\random file name" This file link is in string variable. Do you have any…
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How to open multiple file paths?

I now have a file with a list of file paths. I want to loop open them to read and write. Can anyone suggest how to do this? Everything I have seen so far is only to read these lines and print them out, I want my code to open these paths. Below is a…
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Drag & Drop link is pasting twice

Access 365 64-bit Windows 11 I have a textbox where I drop a file which pastes the link to the file. I then copy the path to the current record's file folder. In Access, I separate the newly copied path & filename, creating a hyperlink to the file…
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