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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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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