Re: How to create a relative shortcut ?

Paul,

> A shortcut is designed to be copied or moved anywhere.

And, as it looks now, their *only* goal.    I can imagine using a full path
as the default, but ignoring relative paths is just a "it works for us"
short-sighteness.

... unless you have a good reason why relative paths would not be possible ?

> If the Original file is moved (somewhere), you are required to create
> a new Shortcut (new absolute path).

Nope.  It will try to find the target itself, but gives you the option to
browse for it.

I could easily do without that behaviour (its search method is opaque) and
just get an "target has gone" error.  Have not seen any configuration for
that though.

> If you want a file to appear in two places (on the same partition),
> then mklink or junction.exe might work.

Hard links do not work on FAT32 (thumb)drives.   And neither program exists
on my OS (XPsp3).

> but when the program "works out where it is", as some programs
> do, it is going to find that it is not located in the portable
> folder where all the DLLs are located.

:-) Pros and cons.  They have to be weighted.

> Right now, the betting money is on a shortcut with an absolute
> path inside it.

Not usable on a removable (thumb)drive I'm afraid.

... hence my (subject-line) question.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser