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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: Support for Folder Shortcuts inside Real Folder

« on: March 16, 2016, 08:54:22 AM »

just an additional note: if the root folders are few, you may already know that you can add all of the shortcuts folders with a single action: you select them all, drag&drop them, then select "real folder" only once.
That may not be a viable solution for you, but just to be sure you know it.

Yeah, aware of this but it was not viable in my case. I already had the shortcuts done.
By the way, thanks a lot for the suggestion to use junctions instead, they works very well and its very easy for me to convert my shortcuts to junctions using my favorite file manager xyplorer. 

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: Support for Folder Shortcuts inside Real Folder

« on: March 12, 2016, 12:47:30 AM »

@rejetto: Thanks a lot for looking into this
@Mars: When we open a folder shortcut in windows it will automatically open the associated real location of the folder and display its contents.
Same can be done by HFS, I hope. Just have to do an extra step - if its a shortcut, then instead of displaying the shortcut itself which would break the http URL path, display its real folder instead. This means when clicking the shortcut in web-browser, we are actually clicking the real folder, hence no issues with http URL path being broken. that would be feasible right?

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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Support for Folder Shortcuts inside Real Folder

« on: March 11, 2016, 03:27:48 AM »

I will explain this with a simple example:

I have a folder named RootFolder. And it has 3 sub folders: Sub1,Sub2,Sub3.
Now adding RootFolder as a real folder in HFS works very well as intended. All 3 subfolders are browseable via the webinterface and files inside the subfolders are downloadable.

Now I have another folder named RootFolderOrganized.
Inside this folder I have shortcuts to Sub2 and Sub3 in RootFolder.
Now after adding RootFolderOrganized as a real folder in HFS, nothing is displayed in the browser under this folder.

The only way I could get this working in HFS is by creating a Virtual Folder named RootFolderOrganized in HFS and adding Sub2 and Sub3 as real folders to this Virtual Folder.

This is only an example. Think about 1000s of folders, its really difficult to manually add each folder to a virtual folder.

Hope this can be supported in HFS future builds..