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Mklink not working

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Corporate Thug

Lifer
I used to use mklink to link steam games from different drives all the time...now, my steam directory shows the junction (i.e. the game folder with an arrow on the icon) and the cmd prompt confirmed that the junction was created but when I try to launch the games, it says missing exe.

Any thoughts?
 
ThinClient said:
So was your post.

Did you even bother with any effort to fix it? Delete the link and recreate it? Delete the link, rename the parent folder on the slave drive and create a link to the "new" location?
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Would have been easier to say more info was necessary the first time around.

Bump for other responses.
 
Corporate Thug said:
Any thoughts?
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What command line switches are you using? Hard vs soft links? Include the "directory junction" switch, etc? The only time I ever used one was to move a Flash Cookie folder so all the "Internet cr*p" is in one place. Eg:-

Code: 
mklink /J C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia D:\Tempnet\Flashcache
Have you tried uncreating / recreating it? These may be of some use:-
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/278262-mklink-create-use-links-windows.html
 
Not sure why it isn't working for you, but you don't need to use mklink anymore since they added the Steam Library folders. They allow you to install anywhere into Steam Library folders on any drive.

Go to settings->downloads->Steam Library Folders.
 
The problem is that you can't make an existing folder a library, so you can't put the games anywhere you like and mix them with non-Steam games. It's annoying, especially since Origin gets this right, but mklink is a good solution and I use it with anything I want to keep installed permanently.
 
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