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MVV · Last edited by MVV on Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:19 am; edited 40 times in total

I had wrote my own plugin for NTFS hardlinks and reparse points, it correctly processes symbolic links for files/folders and also has field for file index (useful for searching all hardlinks of particular file).

Last version information

Version no: 1.5.3.214 32/64
URL: NTLinks at wincmd.ru / NTLinks at totalcmd.net

Requirements: operating system Windows 2000 and above, Total Commander Smile

Features:

+ gets file indexes and number and paths of hardlinks
+ gets target path for reparse points and real path for all objects
+ supports symbolic links (new in Windows Vista/7)
+ get/set target path for symbolic links and junctions
+ fastest hardlinks comparison (within same volume)
+ Unicode support

General information:

Plugin provides following content fields:

HLNK_Count - returns hard copies number for file. Each copy has its place in some directory within one partition. Changing file's contents or attributes (incl. permissions) reflects on all its hard copies because they have common file contents.

HLNK_Index - returns string that represents 64-bit integer index of file, this index is unique within partition for each file. All hard copies will have the same index, and you may find all copies by specifying this index (or only part of it, because index returned as string).

Obj_Type - returns "Dir" for usual folder, "File" for usual file and some of reparse point type for reparse points. If type of reparse point can't be determined (i.e. because of permissions), value "RP: N/A" returned.

RP_Target - returns target file/folder/drive reparse point points to. For volume mount points it's a path to drive root, for symlink it is a path to file (relative or absolute), for symlinkD and junction it is a path to folder. For other reparse points currently no target return (if you have info about it - that's good). If you're running Windows NT5 (2000), admin rights are required to correctly resolve first mount point if volume has no letter assigned (current mount point path returned else - it is a valid mount point too). You may choose between natural and symbolic output mode - in symbolic mode volume names for mount points are not resolved to mounted path names.

RP_IsValid - returns Yes when target folder/file/drive of reparse point is available (for example, if it's a mount point of DVD drive, target will be valid when correct CD/DVD is inserted, for junctions/symlinks path is valid if target object don't moved/deleted) or No otherwise.

Obj_RealPath - returns real path of FS object, expanding all reparse points (max 256 expands to avoid endless loops). You may choose between natural and symbolic output mode, as for RP_Target field.

Obj_RealSize - returns real size of a file (in case of symbolic link).

HLNK_Paths - returns paths of first 10 hard copies of the file, if available (all or N-th one, requires Windows Vista).

You may choose between natural and symbolic output mode - in symbolic mode volume names for mount points are not resolved to mounted path names, also relative targets of symbolic links are left as is. Each field return Unicode string for TC 7.50 and newer, and ANSI string for old TC versions.