Re: [Rpcemu] HostFS location

On 4 May 2012, Andrew Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 03 May 2012 22:18:30 Tony Moore wrote:

> > Currently the HostFS folder is located inside the RPCEmu folder, and
> > so can be accessed only by the RPCEmu Application running from that
> > folder.
> >
> > If the HostFS folder could be located outside the RPCEmu folder,
> > several copies of RPCEmu could access the same HostFS folder.
> > Alternatively, the HostFS folder could be located in the User's
> > Dropbox, so that the same data could be accessed from any location.
> >
> > Would such a development be possible and/or desirable?
>
> Not sure about the Windows build, but for Linux it's easy. Just create
> a softlink called "hostfs" to the "shared" master copy.

Using the Windows build 0.8.9, I have tried creating a shortcut, in the
RPCEmu folder, to the HostFS folder, elsewhere. On running RPCEmu, there
is no error, but clicking on the HostFS icon opens an empty filer window
so it seems that the shorcut is ignored.

Tony




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