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<blockquote data-quote="murkyl" data-source="post: 381825" data-attributes="member: 88654"><p>Trypa,</p><p></p><p>Here is a command line tutorial. The command to create a hard link is built into Windows XP.</p><p></p><p>Here is some information about the program from Microsoft directly: <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788097.aspx" target="_blank">Fsutil hardlink</a></p><p></p><p>Let's say you have this directory structure:</p><p>c:\series\SomeSeriesName</p><p>c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO</p><p></p><p>DVD1.ISO contains episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4 from season 1.</p><p>What you want to get as the end result is:</p><p>c:\series\SomeSeriesName\Series - S01E01 - Title.ISO</p><p>c:\series\SomeSeriesName\Series - S01E02 - Title.ISO</p><p>c:\series\SomeSeriesName\Series - S01E03 - Title.ISO</p><p>c:\series\SomeSeriesName\Series - S01E04 - Title.ISO</p><p></p><p>Where, each of the Series - S01Exx - Title.ISO is actually the same files as c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO.</p><p>You don't want to make copies since the ISO file is 8 GB large. This is where a hard link can help you out.</p><p></p><p>The program is called: fsutil</p><p>The command is: hardlink</p><p>The format of the command is: fsutil hardlink create <destination> <source></p><p></p><p>So you would go into the directory that you want to have the hardlinks. In this case:</p><p>cd \series\SomeSeriesName</p><p>Then you would enter the following 4 commands:</p><p>fsutil hardlink create "Series - S01E01 - Title.ISO" c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO</p><p>fsutil hardlink create "Series - S01E02 - Title.ISO" c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO</p><p>fsutil hardlink create "Series - S01E03 - Title.ISO" c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO</p><p>fsutil hardlink create "Series - S01E04 - Title.ISO" c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO</p><p></p><p>I haven't used the program mentioned near the beginning of the thread so I can't advise you on that.</p><p></p><p>Remember there is a limitation in that you cannot create hard links in Windows XP across file systems. So if your DVD ISO file is on D:, you cannot make a link to it from C:. This limitation is not present in Windows Vista however.</p><p></p><p>Also for those that are not familiar with hardlinks, a file will only be deleted after ALL references to the file are deleted. So in the case above, the DVD1.ISO file has 5 references. The original one in c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO and 4 additional ones that were just created. So to really delete the file you have to delete it 5 times.</p><p></p><p>The limitation with this method is that you must manually navigate to the correct episode within the DVD. This just tricks MP TV Series into recognizing the DVD as 4 different episodes. I haven't yet figured out a good way to have the link jump automatically to the correct chapter in the DVD.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="murkyl, post: 381825, member: 88654"] Trypa, Here is a command line tutorial. The command to create a hard link is built into Windows XP. Here is some information about the program from Microsoft directly: [url=http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788097.aspx]Fsutil hardlink[/url] Let's say you have this directory structure: c:\series\SomeSeriesName c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO DVD1.ISO contains episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4 from season 1. What you want to get as the end result is: c:\series\SomeSeriesName\Series - S01E01 - Title.ISO c:\series\SomeSeriesName\Series - S01E02 - Title.ISO c:\series\SomeSeriesName\Series - S01E03 - Title.ISO c:\series\SomeSeriesName\Series - S01E04 - Title.ISO Where, each of the Series - S01Exx - Title.ISO is actually the same files as c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO. You don't want to make copies since the ISO file is 8 GB large. This is where a hard link can help you out. The program is called: fsutil The command is: hardlink The format of the command is: fsutil hardlink create <destination> <source> So you would go into the directory that you want to have the hardlinks. In this case: cd \series\SomeSeriesName Then you would enter the following 4 commands: fsutil hardlink create "Series - S01E01 - Title.ISO" c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO fsutil hardlink create "Series - S01E02 - Title.ISO" c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO fsutil hardlink create "Series - S01E03 - Title.ISO" c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO fsutil hardlink create "Series - S01E04 - Title.ISO" c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO I haven't used the program mentioned near the beginning of the thread so I can't advise you on that. Remember there is a limitation in that you cannot create hard links in Windows XP across file systems. So if your DVD ISO file is on D:, you cannot make a link to it from C:. This limitation is not present in Windows Vista however. Also for those that are not familiar with hardlinks, a file will only be deleted after ALL references to the file are deleted. So in the case above, the DVD1.ISO file has 5 references. The original one in c:\realseries\SomeSeriesName\DVD1.ISO and 4 additional ones that were just created. So to really delete the file you have to delete it 5 times. The limitation with this method is that you must manually navigate to the correct episode within the DVD. This just tricks MP TV Series into recognizing the DVD as 4 different episodes. I haven't yet figured out a good way to have the link jump automatically to the correct chapter in the DVD. [/QUOTE]
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