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See this post early in this thread - https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/redirected-log-path-some-files-created-in-standard-path.131632/#post-1147325

Symbolic links (or 'symlinks') work like Windows shortcuts, except that they are transparent to the software ('shortcuts' need to be supported in the software to work, so they are not actually generally useful things).

What they allow you to do is have a 'virtual' file or folder in one place that actually physically exists somewhere else e.g. on a different drive or on a another PC via a UNC path etc.

I've used them myself in the past to move the MP client log folder to a RAMdrive (I don't bother doing that now, since today we have threaded logging in the filters so the important code doesn't get slowed down writing log lines directly out to disk).

<blockquote data-quote="Owlsroost" data-source="post: 1149469" data-attributes="member: 83973">See this post early in this thread - <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/redirected-log-path-some-files-created-in-standard-path.131632/#post-1147325" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/redirected-log-path-some-files-created-in-standard-path.131632/#post-1147325</a>Symbolic links (or 'symlinks') work like Windows shortcuts, except that they are transparent to the software ('shortcuts' need to be supported in the software to work, so they are not actually generally useful things).What they allow you to do is have a 'virtual' file or folder in one place that actually physically exists somewhere else e.g. on a different drive or on a another PC via a UNC path etc.I've used them myself in the past to move the MP client log folder to a RAMdrive (I don't bother doing that now, since today we have threaded logging in the filters so the important code doesn't get slowed down writing log lines directly out to disk).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Owlsroost, post: 1149469, member: 83973"] See this post early in this thread - [URL]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/redirected-log-path-some-files-created-in-standard-path.131632/#post-1147325[/URL] Symbolic links (or 'symlinks') work like Windows shortcuts, except that they are transparent to the software ('shortcuts' need to be supported in the software to work, so they are not actually generally useful things). What they allow you to do is have a 'virtual' file or folder in one place that actually physically exists somewhere else e.g. on a different drive or on a another PC via a UNC path etc. I've used them myself in the past to move the MP client log folder to a RAMdrive (I don't bother doing that now, since today we have threaded logging in the filters so the important code doesn't get slowed down writing log lines directly out to disk). [/QUOTE]