What happened to Virtual folders?

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I'm using Vista ultimate and was wondering where virtual folders went? Did
it get dropped in the final?
 
Hello,

If you are referring to search folders, they are still there too. The most
obvious one is "Recently Changed" under favorite links on the left in the
save as dialog box.

To make a search folder:

- Click start
- click search
- Specify the parameters of the search and then run the search
- In the blue-green toolbar, you have the option to Save Search. This will
create a search folder.
 
No. Virtual Folders are still there. In Windows XP, the most often used
"Virtual Folder" was "My Documents".
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OK, I'll bite. What's the difference between Virtual Folders and REAL
Folders?
 
Hi, Paul.

Virtual Folders don't actually hold any files. They just hold pointers to
the files in the Real Folders.

For example, you might have a photo in a file named Baby.jpg in a folder
called Photos on Drive D:. The actual pathname would be D:\Photos\Baby.jpg.
But if Vista recognizes that as a picture file, it might also put an entry
in C:\Users\Paul\Pictures. It wouldn't actually make a second copy of
Baby.jpg and put it on Drive C:; it would just put an entry in your Pictures
folder pointing to the picture on Drive D:. In this example, D:\Photos is
the real folder; Pictures is the virtual folder.

I'm no expert on Virtual Folders, but this is my simplified understanding of
the way it works.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)
 
Hi, Peter.

Thanks for the correction and clarification.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)
 
Thank you I found an app called HardlinkShellExt.exe that does what I'm
looking for.
 
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