With great power comes great responsibility — delete the link, not the target.
If you need a seamless, program-level redirect — use a soft link. If you just want a user-friendly clickable icon — use a standard shortcut.
mklink <link_name> <target_path>
Keep a stable “latest” link pointing to the newest version of a project folder.
mklink /D "C:\Projects\Current" "E:\Archive\Projects\2025\Current"
This creates a soft link named MyShortcut that points to C:\Path\To\Target\File.txt .
With great power comes great responsibility — delete the link, not the target.
If you need a seamless, program-level redirect — use a soft link. If you just want a user-friendly clickable icon — use a standard shortcut. soft link windows
mklink <link_name> <target_path>
Keep a stable “latest” link pointing to the newest version of a project folder. With great power comes great responsibility — delete
mklink /D "C:\Projects\Current" "E:\Archive\Projects\2025\Current" soft link windows
This creates a soft link named MyShortcut that points to C:\Path\To\Target\File.txt .