Windows 7 and symlinked folders

[Ualaa]

When I did the symbolic links, I was linking Cache, Data and Interface.
The WTF, with all of the settings was not linked.

It was easier to maintain a single interface folder for addons.
And only worry about updating one folder...
And then just check which toons used addons and which did not.
Then to have some addons in each folder of wow.

IS Boxer has virtualized config files.
Which gets me everything I wanted from symbolic links.

[HPAVC]

When I did the symbolic links, I was linking Cache, Data and Interface.
The WTF, with all of the settings was not linked.

It was easier to maintain a single interface folder for addons.
And only worry about updating one folder...
And then just check which toons used addons and which did not.
Then to have some addons in each folder of wow.

Of course all the accounts would sym link the ~/Interface directory to the master one, only the master one needs updating (or any of the slaves can do it whatever) No need to update them all as they are all updated when one is updated since they are all the same files.

IS Boxer has virtualized config files.
Which gets me everything I wanted from symbolic links.

They aren't virtualized at runtime, either way they cannot be the same file.

[Marious]

Just out of curiosity what program are you using to launch the wow.exe? And did you make sure to point over to the exe of each copy of wow? If not as others have pointed out then you would not need to make copies of anything just run from one folder and deal with the setup. And yeah I would not Symlink the exe, its a small file so why not have it in the wow copies.

[HPAVC]

Just out of curiosity what program are you using to launch the wow.exe? And did you make sure to point over to the exe of each copy of wow? If not as others have pointed out then you would not need to make copies of anything just run from one folder and deal with the setup. And yeah I would not Symlink the exe, its a small file so why not have it in the wow copies.

What does 'deal with the setup' mean?

How are they getting around the ~/WTF/Config.wtf placement if they are running it in the same directory?

[Ualaa]

They aren't virtualized at runtime, either way they cannot be the same file.

Not sure if they are virtualized at runtime or not.

I do know I can create a virtual file for each character.
In IS Boxer Toolkit, I expand Virtual Files and click on Config.wtf
And then drag each character who I'd like to have unique settings down to that list.

Any changes I make, in game or at the launcher, is remembered on a per character basis.
I can change the view distance on one of my five in game.
And have it not affect the other four.
And when I log into the game in the future, the settings I changed are remembered.
This is with a single wow folder, no symbolic links etc.