Symbolic links, often referred to as symlinks, are advanced shortcuts in Windows that allow you to point to a file or folder, redirecting applications to access them as if they were in a different ...

For most Unix users, symbolic links are obvious and natural — a means to make connections that span file systems and avoid the need to keep duplicates of files in multiple file system locations.

I have my music and photo libraries on a drive other than my boot drive, and have been using aliases to point iTunes and iphoto to them. This may or may not be causing Windows Phone Connector to flake ...