How to move certain files to another disk while creating shortcuts to them?

[Dolphin975]

Hi,

I have all my pictures and videos on a 1TB SSD, which is now almost full.

It's organized in folders in this way:

SSD

2016-12 folder

121.jpg

232.mp4

and so on, each folder refers to a month and it contains pictures and videos.

I would like to move all the videos to a HDD to free up space on the SSD.

Is there a way (via Windows prompts command or via a program) to move all videos to the HDD while creating the same tree structure and while creating a shortcut to each video in the SSD?

I would like to have this:

SSD

2016-12

121.jpg

232.mp4.lnk



HDD

2016-12

232.mp4



Any ideas would be highly appreciated.

Thank you,

Matt

 

[dudio]

Does this help you?
If you are currently using 'My Pictures' and 'My Videos' default folders, then it's easy:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3025345/windows/move-your-windows-10-libraries-to-a-separate-drive-or-partition.html

 

[Solandri]

You can make shortcuts to folders, not just files. If your problem is that some program is refusing to traverse a shortcut as if it's an actual file or directory tree, you can make a hard link using the mklink command.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

If you use mklink /j to create a directory junction, it creates what looks like a directory on your C: drive, but is actually a hard link to a directory on your D: drive. Any program will think it's reading files in that directory off the C: drive, while Windows is (unknown to the program) retrieving the file from the D: drive.

I prefer not to move my "My Pictures", "My Videos", "My Documents" default folders as suggested above because Windows can do some crazy things if these are on your D: drive and the D: drive happens to die. (Mostly it's a problem if you move your "My Desktop" folder, but I've seen problems caused by moving these other folders too.)

 

[Dolphin975]

Thank you!