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Redirecting Software Folder Sources

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July 28, 2014 12:48:50 PM

How can I fool an application in thinking it's reading the original source, but really being redirected to another folder in another location.

Let's say application X stores it's temp files in "C/Program Files/X/cache". How can I redirect or fool the application to another folder, like "F/Program Files/X/cache". Let's say application X doesn't have a built-in setting to change the cache root, is there some kind of software that fools and redirects applications into reading another directory?

Thanks in advance!

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July 29, 2014 9:10:39 AM

Alabalcho said:
Check Junction / reparse points


Sorry, I don't wanna have to program anything. Is there some tool that will do this for me?
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July 29, 2014 9:15:03 AM

You can 'install' an application in whatever folder you want. You have to do that while installing it though.
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July 29, 2014 4:16:15 PM

@Belkon - "Junction / reparse points" is the tool to use. If you ask for GIU - Google/Bing is your friend, and reading MS documentation.
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July 29, 2014 4:18:50 PM

I guess we should back up and determine why you want to do this....
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July 30, 2014 9:27:19 AM

@USAFret - there might be a "legitimate" reason. Imagine a setup with smallish SSD as a boot drive, and poorly written application which insist of putting everything under C:\ProgramData\MyApp\.
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