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Tutorial Junction Files - Phantom - 02-04-2014
So I decide to tell you guys who need help with this a little method of how to create junction files so you don't have to copy and paste your Arma 2 island addons over to your Arma 3 folders and waste extra hard drive space for the same duplicate files. Credit goes to some steam link I read, I forgot where it is.
This guide will help you guys out if you're using A3MP addon and other Arma 2 addons from your Arma 2 folder.
Go to start menu -> Type in cmd -> right click cmd.exe and run as adminstrator
In the console type in (modify based on your directory, this is an example below)
Code:
mklink /j "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\@Thirsk" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\arma 2 operation arrowhead\@Thirsk"You can also use mklink /d which works as well.
The first item in the quotes is the virtual folder/link/path you want to create and the second item in quotes is the folder you want to link to. The first item in quotes doesn't originally exist while the second item does.
After that I enable the island in Arma 3 addons in game.
I'm pretty sure people with PlayWithSix might not need this, but I thought I'll post this up because it might be useful.
Re: Tutorial Junction Files - Alwarren - 02-04-2014
It's much easier with this:
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html
It adds a shell extension to explorer to make these via popup menu
