Originally by: Raia Mortius

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what do you mean by "linked to junctions" ?

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Originally by: Chribba

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Junctions are like shortcuts, but to windows they look like the real thing, and is treated like the real filestructure.

For example I have the install C:\EVE1, I can now create a junction named C:\EVE2 which points to C:\EVE1
The content of EVE2 will now always be the same as EVE1.

So what's this good for, well when it comes to EVE it will now create a separate cache folder for EVE1 and EVE2 eg \ccp\cache\c_eve1 and \ccp\cache\c_eve2

So what's that good for? Well if you run multiple accounts you know the hassle of using different settings for each account, eg gfx settings, audio, window position etc.

Using multiple "installs" will allow you to have one client with some settings and another with others, so you don't need to change all the time (if you like use multiple monitors).

So this way windows "thinks" you have multiple installs but in reality you only have one set of physical files, and as windows caches files being read the files will always be cached for every "install" you make this way, resulting in faster access times since if only need to cache the files once.

Also as said, patch C:\EVE1 and the install in C:\EVE2 is patched as well - since it's the same files.

So basically this is jus a way to create multiple cache locations and at the same time speed up the read/load of files since there's only one set of physical files.

If you don't care about gfx/theme/audio settings etc for your different accounts, then there's no need to do it like this. But like myself I have one client running in high resolution on one screen and other clients running in low-gfx on another screen. Using it like this enables me to just launch the client without having spend 5 minutes changing settings every time I log on the various accounts.

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Originally by: Petra Katell

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This post has been cleared of inappropiate content.

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Originally by: Grek Forto

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I somehow managed to add even less to this thread

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Originally by: Maria Kalista

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Let me see, I have now 2 copies of EVE, I want to get rid of one, so the solution to this on Mac OS X is to create an symbolic link, am I right?

So, I downloaded and installed 'SymbolicLinker' and have now 'EVE1.app symlink', which is a sort off glorified 'alias'.
Now if I open EVE1 or EVE1.app symlink (renaming the symlink doesn't matter) it opens the same window. If I create a new symlink it still opens that 1 window, not a new EVE online window, which I want.

What am I doing wrong here?

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