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a531531
May 16, 2022Copper Contributor
Shortcuts in SharePoint
I'm trying to make a file that acts as a shortcut to another file in a SharePoint document library on both the web version and the file explorer. I have tried the following: LNK Files I can ...
W5mW8n
Apr 11, 2023Copper Contributor
I tried replacing c:/users/myuser with %HOMEPATH% which seems to do the trick....
jadams850
Feb 08, 2024Copper Contributor
I am trying to accomplish the same thing and Windows is throwing errors at me saying that "C:\Users\%HOMEPATH%\etc\etc..." is not a valid path. Would you mind showing me how the file path is supposed to look with the variable in place?
- specialCharacterFeb 08, 2024Copper Contributor
change "C:\Users\%HOMEPATH%\etc\etc..."
to "%HOMEPATH%\etc\etc..."
but for some reason i cannot get my shortcuts to work for everyone. initially one person used it but then it stopped and when i looked at it the shortcut was changed back to the address without %homepath%. I wonder if it had to do with Win10 users trying to use it.
- MarkGilmour1220Aug 20, 2024Copper ContributorI'm on Windows 10, and I can get this to work for folder names with numbers only, but spaces and/or special characters seem to kill it.
This is almost really good!