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Using NTFSlink to share your FreeFrame plugins between applications
If you have more than one FreeFrame enabled application on your PC you may find yourself having to copy new or updated plugins to each one.
As a FreeFrame developer you might imagine I have quite a few and I needed a simple system to make sure all of my applications were using the same set of plugins. Very few applications allow you to specify where they look for FreeFrame plugins instead they look for them in a directory usually under the main application installation directory.
I chanced upon the amazing program
NTFSlink∞ which allows you to create proper links between directories, like on Linux. It does what Windows shortcuts should have done from day one!
Now you can have all your plugins in a single directory and create links to it for all of your VJ apps. Nice!
So, after you've installed NTFSlink, here's a quick how-to:
- Create a directory somewhere and copy all of your FreeFrame plugins to it. I have mine in my Shared Documents folder so I can update them remotely over the network.
- In explorer, right-click and hold the mouse on this new directory, and drag-and-drop it onto you VJ application directory at the same level as the existing FreeFrame plugin folder.
- Release the right mouse button and you should have the option to create a Shortcut (bad, Windows rubbish) or a new exciting Junction (great, NTFSlink p0wNz), choose Junction
- A new 'Link to xxxx' directory will appear in your VJ app directory
- Rename your existing VJ application plugin directory as xxxx.old (where xxxx is the name of the plugin directory)
- Rename the new Link to whatever your original application plugin directory was called.
- Optionally delete the xxxx.old directory (why would you need it any more?)
Et voila, you have your VJ app using a shared directory of FreeFrame plugins. Repeat the above steps for all of your other FreeFrame applications and you're done.
Nice!
CategoryFreeFrame -
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