[python-win32] How to get target of folder shortcuts

[Tim Roberts]

kurt wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to get the target filename of windows shortcuts.  The
> code below works great for regular shortcuts, but errors out on "folder
> shortcuts".
> ...
> The code below works great for regular .lnk shortcuts, but folder
> shortcuts give me:
> 	[...]
>      persistFile.Load(fname,STGM_READ)
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147024891, 'Access is denied.', None, None)
>
> The quirk with folder shortcuts is they have some DOS attributes set,
> which I suspect could be causing me trouble.  Is there, perhaps,
> something I need to do to get my IPersistFile to ignore file attributes?

Your code works for me, although the SFGAO_FOLDER bit is not set for my 
folder shortcut.  If you do a "dir" of the folder where the link lives, 
what do you see?  Is it actually a .lnk file of about a kilobyte?

There are no DOS attributes on my folder shortcut.  What do you see?

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


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