This is an explorer.exe (Windows GUI shell) feature, not the file system. If you remove via an application that uses other mechanisms (remove
function in C), this doesn't happen.
Calling del
from a command prompt will also delete just the html file.
Linked files after saving website in Windows
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02-09-2022 - |
Question
Saving a website from inside a browser to your local disk, you end up with
Google.htm
Google_files/
When you delete or move one of these items, both of them are deleted or moved. Do you know how this is achieved? I tested this on NTFS and FAT formatted drives, works on both.
And a follow-up question: workarounds are obvious, but how to remove this bond from a set of files?
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