# Symbolic links
Using Symbolic links is a solution provided natively in Windows that allows you point a logical folder to a folder stored on another place on your computer.
How is this interesting for Retrobat ?
The whole point of this feature is to allow you to physically store your roms in a different place than the standard \retrobat\roms\ folder, for example you could store them on a separate Hard Drive which has a bigger storage size.
**Example:**
## Creating a symbolic link
To create a symbolic link in Windows, you can either use command lines in the console, or use a tool called "Link Shell Extension". The method described hereafter is the method with usage of this tool.
### Download Link Shell Extension
The program can be downloaded from the following website :
### Use Link Shell Extension
Once installed, you need to reboot your computer or to close and restart the "explorer.exe" process.
Once done, new options will appear in the right-click context menu:
* Pick Link Source
* Drop As...
### Create a symbolic link with Link Shell Extension
In the next example, we will suppose that you are storing your 3do game ROMs in `D:\Retrobat\3do` and that you Retrobat installation folder is `C:\Retrobat`.
1. Ensure all your roms are properly copied to `D:\Retrobat\3do` and that your `C:\Retrobat\roms\3do` does not contain any important data you need to keep
2. Delete the `C:\Retrobat\roms\3do` folder
3. Right-click on the `D:\Retrobat\3do` folder and select "**Pick Link Source**"
4. Go to the `C:\Retrobat\roms` folder, right-click anywhere inside the folder and select "**Drop As... > Symbolic Link**"
5. Your `C:\Retrobat\roms` folder will now show a 3do folder icon with a small arrow 
**CONGRATULATIONS** : you have just created a symbolic link !
You can now repeat this operation for any folder that you would want to store in another place as the default one.
### Create a symbolic link with native Windows command
Let's use the same example as before and try to perform the Symlink creation manually.
1. sure all your roms are properly copied to `D:\Retrobat\3do` and that your `C:\Retrobat\roms\3do` does not contain any important data you need to keep
2. Delete the `C:\Retrobat\roms\3do` folder
3. Open Windows command and type the following command: `mklink /D "C:\Retrobat\roms\3do" "D:\Retrobat\3do`
4. Your `C:\Retrobat\roms` folder will now show a 3do folder icon with a small arrow 
