File move with shortcuts issue

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File move with shortcuts issue

bradray 09-02-2009, 14:33
I use noclone to help archive file systems about once a year, moving the files to a NAS and leaving a shortcut behind pointing to the new file location. 

Last night I did so at a customer site and for some reason I moved everything instead of just the files that haven't been modified in over a year.  I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I'm not too concerned with that part.  I moved all the files that have been modified in the past year back to where they were, but I need some help figuring out how to remove all the 32,000 shortcuts that are right next to the files that I put back.

Normally I would just delete all the .lnk (shortcut) files, but they are interspersed with many shortcut files that I need to keep (for the files that are older than a year).

So basically I want to identify any shortcut file that has an identical name as an existing file (in the same folder) and delete it.

Any ideas?

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