The fix turns the familiar shortcut icons on your desktop into blank images.

“病急乱投医”的修复程序则是把桌面上熟悉的快捷方式图标变成空白图像。

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The way to fix this would be to make /path/to/old/ a symlink (for Windows users, "symlink" is equivalent to "shortcut") to /path/to/new/, i.e.

修正上述问题的方法把 /path/to/old/ 设定为转到/path/to/new/的symlink (对于 Windows 用户来说, "symlink" 等同于"快捷方式")。

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Often I view an acquisition as a shortcut or a quick fix to some problem that a company has.

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