Comment by tinco
7 years ago
I would have been bitten by this bug. All my Known Folders are redirected to be in a separate hard drive so I can switch them to a new system more easily when I upgrade. It also stems from when SSD's were too expensive to store anything but your OS and your applications on.
A whole bunch of applications do the bad thing Microsoft is talking about, and hardcode the path to 'My Documents'. I have a ghost 'My Documents' folder that has mostly app settings and maybe some save files.
You could use an ntfs junction then nothing has to understand the settings.
I was actually surprised that this isn't how redirection is implemented. Seems like an easy enough fix that would catch everything.
Microsoft prefers to never miss an opportunity to make their file browser lie about the state of the underlying filesystem.
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Is there a way to create/manage an NTFS junction other than CLI?
There is no option in windows explorer, no.
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