Comment by wtallis
7 years ago
Microsoft prefers to never miss an opportunity to make their file browser lie about the state of the underlying filesystem.
7 years ago
Microsoft prefers to never miss an opportunity to make their file browser lie about the state of the underlying filesystem.
In what way does explorer lie about the location of a redirected documents folder?
> to make their file browser lie about the state of the underlying filesystem.
Quick example... compare the results of these two commands:
I can't reply directly to Multicomp, but: https://i.imgur.com/KksKcLk.png demonstrates your point on my machine. That's pretty funny, actually.
Someone ELI5 this if you please. I got the same results at first and second glance.
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It's incredibly vague about where you actually are when you're using redirected known folders vs accessing the original folder.
It's always vague about the known folders, and hiding the details is arguably the point of them, so you have to teach users less if you move them around in a managed environment.
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