← Back to context Comment by detaro 7 years ago In what way does explorer lie about the location of a redirected documents folder? 12 comments detaro Reply jenscow 7 years ago > to make their file browser lie about the state of the underlying filesystem.Quick example... compare the results of these two commands: dir C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper explorer C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper drbawb 7 years ago 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. Multicomp 7 years ago Someone ELI5 this if you please. I got the same results at first and second glance. no_news_is 7 years ago I was expecting to, after your comment. I was surprised. https://imgur.com/a/EDiOkXK jplayer01 7 years ago It's incredibly vague about where you actually are when you're using redirected known folders vs accessing the original folder. detaro 7 years ago 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. jplayer01 7 years ago This would be fine if two locations with the exact same address didn't exist. 4 replies →
jenscow 7 years ago > to make their file browser lie about the state of the underlying filesystem.Quick example... compare the results of these two commands: dir C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper explorer C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper drbawb 7 years ago 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. Multicomp 7 years ago Someone ELI5 this if you please. I got the same results at first and second glance. no_news_is 7 years ago I was expecting to, after your comment. I was surprised. https://imgur.com/a/EDiOkXK
drbawb 7 years ago 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.
Multicomp 7 years ago Someone ELI5 this if you please. I got the same results at first and second glance. no_news_is 7 years ago I was expecting to, after your comment. I was surprised. https://imgur.com/a/EDiOkXK
no_news_is 7 years ago I was expecting to, after your comment. I was surprised. https://imgur.com/a/EDiOkXK
jplayer01 7 years ago It's incredibly vague about where you actually are when you're using redirected known folders vs accessing the original folder. detaro 7 years ago 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. jplayer01 7 years ago This would be fine if two locations with the exact same address didn't exist. 4 replies →
detaro 7 years ago 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. jplayer01 7 years ago This would be fine if two locations with the exact same address didn't exist. 4 replies →
jplayer01 7 years ago This would be fine if two locations with the exact same address didn't exist. 4 replies →
> 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.
I was expecting to, after your comment. I was surprised. https://imgur.com/a/EDiOkXK
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.
This would be fine if two locations with the exact same address didn't exist.
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