Comment by detaro
7 years ago
Windows/NTFS has links, but they aren't used for this (and software support for them is ... iffy, which can be an issue with backup tools etc, for which they aren't just transparent). These "known folders" are roughly implemented as environmental variables containing paths to the configured folder.
Soft and hard links are only supported on NTFS formatted disks.
Soft links are supported on ReFS, but hard links are not.
True, but ReFS isn't supported in consumer versions of Windows so not really worth mentioning.
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They are used for the old "My Documents" folders though, right? So why not use them here too, just as a fallback?
I think that works through the same principle, not through links.
My Documents, Application data and few others are links.
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