Windows 10: Symbolic links/Folder links

Apologies for the long introcution first; I have read a number of questions and answers relating to symbolic links with interest, and have noted that del, rmdir mklink, file explorer are all dangerous tools to use in order to remove a symbolic link. I had a PC with several physical drives each mapped to its own logical drive. C:\ was the boot drive. Another G:\ of the drives contained an old copy of windows, It contained a symbolic link to the user's documents and settings. Call the user XYZ. In my attempt to clean the drive - being cautious not simply format it, yet - I moved all the old sy

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Can't delete folders/files within a symbolic link or junction mklink

Thanks again. I just tried this - assuming a performed all steps correctly:







I then created the new symlink and got the same results when trying to delete a folder:

 

Symbolic links inside linked folder

Hi

I'm creating symbolic links of one folder (Missions folder) to server so that the server can load the missions from the linked folder and this works. But the problem is that when I create symbolic links inside the sub folders (of Missions folder) then the
server fails to load those sub folders folders.

I made pic to demonstrate this problem, the
link's here. The red is the Missions folder link to server folder and the Mis A sub folder contents are symbolic linked to Mis B & Mis C folders (blue line) . But server fails to load the B & C subfolders, only the sub folder Mis A can be loaded by the
server.

Does anyone know why it doesn't work?

thanks!

 

Exclude folder form Symbolic link ?

Xcopy and Robocopy are not third party apps - they are Windows 10 command line utilities, presumably being used here to make backup copies of user files. I wrote my own .bat file using Robocopy that does full or incremental backups of my user folder to an external or network drive of my choice. I very soon learned the perils of Robocopy and symbolic links...
The dangers of robocopy and symbolic links

The switch I had to use for Robocopy is:
/XJD :: eXclude Junction points for Directories.

This one may be of use to @JerometheGiraff:
/SL :: copy symbolic links versus the target.

You could try combining that with...
/XD dirs [dirs]... :: eXclude Directories matching given names/paths.
...but I'm not sure if that applies to symbolic links.

Get to Know Robocopy for More Powerful File Management
Robocopy and a Few Examples
Type Robocopy /? in a command prompt for the full list of options or see:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/...mands/robocopy

Xcopy is far older than Robocopy and dates back to DOS 3.2. It supports the options:

/EXCLUDE:file1[+file2][+file3]...
Specifies a list of files containing strings. Each string should be in a separate line in the files. When any of the
strings match any part of the absolute path of the file to be copied, that file will be excluded from being copied. For example, specifying a string like \obj\ or .obj will exclude all files underneath the directory obj or all files with the .obj extension respectively.
....
/B Copies the Symbolic Link itself versus the target of the link.

Type Xcopy /? for the full list.