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How can I delete a junction that refers to itself?
I am in the middle of a disk upgrade on a machine going from a HDD to a SSD. I just reinstalled the OS on the new drive and am trying to copy the contents of the old drive to a temporary location so ...
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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 with NTFS Junctions: ERROR_NOT_SAME_DEVICE(0x80070011)
I have a quick question about installing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 with NTFS Junctions in place. I keep getting this error: ERROR_NOT_SAME_DEVICE(0x80070011).
Now from what I researched online it is ...
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List all files and dirs without recursion with junctions
Is there a native|portable tool that can give me an unicode (or at least system local-compatible) list of all files and directories under a path recursively, without recursing into junction points or ...
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Give Access to a Subdirectory Without Giving Access to Parent Directories
I have a scenario involving a Windows file server where the "owner" wants to dole out permissions to a group of users of the following sort:
\\server\dir1\dir2\dir3: Read & Execute and Write
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remote symbolic link / junction
Might be a pretty obvious one but have had some trouble finding solid answers.
I have a directory on a windows network share containing different versions of an application. I would like to have a ...
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How do I mklink junction + move content from C:\Program Files to D:\Program Files?
I have a few applications that absolutely refuse to install into anything but C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files(x86). Changing the registry keys for default install folders doesn't seem to provide ...
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Scenario - NTFS Symbolic Link or Junction?
Differences
┌───────────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────┬───────────┬─────┐
│ │ Absolute │ Relative │ File │ Directory │ UNC │
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Can you link an NTFS junction point to a directory on a Network Attached Storage?
I'm using Windows, and I want to use Dropbox to back up a folder outside my Dropbox directory. So I want to create a junction point from my target directory to my Dropbox folder. Accoding to the ...
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Can someone make sense out of “Hard Links and Junctions” article from MSDN?
At Hard Links and Junctions MSDN article one can read the following:
A hard link is the file system representation of a file by which more
than one path references a single file in the same ...
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Is there a way to delete a dependent junction(s) point when we delete the target folder?
The situation would be something like this:
Target directory: Target
Junction Points:
Jun1 → Target
Jun2 → Target
What is the best way to delete the junction points if I delete the ...
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What can I do about Windows 7 Backup error 0x81000037, apparently caused by reparse points?
I've been getting this error:
0x81000037: Windows Backup failed while trying to read from the shadow copy on one of the volumes being backed up
trying to take a Windows backup of my workstation ...
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How do I delete hardlinks, symbolic links, junction points, etc please?
I could be wrong, but I'm yet to hear a valid argument for the exploitability that these things deliver...outweighing their very dubious / debatable functionality. They seem to me to be marginally ...
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Ubuntu 9.10: Which package can handle NTFS Junction?
I've created some directory Junction in Windows XP
When I tried to rename those in Ubuntu 9.10, I get error message, kind of Operation not supported
Which Ubuntu package can handle NTFS Junction?
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