Re: Can't redirect desktop folder

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Synapse Syndrome [KGB] wrote:
David Trimboli <trimboli@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I want to redirect all my (visible) profile folders to a server. I have done this for all them except Desktop. I do this by right-clicking the folder's icon, clicking Properties, clicking on the Location tab, entering a location of \\server\share\username\Folder, and clicking OK. It asks if I want to move everything in the current folder to the new folder, and I click Yes. Easy, and it works perfectly.

When I do this for the Desktop, it works just fine. But the next time I log in (whether after a reboot or not), the desktop folder has reverted back to C:\Users\username\Desktop. Nothing I do will make it stick to the server. The other redirected folders stay where I put them and they continue to work normally.

What's going on here? How can I make this work?

I find that the original folder locations can appear again sometimes. The feature does not work very well, as sometimes programs can re-create the original locations, if they are redirected by the legacy junction points.

This isn't sometimes; this is every time. Change the location of the Desktop folder, log out, log in, and the Desktop folder will have reverted to its default location. Every time.

The way around this is to make your own junction points once you have relocated the folders, with the MKLINK /D command. Then use ATTRIB to make them read-only and hidden.

I don't think you can create a junction to a UNC path, can you? I'm not redirecting to a different local drive. Can you make junction links to network drives at all?

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David Trimboli
Windows Systems Analyst
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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