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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by detaro on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:57AM (#18193095)
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.
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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by withinrafael on Thursday October 11, 2018 @01:55PM (#18195638)
Soft and hard links are only supported on NTFS formatted disks.
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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by vel0city on Thursday October 11, 2018 @03:12PM (#18196220)
Soft links are supported on ReFS, but hard links are not.
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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by withinrafael on Thursday October 11, 2018 @04:07PM (#18196654)
True, but ReFS isn't supported in consumer versions of Windows so not really worth mentioning.
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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by vel0city on Thursday October 11, 2018 @05:10PM (#18197065)
Somehow I missed that Microsoft removed the ability to create new ReFS volumes in regular Windows 10 Pro. Quite frustrating, thanks for the heads up.
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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by hornetblack on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:41PM (#18198732)
I created a vhdx file on windows 2016 server, formatted it with ReFS and copied it to my PC. And I mount the vhdx as D:. It's such a silly way to do something.
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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by shawnz on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:19AM (#18193253)
They are used for the old "My Documents" folders though, right? So why not use them here too, just as a fallback?
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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by detaro on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:34AM (#18193371)
I think that works through the same principle, not through links.
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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by MikusR on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:11AM (#18193663)
My Documents, Application data and few others are links.
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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by detaro on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:12AM (#18193671)
TIL, thanks!
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