Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data

Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by tjoff on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:37AM (#18193860)

I use them for tons of stuff. Such as moving spotify song cache (not the same as offline storage location that you can specify in settings) so that it wouldn't use precious SSD space for cache (which was quite the inconvenience back when SSDs were very small/expensive).

It doesn't work well with applications that have a habit to remove and recreate the directory that you want to link though (for obvious reasons).

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by lysp on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:22PM (#18198649)

I use mine for shortcuts to drives on servers.

    C:\Shares\Server01\C -> \\server01\c$

    C:\Shares\Server02\C -> \\server02\c$

    C:\Shares\Server02\D -> \\server02\d$

    C:\Shares\Web01\webroot -> \\web01\e$\files\stuff\wwwroot

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by jki275 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:48AM (#18193955)

I guess I need to relook them then. Would definitely make a few things easier in my life. I really don't want my steam directory on my main machine, being able to hard link it to an iscsi drive would be nice if that's possible.

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by madhato on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:21AM (#18194231)

Steam has the option to use a different drive, no need for symlinks. https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUB...

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by jki275 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @11:56AM (#18194564)

Yeah, but not over the network. It specifically disallows UNC paths.

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by vel0city on Thursday October 11, 2018 @03:13PM (#18196230)

Map the UNC path as a network drive and probably won't notice.

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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by jki275 on Friday October 12, 2018 @07:14AM (#18200621)

Tried it... unfortunately didn't work. It knows.

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