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Don't even go there with the symlinks. My mother made a family tree on windows with folders and shortcuts. It broke OneDrive and robocopy completely. I don't ev

• virtue3 3y ago
  It's 3 in the morning and I couldn't stop laughing out loud when I read this. Poor OneDrive lol. I hope she managed to keep all her files and didn't lose anything.
  • baz00 3y ago
    It still works and she hasn't lost anything but you can't actually move or delete any files any more because windows explorer craps out too! I literally have no idea what to do with it :(
    • hobs 3y ago
      My assumption is she ran into the max path length limitation, here's how to fix it https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=registry#enable-long-paths-in-windows-10-version-1607-and-later https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maxim...
      • baz00 3y ago
        That was one of the problems. Unfortunately after fixing that it's still broken.
• alpaca128 3y ago
  On one hand this is an edge case, on the other things like this make me wonder how computers can even work if first-party software built specifically for nothing but managing files fails to gracefully handle a folder structure a user created by hand.
  • baz00 3y ago
    That was exactly my take home from this. Windows has some very serious flaws in it when it comes to data integrity. I do not trust it and do not use it myself.
• mceachen 3y ago
  You could write a short PowerShell script that recursively deletes shortcuts and symlinks, but I'd certainly take a full backup and have it offline before I kicked out off.