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Please specify the issues that you are having. Without this information is difficult to provide answers.
Please try using "mklink" to see if you run into the same issues.
Issues while hard linking a folder in Powershell
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JohnCTX
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I am having too many issues regarding this command syntax.
New-Item -ItemType Junction -Path "C:\Program Files\Folder One" -Target "D:\Folder Two"
Users are welcome to provide some answers, as long as it is related to this topic.
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JohnCTX
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Rich Matheisen 47,901 Reputation points2021-01-01T16:11:03.41+00:00 You cannot "hard link" a folder. You can only hard link a file. And you can only hard link files on the same volume.
Also, the subject of your post ("hard linking") doesn't match the code example you posted (which will create a "junction"). "Junction" has, more or less, been supplanted by "SymbolicLink" which works with remote shares, too.
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JohnCTX 636 Reputation points
2021-01-01T18:33:14.743+00:00 Okay. That makes more sense.
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JohnCTX
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Sean Liming 4,766 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2020-12-31T21:14:04.053+00:00 -
JohnCTX 636 Reputation points
2020-12-31T21:23:31.51+00:00 Sorry. Did not work.
Did Windows developers change the syntax just to make it more complex?Regards,
JohnCTX
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Sean Liming 4,766 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2020-12-31T21:30:01.617+00:00 mklink didn't work or hardlink? My mistake hard link will not work across volumes.
Nothing has changed. They did add Symbolic Link. Try the following:
New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path "C:\Program Files\Folder One" -Target "D:\Folder Two"
Here is an article that discusses the different links: Understanding NTFS Hard Links, Junctions and Symbolic Links
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JohnCTX 636 Reputation points
2020-12-31T21:34:24.29+00:00 Sorry. That did not work either.
Should I just simply give up on trying to hard link a folder?
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JohnCTX
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Sean Liming 4,766 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2020-12-31T21:35:40.637+00:00 Are you getting an error? If so, please share.
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JohnCTX 636 Reputation points
2020-12-31T21:42:35.703+00:00 Too many errors
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JohnCTX
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JohnCTX 636 Reputation points
2020-12-31T22:03:45.777+00:00 I have tried using quotes. Did not work.
I have tried using aliases as hard links to files or folders. Did not work.I am just about to give up on trying to hard link files or folders, and move on to something else.
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JohnCTX
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Bill Stewart 186 Reputation points2021-01-03T23:55:40.543+00:00