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The shortcut... which isn't
Since migrating from Win7 to Win10 I've noticed that some of my shortcuts are not working. Instead I get a messsage about "Network Resources". Here's an example of the properties of one of them:
The full target is: "C:\Users\Steve\Documents\Blood Pressure Readings.xlsx"
The error popup is:
... you'll notice that Windows10 doesn't bother to tell us WHAT network resource is unavailable. That would make things too easy!
The location of the shortcut itself is C:\$User\Stuff\Frequently Used Documents
I can't see anything in this setup which requires any network access. If I navigate to the folder containing "C:\Users\Steve\Documents\Blood Pressure Readings.xlsx" and then create a new shortcut to that file, in C:\$User\Stuff\Frequently Used Documents then that works. And I cannot see any difference between the two shortcuts' properties.
However, I can open one of the working shortcuts with my text editor, but I get the network error if I try to open one of the failing shortcuts in my text editor. How odd.
I was going to attach the contents of the two shortcuts, as text files, but since I can't get at the failing shortcuts, there's no point.