As far as I can understand this, the target can't be an existing folder, it will be created when the link is made. Am I wrong about that?

Can 2 folders be symbolic linked to the same destination folder so that new folder would display the contents of both?

Thanks AndreTen, appreciate your efforts to help.

It's frustrating when something that's worked fine for 6 years suddenly no longer works. Weird thing is, it did work as normal in Windows 10 until...

It works when viewing an individual folder but it doesn't work for libraries.

Thanks for the reply but that only shows how to set one of the pre-configured folder types; none of which have list view, they're only details or tiles.

Since the latest update, viewing a folder from within a library shows the view setting (list, details, tiles etc.) that the library has set rather than the view set for that actual folder.

Before...