Create Soft and Hard Symbolic Links in Windows  

Please don't accidentally miss my post #79 on the previous page.

OldGrantonian said:

Reminder: We need to cancel that Junction Point that we created - for safety. I couldn't see a tutorial for that ...
... TODO: Remove the Junction Point on D:

I couldn't see a tutorial for that in a Google drive????
You mean "in the Tutorial index that is shown at the top of this webpage".


To remove the Redirection point [the Junction, the Link]:-
Step 1 - Get a list of them all so you can see exactly what you have created. Run both Options 1 & 2 for every drive so you can be certain that you've listed them all.
Find All Symbolic Links and Junction Points - ElevenForumTutorials
- It's the same in Win10 & Win11.
Step 2 - Delete the thing. I have recently done this myself. You just browse to the link [not its Target] in File explorer and delete it.


Denis

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It's really worth making time to browse through the Tutorial index - there's a shortcut to it at the top of every page.

- At the foot of the Tutorial index is a shortcut to download it as a spreadsheet.
- I download a new copy each month.
- By downloading it as a spreadsheet I can benefit from Excel's excellent filtering capabilities when I search for topics of interest.

- Tutorials are also listed by category at Tutorials - there's also a shortcut to that at the top of every page.
- Both tutorial lists are searchable.
- You can also search for TenForumsTutorials in many general search engines, such as Google, by adding site:tenforums.com/tutorials after your search term. For example,
taskbar toolbars site:tenforums.com/tutorials

You can search TenForums using the search box in the top-right corner of all TenForums webpages or using Advanced Search - TenForums
- You can also search TenForums threads in many general search engines, such as Google, by adding site:tenforums.com after your search term. For example,
Search for drivers by HardwareID site:tenforums.com
- [This is what the search box in the top-right corner of TenForums webpages does automatically]

That last suggestion was not what you thought.
%APPDATA% means C:\Users\Alan\AppData\Roaming [not C:\Users\Alan\AppData].
Just as %USERPROFILE% means C:\Users\Alan


Denis

To "summarize", if %username% means Alan, then C:\Users\Alan can be written as C:\Users\%username% or as %userprofile%.
Whereas C:\Users\Alan\AppData\Roaming can be written as C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming or as %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming or as %appdata%.