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    Related: superuser.com/q/347930/24500
    – surfasb
    Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 13:05
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    Warning: Windows 10 has serious holes regarding symlinks: e.g. deleting the junction is safe but just moving it to some dest empties the original directory! It leaves the junction at its initial location, and at the dest there will be an independent folder with the original contents. This can however be undone. Now, symlinks don't have this problem, (moving the symlink will carry its target). Still, moving it to another volume will make an empty independent folder and undoing this will move the independent folder at the initial symlink location. These are just a few behaviors.
    – mireazma
    Commented Jan 13, 2021 at 22:19
  • @mireazma on Jan 13, 2021 - Tried it and could not reproduce. This seems to be fixed in Windows 10 21H2 [Version 10.0.19044.2846], possibly earlier.
    – Lumi
    Commented Apr 20, 2023 at 13:56