I would rather get the ignore file to just ignore it. From what I've found from some technet docs, these junctions are standard as part of a win7 upgrade for "backwards compatibility" reasons. Regardless, I'm hoping to make the sync ignore file work versus redoing junctions, and all the libraries that seem to use those junctions. Did I put them there purposefully? Nope (see above). Can I delete them, maybe. but I'd rather get the syncignore file to ignore versus mucking around with deleting junctions put their by the os.