Bageland2000 Posted June 24, 2017 Report Share Posted June 24, 2017 I seem to have inaccessible folders within my "Documents" folder in windows such as "\Documents\My Music" (also pictures and videos). I think these are legacy folders from the old Windows XP structure. I'm not sure if everyone has these, or just me, but they're there, I cannot access them, and Resilio is constantly giving me an error that these folders cannot be synced. I'd like to get rid of them or permanently tell Resilio to shut up about them. Any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Posted June 26, 2017 Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 yes, those are symbolic links (junctions) by Windows and they make Documents folder unavailable for Sync. You can remove them if you don't need them, use command rmdir or rd from elevated command prompt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bageland2000 Posted June 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 Hmmm. I ran command prompt as administrator and typed the following: "rd /users/andrew/My Documents/My Music" I received the error: Invalid switch - "users" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bageland2000 Posted June 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 Well I'm an idiot, using the wrong slash.... Anyway I typed: rmdir \users\andrew\My Documents\My Music\ got The system cannot find the file specified. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
02384098203948234 Posted June 26, 2017 Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 At least at macOS and Linux, you have to pay attention to folders and files containing " " (spaces). At this example you have type cd Test\ Folder/ into your terminal to enter the Test Folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Posted June 27, 2017 Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 10 hours ago, Bageland2000 said: Anyway I typed: rmdir \users\andrew\My Documents\My Music\ got The system cannot find the file specified. 1. Are you sure it's \users\ and not \Users? 2. Do you actually have junctions in My Documents? Did you check that?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bageland2000 Posted June 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2017 15 hours ago, ellw said: At least at macOS and Linux, you have to pay attention to folders and files containing " " (spaces). At this example you have type cd Test\ Folder/ into your terminal to enter the Test Folder. That was it, wasn't using the quotes. Weird that you can navigate without them, but can't issue commands without them.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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