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[detaro]

In what way does explorer lie about the location of a redirected documents folder?

[jenscow → detaro]

> to make their file browser lie about the state of the underlying filesystem.

Quick example... compare the results of these two commands:

   dir C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper

   explorer C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper

[drbawb → jenscow]

I can't reply directly to Multicomp, but: https://i.imgur.com/KksKcLk.png demonstrates your point on my machine. That's pretty funny, actually.

[Multicomp → jenscow]

Someone ELI5 this if you please. I got the same results at first and second glance.

[no_news_is → Multicomp]

I was expecting to, after your comment. I was surprised. https://imgur.com/a/EDiOkXK

[jplayer01 → detaro]

It's incredibly vague about where you actually are when you're using redirected known folders vs accessing the original folder.

[detaro → jplayer01]

It's always vague about the known folders, and hiding the details is arguably the point of them, so you have to teach users less if you move them around in a managed environment.

[jplayer01 → detaro]

This would be fine if two locations with the exact same address didn't exist.

[detaro → jplayer01]

Not sure what you mean by "the exact same address"? At least from what I've seen "Documents" always points to exactly one folder, and explorer shows only a view of that folder?

[LeftTurnSignal → detaro]

I've had two separate "Documents" folders on a few different machines before. I never used those folders, but they both showed up in my home directory and could contain different data.

I'm sure they were something different if I dove deeper in cmd, but I never cared enough to figure it out.

[dragonwriter → detaro]

Isn't Documents actually a library and the single default folder (and default default save location) in that library since Win 7?

[detaro → dragonwriter]

I had libraries hidden, so I had to check: there's both: the Documents folder, and a library that contains just that folder by default. So yeah, that seems unnecessarily confusing.