How to restore User's profile's junctions?

[Eric B.]

Hi,

I have a user's profile that has crashed. Luckily, I have full daily
backups of his profile, so can easily restore the files.

However, my problem is all the special junctions that Vista and Win7 have
added to the profile directories for backwards-compatibility. No backup
software I have seen (short of complete imaging software) seems to backup
and/or restore junction points.

So I find myself with the profile missing all the default junction points,
and quite frankly, not sure how to manually recreate them. No matter what I
do, I cannot seem to replicate the Vista/Win7's original junctions that are
hidden when "Hide Protected Operating System Files" is enabled. The
junction points that I am referring to are things like ("My Documents", "My
Music", "Application Data", "Local Settings", etc).

Is there a tool out there that can accomplish this for me? Or is there
somethign I can do by hand to recreate these junction points?

I have searched and searched the web for hours, but cannot seem to find
anyone who has asked this question before.

Any help, suggestions, pointers, etc would be greately appreciated.

Thanks!

Eric

 

[Dave-UK]

Hi,

I have a user's profile that has crashed. Luckily, I have full daily
backups of his profile, so can easily restore the files.

However, my problem is all the special junctions that Vista and Win7 have
added to the profile directories for backwards-compatibility. No backup
software I have seen (short of complete imaging software) seems to backup
and/or restore junction points.

So I find myself with the profile missing all the default junction points,
and quite frankly, not sure how to manually recreate them. No matter what I
do, I cannot seem to replicate the Vista/Win7's original junctions that are
hidden when "Hide Protected Operating System Files" is enabled. The
junction points that I am referring to are things like ("My Documents", "My
Music", "Application Data", "Local Settings", etc).

Is there a tool out there that can accomplish this for me? Or is there
somethign I can do by hand to recreate these junction points?

I have searched and searched the web for hours, but cannot seem to find
anyone who has asked this question before.

Any help, suggestions, pointers, etc would be greately appreciated.

Thanks!

Eric

Here's a freeware program that might be useful:
http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm

"Junction Link Magic automatically lists existing junction points, and it
offers an easy interface to add, modify or remove junction points."

 

[Eric B.]

Here's a freeware program that might be useful:
http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm

"Junction Link Magic automatically lists existing junction points, and it
offers an easy interface to add, modify or remove junction points."

Thanks, but I had tried that already. All Junction Link Magic does is
provide an interface to make creation of the junctions easier, but doesn't
recreate the original junctions any better than doing it by hand. Although
I could manually recreate the junction points, they don't become hidden when
"Hide Protected Operating System Files" is enabled.

I am looking for one of two things:
1) Understanding / knowledge of how to make manually create junctions hidden
when "Hide Protected Operating System Files" is enabled

OR

2) A script / app / etc that would automatically restore all the junction
points within a profile automatically for me.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Eric

 

[Dave-UK]

Thanks, but I had tried that already. All Junction Link Magic does is
provide an interface to make creation of the junctions easier, but doesn't
recreate the original junctions any better than doing it by hand. Although
I could manually recreate the junction points, they don't become hidden when
"Hide Protected Operating System Files" is enabled.

I am looking for one of two things:
1) Understanding / knowledge of how to make manually create junctions hidden
when "Hide Protected Operating System Files" is enabled

OR

2) A script / app / etc that would automatically restore all the junction
points within a profile automatically for me.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Eric

Only Google, but I assume you've done that already. Sorry.

 

[evanflash]

Hi Eric,
Did you ever find a suitable solution? Some of our users are having a
similar problem with an application that relies on the
backwards-compatibility provided by these Junction points.
If you have any new information, I'd love to hear it.
- Evan

 

[Peter Foldes]

What are you talking about. You must be a deadhead from egghead or from techarena
with a completely useless post