Hey all...
I was wondering - the documentation for "Follow Symbolic Links" describes some behavior for that setting, but I wanted to be sure - if I'm copying, for example, a copy of the Windows C: drive to another drive, and then copying it around or comparing it to other C: drive copies, will the huge number of "special files" and symbolic links used by Windows ever cause any copying into/out-of the actual Windows hierarchy and/or C: drive (since the symbolic links point back there)?
If I don't have "Follow Symbolic Links" enabled, the above oughtn't to happen, correct?
If it *is* enabled, will that cause things pointed to by the links to be overwritten?
- Tim
I was wondering - the documentation for "Follow Symbolic Links" describes some behavior for that setting, but I wanted to be sure - if I'm copying, for example, a copy of the Windows C: drive to another drive, and then copying it around or comparing it to other C: drive copies, will the huge number of "special files" and symbolic links used by Windows ever cause any copying into/out-of the actual Windows hierarchy and/or C: drive (since the symbolic links point back there)?
If I don't have "Follow Symbolic Links" enabled, the above oughtn't to happen, correct?
If it *is* enabled, will that cause things pointed to by the links to be overwritten?
- Tim
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