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Hard Links / Folder Junctions

  • May 22, 2025
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As an old user of Windows 7 I had created a junction link to my personal folder. The link was in the synced Box folder and doing it this way I could add folders in order to be synced. Now that I am new to Windows 10 I am trying to create a junction to the Box sync folder but I can only do it when logged in to the application as it only exits in this condition. Is there a workaround to sync an existing folder without moving it to the sync Box folder?

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    Hi Emilio, 

    Welcome to the Box Community!

    Can you confirm if what you are trying to achieve is as described in this article?:  https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043695194-Redirect-My-Documents-Folder-to-Automatically-Be-Box-Sync-Default-Folder-Location
     
    This may be relevant to your problem with the next steps!
     
    If this did not help, do you mind providing more information or even share a screenshot? This will help out other members of the community to answer your question. 
     
    Best,
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    Thanks for your kind contribution.

    Your suggestions implies moving user's own folders to Box's sync folder. The problem with this solution is that, in my case, I have two drive units (c: and d:) and due to space issues My-Documents folder is customized to exists on unit D:; that means, it will be moved back to unit c: after implementing it, not and option for me.

    I want to create hard links in the Box sync folder that point to other location folders using commands like mklink (CMD) or New-Item (PowerShell). A simple (hard) link pointing to the right folder will be enough to start syncing the information. With Windows 7 was very easy but with Windows 10, Box won't allow it easily, specially in an Windows Domain  policy controlled environment. 

     

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