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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Hard Links / Folder Junctions
Hi Emilio,
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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
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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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