Robocopy ignores /SL

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_{Saturday, October 13, 2018 10:29 PM}

Robocopy is ignoring the /SL feature. (/SL :: copy symbolic links versus the target.). This causes it to copy the Videos Music and Pictures folders twice because there are system shortcuts to these folders in the Documents folder for compatibility.

Command is as follows (replace ***** with user name): 

robocopy "C:\Users\*****\Documents" "E:\*****\Documents" /sl /mir
robocopy "C:\Users\*****\Videos" "E:\*****\Videos" /sl /mir
robocopy "C:\Users\*****\Music" "E:\*****\Music" /sl /mir
robocopy "C:\Users\*****\Pictures" "E:\*****\Pictures" /sl /mir

Please fix this Microsoft.

All replies (5)

_{Sunday, October 14, 2018 7:54 PM}

I think that you need to use these switches.

    /XJ :: eXclude Junction points and symbolic links. (normally included by default).
   /XJD :: eXclude Junction points and symbolic links for Directories.

C:\Users\Dave\Documents>dir /a  my*
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is 9EE0-DE09

 Directory of C:\Users\Dave\Documents

05/01/2018  09:07 PM    <JUNCTION>     My Music [C:\Users\Dave\Music]
05/01/2018  09:07 PM    <JUNCTION>     My Pictures [C:\Users\Dave\Pictures]
05/01/2018  09:07 PM    <JUNCTION>     My Videos [C:\Users\Dave\Videos]

_{Monday, October 15, 2018 1:33 PM}

Hi,

According to my research, /mir means that it mirrors a directory tree (equivalent to /e plus /purge), and in C:\Users\***\Documents, the system thinks of the system shortcuts of Videos, Music and Pictures as file folders, so when we use the command robocopy "C:\Users\****\Documents" "E:\****\Documents" /sl /mir, it copies all the data in the system shortcuts of Videos, Music and Pictures.

But when we use the command robocopy "C:\Users\****\Documents" "E:\****\Documents" /sl, it will only copy file.

Best Regards,
Daisy Zhou

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_{Monday, October 15, 2018 2:49 PM}

Use the /xjd switch. 

_{Wednesday, October 17, 2018 5:54 AM}

Hi,
If this question has any update? Also, for the question, is there any other assistance we could provide?
Best Regards,
Daisy Zhou

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_{Friday, October 19, 2018 7:32 AM}

Hi,
I am just writing to see if this issue has any update. If anything is unclear, please feel free to let us know.
Have a nice day!

Best Regards,
Daisy Zhou

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