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When I run mklink /D "C:\Users\bwilliams\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2" "C:\Users\bwilliams\Dropbox\Sublime Text"
, I get this error `You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation.
Why not? I'm administrator, and just want to create a link in my own Users\bwilliams directory to another folder in my Users\bwilliams directory? What am I doing wrong here?
Thanks.
@mehaase Old comment, but... you can hose things with a poorly-placed junction, this is to protect from inadvertently doing that. The referenced, not at all a duplicate and I don't understand why the duplicate tag is still there today, question explains how to add that permission to a user. – EKW – 2016-08-14T15:19:20.780
2Hilarious. I'm trying to do the same exact thing -- sync dropbox settings on Windows -- and I'm completely stymied why creating symlinks is not a default privilege for average users. I own the source and the target, and they are both underneath my home directory. Why is this restricted?! – Mark E. Haase – 2012-04-24T12:57:53.647
2I was able to do this using mklink /J instead of mklink /D. Nothing has blown up... yet... – Mark E. Haase – 2012-04-24T13:15:43.790