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Originally Posted by bobnelsonfr
OK... I got rid of the junction links and set up symbolic links instead.
May I ask a question that has nothing to do with Calibre, since you seem to know about these things? 
The BIG folder on my C: disk is WinSxS. I looked into doing the copy-and-link-and-delete procedure, but found quite a few comments saying that this could be dangerous. I also found some comments saying that it works just fine.
Do you have any thoughts? |
My advice is : don't mess about in the Windows folder with Windows Explorer -
period.
The WinSxS (Windows Side by Side) folder is MS's solution to a problem known as
DLL Hell. Most of the files in there are hardlinks to files elsewhere in the Windows folder its subfolders, so they only consume space in the MFT which is pre-allocated space, so they effectively take up no space.
Most of the utilities that calculate folder size (including Windows Explorer->Properties) fail to take hard links into account, so they include the size of many files multiple times in their accumulation. The only tool I know of that doesn't do this is FileMenuTools, its Folder Size tool has an option that discounts files with multiple links (it's an option because it's slow). Here's a comparison, on the left all instances of all files are included, on the right only one instance of each file is included.
Of the 3972 files in my System32 folder, 3612 have at least one extra link, one of them, win32k.sys, has eleven extra links sprinkled around WinSxS subfolders.
BR