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Originally Posted by Sean Webster 
idk honestly, I have been uing this for a while to make symlinks and junctions: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html
I can't notice anything different b/w either. Both allow me to link locations and delete data in the source and when I delete the symlink or junction only the symlink or junction is deleted, no data is lost.
idk honestly, I have been uing this for a while to make symlinks and junctions: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html
I can't notice anything different b/w either. Both allow me to link locations and delete data in the source and when I delete the symlink or junction only the symlink or junction is deleted, no data is lost.
Yeah, that's the same program I linked.
From what I can tell, the only differences come to linking across networks and what happens when you delete each kind of link to folders.
Junctions are only system-wide and literally act as the folder you're linking to. If you delete the link how you would traditionally delete a folder or file, the source gets deleted too.
Symbolic links can stretch across a network. If you delete the symbolic link of a folder, the folder doesn't get deleted.
Symbolic links are more like shortcuts, while junctions are like hardlinks which essentially make it the same folder as the source.
That's what I get out of the differences anyway. If there's anything else, I'm interested in knowing it. I would say just go with a symbolic link for everything in most cases, including folders.
