"Symlinked" folder within the same folder?

[SoWhy]

Hi there,

my Windows 7 has some weird folder that confuses my software. I got the folder

C:\Users\Administrator\Anwendungsdaten

which seems to be a "symbolic link"(?) to

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local

But within the latter folder, I also have a folder called "Anwendungsdaten" which then opens the same content at

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Anwendungsdaten

and within that content, I, of course, have the same folder again, thus opening

C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Anwendungsdaten\Anwendungsdaten

This way, I can proceed within the structure until I reach

C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\ANWEND~1\Anwendungsdaten\Anwendungsdaten

(i.e. I'm too annoyed to click "Anwendungsdaten" again. Theoretically, it probably goes to infinity)

Naturally, that's very annoying, especially when I try to backup files and the script tries to recursively scan to infinity. So, my question is: How do I get rid of that link without deleting the content of C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local by accident?

TIA
SoWhy

 

[logicearth]

Altered the permissions of your user directory, correct? That would be why you are having problems.

 

[SoWhy]

Yeah, I had to in order to copy my old application data from my XP system (since Win7 didn't allow me to open that folder). :-/

 

[SoWhy]

Nevermind, I figured it out. I just used rmdir Anwendungsdaten in the command line for the C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local folder and it removed the symlink =)

 

[logicearth]

Application Data is AppData\Roaming in Windows 7. What you did was open every single junction that was used for compatibility. You backup just got a thousand times bigger even without an infinite junction loop.

 

[MacGyvr]

If you copied files into those folders, you made a HUGE mess.

 

[arkhi]

Gotta love logicearth's signature!


Yes.. I'm honestly tired seeing people making the same mistakes with permissions this. I know it's unavoidable but sorry, I had to say it.