Hi
I've just received an image of an evidence drive to work on. A number of folders are displaying the icon shown below and won't open.
I got the following description for this icon from a Guidance Software page but it doesn't really help explain why the folders are marked like this.
Symbolic Link - a pointer from one area of the directory structure to the actual location of the file elsewhere in the structure
Reparse Point- similar to a symbolic link, but instead of redirecting access from one file to another, it redirects access from one directory to another.
Volume Mount Point - used to create dynamic access to entire disk volumes
Can anyone explain what this icon indicates? Does it mean the folders marked with this aren't accessible?
Thanks
Its a Vista thing. To keep application compatibility, they arent folders as such. So you're not 'missing' anything. As the Guidance notes state its a redirect, so software going to read/write from these links/paths will be redirected to a different area, for example docs and settings going under the new vista users area etc.
Thanks Rich
That makes a lot of sense
In the lower report tab you'll see the link data; also there the "Symbolic link" column that will have the path in it
C\Users for C\Documents and Settings