I am attempting to copy most of the User Profile folders (Contacts, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Favorites, Music, Pictures, and Videos) for all the users on a Windows 10 computer to a network share. Appdata and ProgramData should both be excluded. I have symbolic links "on" and set to "follow", but I get an error "Cannot read file attributes of "xxxxxx\c$\users\All Users" Error Code 1463. I know one way around this is to go one folder deeper and specify an individual user folder (which works fine), but is there a way to sync all the user folders in Windows 10 from the top level \\Computername\C$\Users\.
I'm also have trouble syncing the Music folder for the users. The folder is found but all .wma and .mp3 files are ignored and are missing when comparing the folders. Only .wpl, .ini, .db, and .jpg (mostly albumn art) is displayed.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Trouble with Symbolic Links
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"direct" + admin rights will do (otherwise just don't include the symlinks)
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Thanks for your help. I got it partially figured out. The folder I was attempting to sync to is actually in Box Drive (C:\Users\username\Box). As soon as I created a new folder in Box Drive then directed Free File Sync to sync to the new folder it worked great with your settings mentioned above. All the missing folders and files were then visible to Free File Sync. Box Drive is a FAT32 Mounted Volume that shows up as a Network Drive, so that may have something to do with it.
