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Can a directory junction in a trusted folder be a trusted mount point in Windows 11?

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For example, I have a home directory c:\users\me.

Inside that, I have c:\users\me\Dropbox.

I also have a junction c:\users\me\Cloud -> c:\users\me\Dropbox to indicate that my current Cloud provider is Dropbox. Stop moaning, it works for me, mostly. :)

I then configured Windows "My Documents" to refer to c:\users\me\Cloud\Documents as my Documents folder. Everything works great, except inside some applications, it says that I cannot traverse the Documents virtual folder because it refers to an "untrusted mount."

I can easily work around this by manually selecting the Dropbox virtual folder instead, but I am curious if there is any way to tell Windows 11 about this actually being trusted.It is a junction in a trusted folder referring to another folder in the same location, but I could not figure out any way (fsutil?) to tell Windows 11 it is ok.

Please don't waste your time telling me not to do this :), I am only curious about how it is implemented and whether it can be configured.


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