[issue45710] Junction/symbolic folder access error on Windows 11

Eryk Sun added the comment: All we can do here is document the store app's limitation on cross-volume reparse points (junctions, symlinks) in "%UserProfile%\AppData". I suppose it's a rare enough problem that it can just be closed as a third-party issue. -- resolution: works for me

[issue45710] Junction/symbolic folder access error on Windows 11

Fabio Storino added the comment: Hello, Eryk. Just to let you know that a regular Python installation was able to access my junction folder in AppData and run scripts there. Thank you for the information on how store apps handle reads/writes in the AppData folder. This is my first bug

[issue45710] Junction/symbolic folder access error on Windows 11

Eryk Sun added the comment: > does this or does this not look to you like a bug in CPython? It's better to leave the detailed explanation of limits up to the document that's referenced for further information [1], but this issue isn't even briefly mentioned there. Maybe it would help some

[issue45710] Junction/symbolic folder access error on Windows 11

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Eryk, does this or does this not look to you like a bug in CPython? I don't know enough to tell. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker

[issue45710] Junction/symbolic folder access error on Windows 11

Eryk Sun added the comment: It's not completely surprising that attempting to traverse a name-surrogate reparse point under "%UserProfile%\AppData" fails when using the store app. If you can't or won't move the mountpoint up to %UserProfile%, or anywhere else outside of the application-data

[issue45710] Junction/symbolic folder access error on Windows 11

New submission from Fabio Storino : After upgrading to Windows 11 I can't run Python scripts from a junction folder anymore. Everything else works as before on that folder. Background: I have Minecraft installed on a second volume (E:\Games\Minecraft). I created a junction folder at