On 11 May 2015 at 19:01, Daniel Begin <jfd...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting,
>
> The symbolic links on the old drive -still used by the DB- look like
> windows' shortcuts to parent folder, while they are empty folders in the
> copy of the database I have on the new drive...
>
> When I do a plane copy of those links on another drive I also get the same
> empty folders.  I am getting closer to the initial problem, and closer to
> the solution!
>
> Maybe an image backup of the drive would have done the job properly instead
> of using a plane copy?
> Daniel
>

Robocopy can copy symlinks properly in Windows, if you use the /SL
option. Something like

robocopy /E /SL sourcedir targetdir

See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/cc733145.aspx.


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