Windows 10: Need help with symbolic links

Windows 10, build 19041.329

I am trying to set up a computer with Windows 10. The problem I am having is this: After I installed Windows 10, I then followed the advice given here, How to move user folders to different location on Windows 10 | Windows Central, to move all of the folders under C:\Users\MyUser to D:\Users\MyUser. I managed to do this without a hitch.

Today, after installing more software on the computer, I notice about one dozen symbolic links in the folder C:\Users\MyUser that were not there when I did the aforementioned move. As an example, one of the newly existing symbolic links is My Documents. But, here is the problem: I cannot figure out to where these links are pointing! All of the links are owned by user System, not MyUser. In addition, the Location tab, cited in the linked article, does not exist for any of the links.

Two of the programs I installed, in an attempt to make Windows 10 more comfortable to use, were OldNewExplorer, see Download OldNewExplorer - MajorGeeks and Open Shell, see Welcome to the Home page of Open-Shell-Menu | Open-Shell-Menu.

To complete this setup, I really need to move the symbolic links to the D drive, or I simply need to delete the links and create the folders on the D Drive. Even though these links do not seem to have any files associated with them, I want to be sure not to accidentally delete any files. Suggestions as to a way forward, including any need registry changes, are sought. Thanks!

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Greetings,


I have a large number of symbolic links (soft links) on my PC that I want to migrate to a new machine with an identical directory structure. When I use various backup or copy programs that clone files (bit copy), the symbolic links do not work on the target machine (they get converted to empty files instead of links). Any help would be appreciated.