[Defect] Library Content and Symbolic Links are Displayed Differently by Modern and Desktop Applicat

AWS

Staff member
Jan 10, 2007
Florida
Hello,
I've noticed that Desktop and Modern apps differently handle contents of Libraries.
Symptoms
When you add a folder to a Windows library this added folder is displayed differently in Desktop and Modern apps. If you expand or open the library in a Desktop application such as Windows Explorer, you will see added folder and all the subfolders within
that added subfolder. When opening the same library from a Modern app, such as Mail, you will see only the subfolders but not the added

Library: Pictures
Folder you add to the library: X:|
|-Pictures-|

|-Pictures-|

|-Mine
|-Special

Folder structure as seen from a Desktop app: X:|
|-Pictures-|

|-Pictures-|


|-Mine
|-Special


Folder structure as seen from a Modern app: X:|

|-Pictures-|
|-Mine
|-Special
View in Windows Explorer:

View in Mail app:

NOTE: The Pictures folder in this figure of Mail app is the Windows library and not the Pictures folder added to the Pictures library.
Where is the folder I added to the library? How do I save files to that folder from the Mail app?

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