Have Find Files not follow shortcuts?

I have copied all the files from my old win 7 machine onto my win 10 machine in their structure. If I do Find Files *.* on it, it follows the shortcuts from for example <backupdrive>\users\<me>\Documents\"My Pictures" and includes finding all my current win 10 pictures. Also <backupdrive>\users\<me>\Recent includes finding all my current win 10 recents. I note that these are the built-in win 7 links, not the typical user-created shortcut .lnk that shows the path to the new target. Is there a way to not have Find Files follow these built-in-type links? I don't see such under settings. TY.

Those junctions are normally permissioned so that they cannot be recursed into, which is what normally prevents them getting in the way. Presumably the permissions were changed when the backup was made.

The easiest thing to do is to simply delete the junctions. Just make sure you delete the junctions themselves, not the things they point to.

The junctions are created by Windows to help with compatibility with software that has hardcoded paths using the old names for things. They aren't needed for anything else, and serve no purpose in a backup which only exists as a reference for old files and not as something you'll ever restore to a running system.

You can use the Type and Target columns to see when a directory is a junction or symlink or shortcut, and where it points to.