I want to create a simple search that shows me all the junctions in a particular folder hierarchy; or all the sym links; or all links of any types. Is there a way to do this based on filetype (junction, symbolic link etc.)???
From what I'm finding on the net, I can't figure out if a link even has a file type let alone try and search for it. In DO I could use the "Reference" file parameter but that's not an available search criteria 
help.
gracias
mark
Hi Maynard - I don't see an obvious way to do this. I checked the available "filter" criteria to see if any of these were available as "type" values... but no joy. I think you'd need to file a feature request. A "sensible" place to extend this functionality (to me) would indeed be the "filter" system. As it stands, all that's there now is "Shortcut" which I couldn't make work as I would have thought it should work.
The shortcut type matches shortcuts (.lnk files like you can create by making a shortcut to something on the desktop), not junctions or symbolic links (NTFS features at the filesystem level).
(It's unfortunate that shortcut files use the .lnk extension since they're not actually links.)
Yeah - for some reason the "Shortcut" type in the find filter I tried didn't even find a file.lnk shortcut I had created (using copy makeshortcut command).
I was thinking it could be useful (for folks like Maynard here) to have "additional" filter types to sniff out the various types of links, junctions, etc...
Ah, okay. That works here, FWIW, at least from a quick test.
Makes sense, if it's something people need to do.
Maybe a "Target" clause in filters would make sense, so you could find links/junctions based on what they point to (and find all of them by matching any target)?