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Launcher not falling back with all Junction cases
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Description

in scenarios where arma 3 lives in a removable drive it appears that all symlinking abilities (junctions, hard links, symbolic links) are disabled
mods would remain in corrupted form instead of being loaded from the steam workshop folder and the !workshop folder would contain empty folders instead
user did not provide launcher logs because they're privacy reserved

Details

Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 11 x64
Category
Launcher
Steps To Reproduce

put arma 3 on a ntfs drive that is considered as removable by windows
subscribe to any mod(s)
observe the launcher symptoms noted in the description

Additional Information

attempting to manually perform mklink on the target produces Local NTFS volumes are required to complete the operation.

Event Timeline

Juest created this task.Jul 12 2024, 12:17 PM
Juest updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 12 2024, 12:20 PM