{"version":"2.1.317","anchor":"windows-junctiondirectory-detection-helpers","canonical_anchor":"windows-junctiondirectory-detection-helpers","heading":"Windows checks for folders and junctions","tier":"internal","area":"Windows","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.317\/e\/windows-junctiondirectory-detection-helpers","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.317","markdown":"### Windows checks for folders and junctions\n\nClaude Code can now tell, on Windows, whether a path is a folder, a junction or missing\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code has two checks for paths on Windows. A junction is a Windows kind of folder shortcut that points to another folder.\n\n- The first check answers yes when a path is a junction or does not exist, and also for most errors it runs into.\n\n- The second check reports whether a path is a junction.\n\nOn macOS and Linux both checks always answer no.\n\n**Why**\n\nIn practice this only affects how Claude Code handles paths on Windows. It changes nothing on other systems.\n\n- Area: Windows\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 0\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}