On Windows, junction points are not considered to be symlinks. This caused users of MSYS2 (which uses the Qt Installer Framework) to lose files from their %USERPROFILE% folder (which they'd junctioned to from their MSYS2 home folder) during uninstallation since removal of the installation folder would cause the target of junction points to also be deleted.
I also had to make a subsequent change to Qt IFW for this which I will submit for review later.
An old bug about this issue is QTBUG-20431
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QTBUG-20431 QFileInfo::isSymLink() broken for NTFS mount point folders
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- Closed
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QTBUG-44639 Support real symbolic links on Windows
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- Blocked
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- resulted in
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QTBUG-75869 Make Qt aware of symlinks, junctions, and shortcuts on Windows
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- Closed
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