How to copy a directory with all permissions and intact junctions?

Is it possible to copy a directory with junctions in there and have it copy as junctions, not the contents of the junction?

I'll try to make a long story short, but I just spent a few hours cleaning after robocopy and junctions hidden Windows 7.  I have Windows 7 installed on a spare HD so I can play with it, adjust, test things and figure out how I want to set up before taking the plunge and the replacement of XP full time.

Just as an experiment, I wanted to create a new user account, but put its directory of the user on another drive and use a symbolic link to point to her to C:\Users.  I created a new user account called Test, connected so that its directory was created and then disconnected.

I discovered that the moving or copying the files, either in Explorer or a command prompt does not move or copy the directory junctions.  I then tried Robocopy because it contains options to copy all security, owner, and audit information.  There is also an option "copy symbolic links from the target."

The exact command, I used was:
Robocopy C:\Users\Test/e/COPYALL /R:0 /SL D:\Users

First of all, there will be no even to copy permissions, the few records he did copy inherited permissions from the parent directory to the destination, and he added a strange permission that I'll get to in a minute.  It was not long until he stopped with the error.  I don't remember the error because I restarted several times since then, and I don't care to try again just to get the exact error message in order to post here.

What's happened, it's that there is a directory hidden in C:\Users\Test\AppData\Local junction.  Junctioin name is "Application Data" and it links to C:\Users\Test\AppData\Local (the same directory that is).  This caused his keep copy the folder "Application Data" on itself until the max file name length has been exceded and he stopped.

When I tried to delete the directory, I kept getting an error that it could not delete the directory because it was not empty.  I had total control over the directory, but I still have the error and the directory (from what I could see) was empty.

Here's the strange authorization occurs.  For some reason, copies of the "Application Data" directory were defined on system / hidden and everyone had group ' the folder list / reading data "permission set to deny, that's why I couldn't see, even in the administrator command prompt.

Once I got the permissions sorted, I could not delete the directory because the name was too long.  Windows told me to rename so it was more runs, then try again.  I finally managed to delete by renaming the directories in a few 'Application Data' to 'a' and then by moving the part of it to another directory.

Not for the faint of heart, but it's doable if you combine two tools in a Powershell script

I think that the simplest approach would be to use the http://pscx.codeplex.com/ Powershell Community Extensions to find source of junctions and create new ones to target. Then use SetACL http://setacl.sf.net/ to save the ACL from the source and then restore them to the newly created junction.

Should not be too many lines of code :-)

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