HTML Mklink directory in www-root stops showing updated data after a few iterations of changes to files in the directory

[cloudytechi147]

On Windows 10 using IIS as the Web Server, it seems that directories created under wwwroot with the mklink command at some point stop seeing changes made to files in that directory. The following is what I did to test this out:

I created a directory C:\test and then created a symlink to that directory on C:\inetpub\wwwroot using the following DOS command:

mklink /D C:\inetpub\wwwroot\test C:\test

Then, in the C:\test directory, I created a small HTML file called test.html with the following content:

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[Malcolm]

On Windows 10 using IIS as the Web Server, it seems that directories created under wwwroot with the mklink command at some point stop seeing changes made to files in that directory. The following is what I did to test this out:

I created a directory C:\test and then created a symlink to that directory on C:\inetpub\wwwroot using the following DOS command:

mklink /D C:\inetpub\wwwroot\test C:\test

Then, in the C:\test directory, I created a small HTML file called test.html with the following content:

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Hey there,

Did you end up figuring this one out? What I'm thinking is that it could be a IIS caching issue.