Windows 7 Alias to folder: treated as a doc

[trevix]

Windows 7, LC 8.1.10

I am having a problem creating an alias to a folder.
The alias is created ok, but the system considers it to be an alias to a document.
This is the script:

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put specialfolderpath("desktop") & "/"  & "MyFolder2" & ".lnk" into tAliasPath
put specialfolderpath("desktop") & "/" & "MyFolder" into tOriginalPath
create alias tAliasPath to folder tOriginalPath
--just checking
put the aliasReference of tAliasPath into tRef
if tRef is empty then
  answer "it's not a alias"
else
put tRef
end if

What am I doing wrong?

Trevix

[bwmilby]

Do you need a trailing slash in the original path?

Edit:
Nope... is it a bug? I just tried on Win10 and get the same thing... the link type is "file" instead of "folder"

[mwieder]

Sounds like it's a bug. Does the correct thing here on linux, so my guess is the engine code for creating aliases on Windows is only creating file aliases.

[trevix]

Bug 21230
Thanks for a new bug.

[bwmilby]

Now we just need to see when it appeared...

[FourthWorld]

Confirmed here on Win10 as well, though it works as expected on Ubuntu 14.04. Thanks for filing the report.