diff --git a/shape-doctor.py b/shape-doctor.py
index b2a78b3b..c7751d36 100755
--- a/shape-doctor.py
+++ b/shape-doctor.py
@@ -9444,11 +9444,16 @@ def unclonable(sibling: Path) -> str | None:
     A LINK TO NOTHING IS NOT NOTHING (#784). `exists` follows a link, so a
     dangling one read as `absent`, and the row said `make siblings` places
     the member there, where git ends `CLONE FAILED`: it cannot clone into a
-    path that is a link to nothing.
+    path that is a link to nothing. A JUNCTION TO NOTHING is one too
+    (#793), the link Windows makes without privilege, which `is_symlink`
+    does not see: it is asked as `siblings.py` asks it, with Python 3.12's
+    `os.path.isjunction`, and before 3.12, which has none, the answer is no.
     """
     try:
         if not sibling.exists():
-            return "dangling" if sibling.is_symlink() else None
+            junction = getattr(os.path, "isjunction", lambda _: False)
+            return ("dangling" if sibling.is_symlink() or junction(sibling)
+                    else None)
         if not sibling.is_dir():
             return "file"
         return "files" if any(sibling.iterdir()) else None
diff --git a/templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py b/templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py
index 39707da5..f7115eca 100755
--- a/templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py
+++ b/templates/family-root/scripts/siblings.py
@@ -605,10 +605,16 @@ def not_a_clone(target: Path) -> tuple[str, str] | None:
     clone`, and the real run ended `CLONE FAILED`, because git cannot clone
     into a path that is a link to nothing. Somebody made that link, so it
     is reported and left as it is, in the doctor's words for it too.
+
+    AND SO IS A JUNCTION TO NOTHING (#793), the link Windows makes without
+    privilege: `is_symlink` says no to one, and Python 3.12's
+    `os.path.isjunction` says yes. Python before 3.12 has none, so it is
+    asked as `family_link` asks it, and says no there.
     """
     try:
         if not target.exists():
-            if target.is_symlink():
+            junction = getattr(os.path, "isjunction", lambda _: False)
+            if target.is_symlink() or junction(target):
                 return "is a link to nothing", "link"
             return None
         if not target.is_dir():
diff --git a/tests/test_family_siblings_placement.py b/tests/test_family_siblings_placement.py
index a34f98d5..2a020ea5 100644
--- a/tests/test_family_siblings_placement.py
+++ b/tests/test_family_siblings_placement.py
@@ -579,6 +579,77 @@ def test_a_family_folder_reached_through_a_windows_junction_passes(
     assert warning is None
 
 
+def placed_at_a_junction(placement, monkeypatch, tmp_path, holds,
+                         dry_run):
+    """The first member's slot, `../<Project>`, and what `place` makes of
+    it, with `os.path.isjunction` saying yes for that slot. Simulated, as
+    above, so every system asks it. With `holds` None the slot does not
+    exist, and only the junction check says yes; otherwise it is a folder
+    holding the files `holds` names.
+
+    THE MEMBER IS MOUNTED FROM A LOCAL PATH THAT DOES NOT EXIST, so a run
+    that took the slot for an empty one fails its clone here and never
+    reaches a remote: with the `repository:` fallback, it cloned github."""
+    root = tmp_path / NAME / NAME
+    root.mkdir(parents=True)
+    slot = root.parent / MEMBERS[0]
+    if holds is not None:
+        slot.mkdir()
+        for name in holds:
+            (slot / name).write_text("mine\n", encoding="utf-8")
+    mount = f"members/{MEMBERS[0]}"
+    nowhere = {mount: str(tmp_path / "remotes" / f"{MEMBERS[0]}.git")}
+    monkeypatch.setattr(os.path, "isjunction", lambda path: Path(path) == slot,
+                        raising=False)
+    return slot, placement.place(
+        root, {"project": MEMBERS[0], "path": mount,
+               "repository": f"{NAME}/{MEMBERS[0]}"},
+        nowhere, [], "", dry_run)
+
+
+def refused(slot: Path, found: str, thing: str) -> str:
+    """`place`'s NOT A CLONE finding for the first member at `slot`."""
+    return (f"{MEMBERS[0]}: {slot} {found}, so this command will not write "
+            f"into it. Move it aside or name the {thing} something else; "
+            f"nothing here overwrites a {thing} somebody made.")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("dry_run", [True, False],
+                         ids=["the-dry-run", "the-real-run"])
+def test_a_windows_junction_to_nothing_at_a_slot_is_a_link_to_nothing(
+        placement, monkeypatch, capsys, tmp_path, dry_run):
+    """#793: a junction to nothing at `../<Project>` is NOT A CLONE, as a
+    link to nothing is (#784). `is_symlink` says no to a junction and
+    `os.path.isjunction` (3.12) says yes, so the slot read as empty: the
+    dry run said `would clone`."""
+    slot, found = placed_at_a_junction(placement, monkeypatch, tmp_path,
+                                       None, dry_run)
+    assert found.state == "NOT A CLONE", found.state
+    assert found.finding == refused(slot, "is a link to nothing", "link"), \
+        found.finding
+    assert "would clone" not in capsys.readouterr().out
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("holds, state, finding", [
+    pytest.param([], "would clone", None, id="an-empty-folder"),
+    pytest.param(["notes.md"], "NOT A CLONE",
+                 ("exists, is not empty and is not a git clone", "directory"),
+                 id="a-folder-with-files"),
+])
+def test_a_windows_junction_to_a_folder_at_a_slot_is_read_as_that_folder(
+        placement, monkeypatch, tmp_path, holds, state, finding):
+    """#793: THE JUNCTION IS ASKED ONLY OF A SLOT THAT DOES NOT EXIST. A
+    junction to a folder is read as that folder is, as a link to one is:
+    the dry run would clone into an empty one, and gives one holding files
+    the finding a folder of files gets. Asked before `exists`, the check
+    called both a link to nothing."""
+    slot, found = placed_at_a_junction(placement, monkeypatch, tmp_path,
+                                       holds, True)
+    assert found.state == state, found.state
+    expected = refused(slot, *finding) if finding else None
+    assert found.finding == expected, found.finding
+
+
 def test_a_folder_is_renamed_only_for_a_difference_of_case(
         placement, monkeypatch, tmp_path):
     """A second path to this folder under another NAME that is neither a
diff --git a/tests/test_shape_doctor.py b/tests/test_shape_doctor.py
index ff877330..965e53f7 100644
--- a/tests/test_shape_doctor.py
+++ b/tests/test_shape_doctor.py
@@ -4187,6 +4187,54 @@ def test_make_siblings_dry_run_gives_the_rows_word_for_each_slot(
         f"sibling {FAMILY_MEMBER} {DRY_RUN_SAYS[entry['sibling']]} "), said
 
 
+def junction_row(standard, holder, tmp_path, monkeypatch, slot: str):
+    """`../IRRS`, made as `holder_with_slot` makes `slot`, and the doctor's
+    `members` row with `os.path.isjunction` saying yes for it. Simulated in
+    this process, as `tests/test_family_siblings_placement.py` simulates a
+    junction."""
+    root = holder_with_slot(holder, tmp_path, slot).resolve()
+    beside = root.parent / FAMILY_MEMBER
+    module = doctor_module(standard)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(os.path, "isjunction",
+                        lambda path: Path(path) == beside, raising=False)
+    return beside, module.check_members(module.Context(root))
+
+
+def test_the_row_names_a_windows_junction_to_nothing_a_link_to_nothing(
+        standard, holder, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    """#793: a junction to nothing at `../IRRS`, the link Windows makes
+    without privilege, is `not-a-clone` in the doctor's row, in the words
+    `make siblings` says it in, as a link to nothing is (#784). `is_symlink`
+    says no to a junction, so the row called the slot `absent` and said
+    `make siblings` places the member there. The slot does not exist, and
+    only `os.path.isjunction` says yes."""
+    slot, row = junction_row(standard, holder, tmp_path, monkeypatch,
+                             "nothing")
+    assert row.detail["members"][0]["sibling"] == "not-a-clone", row.detail
+    assert f"{FAMILY_MEMBER}: {slot} {UNREADABLE_SAYS['dangling']}" in \
+        row.reason, row.reason
+    assert PLACES_NOTE not in row.reason, row.reason
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("slot, state", [
+    pytest.param("empty", "absent", id="an-empty-folder"),
+    pytest.param("files", "not-a-clone", id="a-folder-with-files"),
+])
+def test_the_row_reads_a_windows_junction_to_a_folder_as_that_folder(
+        standard, holder, tmp_path, monkeypatch, slot, state):
+    """#793: THE JUNCTION IS ASKED ONLY OF A SLOT THAT DOES NOT EXIST. A
+    junction to a folder is read as that folder is, in the words the row
+    has for the folder itself
+    (`test_the_row_says_what_make_siblings_does_with_each_slot`): an empty
+    one is `absent`, which `make siblings` places the member in, and one
+    holding files is `not-a-clone` in a folder's words. Asked before
+    `exists`, the check called both a link to nothing."""
+    _, row = junction_row(standard, holder, tmp_path, monkeypatch, slot)
+    assert row.detail["members"][0]["sibling"] == state, row.detail
+    assert SLOT_SAYS[state] in row.reason, row.reason
+    assert (PLACES_NOTE in row.reason) is (state == "absent"), row.reason
+
+
 def test_a_sibling_at_the_right_origin_with_another_id_is_not_the_member(
         standard, holder, tmp_path):
     """The `WRONG PROJECT` half, which was already asked and stays asked: a