It was 2:47 AM, and Leo’s external drive was screaming.
Leo blinked. That was it? No explosion? No blue screen?
Not literally, of course. But the little orange light was flashing like a warning beacon, and Windows had just popped up a dreaded notification: creating symbolic link windows
The drive eventually did fail, three months later. But Leo had a backup. And a new trick up his sleeve.
mklink /D C:\GameProject\Assets D:\GameProject\Assets He held his breath. Pressed Enter. It was 2:47 AM, and Leo’s external drive was screaming
“There has to be a way to trick it,” he muttered.
He opened a browser. His search: "creating symbolic link windows" It was 2:47 AM
Double-click. The files were there . All 200 gigabytes of them. But the folder’s location bar read C:\GameProject\Assets . Magic.