Symlink - Windows

But TempCache had pointed to D:\Projects\Client\LiveDB .

She wrote a note and stuck it to her monitor: A symlink is not a copy. It is a promise. Break the promise, and the filesystem won’t remind you where it led. Then she documented every single link in a spreadsheet. symlink windows

A single command in an elevated Command Prompt, and suddenly a folder named Current appeared inside her E: drive, even though nothing physically lived there. It was a mirror—a ghost. It pointed to the real folder on C:. She could open it, save files into it, delete from it. Everything changed in the real place. And no duplicates. But TempCache had pointed to D:\Projects\Client\LiveDB

And never ran rmdir on a folder she didn’t fully understand again. save files into it