He opened Unreal Engine. The project loaded without a single error. The engine looked at C:\GameProject\Assets and smiled, never knowing it was really pulling everything from the dying external drive.
From that night on, Leo never feared mklink again. He used symbolic links to sync save games to the cloud, to move bloated AppData folders to a secondary drive, and to make Windows think his downloads folder was on C: when it was really on a massive 4TB archive. creating symbolic link windows
The first result made his eyes glaze over. mklink /D [link] [target] . It looked like arcane wizardry. But he was desperate. He opened Unreal Engine
Not literally, of course. But the little orange light was flashing like a warning beacon, and Windows had just popped up a dreaded notification: From that night on, Leo never feared mklink again