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But TempCache had pointed to D:\Projects\Client\LiveDB .
Then the trouble started.
She deleted a symlink. She meant to delete a pointer. Instead, she deleted a database. symlink windows
mklink /D "E:\Docs\Current" "C:\Users\Maya\Work\Live"
“Fix this,” her boss had said. “One source of truth.” But TempCache had pointed to D:\Projects\Client\LiveDB
So Maya discovered symbolic links.
She went a little wild.
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.