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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.