One Friday afternoon, Maya needed space on C:. She saw a folder she didn’t recognize— TempCache —and deleted it. It disappeared instantly. No Recycle Bin warning because, as far as Windows was concerned, it was just a symlink.
The recovery tool couldn’t follow the symlink back. It was gone. The real files, the ones she thought were safely elsewhere, had been inside the symlink’s target all along—but without the symlink, she’d lost the address. Worse, because she’d deleted the link itself (not the target), the data remained untouched on D:. But she didn’t know that at first. symlink windows
Then the trouble started.
So Maya discovered symbolic links.
mklink /D "E:\Docs\Current" "C:\Users\Maya\Work\Live" One Friday afternoon, Maya needed space on C: