Not literally, of course. But the little orange light was flashing like a warning beacon, and Windows had just popped up a dreaded notification:
It was 2:47 AM, and Leo’s external drive was screaming. creating symbolic link windows
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. Not literally, of course