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So Maya discovered symbolic links.

Then the trouble started.

And never ran rmdir on a folder she didn’t fully understand again. symlink windows

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. So Maya discovered symbolic links

mklink "C:\Users\Maya\Desktop\Notes.txt" "D:\Cloud\NotesMaster.txt" mklink /J "C:\Games\Saves" "E:\Backup\Saves_Real" she’d lost the address. Worse

mklink /D "E:\Docs\Current" "C:\Users\Maya\Work\Live"