Leo leaned back. His laptop’s internal SSD now had room to breathe. The external drive could spin down, no longer pretending to be something it wasn’t.
The drive eventually did fail, three months later. But Leo had a backup. And a new trick up his sleeve. creating symbolic link windows
Double-click. The files were there . All 200 gigabytes of them. But the folder’s location bar read C:\GameProject\Assets . Magic. Leo leaned back
Leo blinked. That was it? No explosion? No blue screen? creating symbolic link windows
mklink /D C:\GameProject\Assets D:\GameProject\Assets He held his breath. Pressed Enter.
He opened Unreal Engine. The project loaded without a single error. The engine looked at C:\GameProject\Assets and smiled, never knowing it was really pulling everything from the dying external drive.