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.
So Maya discovered symbolic links.
Then the trouble started.
Four hours of panic later, she found the original folder by searching raw drive paths. The data was intact. She had deleted only the doorway, not the house. symlink windows