Those mounted drives can be picky about symlinks depending on how the mounting happens and what service is behind it. In my case, I noticed some weirdness with relative vs absolute paths too—absolute ones tended to flake out more when the mount point shifted. Lately I’ve been sticking to a different approach for juggling multiple clouds without constant remounting drama, and honestly a ftp for mac like CloudMounter has made life smoother for me in those scenarios. It just feels more stable for day-to-day file hopping without the symlink surprises popping up as often.
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kanibo3284 posted an update in the group
Symbolic links and cloud-mounted drives: do they behave reliably, or do you run into surprises? 1 week agoOne thing I’ve picked up over the years is how cloud-mounted volumes sometimes treat symlinks differently from true local disks, especially around caching or when connections lag. It’s almost like the system tries to resolve them too eagerly or something. Kinda reminds me of old network shares back in the day where you’d swear the link was there…[Read more]
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noheve5124 posted an update in the group
Symbolic links and cloud-mounted drives: do they behave reliably, or do you run into surprises? 1 week agoHey everyone, has anyone messed around much with symbolic links when your cloud storage is mounted as a local drive? Like, I keep my dev projects spread across a couple of services, and last month I tried symlinking some shared config folders into my main workspace. At first it seemed fine—everything opened, built, no complaints—but then ran…[Read more]
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