The fact that the virtual filing system used by MO was a case of "solution looking for a problem" clears up something that was always puzzling me a little, at the back of my mind. It always struck me as a little too sophisticated and high-tech (and potentially fragile, given a wide and varied user base), especially after I saw NMM's approach to virtualisation. "Oh, *right!*" I thought to myself, "You can just use symbolic or hard links for that. Sure, you give up the beautiful aesthetic of a 'clean game directory', but still, that's got to be *way* more robust." I'm a bit embarrassed that this didn't occur to me, since I personally use junctions, symbolic, and hard links a lot on my Windows machine for a variety of purposes. This is also why I absolutely second the opinion that any backup solution that cannot correctly handle links needs to be replaced ASAP. If your backup software can't even handle something as basic and intrinsic to computer filing systems as *links*, then it can't really be trusted to get *anything* right. That's like giving a secretarial position to someone who gives their qualifications as "can rite 'n reed reel gud."
