In a nutshell, symbolic links are a Windows file system feature that's like shortcuts on steroids. They allow the operating system itself to deceive applications about the actual location of files; for example, letting an application believe it's accessing a set of files on one drive when those files are actually on a different drive, or even an entirely different computer.

This can be useful for the TheWaveVR, because the client currently has a hard-coded location for its cache of downloaded models and textures for shows, and this cache can grow to a rather large size over time. By using a "directory symbolic link", we can instead move those files to another (larger) drive, while letting the client still believe they're in the old location so everything continues to work as usual.

• Close TheWaveVR
  
• Open an explorer window, and set the address to:
  
  %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\WaveVR Inc_\TheWaveVR
• Copy the "Cache" folder to whatever drive you want to put it on (for example, I moved it into "D:\TheWaveVR Storage\").
  
• Open a command prompt in administrator-mode, and use the following command after changing the last quoted string to wherever you moved the cache to:
  
  mklink /d "%userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\WaveVR Inc_\TheWaveVR\Cache" "D:\TheWaveVR Storage\Cache"
• You should see a message such as:
  
  symbolic link created for C:\Users\Austin\AppData\LocalLow\WaveVR Inc_\TheWaveVR\Cache <<===>> D:\TheWaveVR Storage\Cache
• If you look back in the directory that originally contained the cache (the one in AppData), you should now see a "Cache" directory again, but with a shortcut icon on it. If you double-click it, you should navigate down into it and it'll look like the cache is still on the C-drive, even though now you're actually navigating whatever drive you moved it to.

For reference, the official documentation for "mklink" is at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/mklink

To open the administrator-mode command prompt, I recommend: WinKey -> Type:"cmd" -> Right-Click -> "Run as administrator"

• Delete the symbolic link (the folder showing the shortcut-icon) as though it was just a file.
  
• Copy the "Cache" folder back to where it used to be.

Later on, if/when the development team relocates the client's cache, automated attempts to copy and then delete the old cache's location will work, but would just delete the symbolic link rather than the actual old cache files. That just means things would work fine, but there'd be some unused files to manually delete (wherever the cache had been moved to earlier).