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OK, so symbolic links allow you to have a relative path to a file that is physically stored outside the UR datapath.
How do symbolic links address the need of transporting those files from one machine to another, or moving the UR database and linked files to a usb drive (essentially another machine, where the usb drive is used to run UR and linked content independent of the originating system)?
Wouldn't those files that reside outside the UR datapath on machine-A need to reside in a duplicate folder structure on machine-B regardless of whether you used symbolic links (with a relative path) or UR Links with an absolute path - in order for either type of link to work on machine-B?
Also, although the symbolic link provides a relative path for UR, isn't the symbolic link actually pointing to an absolute address.
If machine-A has a D: drive, and machine-B does not, how is this resolved on machine-B (if you have the same folder structure on both machines, just on different drives)?
Again, I'm trying to understand under what conditions symbolic links would be useful.
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