Google Drive Symbolic Links

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Someone sent me a symbolic link that opens in a browser and if I use it to specify the path on a google drive connector it connects. However the file reader or list files/folders nodes are returning a root level directory and can’t find the files. Why is that happening if the link goes directly to the folder where the file is. Specifying the file name returns a file not found error. I’ve tried every variation from the file name to the files in folder file type with subdirectory option and neither node can find anything. Does that mean it can’t be found with a symbolic link?

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If you try to read all files, not a specific one, it brings a table?

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It is pointing to root. It connects not at the folder level the symbolic link is for, rather it returns all the parent folders. However, since I posted this I reached out to the person who created the link and apparently the folder is pointing to their desktop, so it’s a strange set of circumstances. Regardless, the link can’t find the folder at the end of the link, so I think the node has limits.