Pinokio reversed the symlink process

I cannot and will not recreate this because I'm still trying to recover my models. I woke up to my drive being out of space Sunday morning - after some poking around it was pinokio's virtual drive that ballooned to 660GB and when I looked they were model files, checkpoints mostly, and I assumed it grabbed copies instead of doing symlinks - The app that had been running was Maestro trying to do a director generation but it had it's model and had no need to do anything else and it's done nothing like that outside of pinokio since. In my clean up the drive folder was deleted, too big for recycle bin so instantly deleted. The following day I realize several of my model folders were symlinks - and they pointed back to the virtual pinokio drive folder - If most of the files I lost weren't checkpoints it would almost be funny - but I also lost all my vaes - I'm trying to recover the data - it's no good so far - so I may be SOL, but this is just noted in case someone else has this happen or can recreate it.