title: VS Code not to use the real path of a symlink
body: <p>I have a bunch of directories that are symlinks to the real directory on another hard disk. </p>
  
  <p>Visual Studio Code insists on showing me the real path that I do not want to see. It shows me that instead of the symlink where I open my projects from. (In my opinion this behaviour is incorrect.)</p>
  
  <p>For Example:</p>
  
  <p>symlink: <em>c:\work\someproject</em><br>
  real path: <em>d:\projects_for_blabla\2018\someproject</em></p>
  
  <p>Then I open folder "c:\work\someproject" and in the sidebar and on the tooltips all paths are "d:\projects_for_blabla\2018\someproject\file" instead of the wanted "c:\work\someproject\file".</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how to force VSCode to respect the symlink and stop it from showing real paths?</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE (adding screenshots):</p>
  
  <p>This is how I want to see the project - in this case PhpProjects is a symlink:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/YJ911.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/YJ911.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>And this is what happens in VS Code:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BB0Q1.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BB0Q1.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Opened is one and the same file - the editor shows it to me twice because the first time I opened it directly from Explorer (via c:\..) and the second time is when I press Ctrl+P</p>
  
  <p>And here is what I see them when I press Ctrl+P:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/hM7ro.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/hM7ro.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>