ErrorCould not activate player since the directory was unable to be symlinked

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Hi, I tried to install Multiplayer Play Mode. When I try to setup a virtual player, the following error arises in the console:
“Could not activate player since the directory ‘D:\Start\MyProject\Library\VP\mppm65e1c390’ was unable to be symlinked.”
It is accompanied by the second message that NTFS is needed.
What should be done?
I launched unity with admin rights and stopped firewall, but it didn’t help.

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Never run Unity as admin!

The second message about NTFS is likely the clue. If the drive isn‘t formatted with NTFS you need to have the project on an NTFS drive. Right click the drive letter to see how the drive is formatted, most likely exFAT but hopefully not FAT32.

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