diff --git a/crates/turborepo-cache/src/cache_archive/create.rs b/crates/turborepo-cache/src/cache_archive/create.rs
index 9047807103227..861b3c9957bc2 100644
--- a/crates/turborepo-cache/src/cache_archive/create.rs
+++ b/crates/turborepo-cache/src/cache_archive/create.rs
@@ -397,9 +397,11 @@ mod tests {
         let mut archive = CacheWriter::create(&tar_path)?;
         let base = "this-is-a-really-really-really-long-path-like-so-very-long-that-i-can-list-all-of-my-favorite-directors-like-edward-yang-claire-denis-lucrecia-martel-wong-kar-wai-even-kurosawa";
         let file_name = format!("{base}.txt");
+        let dir_symlink_name = format!("{base}-dir");
         let really_long_file = AnchoredSystemPath::new(&file_name).unwrap();
         let really_long_dir = AnchoredSystemPath::new(base).unwrap();
         let really_long_symlink = AnchoredSystemPath::new("this-is-a-really-really-really-long-symlink-like-so-very-long-that-i-can-list-all-of-my-other-favorite-directors-like-jim-jarmusch-michelangelo-antonioni-and-terrence-malick-symlink").unwrap();
+        let really_long_dir_symlink = AnchoredSystemPath::new(&dir_symlink_name).unwrap();
 
         let really_long_path = archive_dir_path.resolve(really_long_file);
         really_long_path.create_with_contents("The End!")?;
@@ -410,7 +412,11 @@ mod tests {
         let really_long_dir_path = archive_dir_path.resolve(really_long_dir);
         really_long_dir_path.create_dir_all()?;
 
+        let really_long_dir_symlink_path = archive_dir_path.resolve(really_long_dir_symlink);
+        really_long_dir_symlink_path.symlink_to_dir(really_long_dir.as_str())?;
+
         archive.add_file(archive_dir_path, really_long_file)?;
+        archive.add_file(archive_dir_path, really_long_dir_symlink)?;
         archive.add_file(archive_dir_path, really_long_dir)?;
         archive.add_file(archive_dir_path, really_long_symlink)?;
 
@@ -421,10 +427,11 @@ mod tests {
 
         let mut restore = CacheReader::open(&tar_path)?;
         let files = restore.restore(restore_dir_path)?;
-        assert_eq!(files.len(), 3);
+        assert_eq!(files.len(), 4);
         assert_eq!(files[0].as_str(), really_long_file.as_str());
         assert_eq!(files[1].as_str(), really_long_dir.as_str());
         assert_eq!(files[2].as_str(), really_long_symlink.as_str());
+        assert_eq!(files[3].as_str(), really_long_dir_symlink.as_str());
         Ok(())
     }
 
diff --git a/crates/turborepo-cache/src/cache_archive/restore.rs b/crates/turborepo-cache/src/cache_archive/restore.rs
index c427774e255c6..7dbf1ebb3e7a1 100644
--- a/crates/turborepo-cache/src/cache_archive/restore.rs
+++ b/crates/turborepo-cache/src/cache_archive/restore.rs
@@ -124,14 +124,11 @@ impl<'a> CacheReader<'a> {
         let mut nodes = HashMap::new();
 
         for entry in symlinks {
-            let processed_name = AnchoredSystemPathBuf::from_system_path(&entry.header().path()?)?;
+            let processed_name = AnchoredSystemPathBuf::from_system_path(&entry.path()?)?;
             let processed_sourcename =
                 canonicalize_linkname(anchor, &processed_name, processed_name.as_path())?;
             // symlink must have a linkname
-            let linkname = entry
-                .header()
-                .link_name()?
-                .expect("symlink without linkname");
+            let linkname = entry.link_name()?.expect("symlink without linkname");
 
             let processed_linkname = canonicalize_linkname(anchor, &processed_name, &linkname)?;