From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Chris BSomething <xpusostomos@gmail.com>
Cc: 37203@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37203: 26.2; error on load with .emacs.d symlink on windows
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 09:23:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r255dd0f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADrHaBERnoBjmfnondHcKWOQPw53NLJUdcrnS2sSmY4HzOfH9w@mail.gmail.com> (message from Chris BSomething on Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:21:50 +1000)
> From: Chris BSomething <xpusostomos@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:21:50 +1000
>
> I want to store my init.el on Google drive so it shares between computers.
> So I created a windows symlink:
> mklink .emacs.d Google\emacs
This doesn't create a directory symlink, it creates a symlink to a
(non-existent) file. To make a directory symlink, you need to do this
instead:
mklink /d .emacs.d Google\emacs
If this doesn't work either, please tell more about what does "Google"
above represent, as it doesn't seem to point to a drive, at least not
syntactically.
> It is mistakenly thinking that the directory isn't writable probably because it is a <SYMLINK> rather than a
> <DIR>, or alternatively because the symlink is owned by Administrators.
If ownership winds up to be the problem (I don't think so), it can be
changed from the Windows Explorer or other similar tools.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-28 6:23 UTC|newest]
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2019-08-28 2:21 bug#37203: 26.2; error on load with .emacs.d symlink on windows Chris BSomething
2019-08-28 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-08-28 6:27 ` Chris BSomething
2019-08-28 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-28 7:31 ` Chris BSomething
2019-08-28 7:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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