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Hi,

Error reading dir-locals: (file-error "Opening input file" "Not a  
directory"  
"/home/all/alex_r/works/squashfs/build-distro-livestick.txt/.dir-locals.el")

I get this as well when there are no symlinks in the path.


GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (i686-pc-cygwin)  of 2017-03-23