From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37203: 26.2; error on load with .emacs.d symlink on windows Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 09:23:28 +0300 Message-ID: <83r255dd0f.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="21756"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 37203@debbugs.gnu.org To: Chris BSomething Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 28 08:24:18 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i2rNR-0005Qu-C9 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:24:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33058 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i2rNK-0000mo-I4 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 02:24:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i2rND-0000me-0o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 02:24:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i2rNC-0003jz-4d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 02:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:40939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i2rNC-0003jm-1q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 02:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i2rNB-0006zm-SN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 02:24:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 06:24:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 37203 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 37203-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B37203.156697341026852 (code B ref 37203); Wed, 28 Aug 2019 06:24:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37203) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Aug 2019 06:23:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49760 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i2rMg-0006z1-AE for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 02:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60997) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i2rMf-0006yp-Ae for 37203@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 02:23:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44491) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i2rMa-0003GE-6w; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 02:23:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4726 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i2rMZ-0004aP-Mb; Wed, 28 Aug 2019 02:23:24 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Chris BSomething on Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:21:50 +1000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:165995 Archived-At: > From: Chris BSomething > 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 rather than a > , 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.