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create a symbolic link: file exists” error? up vote 18 down vote favorite 7 I'm trying to create a symlink in my home directory to a directories and files on my data partition. I've tried: ~/Documents$ ln -sv ~/Documents/saga /media/mariajulia/485f3e29-355c-4be3-b80a-1f5abd5604b6/mariajulia/Downloads/saga..doc to create a symlink named saga in my Documents directory in my home folder. The terminal output is: ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/media/mariajulia/485f3e29-355c-4be3-b80a-1f5abd5604b6/mariajulia/Downloads/saga..doc’: File exists I was checking the content of ~/Documents ln failed to create symbolic link protocol error with ls -a , there is nothing but . and ... In general my home folder is empty, it's just a fresh system installation. symbolic-link share|improve this question edited Oct 30 '14 at 14:33 Jorge Castro 24.5k91387589 asked Oct 30 '14 at 9:37 maria 47831026 Thanks. It seems my question is not very useful. Should I delete it? Or you convert your comment in the reply so I could accept it as solved :) –maria Oct 30 '14 at 9:57 3 Your question has a score of four, so apparently the community decided that it is useful. Also, even if you tried you wouldn't be able to delete the question, since it has an answer with a score of 1 or more. –11684 Oct 30 '14 at 19:29 I got my answer to this question from here (on this forum): askubuntu.com/questions/379647/… –wayneeusa Jun 24 '15 at 7:57 add a comment| 3 Answers 3 active oldest votes up vote 17 down vote accepted This is a classical error... it's the other way around: ln -s Existing-file New-name so in your case ln -sv /media/mariajulia/485f3e29-355c-4be3-b80a-1f5abd5604b6/mariajulia/Downloads/saga..doc ~/Documents/saga should work. Note though: if ~/Documents/saga exists and is not a directory, you will have the error too; if ~/Documents/saga exists and is a directory, the symbolic link will be ~/Doc

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Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Trying to http://askubuntu.com/questions/543516/what-is-a-failed-to-create-a-symbolic-link-file-exists-error create symlink - keep getting error: “File exists” up vote 0 down vote favorite 1 I am trying to use Pow and create a symlink so that I can ultimately run my rails application locally at the following URL: http://market_place_api.dev/ I am going through the API's on Rails tutorial, and when I follow the author's instructions on setting up Pow and a symlink, here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27626616/trying-to-create-symlink-keep-getting-error-file-exists is what is happening: cd into a folder called "code", and created a new rails app: $ rails new market_place_api -T Installed Pow: $ curl get.pow.cx | sh Gone to the Pow directory: $ cd ~/.pow And here is where the problem occurs. The instructions say to symlink: $ ln -s /path/to/myapp In my case, the app is located at this URL: /Users/harrylevine/Dropbox/Coding/BLOC/code/market_place_api So I enter into the command line: $ ln -s /Users/harrylevine/Dropbox/Coding/BLOC/code/market_place_api and I keep getting this error: ln: ./market_place_api: File exists I have tried many variations of this, including: applying this format: ln -s target_path link_path All to no avail. How can I properly create this symlink so that I can ultimately run my rails application locally at the following URL: http://market_place_api.dev/ Thank you. ruby-on-rails symlink rack-pow share|improve this question edited Dec 23 '14 at 19:37 asked Dec 23 '14 at 19:16 HPJAJ 4521513 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 3 down vote accepted The error means that there is already a file (or a sym-link) called market_place_api in that directory (~/.pow). Check with $ ls -l to see what the fi

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Sign in Pricing Blog Support Search GitHub This repository Watch 225 Star 6,810 Fork 3,167 sorin-ionescu/prezto Code Issues 78 Pull requests 121 Projects 0 Pulse Graphs New issue failed to create symbolic Error #323 Closed ansdma opened this Issue Nov 14, 2012 · 9 comments Projects None yet Labels Discussion Milestone No milestone Assignees No one assigned 5 participants ansdma commented Nov 14, 2012 Hi, I'm trying to Create a new Zsh configuration by copying the Zsh configuration files provided. However I get this error? ln: failed to create symbolic link `/home/ans/.zlogin': File exists ln: failed to create symbolic link `/home/ans/.zlogout': File exists ln: failed to create symbolic link `/home/ans/.zpreztorc': File exists ln: failed to create symbolic link `/home/ans/.zprofile': File exists ln: failed to create symbolic link `/home/ans/.zshenv': File exists ln: failed to create symbolic link `/home/ans/.zshrc': File exists ColinHebert commented Nov 14, 2012 Well, as stated in the output, it failed, because the files already exists. If you already have these files they can't just be replaced (especially if you have some custom configuration in those). Delete them and try again. ansdma commented Nov 14, 2012 So I can't keep any of my customisation? even the ones I made to .zshrc ? ColinHebert commented Nov 14, 2012 If you want to keep your customisations you will have to merge them manually. Owner sorin-ionescu commented Nov 14, 2012 Move your previous Zsh installation to a backup directory then follow the Prezto installation instructions word for word. ansdma closed this Nov 15, 2012 ansdma commented Nov 15, 2012 P.S. Sorry if this sound stupite: How actually we should get this run? setopt EXTENDED_GLOB for rcfile in "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}"/.zprezto/runcoms/^README.md(.N); do ln -s "$rcfile" "${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.${rcfile:t}" done what I did is copying it to my .zshrc then just do exec $SHELL. Because everytime I try running it as a .sh script I get: ./p.sh: 1: ./p.sh: setopt: not