Re: Strange error importing projects

On Thursday 13 December 2007, Gonzalez Diaz, Xoan wrote:
> I am importing a tree of directories and having a strange error (with both,
> command line interface and Tortoise).
>
> When the process find a .dnx file (Rational® Application Developer for
> WebSphere® Software diagram) it stops with the following error:
>
> Symbolic links are not supported in this platform.
>
>
> I find that file, with the icon indicating there is no program associated
> to open it, but with a little black circle at the bottom right. If I open
> that file (withou modifying it) with Ultraedit and close, that circle
> dissapears. Then, I try again the "import" and all works fine.

That black circle should contain an arrow (maybe it's obscured by the rest of
the icon). This arrow means that the 'file' is in fact a symbolic link to a
file. Using the context-menu you could look up the properties and there you
would find where the symbolic link points to. Opening the link and then
saving replaces the symbolic link with a copy of the file, therefore
the 'black circle' is gone.

FYI: Subversion doesn't support symbolic links on win32 because these links
are not implemented by the OS' filesystem level but rather they are normal
files (.lnk) that are only interpreted differently by the MS Windows Explorer
and some related tools. Many other programs also don't support those,
including e.g. the OS itself, which you will find if you ever try to make a
symlink to a DLL work. ;|

Uli

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