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I am trying to create symlinks using Python on Windows 8. I found This Post and this is part of my script. import os link_dst = unicode(os.path.join(style_path, album_path)) link_src = unicode(album_path) kdll = ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary("kernel32.dll") kdll.CreateSymbolicLinkW(link_dst, link_src, 1) Firstly, It can create symlinks only when it is executed through administrator cmd. Why is that happening? Secondly, When I am trying to open those symlinks from windows explorer I get This Error: ...Directory is not accessible. The Name Of The File Cannot Be Resolved By The System. Is there a

I have a directory containing some files, some directories, some symlinks to files and some symlinks to directories. When I do os.walk() with followlinks=false in the directory, I get the files and symlinks to files in the filenames list and the directories in the dirnames list. But the symlinks to directories does not show up anywhere. Is this a bug or a feature in Python, or am I doing something wrong? I expect the symlinks to directories to show up in the filenames list, because they are not directories but symlinks, and the other symlinks (to other files) show up in the filenames list.

I want to copy a folder and all of its contents including sub-folders. I am using C on Ubuntu. Copying regular files, and folders is easy and done so far, but the specifications for copying links (symbolic for now) is that they should link to the copied files. For now I am only interested in links inside the directory tree. (Although links outside the tree I think should be easier - just copy the full path to the new link plus find out if they belong in the tree or not - that's hard although sarnold gave me a tip about using rsync to achieve that) So I have an absolute path returned by

edited i created symlinks to a directory, on Widnows7, using mklink command line: mklink /d books config i'm trying to delete it with python 2.7 (still on windows). >>> os.remove('books') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> sym = symlink_to_dir os.unlink(sym) # WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'books' there are no restrictions on that machine, i'm admin, and i didn't have problems to delete it from Windows (del books) There's no problem deleting a link to a file (as opposed to a dir). why is that? edit "del" didn't work, it just didn't return an

Is there a way to distinguish special files like symbolic links and pipes using C# and Mono? The application is a multi-platform backup tool, so I want to avoid using interop libraries or 'C' dll's and look for a straight managed code solution. After digging around some more, I've found a solution. Adding a reference to Mono.Posix to a project gives access to some of the Unix file system attributes. Mono.Unix.UnixSymbolicLinkInfo i = new Mono.Unix.UnixSymbolicLinkInfo( path ); switch( i.FileType ) { case FileTypes.SymbolicLink: case FileTypes.Fifo: case FileTypes.Socket: case FileTypes

While debugging on my Windows 7 64 bit machine, I noticed that there is a symlink folder, that FileUtils.isSymlink() returns false for. Java7's Files.isSymbolicLink() works correctly. Is this known? Should i report a bug? I believe this is a bug. Reported issue . Its not a bug. FileUtils.isSymlink() is not supported in Windows. It always returns false for windows and its mentioned in the javadoc. Note: the current implementation always returns false if the system is detected as Windows using FilenameUtils.isSystemWindows() http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/apidocs/org/apache/commons