Can't access symbolic links

[vaibhav541]

Hi.
When i try to create a symbolic link of a directory by using ln -s command . A link is created and is being shown as file instead of a folder shortcut. Also when i try to open it , 404 : Not Found error is displayed. Also i can't use it as a directory in jupyter notebook. Can you please tell me its solution?

[shirishr]

@vaibhav541 ,
I have seen this happen at times to me.
I would make a mistake like this:
cd to/my/target/directory
ln -s "a/path/to/nowhere/" "link-name"

now in my target directory I have a link-name but because I had made a mistake in the path (which was going nowhere) the link looked like a file.
I also remember that absolute path like "~/somewhere" does not work with notebooks becuase it does not know who or what ~ is..(I think)...try /home/user-name/somewhere instead.

[i-amgeek]

Thanks @shirishr, giving full path worked for me.

[jaggernaut007]

Can we access symlinks from jupyter notebook? How??!

[Tribhuwan-Joshi]

I am creating symbolic link in window as administrator but even then its showing you don't have permission to access the file