Bug 80068 - LibreOffice says symbolic link does not exist
Summary: LibreOffice says symbolic link does not exist
Status: NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Libreoffice (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2014-06-15 22:40 UTC by tarcisio@member.ams.org
Modified: 2014-07-04 12:42 UTC (History)
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the error reported by LibreOffice (9.36 KB, image/png)
2014-06-15 22:40 UTC, tarcisio@member.ams.org
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Description tarcisio@member.ams.org 2014-06-15 22:40:30 UTC
Created attachment 101124 [details]
the error reported by LibreOffice

Symbolic link is not recognized

I have an odt  file to which I have created a symbolic link and LibreOffice says the file (symbolic link) does not exist.

Tarcisio Praciano-Pereira
tarcisio@member.ams.org
Comment 1 Kevin Suo 2014-07-04 12:37:18 UTC
On ubuntu 14.04 x86, following these steps:

$ ls
examples.desktop  file.odt  tmp  VirtualBox VMs  公共的  模板  视频  图片  文档  下载  音乐  桌面
$ ls
examples.desktop  tmp  VirtualBox VMs  公共的  模板  视频  图片  文档  下载  音乐  桌面
$ ln -s ./tmp/file.odt ./file-link.odt

Then open ./file-link.odt with libreoffice 4.3.0.2, it works, no error message.

So:
* Please state your OS and libreoffice version
* Check whether the symbolic destination file (the real odt file) really exists;
* If it exists, check the file permission to see if you have read and write access.

Set to NEEDINFO. Please set back to UNCONFIRMED if you have done so. Thanks!
Comment 2 Kevin Suo 2014-07-04 12:39:09 UTC
Sorry, I missed a line, it's:
$ ls
examples.desktop  file.odt  tmp  VirtualBox VMs  公共的  模板  视频  图片  文档  下载  音乐  桌面
$ mv file.odt tmp/
$ ls
examples.desktop  tmp  VirtualBox VMs  公共的  模板  视频  图片  文档  下载  音乐  桌面
$ ln -s ./tmp/file.odt ./file-link.odt
Comment 3 Kevin Suo 2014-07-04 12:42:16 UTC
@tarcisio:
I also see from your screenshot that your version is libreoffice 3.5. That is really old!
You should upgrade to the latest "Fresh" version 4.2.5, or the latest "Stable" versoin 4.1.6.
Test it again if you have done the upgrade. If it works, please mark as RESOLVED WORKSFORME. Thanks!


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