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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 with ls -a , there is nothing but . and ... In general my home folder is empty, it's just a fresh system installation.


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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:




  1. if ~/Documents/saga exists and is not a directory, you will have the error too;


  2. if ~/Documents/saga exists and is a directory, the symbolic link will be ~/Documents/saga/saga..doc (are you sure about the double dot?)


  3. if ~/Documents/saga does not exists, you symbolic link will be ~/Documents/saga (as it is, no extension).



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