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jaikiran pai commented on IVY-1594: ----------------------------------- Hello Simon, Is there a simple build and Ivy file you can attach for us to reproduce this? > Directory symlink creation always fails on Windows > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: IVY-1594 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-1594 > Project: Ivy > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Core > Affects Versions: 2.5.0-rc1 > Reporter: Simon Wade > Priority: Major > > Creating symlinks to directories, during a retrieve, seems to _always_ fail > on Windows 7, even when running with the required (elevated) privileges. > Instead, the fallback copy method is always used. > Running with verbose logging reveals the fallback is used due to a > java.nio.file.FileAlreadyExistsException. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)