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jaikiran pai reopened IVY-1594: ------------------------------- Good catch! I was able to reproduce what you mention. I'll take a look at this tomorrow and add a fix. > 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 > Assignee: jaikiran pai > Priority: Major > Fix For: master > > Attachments: IVY-1594-reproduction.zip > > > 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)