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Why when you create a link to a file in a different directory with the same name as the one you give it does it show as a broken link (red color with black background) rather then a light blue color?
make sure you give the full path or you get the "too many levels etc..." error. so example, if you have foo.txt in your home directory and wanted to create a symlink in a folder called tmp:
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