Block directory cannot be a “junction” on windows #6495

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   rebroad commented at 9:00 pm on July 30, 2015: contributor

   In Windows, bitcoin-qt fails when the “blocks” directory (or any other directories, for that matter) is a junction to a directory. It fails to detect that it exists, tries to create it, and the create fails.
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   dcousens commented at 5:23 am on July 31, 2015: contributor

   On Linux I also saw odd behaviour, if the datadir doesn’t exist, it dumps all files in the directory above (chainstate, etc) then exits.
3. laanwj added the label Windows on Jul 31, 2015
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   laanwj commented at 2:21 pm on July 31, 2015: member

   Non-support for junctions on windows is a known issue. For some reason one cannot just treat them as directories like Unix symlinks.
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   casey commented at 3:07 pm on July 31, 2015: contributor

   @dcousens I couldn’t reproduce the behavior that you mentioned. I created /tmp/foo, and then ran ‘bitcoin-qt -datadir=/tmp/foo/bar’, afterwards /tmp/foo was still empty. Can you come up with steps to reproduce, and then open another issue? (since this one seems to be unrelated)
6. laanwj renamed this:
   boost::filesystem::create_directory: Cannot create a file when that file already exists
   Block directory cannot be a "junction" on windows
   on Feb 9, 2016
7. laanwj added the label Block storage on Feb 16, 2016
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   MarcoFalke commented at 0:27 am on April 27, 2020: member

   The feature request didn’t seem to attract much attention in the past. Also, the issue seems not important enough right now to keep it sitting around idle in the list of open issues.

   Closing due to lack of interest. Pull requests with improvements are always welcome.

9. MarcoFalke closed this on Apr 27, 2020

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