[Bug 1172261] Re: ntfs relative symlink not resolved

[Jean-Pierre]

> Can you give me please advice, how to apply the patch?

If you do not know how to apply the patch, you have to wait for a fixed release. Until then you can either :
- use a hard link instead (works the same way on Linux and Windows, but has a different semantics from a symlink, which might not suit your purpose).
- add a temporary second symlink, created on Linux by "cd"ing to the directory just below the one where you have the current symlink, and :
ln -s ../my_NTFS_target '..\my_NTFS_target'
(mind the quotes required for the \ to mean just that)

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Title:
  ntfs relative symlink not resolved

Status in “ntfs-3g” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  - Create relative symlink with matching path deepth >= 2 on Windows 7 machine using e.g. LSE [1]
  - Reboot with Ubuntu and mount that NTFS partition
  - In properties of that non-working symlink, nautilus shows as target path:
    "../..\my_NTFS_target"
    So the 2nd back-slash is the problem

  [1] http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

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