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ERROR: Unable to open file

#1

When I do a directory-wide text search, I receive many “ERROR: Unable to open file” errors. These are all files on my local machine that I have full permissions for, so not sure why this is occurring.

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#2

When I experienced this, it was because of broken symlinks. To check this:

# copy the file path from the sublime 'find in files' results

ls -la path/to/the/file
# you may see the link is broken, my terminal highlights this
unlink path/to/the/file

# to make a new symlink
ln -s actual/path/to/original/source/file  path/to/the/file
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