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Symlink'd User package not reloading automatically

#1

Hello,

I’m running Sublime Text 2, build 2188 on Windows 7. I’ve got my User package symlinked (with mklink) to elsewhere on my harddrive, which happens to be inside a Git repository (so I can keep my Windows/Linux Sublime environments the same)

On Linux when I change one of my plugins in my user package (like sebplugin.py) it automatically reloads; under Windows though it doesn’t.

Is there anything that can be done to solve this? I’ve considered using a hardlink instead of a symlink, but they’ve always “put the willies up me” (what a wonderful phrase).

Thanks :smile:

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#2

This appears to be a limitation of the Windows ReadDirectoryChangesW API, unfortunately

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#3

Bummer.

Oh well, thanks for the reply :smile:

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#4

Hi,

I’m suffering from this now also as we use simlinks on our projects for shared content, so as it stands sublime is not going to work for me.
I’m due to upgrade to ST3 also.
Other tools are able to get along fine with this so i’m assuming there’s a workaround, alternative API call.

For example notepad++, visual studio, intellij all work fine where folders are simlinks (mklink).

Is there a chance you guys can look at the problem again?

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#5

Same problem, but with ST3 on OS X.

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#6

Has this been confirmed by the team yet???
Any chance this will get fixed for the 3 release.?

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