Restoring tutorial folder on login causes unexpected symlink issues

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Closed felixrehren closed 6 years ago

felixrehren commented 7 years ago

The steps

Rename the "tutorial" folder, to, e.g., "tutorial2"
Log out, log back in. The "tutorial" folder is restored, "tutorial2" still exists

Cause the following unexpected behaviour:

Changing files in the folder "tutorial2" changes them in the folder "tutorial"
It is not possible to delete "tutorial2", giving an error ... OSError: Cannot call rmtree on a symbolic link

Both issues seem to be caused by a symbolic link between the folders

aviks commented 6 years ago

This is an artefact of how the docker filesystems are constructed. Please don't move or delete the tutorial folder.