Help with Lion's symbolic links

[M A]

Yes, it has has always worked fine for me in every previous OS
version. It just seems to be Lion that's the problem.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Feb 6, 2012, at 20:40, M A wrote:
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>> I apologize for raising an issue that is not specific to macports, but
>> Google hasn't provided me an answer. In any case, after upgrading my
>> system to Lion I find that I can no longer save to symbolic links to a
>> directory in standard Mac GUI applications. So, for instance, I might
>> have dir_orig as a directory in my home directory and create (using ln
>> -s) dir_link which points to dir_orig. When I'm in some Mac app and
>> hit command-S to save (e.g. in Word), I see that dir_link is grayed
>> out and I can't save my file into it. Permissions on both the link and
>> the original directory are fine (I can set both to world rwx and it's
>> still a problem). I found some mentions of this problem on Google, but
>> no solutions or explanations. I can work around it by changing
>> symbolic links to aliases, but it will be a serious headache if I have
>> to do that for all of them. Have others here met with this problem?
>> Any solutions?
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> I don't seem to have that problem on Snow Leopard. I don't have Lion to test with.
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