BUG: application does not support the current operation on symbolic links

[ashish0kumar]

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Problem Description

Since, I symlinked the config of flow launcher to my dotfiles flow launcher config. This error is showing on startup:
System.IO.IOException: This application does not support the current operation on symbolic links.

To Reproduce

1. Symlink the flow launcher config
2. Run flow launcher at startup

Screenshots

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Flow Launcher Version

1.19.2

Windows Build Number

10.0.22631.4169

Error Log

log file

[taooceros]

Yeah to provide atomicity of the file operation we do not support symbolic link to prevent potential data corruption.

[taooceros]

If more request to this we can consider switching to an embedded database rather than plain text.

[bropines]

My programs plugin recursively tried to count symlinks in the start menu, which is why the log weighed 15 GB

[taooceros]

My programs plugin recursively tried to count symlinks in the start menu, which is why the log weighed 15 GB

huh that's a different issue. Could you fire another one? Also could you show some snippet inside the very large log that count symlink?