#🔒 🔒 Too many symbolic links

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mental nacelle
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Good morning, anyone can help me to delete symbolic links reported in this screenshot please? 🙂

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crisp pumice
mental nacelle
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I asked this because I'm trying to use python on obs studio for a project but when I do some testing it gives me the error "too many symbolic links"

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So I would try to fix it

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Sorry obviously but I'm not an expert on this hahaha

crisp pumice
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can easily be done in the shell

find . -maxdepth 1 -type l -delete
```this removes all sym links in the current directory, so be careful with it
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as i included the -maxdepth 1 option it will not descend into subdirectories

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or did you want to do this from a python script specifically?

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i'm guessing the screenshot was from the bin directory of an venv, right?

mental nacelle
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it's from a pyenv framework bin, but yes, a virtual env nonetheless

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the issue is I can't use it because the sym links appear to be recursing? and I get errors when trying to run any command

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the complete error states:

Impossibile completare l'operazione. Troppi livelli di link simbolici

Which roughly translates to:

Could not complete operation: too many symbolic link levels
crisp pumice
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what command are you trying to run when you get that error message?

mental nacelle
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in this last case I was selecting the env in my vsc instance

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as we were speaking, i tried some stuff.
namely, I reisntalled the pyenv python 3.12 version, and attempted all my previous commands, on this attempt, as nothing has changed in the system, it started working mysteriously... sorry for taking up your time and thank you for the patience, I will close the issue 😄

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🔒 Too many symbolic links

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