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saroele
saroele

Reputation: 10109

Jupyter does not show symlink folder

I have a folder that is a symbolic link to another folder on my hard drive. It is not shown in the folder list on Jupyter notebook. How can I fix this?

(I'm running ubuntu 16.04).

Thanks

Upvotes: 10

Views: 6616

Answers (2)

nulam
nulam

Reputation: 1

I faced a similar problem trying to symlink a folder inside a Docker jupyter container (the volume was mounted but wasn't accessible to the jupyter account).

Normally a symlinked folder should be visible, unless the target folder lacks read permissions for the user trying to access.

An appropriate chmod command on the target folder fixed it for me and the folder appeared in the jupyter UI.

Upvotes: 0

MPękalski
MPękalski

Reputation: 7103

Somehow Jupyter Notbook does not want to follow symlinks, I managed to make it work by mounting a folder. Basically from a folder which is your home to notebook 

mkdir mounted_folder
sudo mount --bind /absolute/path/to/some/folder mounted_folder

Just make sure that you first mount the folder and then launch the Notebook server. Otherwise it did not want to work for me.

Upvotes: 6

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