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  1. Minecraft: Java Edition
  2. MC-129317

Game crashes on startup if the "saves" folder is a softlink

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    • Minecraft 18w19a
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      My %APPDATA%/.minecraft/saves directory is really a shortcut to a directory on a network share that gets backed up regularly. It's been working fine like this for years.

      The latest snapshot (18w19a) will crash on startup with this message in the log:

      java.lang.RuntimeException: java.nio.file.FileAlreadyExistsException: .\saves

      If I rename the shortcut to "saves2" and create an actual directory named "saves", it will work fine.

      Full crash report attached.

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            beezlesnort Joe D
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