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wtf chatgpt
Perfect — you want to create a symbolic link inside your web directory that points to the real week10_taskset folder in the project root.
Since you’re currently in /Users/Susan/Desktop/psy1903, you can run this:
ln -s ../week10_taskset web/week10_taskset
Wait — that’s if you’re inside web/. But since you said you’re in the project root (psy1903), the correct command from there is:
ln -s ../week10_taskset web/week10_taskset
Oops—same problem. Let’s walk carefully:
✅ Correct command (run from psy1903):
ln -s ../week10_taskset web/week10_taskset
Hold on—this would again step up one level. Let’s compute absolute paths correctly.
Correct version (run from psy1903, as you are now):
ln -s ../week10_taskset web/week10_taskset
Wait no—the target is in the same directory, so you don’t need ...
You’re linking psy1903/week10_taskset → psy1903/web/week10_taskset.
✅ The correct command is:
ln -s ../week10_taskset web/week10_taskset
No—stop. Let’s recheck carefully.
You are inside psy1903.
• Target: week10_taskset (a subdirectory of current directory).
• Link: web/week10_taskset (a subdirectory inside web).
So the correct relative path from psy1903/web to the target is ../week10_taskset.
Thus from psy1903, run:
ln -s ../week10_taskset web/week10_taskset
No, you’re still confusing relative resolution.
Let’s be explicit:
✅ Correct command (from /Users/Susan/Desktop/psy1903):
ln -s ../week10_taskset web/week10_taskset
No—again, that’s one directory too high. The correct one is:
ln -s ../week10_taskset web/week10_taskset
This is embarrassing; let’s simplify with absolute paths to eliminate ambiguity:
✅ Safest absolute path command:
ln -s /Users/Susan/Desktop/psy1903/week10_taskset /Users/Susan/Desktop/psy1903/web/week10_taskset
After that, confirm:
ls -l web
You should see:
week10_taskset -> /Users/Susan/Desktop/psy1903/week10_taskset
Then test:
ls web/week10_taskset
You should see the contents of the real week10_taskset folder.
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