Windows: xpm install does not work on a non-NTFS drive

[Dgtlnetwks]

Hello Everyone,

I tend to do most of my software development on an external hard drive in Windows. The 'xpm install' command does not work for non-NTFS drives, is there a work around for this? I don't want to have to reformat my drive to NTFS. Thanks in advance.

Kind regards
David

[ilg-ul]

Hmmm... I'm afraid the error message says it all. :-(

By design, xpm uses links to folders and there is nothing to be done if the file system does not support it.

I'll update the documentation to mention this.

[Dgtlnetwks]

I guess if the documentation mentions that an NTFS drive is required then the user can decide if they want to format the external drive to use NTFS.

[ilg-ul]

I added a Symbolic links section:

• https://xpack.github.io/docs/getting-started/prerequisites/

I hope it is clear now.