When I use Edit → Make Link from the menubar, with any file, it says ‘Error making symbolic link. File Exists.’ It should create a symbolic link in the same folder, with a name like ‘Link to foo’.
Fixed in master, will be part of Thunar 1.2.0 and Xfce 4.8. commit a26d885cf4eddb3c22c6e0ad84e313ec0ae7b1dd Author: Jannis Pohlmann <jannis@xfce.org> Date: Mon Jan 3 01:40:00 2011 +0100 Properly try alternative names when creating links (bug #6867). This was a regression compared to the Thunar code based on ThunarVFS. When creating a symbolic link with a name for which a file already exists, we need to try alternative names such as "link to foo", "another link to foo" and "4th link to foo", just like we do when copying files. This commit hopefully fixes this and also makes the "Make link(s)" action in the "Edit" menu work again.
*** Bug 7063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***