Can't Make Symbolic Links

Ok, so a couple of weeks ago I finally got around to upgrading to Mountain Lion, the installation went without a hitch, but a couple days later I realized that I can't make symbolic links anymore. If I make a link in the same directory as the original file, the link is perfect and works without a problem, but if I make it in another directory...problems start.

As an example, if I symlink ~/Sites to Desktop/Sites just for the **** of it, ls -l returns


Everything good so far, but as soon as I try to cd into it I get


Yet if I symlink ~/Sites to ~/Example, I can cd into it with no problem.

This has been really driving me crazy cause I symlink everything into my Dropbox folder. I'm using tcsh as my shell and iTerm2, though I've tried using bash and Terminal.app to see if that can fix this problem. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help

Never mind, I was reading A Practical Guide to Linux and happened to see something about symlinks, it turns out that I just needed to use absolute path names instead of relative ones.

It is always better to use absolute pathnames - especially if you are doing symbolic links. You can still you relative paths if you use the . before it

would put a symbolic link on the Desktop - without having to type in the whole desktop path. Of course I told you all this for your own edification - I would still recommend using absolute paths for everything so that you know exactly where your target and link are going to end up.

I will definitely use absolute path names whenever I'm trying to link something from here on out...it's just weird cause I don't remember ever having to use absolute path names before--maybe I just wasn't paying attention. Oh well, problem solved and lesson learned.