Jupyter UTF-8 error when click a .lnk in Windows

Question

When I click the lnk in jupyter notebook,I got a error.

Error! C:\Users\proalex\Desktop\Files.lnk is not UTF-8 encoded

Saving disabled.

See Console for more details.

How can I figure it out?

My OS is windows 10

Answer 1

The answer to this question is that this is a stupid generic error message given by Jupyter.

What it means is ... I have no idea how to display this kind of file

I also spent hours figuring this out when I was trying to open a .gz file

Answer 2

As stated by @Klaus D. and @blissweb it's not possible to open a .lnk shortcut through the jupyter navigator, as it is basically a text file that can be interpreted by specific applications (such as File explorer). Instead if you want to see the files inside a .lnk shortcut you can start jupyter directly running the jupyter notebook command in a command prompt or windows-powershell that is already inside the shortcutted path. To achieve this you have three ways:

1. Navigate through File explorer directly into the shortcutted path, copy the path in a command prompt and then run jupyter notebook here
2. Navigate through the command prompt into the shortcutted path. To do this you can execute type Files.lnk|find "\" (see here) that will print the shortcutted path by .lnk. Then you can copy this path, cd into it and then run jupyter notebook there
3. Navigate through windows powershell into the shortcutted path. To do this you can follow the passages in this answer, then cd into the $target variable and run jupyter notebook