Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1

Question

I\'m doing a maven project，and my IDE is Eclipse。What I cannot grasp is when I use “clean -X” in Eclipse，it will report the following error：

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Answer 1

It looks like there is a symlink in your project which eclipse cannot delete ( search the above for 'dangling symlink') . Try deleting the file manually once and also check it's permissions.

From command line which user do you run 'mvn clean' as ?

By the 'file' I mean the jpg file listed just before the clean fails.

Failed to clean project: Failed to delete /Users/lingxiubo/Desktop/chenyl/soft-enrol/target/soft-enrol/resource/image/login/?????? 1011_theme_asia.jpg

Update

Finally, it turned out that there were some special characters in one of the file names which were causing Eclipse' maven to hiccup.