Thank you Trevor, Rob and Allan for helping me figure this out. This is a brand new Macbook Air and I assumed the symlink was created by TM2. After reading your replies I realized that the ~/bin was migrated from my iMac along with the mate symlink. I just deleted it and installed from preferences and it worked.

I was also thrown off track by James Grays blog post which says, "To install or upgrade mate, just select a Location and hit Install. You may be prompted to Replace an old version, if present." It obviously does not replace the old version if present.

Happy holidays and a healthy and prosperous new year to ALL.

-bakki

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On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist@textmate.org> wrote:
On 24 Dec 2011, at 04:53, Rob McBroom wrote:

> I had a symlink (referring to mate in TextMate 1.5) and TM2 refused to overwrite it […]

Do you remember if it gave an error (and if so, which)?


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