A symbolic link ("symlink") is a reference to a file or folder which may exist on the same or another drive in the system. Symbolic links allow users to create a more logical file layout, when the files themselves may be spread across multiple disks or relocated to more convenient locations.
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Is it possible to create a symlink to a webdav directory on Windows?
I know I can map a webdav folder to a drive letter in Windows, but I need to map ~10 different webdav folders (different servers) and assigning a drive letter would be ugly.
Is it somehow possible to ...
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Dropbox — set it up so it is sort of one-way read only?
I've set up DropBox as a backup for some of my files not in the Dropbox folder by using a symlink. But it occurs to me that if something gets messed up on Dropbox's end, then in theory it could make ...
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Updating the last write time for a symbolic link in Windows
Is it possible to update the last write time for a symbolic link in Windows? I can use the following powershell command to update the last write time of a directory, but it doesn't work for a ...
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Firefox keyboard shortcuts don't work when a form field is focused
When using Firefox in Linpus Linux (on an Acer One netbook) some hot keys don't work.
Ctrl + w
Alt + d
However
Ctrl + Tab
Does still work.
Edit: The version installed is 3.6.
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using junctions and moving the Recycle Bin to the right partition
I have got two partitions on a PC running Windows XP:
C: system partition
D: data partition
Usually every user has got his user profile on
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>
But I have moved ...
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Can I create a symlink or similar that returns a random file from a set every time?
Say I have files foo-a.wav, foo-b.wav and foo-c.wav on disk.
I have a piece of software whose interface allows me to enter the name of a single sound file; every time a certain feature of that ...
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Checking where a symbolic link points at in Windows 7
In Windows 7, how can I check if a file is a symbolic link or not, if a folder is a junction or not, and how can I check where they are pointing at (in case they are symlink/junction). Both in ...
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symbolic link on folder created every day
I've this structure
2011-04-18T07.32.19UTC
2011-04-19T07.32.19UTC
2011-04-20T03.15.01UTC
Every night, a new directory based on the current date is created.
I would create a symbolic link on the ...
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Accessing files obscured by filesystem mounted at non-empty directory
I wish to mount a volume/filesystem at a non-empty directory, yet still retain access to the directory's contents. Is this possible?
I know that a filesystem can be mounted at a non-empty directory ...
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Am I failing to foresee an issue with a cygwin symlink to Windows's python.exe?
Should be an easy question. I have a windows version python 2.7 at C:/Python27/python.exe and I also have cygwin's installation at /usr/bin/python -> /usr/bin/python2.7.exe. This means that when I ...
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Windows Symlink & working directory
I have a directory called apps/myapp/ with a file myapp.exe which uses myapp.dll and some other dlls.
Now lets say i want to symlink this to a directory, like one would do in linux.
bin/myapp.exe ...
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How do I move a linked file on Unix?
I have a bunch of files in one directory and links to each one of those files in another directory. So ls -l looks something like this:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rembol rembol 89 Jan 25 10:00 copyright.txt ...
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Windows 7 NTFS Symbolic Link - Network Share Availability/Timeout
In Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008, is there a way to quickly detect if the target of a symbolic link is available?
For example, a symbolic link is created to a remote share UNC using the ...
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Move files from EXT to NTFS preserving symbolic links
When I try to move lots of files from an EXT partition to an NTFS partition in Ubuntu, it complains about "Filesystem does not support symbolic links", and fails. Of course NTFS does support symbolic ...
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Windows 8 Command Prompt Symbolic Link Accident
So I totally messed up. I was trying to create a symbolic link for the program Sticky Notes to create a path. I was trying to type: mklink /J “%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Sticky Notes” ...
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adding symbolic link to os x finder sidebar
I'd like to add a symbolic link to the OS X finder sidebar, but when I do so the sidebar follows the link and creates a direct link to the target folder. This is not what I want, the reason I use a ...
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Can I add ADMX files via symbolic links?
Is it possible to add Group Policy templates (ADMX files) on a local Windows 7 machine by creating a symbolic link (soft link) in the C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions folder that points to an ADMX file ...
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Multi user web software update solution
I want to accomplish an easy update procedure for web software that is used by multiple users.
The idea is to have the software with multiple versions at /opt/software/version-1.2.3/ or ...
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How to create Symbolic Link chain in Windows?
I am trying to create multi-level symbolic links in Windows 8, but only the direct (first level) symlink seems to be working. If I try to use the second level SymLink, i get errors. i have been using ...
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mklink /d not working
I have a folder with my pictures on a network drive. I would like that folder in the pictures library in windows 8. It wouldn't let me add it since the network drive isn't indexed. Windows help said ...
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Recovering invalidated symlinks in Windows Vista
My brother's computer refused to boot into Vista and would always go into chkdisk, so I figured there was something physically wrong with the drive. I booted into a Linux live cd and used a tool ...
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Partitions, symlinks, mounting as folders and performance
I'm going to have a 128-GB SSD which will contain Windows 8 and most applications, and a 1-TB hard drive which will contain most of the rest (large games, documents, select frequently overwritten ...
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Linux mount part of filesystem as template
Here's what I'd like to do: I have some directories that I need to have separate copies of, but these directories are 2+ GB so simply copying the directory several times seems inefficient. 90% of ...
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How do I search/replace symbolic links?
I've been having this issue for a long time, and I don't want to reinstall the whole system, yet.
Now there's an app that runs on Java, and it doesn't even open.
The logs says some cocoa files were ...
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shortcut to recursively copying a directory preserving modes, ownerships and hard and symbolic links
I am using the following to recursively copy a directory while preserving modes, permissions as well as hard and symbolic links:
cp -pr --preserve=links dir-a dir-b
However I have the following ...
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Permissions within Windows symlink to a Samba share
I have a microserver running Ubuntu from which I have created some Samba shared folders which I access from my PC and laptop running Windows 7. I have created some symlinks (using mklink /d) on the ...
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OS X Lion : Remove some users folders an replace them by a symbolic link
I have copied my music, movies and pictures folders to another drive and created symbolic links in my user folder that point the new location.
The links do work, but I cannot remove the original ...
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Unix (Debian) autocomplete paths thru symlinks
By default, directory symlinks on unix systems are treated as files as far as the autocomplete feature goes. For example, having a directory symlink at /srv/link/, typing /srv/liTAB does only complete ...
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Windows 7 Symlink to network drive root
My Ubuntu server provides storage to my Windows 7 workstation through the use of SMB and network drives. One symlink currently links from a network drive to my iTunes library folder. Within that ...
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Flatten symlink for Virtualbox Share
I have a Virtualbox machine that I use for development, and I mount a directory for a project I'm working on within it. This directory has symlinks to a few other directories around my host file ...
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Soft link to a Excel sheet created in Unix is displayed as a Folder in Window
Created a Softlink for a Excel sheet using the following command, in Unix shared file system.
temp$ ln -s temp1/Main.xlsm Link.xlsm
But when I view the temp directory in Windows, Link.xlsm appears ...
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vim does not preserve symlink over sshfs
I'm having some trouble with symlinks and sshfs. I use the '-o follow_symlinks' option to follow symlinks on the server side, but whenever I edit a symlinked file on the client side with vim, a copy ...
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Cannot change permissions in symlinked dropbox directory in Ubuntu 10.10
Title pretty much says it all, but here's what I'm doing...
ls -l produces this...
drwx------ 1 brian brian 4096 2010-12-28 14:19 foldername
-rw------- 1 brian brian 0 2010-12-28 15:54 index.html
...
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Can't sync windows network drive to dropbox (mklink)
Background
I have a very dodgy VPN access to the network drive at my work. I work on pretty large files and it is painfully slow to transfer via VPN. Also, there are no 'version control' as there is ...
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Aptitude fails to write file to symlinked directory
I have a Ubuntu 12.04.2 server with /etc/apache2 as a symlink to another directory for logging purposes. When I try to install the libapache2-mod-passenger package it doesn't install the ...
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Creating links that keep a relative path from a base folder
When I copy my music from the root folder to a portable player's folder or a USB drive, is there a way that I can keep the relative structure?
For example:
My music is located in: ...
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Show SymLinks in Win 8
Is there a way to get dir (or some other command) to list info about symlinks?
As far as I can tell dir does not display any difference between a normal folder and a symlinked folder.
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Searching file location and creating symlink
We have an application that calls an executable on the user's PC (Windows 7), however it's looking for a hard coded path that may or may not be accurate. i.e. There are users who have installed the ...
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Symlink folder for php script
I want to install a script that list all the files I have on my server.
The problem is the script itself recognize only "files" folder within its structure while my existing files were all in ...
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FTP not working properly — Everything appears as symlinks?
I'm running a site with Proftp on it.
I use Fireftp to connect to it, but when I do, everything shows up with a shackle next to it and I can't do nothing, when I refresh it changes to the proper ...
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Cross platform application to link files (similar to hardlink)
I need cross platform application that will implement functionality similar to hardlink. It will be great if all sync rules may be defined in file that application will read later.
Why I can't use ...
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Symlink relative vs absolute
I have been using media temple and I gave up on their support and I'm here to see if this can be solved.
I want to use capistrano recipe which deploys automatically. After playing around I was able ...
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How to batch convert symbolic links to hard links on Windows?
I have a large folder full of many files and subfolders, some of which contain symbolic links. I would like to batch convert all the symbolic links into hardlinks.
Is there any software out there ...
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Generate symlinks for all platforms (for a specific file or folder)
Is there any way to generate symlinks on Linux for all platforms? I'd like to find a way to generate symlinks for a file that will work on either Mac, Linux, or Windows. I can right-click on a file ...
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Symbolic linkage or in-sync folder replication on Windows?
I have an application—actually a web-framework+web-server—which requires its folders—including the application I'm hosting—to be in a child directory; e.g., in: \htdocs.
The application/project I'm ...
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Switching between trunk and branch with symbolic links
I'm working on a major branch on my LAMP development server, but I frequently need to make minor but urgent updates to trunk.
I want to use the same local url for whichever working copy I'm in ...
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Unable to log into Windows 7 after moving users folder via symlink
I'm unable to log into Windows 7 after moving the Users folder via symlink. I used the command prompt in System Recovery to move the folder.
F:\ is my SSD which I want to move from, while C:\ Is the ...
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Cannot symlink MyISAM databases
So we're a few web developers working on their own projects, which we'd like to access remotely, but still work locally (so, LAMP on the server, MAMP on each computer). The benefits include easily ...
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Linking directories in c:\Windows on Windows 7 64bit
I bought a SSD to make it C:. As SSD size is pretty small, I'm trying to reduce the number of files in C:. After running WinDirStat, I found that 4.6G of space is used for c:\Windows\Installer.
Is ...
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Web shortcuts (.url) not working on Windows 7
I'm experiencing several symptoms, but I believe they are all related to web link files not working.
First, I can't create we link files anymore. When I try New > Shortcut and put an URL, I get the ...
