There are Music, Downloads and some other folders in the home directory of a user which can be opened from the side pane in file manager.
I want them to point to directories in some other drive so that I can share these folders among different operating systems. How can I achieve that?
Deleting those folders and making shortcuts doesn't work because in windows the type of a file is determined from it's extension and the shortcut is named with a .lnk
extension. The file manager looks for a directory
named Music
when I click on Music in the side pane. If I remove the extension then the file isn't recognized anymore as a known filetype.
How can I share personal folders between windows and linux?
Moving these folders to C: drive and making shortcuts on linux isn't what I want because I'll have to backup these folders in case something happens to the windows installation. I intend to keep these personal folders separate from the installation of both OS's.