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Restoring finder icon
I have moved certain sections (downloads, music, pictures) of my user directory from my SSD to my HDD via symlinks. I have successfully changed over the image of the folder which can be seen in the ...
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symbolic link not created
All my docs are in:
/Users/Joe/Documents/Mydocs
I want to put them on dropbox through symbolic link so I created this empty folder:
/Users/Joe/Dropbox/Mydocs
Then used this command to create a ...
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1answer
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Symlink User Folders - Can I keep original Sidebar Icons? [duplicate]
I have my user folders (Music, Movies and Pictures) stored on an external drive, so I used terminal to delete the existing user folders on the boot drive then created symlinks to these folders and ...
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2answers
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How to duplicate an entire dropbox directory tree to skydrive?
I've got a directory tree set up in my Dropbox folder. For redundancy, I'd like to duplicate that entire tree in SkyDrive. I'd like everything to update and sync automatically (from Dropbox to ...
2
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1answer
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Is it safe to Symlink your applications folder?
If you had a NAS and you were going to store all your applications on there, would it be safe to - on the computers accessing it - replace their application folder with a symlink to the folder on the ...
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How do I create a symbolic link to a directory with a space in it?
I was trying to create a symbolic link using the following command:
ln -s "~/Foo Bar/" Foo
... but it didn't work (i.e. when I go into finder and try double clicking it, it says that it's pointing ...
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5answers
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Why can't I use .app bundles symlinked into /Applications as default in the 'open with' dialog?
I have installed emacs with homebrew, with the --cocoa flag, which makes homebrew create an .app bundle in /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/<version>/Emacs.app. I have symlinked the .app bundle into ...
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Why is /tmp a symlink to /private/tmp?
Why is /tmp a symlink to /private/tmp on Mac OS X? In other words, why isn't /tmp just a regular directory, like on Linux or BSD? I understand how it works and I don't mind it, I'm just interested in ...
