Does Any Forums use symbolic link? Feel like it is an underrated technology and people rarely use it. What are some good use cases for it?
Does Any Forums use symbolic link? Feel like it is an underrated technology and people rarely use it...
Julian Reyes
Jayden Roberts
I keep all my movies in ./all and make links to each movie in their genres. Other than that I don't really use symbolic links.
Jose Sullivan
that's a directory junction, not a symbolic link. enable Developer mode and use ln to create real synlinks
Easton Howard
I use symlinks to keep screenshots from multiple minecraft instances in one place
Cameron Sanders
bugzilla.gnome.org
>symbolic linking is considered a workaround by gnome dev
Juan Mitchell
Gnome devs are retards we know
Bentley Foster
I have a second SSD on my machine which I want to put games in but also use as a storage drive and access it as if it was part of my home directory.
I created a directory on the drive called 'games' and 'stuff' and symlinked them to my home directory.
Dominic Jackson
I use it to move parts of my AppData to my other partitions, so that I don't have to backup when I reinstall OSes. Along with the batch file that makes those links, so its a painless one click process
Thomas Torres
I use symlinks in my home folder for folders that are organized but that I usually need
Cooper Kelly
Yes.
One I add to delete though. It as a symlink to /mnt/external_drive/Videos/ for when I my ext hard drive is mounted, but it caused mpd to fail when updating, because /mnt/external_drive/Videos/ does not exists
Bentley Wilson
Yes, even in Windows I've used symlinks, specifically because I have a game installed that has no mod manager, a separate installation is required for each mod, and I also have a 10gb map pack that I didn't want to have 10 copies of, so I made symlinks to the map folder for each instance.
Wyatt Howard
ln -s ~/git/dots/bash/bashrc ~/.bashrc
Wyatt Fisher
I relative symlink images that belong in multiple directories in my image directory.
Relative symlinks (ln -sr) are really useful because you can put the entire directory in a tar archive, unpack it elsewhere, and they will still be correct.
Kayden Myers
Why does Windows require admin rights to make symlinks by default?
Ryder Ward
secondary users can fuck some serious shit up with symlinks.
Thomas Stewart
>Does Any Forums use symbolic link?
desuarchive.org
lol
Alexander Kelly
1. clean deployment of dotfiles
2. consolidation of storage
Gabriel Thompson
it should depend where you're linking to/from.
if you have r/w access to the folder you're linking to you should be able to create a link with mklink or ln
Aaron Thompson
Yes, I use symlinks for a few things. I've symlinked my browser's profile folder to a RAM disk and I have a symlink masquerading as a folder on my local drive while actually pointing to a network mount, I use this one for NVIDIA screen recordings so they go straight to my home server instead of being saved locally. The NVIDIA software is retarded and automatically resets the video save path if I point it to the network share directly, so this is just a workaround.
On my server I use symlinks for all my TV shows. Sometimes the original files have weird ass names so I keep a different folder where they're all properly organized and named and every file is a symlink. I can point media servers here and they'll have an easy time picking up the library since there are no weird ass, strange names that are difficult to parse.
Brody Edwards
>if you have r/w access to the folder you're linking to you should be able to create a link with mklink or ln
Try it, you can't without modifying group policies
