So there are two ways of doing this (besides changing your XDG Pictures folder), and one involves symbolic links, and the other involves bind mounts. You shouldn't have to do both. Here's the symbolic link way:

  cp -r ~/Pictures /media/NewDrive/Wherever
  rm -rf ~/Pictures
  ln -s /media/NewDrive/Wherever/Pictures ~/Pictures

I don't prefer that method, because some file searching tools and such don't follow symbolic links by default. I use bind mounts:

  cp -r ~/Pictures /media/NewDrive/Wherever
  rm -rf ~/Pictures/*
 
  (then add the following line to your fstab without quotation marks) :
    "/media/NewDrive/Wherever/Pictures /home/mike/Pictures none bind 0 0"
  Then 'sudo mount ~mike/Pictures'. It should mount automatically on boot after that.

Either method should work, but you should only use one.

On Jan 28, 2013 12:47 AM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

in this situation do I add the 

     mount <drive> /mnt/<target>

command to fstab or what is the new standard? I mean I thought it might be mounted in /media but I was wrong. Thn I opened the drive  and it still wasn't mounted in media so I don't know what  to do.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

thanks Ed. I was thinking it might be that easy.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Ed <plug@0x1b.com> wrote:

ln -s works for me - get the details from the man page. Besides, a
symbolic link is easier than changing the XDG designation for your
Pictures directory:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

just make sure your link has the same name as your current XDG
Pictures directory and you shouldn't have any problems.

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to move my pictures folder to another folder in another partition.
> How do I tell the computer that when I click on the pictures folder icon
> (the folder with the polaroid on it) that I want to go to this directory in
> the other partition?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>

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