Re: link

There is a folder called 'Documets' in the home directory and one also in
'Desktop'. The existing files were moved from the folder in Desktop and
placed in home's Documents and then deleted. Some programs think Documents
is in home while some think it is in the other file. I want the files that go
to ~/Desktop/Documents to be placed into <home>/Documents. What i am thinking
is that if you put a link in ~/Desktop/Documents..... After reading the man
page for pipe and for link it seems that neither of them will do what is
desired. I think that what I may need to do is insert a script into the
program..... uhhhhh.... no. That cron job thing might be the only way to
achieve this. Move the contents of ~/Desktop/Documents every 5 minutes to
~/Documents. That probably won't work though because of the differant
folders. Identical files will be overwritten. What a quandry! I didn't want
to go into each different program and specify the save directoy but that may
be the only way!

What do you think?

On Saturday 13 October 2007 12:47 pm, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 02:20:48PM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > Probably.
> >
> > Move the files from one of the folders to the other. Then delete the
> > now-empty folder. And if you need it, create the symlink to existing
> > folder.
>
> ... or rsync, or rsnapshot, or ..., or ...
>
> I can't help but wonder if we knew more about what's going on if we
> could figure out a better way to accomplish the real, underlying goal
> here.
>
> If someone tells you that coins are hard to pick up off the sidewalk and
> they'd like to design something like a suction cup on a stick, we can
> help. But it might be better to sew up the hole in your pocket instead.
> But not knowing about the pocket, we can't help with the real problem
> ;-)
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