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[Michael Havens]

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
> ;-)