[Solved] Creating Symbolic Links (?)

[M_Mynaardt]

Hi!

Can anyone tell me how one can [easily] make symbolic or soft [folder] links in LXDE? I like using them, a lot. I have a persistent USB install of Mint 9 LXDE, but I've not been able to figure out how to create symbolic links of some folders (notably some of my Dropbox folders) to put on the desktop.

Thanks...

[lyovushka]

Have a look at this
http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1923

It isn't exactly symbolic link, but I guess it does what you want.

[M_Mynaardt]

Have a look at this
http://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1923

It isn't exactly symbolic link, but I guess it does what you want.

Hi!

I'll check it out and see what happens...

Thanks...

[M_Mynaardt]

I finally got this one with Symbolic Links sorted out! Someone who wasn't an LXDE user gave me the answer.

Just use the terminal command ln like so:

ln -s /home/buddy/Pictures/holidays /home/buddy/Desktop

This will create a symbolic link folder on the desktop called, not too surprisingly, 'holidays'. You can then use that as a short-cut to /home/buddy/Pictures/holidays, and you can change its name on the Desktop and all that fun stuff.

For anyone else who wants this as a future reference the format of this command is: ln -s [source-directory] [target-folder]
Where -s is the option for 'symbolic link', [source-directory] is the folder you want to make a short-cut to and [target-folder] is the folder you want the symbolic link in (probably the Desktop, more often than not).

That was a simpler solution than I thought it would be! And I like it!