Comments on: How to Create and Use Symlinks on a Mac http://gigaom.com/2011/04/27/how-to-create-and-use-symlinks-on-a-mac/ Tue, 21 May 2013 13:56:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: paul http://gigaom.com/2011/04/27/how-to-create-and-use-symlinks-on-a-mac/#comment-634801 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:12:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=324658#comment-634801 Hi Weldon, I did exactly what you said and this did not work for me.

user-76c9dd:~ glasserp$ sudo rm -rf ~/Downloads/
Password:
user-76c9dd:~ glasserp$ ln -s /Volumes/Macintosh HDD/Downloads/ ~/Downloads
ln: /Users/glasserp/Downloads: No such file or directory

Any help please?

]]> By: Weldon Dodd http://gigaom.com/2011/04/27/how-to-create-and-use-symlinks-on-a-mac/#comment-620202 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:49:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=324658#comment-620202 Yes, that absolutely works. However, I didn’t want to move my entire Home folder. I wanted to keep the ~/Library file on my SSD for speed and to make sure I could still boot into my account even if the hard drive failed (and the SSD was still working). So I chose to just move some of the sub-folders.

]]> By: Weldon Dodd http://gigaom.com/2011/04/27/how-to-create-and-use-symlinks-on-a-mac/#comment-620200 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:41:23 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=324658#comment-620200 @XakiK – I haven’t used this program, but you might want to take a look at http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/10433/symboliclinker

]]> By: Jim http://gigaom.com/2011/04/27/how-to-create-and-use-symlinks-on-a-mac/#comment-620157 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:40:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=324658#comment-620157 I use a symbolic link to redirect my entire Documents folder to Dropbox. So I have the same documents on multiple machines.

]]> By: Adam J http://gigaom.com/2011/04/27/how-to-create-and-use-symlinks-on-a-mac/#comment-620156 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:33:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=324658#comment-620156 If you just wanted to move Home Folder (which does include your Documents, Downloads etc.), would it not be easier to go to the Accounts preference pane and then right click on your User account then click advanced? This then allows you to move your Home Folder in a GUI way.

]]> By: XabiK http://gigaom.com/2011/04/27/how-to-create-and-use-symlinks-on-a-mac/#comment-620111 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:04:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=324658#comment-620111 Does exist an application which can manage symlinks in a GUI-friendly way? (I would use Linux if I wanted to deal with the terminal ;)

By the way, I very useful article: another good idea is also to use symlinks combined with Dropbox, isn’t it?

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