Questions tagged [symbolic-link]
A symbolic link ("symlink") is a reference to a file or folder which may exist on the same or another drive in the system. Symbolic links allow users to create a more logical file layout, when the files themselves may be spread across multiple disks or relocated to more convenient locations.
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Nushell: List directories first, including symlinks to directories
Using Nushell I want ls to list directories before files. Additionally, I want symbolic links to be sorted correctly: If it is a link to a directory, it should be included in the list of directories. ...
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How to SFTP a symbolic on Windows
I have a SFTP server with a jailed environment by doing:
Subsystem sftp internal-sftp
Match User Jailed_User ChrootDirectory "C:\SFTP_Jail" X11Forwarding no AllowTcpForwarding no ...
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Schedule a task with admin privileges Windows 10
I feel like this should be easy but I am not making any further progress. I have seen the other post mentioning Windows 7 and UAC prompts but the accepted solution on that did not post work for me. ...
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readlink_stat failed: Value too large for defined data type (75). Broken symlink?
I have a server with Debian 12 and everything works fine, except this message:
-bash: /usr/bin/dircolors: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
Now...With every backup I get warnings about ...
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How to remove user folders with nonexistent symlinks?
I noticed that there are duplicate user accounts on users' Windows 10 computers that prevents in place upgrade to Windows 11. So I'm trying to remove these user accounts in a "prepare-for-win11-...
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How can I move location or setup user special folders for multiple windows installations but the same user on a single machine?
How can I move or otherwise link Windows user special folders (Documents, Downloads, etc) such that multiple Windows installations on the same machine can share them seamslessly for all programs and ...
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Symlink Messages Library Data
My hard drive is completely full on my mac, mostly due to my extensive Messages archive. I have an external drive and would like to move the data over to it using a symlink (or other solution). When I ...
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(Windows 10) Symbolic link failing, claims "system cannot find specified path"
I am trying to create a symbolic link between %ProgramData%\PopCap Games\Insaniquarium and %ProgramData%\Steam\Insaniquarium to fix compatibility problems with the game Insaniquarium, however, the ...
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Unknown object in Excel 2021 cells
In creating a very simple excel sheet in Excel 2021, I am now seeing a small bold cross (Not the one for copy/drag) in several cells. It will neither cut nor delete. It does not enlarge or change with ...
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How can I use 'mklink' to link 'read/write' game files to an existing directory with additional game data in it?
I recently downloaded Halo: The Master Chief Collection through PC Xbox Game Pass. The game is a collection of 6 or so games, so it's a whopping 116 GB large. Because of this, I've installed the game ...
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Is there a way to use Linux-like symlinks on a Windows computer, referring to a location on another computer?
My application is writing logs to a directory, which is hardcoded "Logs" and is present under the runtime directory of my application.
Today, a customer asked me if it was possible to have ...
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Where is the real location of data when using symlinks?
When you create a symlink using mklink /D Link Target where does the real data exist? Where the target is right ? what about the hard link?
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Is it possible in Win10 to have a path which shows the content from multiple folders?
I have a program (call it App1) which read data from c:\ProgramData\ProgramCompanyName\App1\
I need to get the content of ProgramCompanyName on another disk, so I moved that folder to D:\App1\...
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How to "find" while following specific symlinks on Linux?
I would like to find files (with similar feature to find), but follow and only follow specific symlinks (by pattern matching).
Apparently find itself cannot handle it: There is no option to setup ...
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Optimal way to link cache folders into different location
I use Arch Linux and I have spare m.2 SSD which I use for SWAP, but I have huge space left which is unused, so I would like to use it for cache / temp files too (so I can save some writes on my ...
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