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Clad in Sky
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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:02 am Post subject: Symbolic links question |
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Inspired by the Google Drive thread, I installed dropbox on my desktop and laptop.
I found some nice .desktop file for thunar so that I can rightclick on a file and send it to dropbox. The original .desktop file, however, had EXEC = ln -s %f, thus would create a symbolic link in the dropbox folder.
I wonder if this is a mistake. I don't need a symbolic link on my other computer but the file, so I replaced ln -s with cp.
As you can see, I probably don't really understand symbolic links. Would putting one of those into the dropbox folder actually upload the file, or the link?
I'm confused. 
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It depends on how dropbox handles symlinks really. Most programmes will just treat symlinks as the file it points to, but they can discriminate. So it depends. Experiment.
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Clad in Sky
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Thanks.
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