How to store Pictures folder on another hard drive?
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Why it's as simple as deleting the Pictures folder first before linking my good man. Like so:
rm -rf ~/Pictures
ln -s /media/Images ~/Pictures
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Sanam Patel
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Sanam Patel over 1 year
I have multiple drives in a desktop computer. I want one of those drives to function as my
/home/username/Pictures
folder. Can this be done?I thought symbolic links could do this, but I'm not having any success.
The target drive is/media/Images
. Here's what I tried so far:All four variations give me the same result, a shortcut inside the
/Pictures
folder.This isn't what I want. I want the
/Pictures
folder itself to be the shortcut. How do I do this? -
Sanam Patel almost 12 yearsI hope it's something simple like this. I just tried your command and got "rm: cannot remove `/home/tom/Pictures': Is a directory" as an error.
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Rinzwind almost 12 yearsrm -rf !!!!!!!!
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Sanam Patel almost 12 yearsPerfect, thanks. I was getting so frustrated! A quick fstab edit and I'm all set now.