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symbolic link, a type of file that is a reference to another file or folder

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Create a symbolic link do navigate with cd

Is it possible to create a symbolic link to easier change directories? like ln -s /Users/mles/Documents /usr/local/bin/d so I can cd d instead of cd ~/Documents?
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Unable to symlink /Users in OS X El Capitan

I#m running OS X El Capitan and want to symlink /Users to /home sudo ln -sf /Users /home fails with ln: home/Users: Operation not supported Why does this fail? Could this be related to other OS X restrictions? Such as when trying to write to…
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Fixing symlinked /Users directory

I had my previous Mac Mini configured where /Users was a link to a separate volume on my dual disk system. I tried upgrading to Catalina on that machine and discovered that this link caused the upgrade to fail (and there didn't seem to be a clean…
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Symlink dotfiles to Documents/Dotfiles

I have a setup script which creates links between my dotfiles repo and the files at the root of my Home directory. Generally speaking, the process looks like this for each file: ln -s ~/Documents/Dotfiles/.bash_profile ~/.bash_profile Is this…
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Symbolic link in High Sierra breaks when the file is modified

I have a file named file.ext. I create an symbolic link to this file named file_symlink.ext in other folder. When I modify file.ext directly (without opening the file via the symbolic link), the symbolic link is transformed to an effective file with…
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Is it possible to let Picasa use a removable device as the Application Support folder using symbolic links?

Picasa stores very large files in Application Support folder which consumes limited disk space in system disk. I wonder if I can use symbolic links in order to make Picasa use removable disk as storage space.
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Edit symlinked files in Dropbox

I have a soft symlink between the Documents folder on my main computer and a folder in Dropbox, say dbDocs. If I now edit a document, say thesis.tex, in dbDocs from another computer, will the symlink on my main computer see that thesis.tex has…
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create symlink to thunderbolt external drive

Can someone please help me create a symlink on my Mac to my external NAS via thunderbolt: The source location of the folder is: smb://169.254.8.133/MEDIA/Music/REKORDBOX and the where i would like the symlink to be placed is: /Users/X/Music Thanks
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Why is ~/Documents a symlink to itself, and how should this be fixed?

I'm a programmer diagnosing a customer's issue with our software. We're having some problems writing into the user's Documents folder in macOS Mojave 10.14.6.* It turns out that the customer's ~/Documents folder is a symlink to itself, causing ELOOP…
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Latest file for download

I want to be able to have a generic link to the latest version on of file available for download to make things easier for clients. Example: http://server.web.net/Adium/Adium-1.5.10.4.pkg If it could be http://server.web.net/Adium/LATEST The…
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