Logs: Why Adium 2.0

Post by **The_Tick** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:18 pm

symlink and alias are different.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:19 pm

how do i go about making a symbolic link?

ofri · Post by **ofri** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:29 pm

open the treminal and type "cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/", press return, and then type "ln -s path/to/your/adium/support/folder Adium 2.0".
but before you do this, move your Adium 2.0 to wherever you want.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 9:13 pm

Let's define what they both are:

Aliases are like UNIX hardlinks. They always point to the same file, regardless of where the file is.

Symbolic links is another word for softlinks. They always point to the same path, resulting in the ability to freely edit and replace the file that's at the path.

I *love* symbolic links, and I have a contextual menu item just for it

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 9:32 pm

Code: Select all

jeremy-hs-powerbook-g4-12:~ jeremyh$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/
jeremy-h-powerbook-g4-12:~/Library/Application Support jeremyh$ ln -s ~/users/jeremyh/documents
jeremy-h-powerbook-g4-12:~/Library/Application Support jeremyh$

did i do it right?

also.. i was wondering if i can make this specific for only the logs folder?

FredAkbar · Post by **FredAkbar** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:00 pm

You left out "Adium 2.0" after the filepath to the new location. The "Adium 2.0" at the end is so UNIX (or whoever) knows what your symbolic link is called, just like if you made an alias of your Adium 2.0 folder, you would call it Adium 2.0.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:23 pm

now i have a sheet with an arrow pointing in that says 'documents' and thats in the application support menu. also theres one that says '2.0'

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:15 am

SuperJeremy3000 wrote:now i have a sheet with an arrow pointing in that says 'documents' and thats in the application support menu. also theres one that says '2.0'

Not very UNIX-y eh? You typed “Adium 2.0” with the space! You either have to quote the whole path (double " or single ') or put a \ before every space.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:23 am

zaudragon wrote:
SuperJeremy3000 wrote:now i have a sheet with an arrow pointing in that says 'documents' and thats in the application support menu. also theres one that says '2.0'
Not very UNIX-y eh? You typed “Adium 2.0” with the space! You either have to quote the whole path (double " or single ') or put a \ before every space.

not very computer literate either, thanks for the help guys

FredAkbar · Post by **FredAkbar** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 2:27 am

Looks like ofri and I both forgot the backslash...sorry!