Can PHDs follow symbolic links?

I have a user who, for space limitations, has a symbolic link in his local home directory (on a macbook pro) that points to an external drive. So far I have been unable to figure out how to get his symbolic link to sync with his network account. I have him set up with a portable home that works just fine (except for the symbolic link.
Seems like I need a option similar to what rsync has that causes the sync agent to follow symbolic links.
Is this possible?

No. OS 9 doesn't understand symlinks. Your only option is to use aliases which, of course, UNIX apps can't follow.

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Can PHDs follow links/

I have a user who, for space limitations, has a symbolic link in his local home directory (on a macbook pro) that points to an external drive. So far I have been unable to figure out how to get his symbolic link to sync with his network account. I have him set up with a portable home that works just fine (except for the symbolic link.
Seems like I need a option similar to what rsync has that causes the sync agent to follow symbolic links.
Is this possible?

Hi njerseyjo,
If you are having issues with hyperlinks in messages not functioning, you may want to try some things to troubleshoot.
First, quit all running applications and test again -
Force an app to close in iOS
Next, I would try restarting and if needed resetting the iPhone -
Restart or reset your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
If the issue is still present, you may want to restore the iPhone as a new device -
How to erase your iOS device and then set it up as a new device or restore it from backups
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L

How can I follow my link or whcih link to varify my apple id?

How can I follow my link or whcih link to varify my apple id?

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Can't create symbolic link on a cifs mount (on a linux VM 14.10 Ubuntu)

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"Operation not supported"
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In my opinion, there is something wrong in the smb.conf file of the server. In order to support symbolic links, unix extensions must be disabled there. Also the sfu option needs to be enabled. I tried everything possible on the client (VM) end. The issue
is clearly from the server
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This is also surprising the fact that your server is a SunFire V440 means
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Anyway, since it is a broken link, you could actually delete for security reasons.
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Can't make symbolic links for Documents, Music, Movies, Pictures folders?

So, on my previous setup, which was also running 10.5 I was able to create symbolic links for my Documents,Music, Movies and Pictures folders so those files could be stored on an 2nd hard drive.
However, today I'm setting up my new Mac Pro and I try to remove those folders and create the symbolic links and it tells me that permissions are denied.
Can anyone tell me why this would be different on the Intel Mac than it was on my PowerMac G5? How can I get around it?

those folders are protected by "deny delete" ACLs to prevent accidental deletion.
you can remove the ACLs using
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Can Adobe Air Create a Symbolic Link (aka shortcut) ?

Greetings, I am working on an AIR application that automatically creates a directory tree for the user. Because there are many levels to the tree I want to have symbolic links to certain folders and files at the top level to speed navigation. Can AIR create symbolic links ? If not can anyone suggest a work around as this limitation would be bad for my project.

I thought I would post a few comments that might help others.
First, there does not seem to exist a symbolic link that is crossplatform regardless of the filesystem used (e.g., NTSF, FAT32, etc.). In other words if you create a symbolic link in Windows XP on a network drive and then try to view that shortcut in Linux, Linux will not understand the shortcut. I tried both the Junction and shortcut approaches. Similarly is I create a symbolic link (ln -s) in Linux on a network drive, a Windows machine will not interpret it properly. Since my app needs to support a heterogenous computers on a single LAN then I am SOL.
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Itunes disks & symbolic links

i have a rather large itunes now i use it for lots of tv shows and movies for appletv (and iphone) - up to 1.1TB's!!
so i now have a disk issue! i have tried a few solutions, i.e. concatenated raid volumes, unionfs, etc. all failed for varying reasons. the new solution is:
disk 1 --> symbolic link to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music
disk 2 --> symbolic link to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/TV Shows
disk 3 --> symbolic link to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Movies
disk 3 is actually a 2-disk concatenated raid volume, but this should not matter
itunes is auto-managed and copies files to itunes folder. everything works as expected when normally using this file strucure, e.g. adding new movie will put it onto disk 3.
but as this has only just been created, i would like to consolidate the library. when i do, i get a prompt saying disk 1 does not have enough space (note it doesnt mention that my local profile location)
what is occurring? does itunes attempt to evaluate the symlink? is my solution possible?
regards
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Your solution will not work.
For reasons unknown iTunes does not follow symbolic links. In fact, it does all kinds of things to avoid them, avoid following them, and does link symbolic links, hard links, or aliases.
Every time there's a new OS X or iTunes release I give it a try and the results are always the same--if I try to make a TV Shows symbolic link iTunes ignores the link, and creates a TV Shows directory. Even inside the directory, if, for example, I try to make a symbolic link to a particular show or artist I know needs a large amount of space iTunes ignores the symbolic link and creates a directory entry under whatever the main library is set to be.
About the only thing you can do is create a large, empty raid using new drives and copy everything over to that raid. Of course you would have to recopy everything if you ever add a new drive.
I can't wait for ZFS to be added as a regular consumer option to OS X just to be able to finally create a unified, ever expandable iTunes library.

Symbolic Link doesn't work in 'File Window' on Mac

Hi, I'm Nao from Japan.
I'm sorry for my strange English.
I usually use Dreamweaver CC on Windows7 PC.
I manage some web sites. Three of them belong to same group. They require some same image files. The three sites are on one remote web server. So I use symbolic link(directory) to share the image files.
And on my windows PC, I use symbolic link to share the files in the local sites of the three.
'File Window' of dreamweaver CC (for Win) understands symbolic link and i have no trouble.
But 'File Window' of dreamweaver CC (for Mac) can't understand symbolic link.
('Preview Window' understand symbolic link.)
How can i solve the issue?

Thank you for your reply.
I should explain my situation again.
at command prompt on windows7,
c:\webSites>mkdir site_A
c:\webSites>mkdir site_B
c:\webSites>mkdir site_A\shared_images
c:\webSites>mklink /d site_B\shared_images c:\webSites\site_A\shared_images\
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If some files are put into the 'c:\webSites\site_A\shared_images\' ,they will appear in 'c:\webSites\site_B\shared_images\' on File Window of Dreamweaver CC.
but at terminal on Mac OSX,
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MacBookPro:webSites nao$ mkdir site_A/shared_images
MacBookPro:webSites nao$ ln -s /(somewhere)/webSites/site_A/shared_images/ site_B/shared_images
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Can I move the common library or use a symbolic link so that Dropbox can sync it?

A team of us are now using Fireworks for interaction design, and need to synchronise the common library so that the elements we use are up to date.
1. Is the common library the correct method?
2. we use dropbox, and I don't think I can tell dropbox to synchronise just the common library folder (as an isolated path from the rest of the dropbox tree...) - so, is there a trick using a symbolic link we could use so that dropbox thinks the common library is actually in it's own tree? (OSX is BSD afterall...)
We're on Mac OSX 10.7.X, running FW CS6 and using the latest dropbox for Mac.
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Thanks groove25.
I did find that it is possible to use symbolic links and Dropbox to synchronise the common library across computers. It does come with its idiosynchrasies though (excuse thepun).
I'm going to have a go with what this thread recommends:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120803093247391
and leichter's explanation and walkthrough (nested in the thread) looks very helpful:
There's a subtle point that, once you understand it, makes symlinks much more useful in Dropbox.
The whole design of symlinks in Unix tries to make them invisible to programs that don't specifically try to manipulate them. So suppose 'sym' is a symlink to 'file'. If a program opens 'sym' for read, it actually gets the data in 'file'. If it appends to 'sym', it actually appends to 'file'. However, if it deletes 'sym', what disappears is the link 'sym', not the file 'file'. Opening 'sym' for writing as a new file - not appending to it - is equivalent to deleting the old file and creating a new one: It leaves 'file' unchanged and creates an entirely new file named 'sym' which no longer has any connection with 'file'.
A link to a directory follows the same rules. Looking a file up using the symlink as the name really searches the linked-to directory. Creating a file through the symlink is like appending: It creates the entry in the linked directory. And so on.
A program that wishes to do something special - like change where a symlink points - has to be aware that it's dealing with a symlink and use special OS calls for that exact purpose.
Dropbox works with symlinks *but it doesn't do anything special with them*. So suppose you put that 'sym' linked to 'file' in your Dropbox directory. Dropbox comes along, finds a new file, and sends it to its servers. What does it send? Well, first the name 'sym', and then the "contents" - i.e., what it gets from reading 'sym' which is exactly the contents of 'file'. On the server, and then later on other clients, what you will find is a normal file named 'sym' with the contents of 'file'. *There is no connection with a file named 'file'.* If you change 'file' on the system where 'sym' links to it, the changes propagate. If you change it anywhere else, the changes propagate back - but Dropbox doesn't modify files in place, it writes entire new ones. So the effect back on the original system is to break the link and write a new file named 'sym' with the latest contents - but no connection to 'file'.
I know of no way to keep a link to a *file* as a symlink across updates. But the story is different for *directories*. Unlike ordinary files, directories are normally updated in place (unless you explicit delete and recreate them). So you can do the following:
1. Create directory 'dir' anywhere you like.
2. Create symlink 'dirlink' pointing to 'dir' in your Dropbox folder.
3. Wait for 'dirlink' to appear on all other clients. It will appear as an ordinary directory, not as a symlink. If the original 'dir' had files in it, those will now appear as files on the clients, too.
4. On each client, rename 'dirlink' to 'dir' *in the place you want it to appear in your directory tree*. (Renaming only works if you are staying not the same device. Otherwise, you need to create 'dir' and move all the files.) This need not be the same on all clients, though it's easier to keep track of if it is.
5. On each client, create symlink 'dirlink' pointing to 'dir'.
Now you have a 'dirlink' on each client, which will to Dropbox look like a subdirectory - and it will sync all the files in that "subdirectory". Changes made on any client to any file in 'dir' aka 'dirlink' will be synced to all the other clients as well. Files created or deleted in 'dir' will be created/deleted on every other client as well.
It's probably easiest to do all this while there are no files in 'dir'. Otherwise, Dropbox sometimes repeatedly syncs the same files until everything eventually settles down.
The limitations here:
- Some platforms (e.g., iOS) don't support symlinks. To them, 'dirlink' will just be an ordinary subdirectory.
- Any time you add a new client, you have to go through the process for that client. Certain reset operations in Dropbox - anything that requires re-syncing every file in the Dropbox folder on a client - will require the same, because Dropbox doesn't know how to *create* symlinks - it'll just create an ordinary subdirectories.
I've used this configuration for a couple of years. You have to watch out for the reset situations and such, but generally once you have it set up, it "just works".
-- Jerry
All the best,
Dylan

Can I Create A Symbolic Link to folders stored on an SMB Share folder?

Hello,
I am very new to Unix and was hoping that someone could point me in the right direction with regards to Symbolic links and an SMB share folder ....
Have purchased an ext. LAN Drive enclosure (http://www.macpower.com.tw/products/hdd3/pleiades/pd_usblan) which connects to my wireless router via ethernet like my G5 (main Mac) - our iBook connects via Airport. I have copied all my general documents/files to the SMB share folder on the ext. drive so that I can access them from the G5 and also the iBook.
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SMB just resolved the link and everything worked fine.
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The only way to find out which applications work with links is to try them and see what happens.
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