[KLUG Members] My Documents shortcut

[Eric Beversluis]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 09:06 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > I want to make a shortcut/link on my Mandrake 10.0 Gnome desktop to my
> > Windows My Documents folder so I don't have to go through about 8 clicks
> > to open it and 8 clicks to close it each time I want to retrieve a
> > document from it.
> > But when I right click on the folder, the "Make Link" option is grayed
> > out. Does that mean I can't make that link, or is there some other way
> > to do it?
> 
> FAT/NTFS doesn't support 'links'.
> 
> You should be able to create one by hand in your Desktop folder using
> "ln" and point it to the "My Documents" folder.
> 
It seemed to work ok. Used: ln -s "/mnt/windows/Documents and
Settings/Eric/My Documents" WinDocs.

The icon it created on the desktop is the usual folder icon, with the
usual little arrow indicating link, but it also has a little red
circle/bar (prohibition icon) with what looks like a lighted cigarette
in it.  Any idea what that is/means?


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