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Can someone help explain the process of using symlinks to move folders in the user folder to second HDD for beginners?
i've been looking everywhere to find out how to do this and all tutorials required knowing a bit about commands in terminal, after some searching what various commands meant i felt i understood This tutorial enough to give it a shot.
i thought i'd try it first on my downloads folder, after following the steps instead of it deleting the current and replacing it with the new folder (folder with a small arrow to show it's linked elsewhere i'm assuming?) it created this new folder inside the downloads folder, no idea what has happened? (picture below)
in the screen shots in the tutorial it shows the user folders had been replaced with a new folder with the little arrow in the bottom left corner, how come when i did it this new folder is in the original downloads folder?
these were the steps i took:
copy downloads folder from SSD to second HDD
entered these into terminal in this order:
cd /users/RobWheeler/Downloads sudo rm -rf Downloads
ln -s /volumes/Data\ Storage/UsersStorage/Downloads
Anyone know whats happened/what to do?
been bugging me for ages working out how to do this!
i've been looking everywhere to find out how to do this and all tutorials required knowing a bit about commands in terminal, after some searching what various commands meant i felt i understood This tutorial enough to give it a shot.
i thought i'd try it first on my downloads folder, after following the steps instead of it deleting the current and replacing it with the new folder (folder with a small arrow to show it's linked elsewhere i'm assuming?) it created this new folder inside the downloads folder, no idea what has happened? (picture below)
in the screen shots in the tutorial it shows the user folders had been replaced with a new folder with the little arrow in the bottom left corner, how come when i did it this new folder is in the original downloads folder?
these were the steps i took:
copy downloads folder from SSD to second HDD
entered these into terminal in this order:
cd /users/RobWheeler/Downloads sudo rm -rf Downloads
ln -s /volumes/Data\ Storage/UsersStorage/Downloads
Anyone know whats happened/what to do?
been bugging me for ages working out how to do this!