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Tom Brossman
Asked: 2012-05-18 10:35:22 +0800 CST

How to store Pictures folder on another hard drive?

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I have multiple drives in a desktop computer. I want one of those drives to function as my /home/username/Pictures folder. Can this be done?

I thought symbolic links could do this, but I'm not having any success.
The target drive is /media/Images. Here's what I tried so far:

terminal screenshot

All four variations give me the same result, a shortcut inside the /Pictures folder.

link inside folder

This isn't what I want. I want the /Pictures folder itself to be the shortcut. How do I do this?

symbolic-link

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Why it's as simple as deleting the Pictures folder first before linking my good man. Like so:

    rm -rf ~/Pictures

ln -s /media/Images ~/Pictures
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  2. I was inspired with the answer of @SomKit. But I stick to more safe method to not delete the files

    mv Pictures/ /media/akpp/data1/screenshots/
ln -s /media/akpp/data1/screenshots/ ~/Pictures

    I moved target folder to a new location with a new name, then created a link for new folder in the old location

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