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How to burn a collection of symlinks (of images) - benit - 29th June 2017
I created a collection of images via symlinks:
I copied the whole image folder as symlinks to another folder and deleted all symlinks of images that I do not want.
Then I tried to burn that collection with k3b, but that does not work.
How can I make Plasma treat the symlinks as regular files? If this is not possible: How can I convert the symlinks back to regular files?
RE: How to burn a collection of symlinks (of images) - leszek - 29th June 2017
This is only supported on certain filesystems.
You need to copy the real data onto the cd. Otherwise it is not possible.
RE: How to burn a collection of symlinks (of images) - benit - 29th June 2017
(29th June 2017, 22:41)leszek Wrote: This is only supported on certain filesystems.
You need to copy the real data onto the cd. Otherwise it is not possible.
That is really bad news...
How can I convert the symlinks back to files again?
Would the solution found in this link be valid for maui, too?
https://superuser.com/questions/560597/convert-symlinks-to-hard-links
RE: How to burn a collection of symlinks (of images) - benit - 29th June 2017
Sorry, it creates hardlinks, but my understanding is that this would work exactly like files, even for burning, right?
RE: How to burn a collection of symlinks (of images) - leszek - 29th June 2017
Yes hardlinks are more like real files so it should work for burning.
Though I never tried this
