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Re: Symbolic links

 

Thank you both for your answer.

The Dropbox's client for nautilus is free software is GPL, you can have a
look to the code to see how it works with symlinks.

Regards

2009/6/19 Joshua Blount <joshua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> On 06/19/2009 02:17 PM, [PiNo] wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm an user of Dropbox service and I want to migrate to Ubuntu One. To
>> synchronize my different folders I use symbolic links, however Ubunto One's
>> client don't follow it. I don't know if it is a bug or a feature not
>> implemented yet, but I link it is very useful.
>>
>
> Hi! Thanks for asking about symbolic links :)
>
> Right now we're still working out the best way to work with symlinks. We
> definitely want to have them available, but it gets complicated when you are
> talking about using them on more than one machine, and many people expect
> this to work in many different ways.
>
> One way some of our users have gotten around this is by keeping the folders
> they want symlinked in their ~/Ubuntu One/My Files/
>
>
>> Sorry for my bad english.
>>
> Your english was great !
>


2009/6/19 Facundo Batista <facundobatista@xxxxxxxxx>

> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:17 PM, [PiNo]<jllopezpino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > synchronize my different folders I use symbolic links, however Ubunto
> One's
> > client don't follow it. I don't know if it is a bug or a feature not
> > implemented yet, but I link it is very useful.
>
> The Ubuntu One's file sharing client does not support symlinks right
> now, it will support them in the near future.
>
> Regards,
>
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