Author Topic: whoops ... now how do i fix this? (Read 3427 times)

jason123 · « **on:** March 12, 2004, 01:59:33 am »

Ok.... So I decieded to free up some space on my Z by moving the png files from /home/QtPalmtop/pics to /mnt/card/QtPalmtop/pics and then symlinking them. Only it won\'t let me symlink!!!!! how do i do it? I tried ln -s *.png /home/QtPalmtop/pics/ from the sd card\'s dir ... but it wouldn\'t wok -- i then proceeded to start qtopia and run advancedfm as root and symlinking that way ... still a no go.

does anyone have any ideas? having no icons sucks major uhhmmm oh you put a word in -- it\'ll do....

thanks!

Stubear · « **Reply #1 on:** March 12, 2004, 02:28:47 am »

try linking a single file, I can\'t see anything directly wrong with your syntax, but it\'s often easier to see errors doing things one at a time.

If a single file works then it\'s probable that the busybox ln doesn\'t do wildcards properly. Also I find it easier to move to the target directory and use
ln -s /mnt/card/QtPalmtop/pics/*.png ./

Stu

jason123 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 12, 2004, 03:39:43 am »

one at a time does work .... sigh ... if i try to do all at once \"ln -s *.png /home/QtPalmtop/pics/\" it keeps on trying to do the first one ... tells me the file exists and seg faults ... any suggestions?

chyang · « **Reply #3 on:** March 12, 2004, 04:47:50 am »

use bash\'s for support.
for i in *.png; do ln -sf $i /home/QtPalmtop/pics/$i ; done

lardman · « **Reply #4 on:** March 12, 2004, 05:14:47 am »

I think the above is what you were really after but how\'s about:

cd /opt/QtPalmtop
ln -s /mnt/card/QtPalmtop/pics ./pics

Si

CoreyC · « **Reply #5 on:** March 12, 2004, 06:45:11 am »

how bout...

cd /opt/QtPalmtop
mv pics /mnt/card/QtPalmtop/pics
ln -s /mnt/card/QtPalmtop/pics pics

ScottYelich · « **Reply #6 on:** March 12, 2004, 10:31:10 am »

Quote

one at a time does work .... sigh ... if i try to do all at once \"ln -s *.png /home/QtPalmtop/pics/\" it keeps on trying to do the first one ... tells me the file exists and seg faults ... any suggestions?

the man page seems to indicate that this is a possible usage (linux, redhat) ...
is the ln busybox? or some other ln that isn\'t compatible? as others have
pointed out, it\'s fairly easy to iterate over the files with a shell loop using \"for\" etc.

Scott

maslovsky · « **Reply #7 on:** March 12, 2004, 11:33:27 am »

You won\'t save any space by doing that because most files in /home/QtPalmtop/pics are alreeady symlinks to /usr/QtPalmtop.rom/pics, which is in your internal read-only memory.

jason123 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 12, 2004, 12:10:02 pm »

Too late but I had some custom icons installed there manually -- those I\'ll save space on.

jason123 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 12, 2004, 12:16:08 pm »

WAHOOO!!!! Thanks! I used chyang\'s suggestion -- wahooo thank you!hmm now i need to go back and assign icons to Everything...

(edit) well... that excitement was a little premature.... i get back into qtopia and open up advancedfm and nope ... there\'s none of the links there.... so trying again....

jason123 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 12, 2004, 02:03:46 pm »

Errm.... is there any way besides \"Tab Manager\" to specify where Qtopia looks for the png\'s at?

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