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Redirecting Music, Pictures and Movies folders

Lycanthrope

Lycanthrope

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Nov 1, 2005
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Brussels, Belgium, Europe
Hi All

Like a lot of MP owners I keep my data separate from my system disk. One thing I haven't yet discovered how to do is to reprogram the icons in the finder window to the new locations. For instance, all my MP3's are on a disk Data II but when I click on the Music icon in finder it goes to the default location on the boot disk Macintosh HD

Stupid question I know... Cheers
 
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product26

Cancelled
May 30, 2005
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simply create/move the folder to the new disk and make an alias to the new folder in the original location
 
swiftaw

swiftaw

macrumors 603
Jan 31, 2005
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Omaha, NE, USA
Lycanthrope said:
Hi All

Like a lot of MP owners I keep my data separate from my system disk. One thing I haven't yet discovered how to do is to reprogram the icons in the finder window to the new locations. For instance, all my MP3's are on a disk Data II but when I click on the Music icon in finder it goes to the default location on the boot disk Macintosh HD

Stupid question I know... Cheers
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To create a shortcut of any folder in the sidebar of finder, just drag the folder to the sidebar.
 
Lycanthrope

Lycanthrope

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Nov 1, 2005
566
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Brussels, Belgium, Europe
Thanks for the answers chaps, I was hoping there was a simple system option somewhere rather than having to muck about with aliases and stuff. Seems like a omission on Apple's part to me.

Cheers
 
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lcruisader

macrumors newbie
Nov 7, 2007
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I'm working in the user profile folder. I want to relocate the folders: picture and documents folders. I want those 2 folders to originate else where (could be a file share or disk volume, etc). I can copy the 2 folders to the new location, but I cannot delete the original to place an alias in its place - I get an error "Pictures cannot be modified or deleted because it is required by Mac os X"

Any Ideas?
 
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product26

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May 30, 2005
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lcruisader said:
I'm working in the user profile folder. I want to relocate the folders: picture and documents folders. I want those 2 folders to originate else where (could be a file share or disk volume, etc). I can copy the 2 folders to the new location, but I cannot delete the original to place an alias in its place - I get an error "Pictures cannot be modified or deleted because it is required by Mac os X"

Any Ideas?
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Using leopard? I noticed the same thing.
 
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trainguy77

macrumors 68040
Nov 13, 2003
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You can redirect your entire system folder in leopard in the systems prefs. But it has to be the entire thing not just a couple folders.
 
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termina3

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Jul 16, 2007
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That involves system preferences. The method I suggest doesn't work great for lots of files, but has served me well for my RAID setup.
 
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pvr02

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Nov 7, 2007
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Using an alias would be great, except that isn't allowed anymore in Leopard.

Anyone know how to do this via the terminal?
 
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