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#1
How can I un-hide the following folders?
(and why are they hidden anyway?)

/home/user/MyDocs/.sounds (Audio clips)
/home/user/MyDocs/.documents (Documents)
/home/user/MyDocs/.images (Images)
/home/user/MyDocs/.videos (Video clips)

For instance, I can't access these folders in Opera when I want to upload files within there.
 
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You can unhide them simply by removing the "." in front of the name.
EDIT: Don't know if it causes bugs though.
 

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Thanks

I did think about that, but the fear of ruining things keeps me from trying that :P
 
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They are "hidden" because some applications use them and assume that they'll be there named as is.

I have trouble thinking that Opera won't find them if you enter the exact name.
 

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Can you symlink to them? ln -s .sounds Sounds
 

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Originally Posted by Berserk View Post
(and why are they hidden anyway?)
According to timeless, "localisation reasons"...

Anyway, don't rename them because many programs are hardcoded to expect those names. Since Opera allows you to browse /home/user, you can try placing a symlink from /home/user/MyDocs/.whatever into /home/user/whatever.
 

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Originally Posted by jflatt View Post
Can you symlink to them? ln -s .sounds Sounds
You can not make symbolic links in MyDocs, because it is a fat32 partition. The symbolic link would need to go in the /home/user directory, as qwerty12 wrote.
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I'll try symlinking then
Never heard of it, though.. so first I'll figure out how that works exactly

Thanks jflatt, for that example
 
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Originally Posted by Berserk View Post
I'll try symlinking then
Never heard of it, though.. so first I'll figure out how that works exactly
Symbolic links can be tricky for beginners. Open an X terminal, then:
Code:
ln -s /home/user/MyDocs/.documents /home/user/documents
ln -s /home/user/MyDocs/.images /home/user/images
ln -s /home/user/MyDocs/.sounds /home/user/sounds
ln -s /home/user/MyDocs/.videos /home/user/videos
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Thanks a lot!

It makes me think of shortcuts on a Windows desktop.

I'll give it a spin
 
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