How do I set up EyeHome using Symbolic Links?

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	How do I set up EyeHome using Symbolic Links?

Solution EyeHome is designed to read your Home directory, to find the files within for its use.

Originally, EyeHome could also use aliases or symbolic links, instead of full movies, pictures or music.

These small files point to content that's kept elsewhere - for example, you might have 100GB of movies on an external drive, that you do not want to keep in your Home directory. Therefore, use an alias or symbolic link to tell OS X where to find the large movies folder. These pointers only take up a few K in storage space.

EyeHome 1.8 and above can no longer work with aliases, but it still supports symbolic links. Make links to folders that contain files you want EyeHome to use, and then place the symbolic link to that folder in your Home directory.

You can make symbolic links a couple of ways, including using the Terminal. We've found the easiest way for most people is the SymbolicLinker 1.2v2 application, which can be found here:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17655

Make Symbolic Links of folders full of files, and not individual files. Links to individual files won't work with EyeHome.

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21 May 2008 11:32 PM

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