Sunday, January 22, 2006

*NIX tip

Sometimes when running a program to download files the settings will get lost. This happened a few times when grabbing a directory of files from Bittorrent (it's still legal in Canada). For the most part it was smart enough to realise it was a directory. This last time it couldn't deal with it. There was only two options. Start over in a different directory or download to the desktop (which is really the same thing). I used the terminal in OS X to create a symbolic link (ln -s) on the desktop to the data I had already downloaded. The program saw the link as the actual file and is happy.

Unfortunately I don't know where the new parts of the directory will be located. I suspect they should be located with the parts already downloaded.

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