re-pointing a Desktop link

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Thursday 31 August 2006 23:52, David J Brooks wrote:
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 23:16, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 August 2006 21:44, Sean M. wrote:
> > > Right click it, select "Properties", and edit the "URL" tab.
> >
> > The link is to a local file, not a URL.
>
> Oddly enough, a Universal Resource Locator works locally as well as
> globally, thus the name.


Yes, but there's no URL tab for the properties of a filesystem link.

>
> > > --- Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:
> > > > On my Desktop I had a link called bills.ods that pointed to
> > > > ~/j/bills.ods.
> > > >
> > > > I renamed ~/j/bills.ods to ~/j/Finances.ods.
> > > >
> > > > I went to the bills.ods link on my Desktop and tried to re-point
> > > > it to the
> > > > new file.
> > > >
> > > > But there's nowhere to edit the link destination.
> > > >
> > > > I had to delete the old link and make a new one.
> > > >
> > > > Isn't there a way to re-point a link?
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