re-pointing a Desktop link

[David J Brooks]

On Friday 01 September 2006 03:03, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> 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.

Try this.Create a new link like this:

1. right click on the desktop.
2. from the popup menu select Create New > Link to location (URL)
3. in the URL text entry widget enter '~/j/Finances.ods'
4. click OK.
5. test to assure yourself that it works.
6. delete the old link to bills.ods


That's the long way around. The short way is to right click on the link, 
select properties from the popup menu and select the URL tab from the 
resulting dialog. Change the content of the URL from ~/j/bills.ods to 
~/j/Finances.ods

> > > > --- 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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