re-pointing a Desktop link

[Gary L. Greene Jr.]

On Friday 01 September 2006 04:58, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> On Friday 01 September 2006 02:33, David J Brooks wrote:
> > 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
>
> This is what I did ultimately.
>
> > 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
>
> But I don't have a URL tab!!! Only General, Permissions and Preview tabs.
> Otherwise I wouldn't have asked my question. :-)
>
> This link was created from a drag-and-drop, and maybe that makes the
> difference.
>
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This means you made a symbolic link versus a desktop link. Iirc, KDE doesn't 
have way to change symbolic link destinations.....
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