On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:41 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > If I've understood you correctly, I don't see the advantage of linking > them > that way. Make a directory ~/Temp and in dolphin drag that directory > into the > Places menu. Pull copies of everything you are going to backup into > that > directory - at least as fast as linking them. Then when you are > finished, > start the backup to removable devices and finally empty the ~/Temp > directory. Well sure, but I was hoping to avoid an extra copy stage. Why do you say that copying the files is as fast as linking them? We're talking about a couple of GB here. I agree that copying them to a local directory is not nearly as slow as the backup phase, but it also takes up temporary space. It's just inelegant :-) I can do it my way from a Shell. The advantage of Dolphin is that it *sometimes* makes it easier to select a random set of files (with complex names not readily encompassed by a simple regular expression), but if Dolphin can't create hard links, then I'd regard that as a limitation. Do you know if the Right-click menu is configurable? Or documented? Also, (OT) what's the difference between Play, Queue, Play Next and Queue Next in this menu? poc
