-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > 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 :-) If you use ext4, copy is just as fast as link (still allocates space, but it's copy-on-write, so it's effectively just a link). Only actually does the copy when the data is changed in either. > 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. Agreed, but putting in that menu will probably make it harder than it already is. Hard link? Soft link? Making the two entries completely different will be hard. > Do you know if the Right-click menu is configurable? Or documented? Turning it on/off is all I know of it. It'd be in the ui.rc file somewhere though I'd think. Maybe there's a class for it somewhere. > Also, (OT) what's the difference between Play, Queue, Play Next and > Queue Next in this menu? Amarok? Never seen this menu myself :/ . > poc - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqWq2gACgkQiPi+MRHG3qR7cQCeO2cy/RixySfGLpElPR1K18MM GdAAoJpYKs5s0I8RRbKrFoCvoRPJ0hZU =6BsK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
