Links to other folders possible?

ℹ️ Support
1

Hello,

I’m moving some folders and files from Windows explorer to next cloud and have an issue. I have two different folders that cover different things but that also have the same categorisations (both have a folder called north America and south America). In Windows explorer I use shortcuts (.lnk) files to ensure that the countries are listed in both separate directories but link to the same folder. How do I do it in next cloud so I (in essence) hyperlink to another directory? All that happens now is it tries to download a file.

Some of you may just say redo your folder organisation which is fine with simple folder organisation but each directory is comprehensive and needs to have a link to the ‘location’ part and it seems silly to just duplicate folders and not have anything in one place. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks

2

Symlinks aren’t supported in the data directory, so that rules that out.
I don’t know of an app that creates shortcuts within the NC interface either.

@tflidd @JimmyKater @MichaIng

My well be a case of:

3

ummm… i don’t get the problem since in my understanding

/directory_a/america/. is NOT the same as
/directory_b/america/.

or is it more like
/america AND
/dir_a/points_to_"/america" AND
/dir_b/points_to_"/america" ?

in the latter case i dunno how to do that with NC.

4

This will be the case. Or
/dir_a/america AND
/dir_b/points_to_“/dir_a/america”
to reduce amount of folders.

Also manually creating symlinks would need occ files:scan etc. which is no real beautiful solution. I also don’t know some good solution so far, but the idea is nice. To be able to share files/folders with oneself and put shared files/folders into a certain place of your own file/folder structure would kind of enable this. Or create an own nextcloud internal linking system, if symlinks somehow do not work well.

5

It would also be unsupported.