Quick folder/path question

[Freefaller]

I've grown quite used to the Mac's path system, it's very similar the my linux machines so I'm quite comfy with it... however, I have several NAS drives that I used for data, music, documents etc... How do I point the "music", "documents" etc... from my home directory to point to these NAS devices?

It would be nice to be able to click on those to access the NAS drives and my data rather than have to create a shortcut within those folders to THEN link to the NAS drives. That's how I have it at the moment, a shortcut within those folders - I want it to be neater.

Any tips?

Cheers!

PS I'm sure this has been asked before, and google is next to useless - so I apologise for the n00b question.
PPS I'm not scared of using the terminal either if it means having to do that.

 

[electric ant]

I managed to dig up this link which may be useful for you

http://ask.metafilter.com/78849/How-do-I-move-the-location-of-my-mac-Music-and-Movies-folders

I havent tried any of the tips there tho so its at your own risk !
hope it helps

EDIT
In particular this bit:

I used a little terminal-fu, as Mr. Banana Grabber came close to suggesting...

For this, you'll want to open up Terminal (in Applications/Utilities), and be extra-careful. Don't type or copy/paste the $ from the instructions.

First, we remove the (empty, right?) Movies folder in your Home folder:
$ rm -r ~/Movies

Then, we need replace it with a symlink to a folder on the external. In my case, the external is called "Metaverse" and it has a "Movies" folder in it.

$ ln -s /Volumes/Metaverse/Movies ~/Movies

One thing you can do to make it easier is to type "ln -s " (with the trailing space), and then drop the folder from the external drive into the Terminal window, and it will insert the path for you. Then, you just have to add "~/Movies" to the end.

It works great, and I've been using it this way for several months.
posted by frijole at 10:50 AM on December 17 [1 favorite

 

[Hate]

Unix has whats called a 'symlink' which is like a windows shortcut, but it actually resolves to the correct path rather than being a .lnk file.

Are you comfortable with the command line ?

The command is ln -s {source (the ext drive)} {target (homedir)}

so, ln -s /Volumes/Blah/Movies /Users/freefaller/Movies/

would create a virtual folder in your home dir linking to the dir on the external volume

 

[Freefaller]

Symlink! That's what I was looking for - perfect. You star - thanks mate