Using hard links in Dolphin

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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