Copy the "ugin" folder that came with this distribution into the Contextual Menu Items folder.ģ. If you are not the system administrator, or you do not want the plugin to be available to all users on the system, then use the Library folder inside your home directory instead.Ģ.
If the folder doesn't exist, then make one with exactly that name (without the quotes, of course). Make sure there is a folder there named "Contextual Menu Items". Open the folder titled "Library" at the root of your boot disk. SymbolicLinker is available in English, Finnish, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish, French, German, Italian, and Turkish.ġ. SymbolicLinker's goal is to decrease users' trips to the Terminal in order to use the "ln -s" command. SymbolicLinker does this by adding a contextual menu item to the Finder that generates symbolic links to the selected files. SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder. Until now, however, creating a symbolic link usually involved a trip to the Terminal. Symbolic links are similar to aliases, except that they point back to the original file in a way that every Unix application can understand. Just about all Unix tools, however, can resolve symbolic links.
Many of these tools think these alias files are actually regular files with nothing inside them, which makes them useless in some situations.
#Like symboliclinker for mac os x#
A free and open source contextual menu plugin for Mac OS X that allows users to make symbolic links in the Finder Version: 2.0Īs some of you may have noticed, a number of Unix tools, especially file and Web servers (such as FTP, NFS, Samba, and Apache), have trouble resolving the System 7 style alias files created by the Finder's "Make Alias" command.
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