Redirect LINPUS 'My Documents'?

Hello, I'm looking for some help please....

Basically I am dual booting my AAO with Linpus and Windows XP. I would like to get the 'My Documents' link on the Linpus desktop to re-direct to the 'My Documents' folder on my Windows partition so I can easily share files between the two OS.

Now I understand the icons on the Linpus desktop are controlled by the 'group-app.xml' file, and the 'My Documents' shortcut is simply pointing to a file called 'Document.desktop' which lives at /usr/share/applications. On examining that file I can see that basically it launches Thunar and passes the variable of the directory to display - by default that is /mnt/home/documents

Now I've put an entry in my Fstab fo mount my windows (sda3) partition to /mnt/home/windows. This works fine and I can browse my windows partition from both Terminal and Thunar.

On my Windows partition I have moved 'My Documents' to be on the root of the drive (i.e. D:\My Documents) so in LINUX terms that is /mnt/home/windows/My Documents. Now it's here where I run into problems..... If I modify the 'Document.desktop' file so that is should open this folder I get an error which seems to be due to the space in the file name. If I point to a Windows folder without a space in the file name then all works fine (e.g. /mnt/home/windows/test) but whatever I do I just can't seem to get that .desktop file to like the space. I've tried quotes and the double slash trick (i.e. My//Documents) but still no joy! Can anybody help at all please? Or perhaps suggest an alternate way of achiving what I want to do? Many thanks!

 

Hi

I'm a Linux virgin, but JerryP posted some advice on shortcuts for me which looks like it may help you...

viewtopic.php?f=67&t=13310&start=10#p84121

 

Did you try double quotes around the directory name - i.e:

Code:

thunar "/mnt/home/windows/My Documents"

If it doesn't work - try to put backslash in front of the space - i.e.:

Code:

thunar /mnt/home/windows/My\ Documents

Finally, if nothing above works, try to create a symbolic link without a space inside. And use this symlink name it in your .desktop file.

Code:

sudo ln -s /mnt/home/windows/My\ Documents /mnt/home/docs

 

Thank you very much alexagr, the symbolic name method worked a treat