How do applications interact with files accessed through soft links?

Mar 23, 2019 ... I want to be able to Hardlink/Symlink from my transmission folder to my Plex folder so my media doesn't take up double the space considering what limited space ... Sep 27, 2023 ... Both soft links (symbolic links) and hard links are ways to create references to files or directories. They work differently and have distinct characteristics. Sep 14, 2011 ... ... symbolic-link-in-unix/. ad nauseum… What I seem to get in the finder ... Works PERFECTLY on Windows (which is hard to make symlinks on). Jun 29, 2011 ... If you have hard link inside some directory and then you make some changes on file created with hard link than that file won't be affected ... I was going to mention that in my comment, but I refrained for a number of reasons: a) old non-symlink-aware Windows software will treat symlinks as hardlinks ( ... Hard links and Soft links. Hard link: - Several names in different paths for the same file. (same i-node). - Any modification using one of the names will ... Jun 19, 2021 ... ... hard link instead of a symbolic link". "Symbolic Links" are always 'soft'. 2. Yes, that would be a great feature and the recursive nature ... May 19, 2019 ... On the other hand, symbolic links are special files that refer to other files by name. The ln command by default creates hard links, and when ... Feb 25, 2025 ... A soft link is a type of file link that references another file. Soft links are also called "symlinks" in some environments. Soft links can ... Feb 4, 2019 ... A hard link is a file by another name. A symbolic link is like a shortcut, its not the whole file but it points to the actual file.