HI
An odd request here with an historical reason. Some months back I finally ditched dual booting and reduced my Windows "xperience" to a Virtual machine. I housed the VM in its own partition called "data". Initially I used VMWare but now it's Virtualbox. I subsequently tidied things up and got rid of that partition to increase the size of home. However, I could not figure out how to configure VBox to change the path to the new location. I got round it by creating a folder in the root directory called Data and then a symbolic link to the .vdi file. Worked instantly.
As some of you will know, everything got wiped over the weekend. I'm nearly there and am running Kde 4.4 RC. A problem comes when I launch pretty much any KDE-Centric application as root - Dolphin, Konqueror Adept etc. I get the message "the process for the protocol died unexpectedly". With adept I can then simply press on but with Dolphin and Konqueror it prevents even the display of all icon folders and the "create new" dialog is blanked out. I therefore cannot set up the new folder or the symbolic link.
I have concluded that it's KDE centric because it doesn't happen to GTK applications such as synaptic, and I suspect it's something that will be ironed out as a matter of course. In the meantime can someone help me set with the command line or if there is some desktop-agnostic file manager out there that would enable me to do it that would help too.
Thanks
ian
An odd request here with an historical reason. Some months back I finally ditched dual booting and reduced my Windows "xperience" to a Virtual machine. I housed the VM in its own partition called "data". Initially I used VMWare but now it's Virtualbox. I subsequently tidied things up and got rid of that partition to increase the size of home. However, I could not figure out how to configure VBox to change the path to the new location. I got round it by creating a folder in the root directory called Data and then a symbolic link to the .vdi file. Worked instantly.
As some of you will know, everything got wiped over the weekend. I'm nearly there and am running Kde 4.4 RC. A problem comes when I launch pretty much any KDE-Centric application as root - Dolphin, Konqueror Adept etc. I get the message "the process for the protocol died unexpectedly". With adept I can then simply press on but with Dolphin and Konqueror it prevents even the display of all icon folders and the "create new" dialog is blanked out. I therefore cannot set up the new folder or the symbolic link.
I have concluded that it's KDE centric because it doesn't happen to GTK applications such as synaptic, and I suspect it's something that will be ironed out as a matter of course. In the meantime can someone help me set with the command line or if there is some desktop-agnostic file manager out there that would enable me to do it that would help too.
Thanks
ian
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