HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMarketing likes to change the name of shared file folders when they get new information.message-squaremessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11message-squareMarketing likes to change the name of shared file folders when they get new information.HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareA_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoFor ordinary folks : Changing the name of such folders breaks “sharing”. This means that (external) access is then blocked.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoWhat the hell shitty system does that?
minus-squarepapalonian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoThis has happened to me on my home Linux server. You have directory xyz. You set up share access for directory xyz. You change directory xyz to abc. Share access is still set up for directory xyz. Need to set up access for abc.
minus-squareFalse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoWhat about directories under XYZ?
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoThat usually doesn’t apply to external access though. You don’t share stuff publicly by NFS or SMB.
minus-square4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoLiterally a thing that uses a file path. Did you think shortcuts pointed at some kind of hidden identifier? Nope! Change the folder name, you change the path, and you break the link. Same thing happens with URLs
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoAnd that’s why most (all?) things that are well-designed to provide external access have permalinks. Dropbox, Google, OneDrive…
For ordinary folks :
Changing the name of such folders breaks “sharing”. This means that (external) access is then blocked.
What the hell shitty system does that?
This has happened to me on my home Linux server.
You have directory xyz.
You set up share access for directory xyz.
You change directory xyz to abc.
Share access is still set up for directory xyz. Need to set up access for abc.
What about directories under XYZ?
That usually doesn’t apply to external access though. You don’t share stuff publicly by NFS or SMB.
All of them.
Literally a thing that uses a file path. Did you think shortcuts pointed at some kind of hidden identifier? Nope! Change the folder name, you change the path, and you break the link.
Same thing happens with URLs
And that’s why most (all?) things that are well-designed to provide external access have permalinks. Dropbox, Google, OneDrive…