Replace link for pictures in Nautilus "Places" with symbolic link to an external or other internal drive? Ubuntu 14.04

Asked May 03 '14 at 16:41

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I have many pictures and when I open Shotwell it takes a very long time to load. I can see the Shotwell window and the progress bar though I do not see the thumbnails until after the indexing is complete. Upping to 12GB of RAM hasn't helped that much.

My guess is that part of the issue is because my pictures folder is very large and is on the same disk as my OS.

It makes sense to me that it would be much easier on my computer if LARGE files are stored on a separate disk from my OS disk.

Anyone know how I could achieve this? I want to replace the link in Nautilus Places, not add a bookmark.

edited Aug 01 '18 at 19:40

Zanna

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asked May 03 '14 at 16:41

user277520

I don't think adding the separate hard drive for pictures will help you much. – Null pointer May 03 '14 at 16:56
Really, and how did you come to that conclusion? – user277520 May 03 '14 at 16:58
To change the bookmark links see http://askubuntu.com/questions/293898/nautilus-bookmarks-are-missing-since-upgrade-to-13-04 – Takkat May 03 '14 at 17:19
Takkat, Thank you for the link. That is likely what I was looking for "~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks" I'll give it a shot and see how it goes. – user277520 May 03 '14 at 21:54
Nah, editing "~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks" merely changes the bookmark in the bookmark listing. – user277520 May 03 '14 at 22:06
I believe I have found an answer here. I was missing an edit of the fstab to add in "bind." as is discussed in this post http://askubuntu.com/a/161461/277520
Hopefully it works for me.
– user277520 May 03 '14 at 22:30
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Possible duplicate of Documents stored on separate internal drive, Ubuntu doesn't notice on startup – Zanna Jul 25 '18 at 04:49

Replace link for pictures in Nautilus "Places" with symbolic link to an external or other internal drive? Ubuntu 14.04

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