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From: TRS-80 <lists.trs-80@isnotmyreal.name>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Symolic link messes up org-attach?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:03:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a581baaec280aeb9ac0c93c3bcf4f0a2@isnotmyreal.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO0LSb5WDWK5FZ8rqrgk6Sk-vLbQNRm-C28djiDAtemrQhw+-A@mail.gmail.com>

On 2021-02-22 11:16, Henrik Frisk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have migrated from a OSX based system to a linux/debian system.

Welcome to the Free World!  :D

> I have all my main org files in a directory ~/org and in OSX this was
> a symbolic link to ~/a-hard-disk/org (it may have been an alias, ot
> sure). In Ubuntu, however, I have lots of trouble with org-attach: I
> attach a file using say copy and when I call C-c C-a o there are no
> attachments. Sometimes it works but next time I open the file there
> are no attachments. I experienced similar issues with links:
> 
> [[file:./img/myimage.png]]
> 
> was not found but a qualified path worked.
> 
> Could this be because of the symlink to my org directory? Is there a
> better way to do it?

I do not use org-attach, but I do use a lot of symlinks (at the
underlying system level), and they never give me any trouble (for
whatever that's worth).

Cheers,
TRS-80


      reply	other threads:[~2021-02-22 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-22 16:16 Symolic link messes up org-attach? Henrik Frisk
2021-02-22 17:03 ` TRS-80 [this message]

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