HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoMarketing likes to change the name of shared file folders when they get new information.message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down11
arrow-up141arrow-down1message-squareMarketing likes to change the name of shared file folders when they get new information.HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareA_A@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·1 day agoFor ordinary folks : Changing the name of such folders breaks “sharing”. This means that (external) access is then blocked.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down4·1 day agoWhat the hell shitty system does that?
minus-square4am@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-21 day 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-up7arrow-down2·edit-21 day agoAnd that’s why most (all?) things that are well-designed to provide external access have permalinks. Dropbox, Google, OneDrive…
minus-squarepapalonian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day 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-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 day agoThat usually doesn’t apply to external access though. You don’t share stuff publicly by NFS or SMB.
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?
Active Directory.
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…
All of them.
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.
That usually doesn’t apply to external access though. You don’t share stuff publicly by NFS or SMB.
What about directories under XYZ?