Can I change the location of the “Ubuntu One” folder?
Bug #396654 reported by
ondrejkovic
This bug report was converted into a question: question #76321: Can I change the location of the “Ubuntu One” folder?.
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu One Client |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
The sync folder is automatically at /home/user - but I need to change it, because I have just a small EEE netbook with very limited SSD but with enough place at /media/SDHCard - Can I simply move it? I think, that it is necessary to ad an item in the client.
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If you first quit the syncdaemon (you can do that by quitting the applet, or using killall ubuntuone- syncdaemon; make sure you have no nautilus windows open on the Ubuntu One tree or it will just start it again), you can move the whole Ubuntu One folder out to where you have more space (for which you need to change the permissions on the folder), and then create a symlink to that place from ~/Ubuntu\ One (the permissions will be changed back by the syncdaemon when it starts).
From the command line, that would be
killall -w ubuntuone- syncdaemon && chmod u+w ~/Ubuntu\ One && mv ~/Ubuntu\ One/ /media/SDHCard && ln -s /media/ SDHCard/ Ubuntu\ One ~/Ubuntu\ One
and then you click 'connect' on the applet again.