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Bug 749513 - Symlinks cannot be edited
Symlinks cannot be edited
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 46306
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File Properties Dialog
3.18.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-05-17 19:34 UTC by Christian Stadelmann
Modified: 2017-08-18 11:45 UTC
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Description Christian Stadelmann 2015-05-17 19:34:42 UTC 
Currently existing symlinks cannot be edited using nautilus. This is a problem if the user has broken symlinks (happens) and needs to fix them.
I suggest to just add a file chooser dialog to let the user change symlinks.
Comment 1 António Fernandes 2017-08-18 11:45:38 UTC 
Hello, thanks for reporting this.

As an alternative to editing a symlink, users can just delete the old symlink and make a new symlink. Explicit editing symbolic links is too abstract for most users, as explained in bug 46306, bug 785348, and other bugs.

With relation to broken links, nautilus already gracefully handles them, with a dialog explaining that the target cannot be found and offering to send the broken symlink to trash.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 46306 ***